Dion Van De Coevering

Current

• San beheerder at vtsPN
• Technology Consultant Storage/SAN/UNIX at Cohesion

Past

• Storage Engineer at ANWB
• Backup consultant at Nederlandsch Octrooibureau
• Technology Consultant Storage at ICT Service DJI/ Ministerie van Justitie

• Storage/ HPUX engineer at Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer (pre-merger, now FloraHolland)

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Education

• Brocade Education
• HP Education
• HP Education

• EMC Education
• EMC Education
• HP Education
• HP Education
• EMC Nieuwegein
• Knowledge4You
• Knowledge4You
• Exin
• Hanzehogeschool Groningen

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Industry

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Dion Van De Coevering’s Summary

Storage consultant with strong knowledge of HP Dataprotector and HP storage products.

Certified:
Accredited Integration Specialist - HP StorageWorks
Accredited Presales Consultant - HP StorageWorks
EMCPA Information Storage and Management
EMCSA Symmetrix Business Continuity Specialist v5

Dion Van De Coevering’s Specialties:

Brocade switches (mainly 4Gig models, v5X and v6X firmware)
Emulex & Qlogic HBA knowledge
VMware ESX and VCB
Following HP products:
EML, VLS en MSL line
Dataprotector 5.5, 6.0 and Express
Storage Mirroring Software and Continuous Access EVA
EVA and MSA family
Cluster Extension EVA for Windows (NAS) and Linux
HPUX MC/Serviceguard
Proliant (DL & BL family) & PA-RISC(rp series) and Itanium (rx series) hardware

Dion Van De Coevering’s Experience

• San beheerder

  vtsPN

  (Security and Investigations industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Responsible of day to day operation of the Storage (300+ Tb) environment, ranging from eva3000 to 8100 storage array's and Brocade switch gear and HP Virtual Connect.

• Technology Consultant Storage/SAN/UNIX

  Cohesion

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Besides the different assignments at customers, assisting with new job applications, educations for colleague's and teamleader HP Storage.

• Storage Engineer

  ANWB

  (Public Company; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  May 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 9 months)

  The focus has changed from outsourcing to "do it yourself". This is a challenging task for the IT department because of running the daily operation on aging infrastructure, due to lack of investment since we where about to outsource servers and storage.
  
  When that decision was revoked and even before;
  -I've expanded an c2d8 EVA 8000 to an c2d12 and an c2d3 EVA4000 to an c2d4 to cope with growth.
  -Upgraded the brocade switches from a mixture of firmware levels to v5.3.1a and v6.1.0a (but uniform within a fabric) depending on the models used.
  -Replaced old 2800 switches with new brocade 5000 models and later expanded the SAN with four 4900 models.
  -In a later stage transformed the, still, cascaded fabric to a custom configuration which can be described as a ring fabric with a core.
  In sync with the expanding SAN an DMX4-950 was purchased and connected, for the purpose of consolidating two DMX800 (on there on SAN islands) to the new DMX4, this was still an WIP when I left.

• Backup consultant

  Nederlandsch Octrooibureau

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Legal Services industry)

  November 2008 — November 2008 (1 month)

  One day assignment troubleshooting the backup environment and giving pointers and advice. Main goal get the jobs running again. To accomplish that the technical design was partly scraped. In the end minor modification where needed to get the jobs running.
  Although there wasn't enough time to run the biggest job ther's enough confidence restored to go live this weekend.
  Software used Dataprotector 6.0 using object copy to de-stage the VLS to MSL
  Hardware used VLS6636 and MSL4048

• Technology Consultant Storage

  ICT Service DJI/ Ministerie van Justitie

  (Government Administration industry)

  August 2006 — April 2007 (9 months)

  Responsible (with 3 other colleague's) for the Storage environments (50 + Tb).All environments where standardized around the HP EVA (8 in total ranging from 3000 to 8000 and including data replication) with the odd MSA array. Multiple HP EML109e libraries and several VLS6105 systems together with HP Dataprotector as backup solution.
  For connectivity the HP (B line/Brocade) Storageworks switches with powerpack licenses (trunking, fabric watch etc) where used.

• Storage/ HPUX engineer

  Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer (pre-merger, now FloraHolland)

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  January 1999 — July 2006 (7 years 7 months)

  Responsible for two EVA5000 and an MSA1000.
  Backup solution was based around 2 MSL6060 with dataprotector 5.1.

Dion Van De Coevering’s Education

• Brocade Education

  Course , CFP270 , 2009 — 2009

• HP Education

  Exam , HP0-J18 Implementing HP StorageWorks EVA Solutions , 2009 — 2009

• HP Education

  Exam , HP0-841 Design & Implem. HP SAN Solutions , 2009 — 2009

• EMC Education

  Exam , EMC Storage Foundations E20-001 , 2008 — 2008

• EMC Education

  Exam , Symmetrix Business Continuity Specialist E20-512 , 2008 — 2008

• HP Education

  Exam , HPUX CSA HP0-095 , 2008 — 2008

• HP Education

  Exam , HP0-823 Impl. MSA Storage Solutions , 2008 — 2008

• EMC Nieuwegein

  Course , EMC Storage Foundations , 2007 — 2007

• Knowledge4You

  Course , EMC Control Center , 2007 — 2007

• Knowledge4You

  Course , EMC SRDF/Timefinder , 2007 — 2007

• Exin

  Exam , ITIL Foundation , 2006 — 2006

• Hanzehogeschool Groningen

  na , Electronics , 2000 — 2001

Dion Van De Coevering’s Contact Settings

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