Storage Consultant
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Storage Consultant at IT Service Center of a large dutch governmental "public safety" department
- Past
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- Architect at VX Company Managed Services
- Architect at United Retail Holding
- Architect at VX Company Managed Services
- Technical Consultant at VX Company IT Services
- Technical Consultant at A & O Services
- Technical Consultant at Police Force Gooi & Vechtstreek
- Technical Consultant at A & O Services
- Technical Consultant at Vegro B.V.
- Technical Consultant/Projectleader at A & O Services
- Technical Consultant at HYDRON
- Technical Consultant at Health Department (thru VX Company)
- Technical Consultant at VX Company IT Services
- Architect / Teamleader at WMN
- Consultant at SFS
- Technical Projectleader at Justice Department
- Technical Projectleader at Vegro
- Consultant / Teamleader at PTT Telecom
- Architect / Analist / Developer at Flower Trade Center Roelofarendsveen
- System Analist / Developer / System Manager at Vegro
- Developer at VX Company IT Services
- Developer at Disselkoen Holding
- System Manager at Police Force Intendance
- Manager Technical Data at Fokker Aircraft N.V.
- Education
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- Knowledge4You
- Knowledge4You
- New Level
- HP Educational Services
- HP Educational Services
- HP Educational Services
- HP Educational Services
- Microsoft Certification
- Microsoft Certification
- Study Assignment
- Fulcire
- ADC
- Fulcire
- Fulcire
- Fulcire
- Fulcire
- Microsoft
- Global Knowledge Network
- Global Knowledge Network
- Microsoft
- VX8000
- Global Knowledge Network
- ISES
- Vos & Partners
- Vos & Partners
- Vos & Partners
- Study Assignment
- AMBI
- AMBI
- AMBI
- AMBI
- AMBI
- AMBI
- University of Cambridge
- AMBI
- Technical School (MTS)
- AMBI
- Local evening school
- General School (MAVO)
- Connections
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Fred van Zwieten’s Summary
I am a Storage Consultant with a current focus on multi tier storage and high availability. NSPOF, RPO, RTO are the main themes in this line of business, together with coping with the ever increasing demand for online and nearline storage.
Fred van Zwieten’s Specialties:
NetApp Filers (FAS, V-Series, SnapVault, SnapMirror, Metrocluster), Data Domain (VTL, Depuplication), HP EVA5000 & EVA8000, Brocade SAN Switches, Clustering, Data Center Infrastructure, High Availability, CommVault Galaxy & Archiving, Windows 2003 Server, Multipathing
Fred van Zwieten’s Experience
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Storage Consultant
IT Service Center of a large dutch governmental "public safety" department
(Public Safety industry)
January 2004 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Responsible for Storage Design and implementation for the IT Service Center of a large "public safety" related department of the dutch government. (7 disaster tolerant data centers, 60.000 users). Focus on NSPOF and high availability. Maintaining relationships with vendors. Maintaining Documentation. Assist in deployments and migrations. Third level support.
- HP EVA5000, EVA8000 & EVA8100
- NetApp Filers
- HP B-series SAN Switches (Brocade)
- SAN Management Appliances
- HP Proliant / Alpha AXP / Itanium server
- HP p-class & c-class bladesystems
- Emulex / Qlogic HBA's
- Command View EVA
- Business Copy
- Continuous Access
- Replication Solution Manager
- Secure Path / MPIO
- Windows 2003 Server
- Fabric-OS
- Access Gateways
- Brocade Webtools
- EVAperf
(contracted thru VX Company IT Services) -
Architect
VX Company Managed Services
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — December 2003 (6 months)
Responsible for pre-sales, design, implementation and migration of a Office Automation infrastructure based on Novell Netware to Windows 2000/2003 server based infrastructure including SAN, Backup/Restore, Active Directory, Exchange and MS Office. This was a fixed date/fixed prixe project
- HP Proliant DL Servers
- MSA1000 based SAN
- Desktops, Laptops
- Windows 2003 Server
- Exchange 2003
- Windows XP
- Trend Micro NeatSuite
- Backup Exec -
Architect
United Retail Holding
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Retail industry)
September 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for the design of a new infrastructure for the central office and all shops to replace the old and aging infrastructure.
