Peter Smets

Current

System Engineer at Porthus
Freelance IT Consultant at Doxology Consulting (Self-employed)
Photographer at FStop (Self-employed)

Photographer at Drieduizend
Organizer at Demoscene

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Past

Systems Engineer at Fit IT
System Engineer at Volvo IT
System Engineer at InBev

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Peter Smets’s Summary

Experienced designer, engineer, administrator and support professional of :

- Microsoft software platform (AD, Exchange, IIS, DNS, DHCP, Clustering, ...) with basic knowledge of other platforms and providing connectivity to them from the Microsoft platform using various technologies (DFS, NFS, Telnet, ICA, ...)

- Citrix Metaframe / Presentation Server handling all versions from v1.0 on NT4 Terminal Services to MPS4 on Windows Server 2003.

- VMWare ESX Server having completed several migration projectes from physical hardware to virtualized environments, using VMotion.

Demoscener since 1991 active on Amiga, C64 and PC. Currently a member of Smash Designs on C64 and Drifters on Amiga. Currently responsible for the C64 competitions on Breakpoint, largest demoscene party in the world held annually in the german town of Bingen am Rhein, and 'Oldskool' competitions (C64 & Amiga) on The Ultimate Meeting, held every year in the south of Germany between Christmas and newyear.

When not busy with IT and all that surrounds it I have rediscovered my old hobby of photography. Current equipment : Nikon D70S & FujiFilm Finepix S5Pro, 18-70mm 4.5/5.6, 18=50mm 2.8, 50mm 1.8D, 75-300mm 4.5/5.6, 80-200mm 2.8, SB-600. See "portfolio" link for my photography site.

Peter Smets’s Specialties:

IT Related :

Designing, Installation, Maintenance, Support and Rollout of Active Directory, Citrix, MS Exchange, VMWare ESX environments and DNS, DHCP, WINS services.

IBM/HP/Dell hardware (rackmount, desktop, blade)

Photography :

Conert photography and other low-light environments. My special interests to macro photography of old computer hardware translates into the ability to cope with low-light environment that require a steady shot.

Peter Smets’s Experience

System Engineer

Porthus

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

January 2008 — Present (7 months)

- Supporting and managing an environment providing end-users a thin-client infrastructure running on Citrix MetaFrame XP and Citrix Presentation Server 4 in combination with Microsoft Softgrid / Application Virtualization Server.
- Act as Point-Of-Contact for the customer, representing he system engineer and support teams.
- Co-ordinating anf follow-up system engineer and support teams.
Freelance IT Consultant
Doxology Consulting (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2007 — Present (8 months)
Photographer
FStop (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Photography industry)

September 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)

As my list of potentian customers grew I started this on-the-side photography business. Mostly specializing, however not limiting to, low-light environments such as gigs, concerts, dj sets and other events. 'Classic' portraits done on request.
Photographer

Drieduizend

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Photography industry)

April 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Drieduizend is an open photo-collective that runs a photoblog on www.drieduizend.be The central theme is Leuven, an average sized city in Flanders, Belgium.

Photographers collaborate on a voluntary basis. Anyone can participate, as long as the images do the talking.

I'm mostly involved in concert photography at the venues in Leuven (Het Depot, STUK) yet other topics and happenings in town are also covered when requested or just for fun.
Organizer

Demoscene

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1991 — Present (16 years 10 months)

Joined the demoscene with an Amiga 500 as mailswapper in 1991. Later I got a modem and started modemtrading and a BBS. In 2000 went back to C64 organizing both the Role Party and the first 2 editions of Primary Star after organizing 2 editions of the "Belgian Scene Event" (BSE for short) a couple of Amiga-only parties..

Currently Oldskool Organizer at The Ultimate Meeting since 2004 and C64 Organizer at Breakpoint since 2005.

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Peter Smets’s Websites:

Peter Smets’s Groups:

demoscene, flickr, breakpoint, tum

The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees member
Commodore 64 (ex) Demo Scene Members member
Facebook.com member
Plaxo.com member
SKYPE user member
IT Specialist member
Demoscene member
VMware Virtual Community member
Wii Enthusiasts member
MSN Messenger member
Virtualization Enthusiasts member
DHL Alumni member
DHL Networking Group member
Demoscene [www.scene.org] member
ExBev member
InBev Alumni Group member
Belgian Interim-management / Freelance network member
Citrix Professionals member