Duncan Epping

Senior consultant specialized in VMware and virtualization in general. I'm a VMware Certified Design Expert(Number 7 worldwide), MCSE on Windows 2003(Security), MCTS Windows Server 2008, Citrix CCA PS4 and a VMware VCP VI3. My main interest is consolidation and virtualization of Servers, Applications and/or Services. Mainly implementing VMware VI3 / VCB / SRM, troubleshooting VMware problems, VMware health checks, Designs and Design Reviews.

Duncan Epping’s Specialties:

Network and Server architecture. Increasing service level and server availability through consolidation and virtualization.

Duncan Epping’s Experience

Senior Consultant

VMware

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VMW; Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

VMware Consultancy in general. Ranging from implementing VMware VI3 / VCB / SRM, troubleshooting VMware problems, VMware health checks, Designs and Design Reviews.
Moderator

VMware Community Forums(VMTN)

(Computer Software industry)

2008 — Present (1 year)
Blogger

Yellow-Bricks.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Yellow-Bricks.com is my personal blog which mainly deals about virtualization and is mostly VMware related.

Technical troubleshooting articles, news facts, patch announcements, random thought / tips and tricks is what you can expect. Yellow-Bricks.com has been recognized as one of the top 3 virtualization blogs by multiple authors.
Editor and founder

AsIce.net

(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

1997 — December 2008 (11 years)

Started MOW-Zine.com in 1997. Merged with Back To Back and OppositeZine around 2003 into AsIce.net, which is Europe's largest Hardcore/Punk e-zine(8000+ members). Main responsibilities writing interviews and reviews, taking care of contacts in the music industry, managing an e-zine and message board.
Senior Consultant Virtualization

Ictivity

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Senior Consultant VMware / Xensource / Virtual Iron...
System Engineer

IAK Verzekeringen

(Insurance industry)

September 2003 — March 2007 (3 years 7 months)

System management Windows 2000 / 2003 servers on VMWare ESX 2.5.X and ESX 3.0.1. (50+ Servers virtualized on 8 Dell Blade servers with a EMC/Dell branded CX300 SAN), Citrix Presentation Server 4, Active Directory, Tivoli Storage Manager and more...
Consultant

PerfectView BV

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2002 — August 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Lotus Notes/Domino, Windows and Security consultancy for IT&M which recently merged with Perfect View
System Engineer Nordic/Benelux

Broadvision

(Public Company; BVSN; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — February 2002 (1 year 2 months)

Windows system management for the Benelux and Nordic region. (Active Directory / Exchange / Backup etc.)
System Engineer

Oracle Nederland

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

September 1994 — January 2001 (6 years 5 months)

System Engineer(IT Department), main responsibility Windows Servers/Windows Domain, Sun Solaris and Desktop Imaging.
System Manager

Centric

(Computer & Network Security industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years)

Network and System(desktop, servers and networking) engineer.
Allround Engineer

Net-Consult ICT Groep

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1992 (2 years)

Worked for ViewData which was kind of the precursor of Net-Consult ICT Groep. Sales, consultancy and installation of hard- and software were my main tasks.

Duncan Epping’s Education

VCDX

virtualization 2009 — 2009

VMware Certified Design Expert
ITIL V3

2008 — 2008
MCTS on Windows 2008

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist 2008 — 2008
VCDX Enterprise Exam

Deploy, Secure and Analyze 2008 — 2008
VMware Certified Professional VI3

VCP VI3 2007 — 2007
Citrix Certified Administrator

Presentation Server 4 2006 — 2006

Citrix Certified Administrator Presentation Server 4
MCSE Security 2003

2006 — 2006

Additional Information

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Duncan Epping’s Interests:

Work related: VMware, ESX, vSphere, vCenter, Site Recovery Manager, High Availability and BC-DR in general... Non Work related: Soccer, Working out, Running, Music(Hardcore-Punk), My family http://www.yellow-bricks.com