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Architect
VX Company Managed Services
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — July 2003 (1 month)
Responsible for writing a proposal for the migration of a server park based on Windows 2003 Servers and SAN technology. All servers boot from SAN. Backup/restore is LAN-free.
- HP Proliant DL servers
- MSA1000 based SAN
- MSL5030 tape library
- Windows 2003 Server
- BackupExec -
Technical Consultant
VX Company IT Services
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2003 — June 2003 (3 months)
Various presales tasks with a focus on migration projects using Windows 2003 server, clustering and SAN based infrastructure.
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Technical Consultant
A & O Services
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)
March 2003 — March 2003 (1 month)
Second Opinion on a Windows 2000 server and SAN based infrastructure design.
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Technical Consultant
Police Force Gooi & Vechtstreek
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Public Safety industry)
September 2002 — January 2003 (5 months)
Installation of Exchange 5.5 and MS Proxy. Connect infrastructure to the Internet and the nationwide Police Email infrastructure. Various improvements in the existing infrastructure and preliminary steps towards a future migration toward Windows 2003 Server.
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Technical Consultant
A & O Services
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)
September 2002 — December 2002 (4 months)
Give advice to design team responsible for the design of a new IT infrastructure.
- Windows 2000 Server (incl. clustering)
- Windows XP
- MA8000 based SAN
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Technical Consultant
Vegro B.V.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Warehousing industry)
February 2002 — May 2002 (4 months)
SAN Implementation. Windows 2000 server/SQL server implementation on a large MSCS cluster. Implementation 3 application servers and a backup server. Backup's are mostly LAN Free. Implementation af a remote management infrastructure.
- HP Proliant servers
- MA8000 based SAN
- Windows 2000 (advanced) server (incl. clustering)
- ACS
- Backup Exec
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Technical Consultant/Projectleader
A & O Services
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)
March 2002 — April 2002 (2 months)
Fixed date/fixed price project to upgrade a old Windows NT 4.0 based active/active file server cluster to a Windows 2000 based cluster with a minimum of downtime.
- HP Proliant servers
- MA8000 based SAN
- Windows NT 4.0 (incl. clustering)
- Windows 2000 (incl. clustering)
- Secure Path
- ACS
- BackupExec
- MS Project 2000
- SecureCopy
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Technical Consultant
HYDRON
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Utilities industry)
January 2001 — January 2002 (1 year 1 month)
Tactical Support. Implementing a new company wide antivirus infrastructure. Responsible for the DNS/DHCP/WINS implementation. Merging all networks. Design and Implementation of a new IP plan. Design and Implementation server infrastructure support department.
- Windows NT 4
- Exchange 5.5
- Trend Micro Antivirus product suite
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Technical Consultant
Health Department (thru VX Company)
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)
July 2000 — December 2000 (6 months)
Responsible for the design of a new server infrastructure based on Windows 2000 server technoloy to replace the aging NT4 based infrastructure. This project included Unified Messaging, SAN, Video Conferencing, Streaming Media, Clustering, Citrix, smartcard security and wireless access.
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Technical Consultant
VX Company IT Services
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2000 — October 2000 (8 months)
Responsible for functional and technical design for the migration of the Office Automation Infrastructure to a Windows 2000 Server based infrastructure. Available as project consultant for the various implementation teams.
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Architect / Teamleader
WMN
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Utilities industry)
April 1997 — June 2000 (3 years 3 months)
Responsible for the functional en technical design and implementation for a Windows NT 4 based network infrastructure. Development of support documentation. Connection to Internet. Migration of a large CAD/CAM application from OpenVMS to Windows NT. Leading a team of 4 to 10 people during the implementation and support phase.
- Windows NT 4.0 (incl. clustering)
- Exchange 5.0 / 5.5
- Arcserve
- InocuLAN
- SQL Server
- SMS
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Consultant
SFS
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)
August 1997 — March 1998 (8 months)
Responsible for the design for a VAX/VMS to Alpha AXP/VMS migration and a migration of file- and print services from Pathworks to Windows NT. This was a parttime position.
