Freelance Linux and Open Source consultant
Gent Area, Belgium
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- Linux and Open Source Consultant at AXA Technology Services
- Freelance consultant at Dagit Linux Solutions
- Team member at CentOS Project
- RPM packager at RPMforge
- Open Source developer at Open Source community
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- Linux and Open Source Consultant at EMC
- Linux and Open Source Consultant at Punch Telematix
- Senior Linux and Open Source consultant at Euroclear
- Linux and Open Source consultant at vICTory
- Open Source Linux and GPFS specialist at IBM Belgium
- Founder, division manager and consultant at Mind Linux Solutions
- Internet/Linux consultant at Winsome
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- XIOS Hogeschool Limburg
- Universiteit Hasselt
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Dag Wieers’s Summary
Expertise includes Linux and Open Source deployment, Unix management and automation. Personal training and documentation included.
Experience setting up large customer environments based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Open Source software (desktop, server and cluster environments).
Dag Wieers’s Specialties:
Unattended deployments, system administration, scripting and packaging, security auditing, Unix automation, hardware and software troubleshooting, Open Source software development.
I can be hired to share my expertise I acquired in the field and help setup, reorganise and automate Linux and Unix deployments.
Dag Wieers’s Experience
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Linux and Open Source Consultant
AXA Technology Services
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Financial Services industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
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Freelance consultant
Dagit Linux Solutions
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Contract work for various companies, preferably well-defined and short-term projects.
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Team member
CentOS Project
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
CentOS is a free enterprise-class Linux distribution, based on the sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The CentOS project releases a new version every 2 years and each CentOS release is supported for 7 years. It is a perfect fit for servers, appliances and desktops.
I am Member of the CentOS admin group, in charge of the CentOS promotion SIG (organising presence at Open Source and business events) and a member of the CentOS RPM packaging SIG. -
RPM packager
RPMforge
(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
December 2002 — Present (6 years 8 months)
RPMforge is a collaboration of RPM packagers of open source software. In total we have more than 2600 Open Source projects packaged for a variety of Red Hat based distributions (including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and CentOS).
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Open Source developer
Open Source community
(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
January 1995 — Present (14 years 7 months)
Open Source developer of many small scripts, few tools and lots of patches to existing Open Source software for my own pleasure or to accomodate customer requirements.
Currently involved with Dstat, Yam, Dconf, proxytunnel and the CentOS project.
I can be hired to work on existing Open Source projects to implement specific requirements within my limits/abilities. Contact me for specific projects. -
Linux and Open Source Consultant
EMC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMC; Computer Hardware industry)
July 2007 — December 2007 (6 months)
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Linux and Open Source Consultant
Punch Telematix
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Automotive industry)
May 2007 — September 2007 (5 months)
Classified information.
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Senior Linux and Open Source consultant
Euroclear
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
December 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Deployment of Unix systems and services. Design and implementation of management infrastructure (configuration and documentation management, change management). Packaging for Solaris, AIX and Linux. Custom software development. Troubleshooting. Automation.
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Linux and Open Source consultant
vICTory
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 5 months)
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Open Source Linux and GPFS specialist
IBM Belgium
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2001 — December 2005 (4 years 7 months)
Design, implementation and operational management of Linux infrastructure (IBM and their outsourcing customers). Design and implementation of Linux services and Open Source software. (Contractor for IBM) GPFS implementation and troubleshooting.
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Founder, division manager and consultant
Mind Linux Solutions
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 8 months)
As a founder, taking care of various parts of the organisation, including sales and marketing. As a division manager, experience with project-management and pre-sales for a small (15 headcount) Linux consultancy company. As a consultant, Linux and Open Source consultancy and hands-on training for various customers in on-site projects varying between 1 and 3 weeks.
I left my position in my company when there was a strategic move to go from consultancy to embedded development. The company was bought out in 2006. -
Internet/Linux consultant
Winsome
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1996 — January 2001 (4 years 7 months)
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Dag Wieers’s Interests:
System automation, wireless technologies, KISS principle, business communication and business management (technical level), squash, snowboarding, strategic boardgames
Dag Wieers’s Groups:
L2U, HCC Brussel
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