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Technical Projectleader
Justice Department
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)
April 1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Responsible for the implementation of a Email infrastructure for all national courts.
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Technical Projectleader
Vegro
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Warehousing industry)
February 1996 — September 1997 (1 year 8 months)
Responsible for the migration project to migrate the mission critical applications from VAX/VMS to Alpha AXP/VMS.
- Various VAX and Alpha AXP servers
- OpenVMS
- COBOL
- SCAN
- CMS/MMS
- DCL
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Consultant / Teamleader
PTT Telecom
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
March 1995 — February 1996 (1 year)
Responsible for the design and installation/implementation of a development infrastructure. Implementation of a development environment. Leading a development team varying in size from 2 to 10 developers. Development of a new application for 5500+ users with DECADMIRE, an 4GL OLTP engine.
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Architect / Analist / Developer
Flower Trade Center Roelofarendsveen
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
April 1993 — February 1995 (1 year 11 months)
Complete projectrealisation of a fixed date/fixed price project to rebuild the back office application suite using DECADMIRE 4GL OLTP code generator.
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System Analist / Developer / System Manager
Vegro
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Warehousing industry)
September 1992 — April 1993 (8 months)
System management of a VAX/VMS IT Infrastructure. Developed a tailor made backup system.
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Developer
VX Company IT Services
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1992 — August 1992 (5 months)
Development of a job control infratructure for a VAX/VMS environment.
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Developer
Disselkoen Holding
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
February 1989 — March 1992 (3 years 2 months)
Development of a ERP like system
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System Manager
Police Force Intendance
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Public Safety industry)
February 1988 — January 1989 (1 year)
System management of a VAX/VMS based IT infrastructure.
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Manager Technical Data
Fokker Aircraft N.V.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
June 1985 — January 1988 (2 years 8 months)
Responsible for maintaining technical data for Airplane Illustrated Parts Catalogs using various applications and databases. Using 4GL Focus for analysing databases.
Fred van Zwieten’s Education
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Knowledge4You
Commvault System Administration (CSA) 2008 — 2008
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Knowledge4You
Commvault System Engineering (CSE) 2008 — 2008
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New Level
Certified Linux Professional 2007 — 2007
- Activities and Societies:
- Novell SuSE SLES 10 CLP
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HP Educational Services
Certification Accredited Systems Engineer (ASE) HP StorageWorks Primary Storage 2003 — 2003
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HP Educational Services
HP StorageWorks Implementing SANworks Solutions 2003 — 2003
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HP Educational Services
HP StorageWorks Primary Storage – Part 1 2003 — 2003
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HP Educational Services
HP StorageWorks Introduction to Enterprise Storage Architecture 2003 — 2003
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Microsoft Certification
Implementing and Administering a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure (070-217) 2002 — 2002
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Microsoft Certification
Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure (070-219) 2002 — 2002
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Study Assignment
DNS & BIND, O’reilly, Second Edition. 2001 — 2001
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Fulcire
MS Course 2150: Designing a secure Microsoft Windows 2000 based network 2000 — 2000
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ADC
Development Center Technical Consultant / Architect 1999 — 1999
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Fulcire
MS Course 1560: Updating support skills from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 to Microsoft Windows 2000 1999 — 1999
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Fulcire
MS Course 1561: Designing a directory services infrastructure for Microsoft Windows 2000 1999 — 1999
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Fulcire
MS Course 1562: Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 networking services infrastructure 1999 — 1999
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Fulcire
MS Course 1563: Designing a change & configuration management infrastructure for MS Windows 2000 pro 1999 — 1999
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Microsoft
TechEd '99 (Amsterdam) 1999 — 1999
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Global Knowledge Network
MS Exchange 5.5 – Design & Implementation 1998 — 1998
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Global Knowledge Network
MS Exchange 5.5 – Concepts & Administration 1998 — 1998
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Microsoft
TechEd '98 (Nice) 1998 — 1998
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VX8000
Introduction to DCE 1998 — 1998
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Global Knowledge Network
MCSE Certification (Fasttrack) 1996 — 1996
- Networking with MS TCP/IP
- Supporting MS SMS
- Networking Basics
- Supporting MS Windows NT Workstation
- Supporting MS Windows NT Server
- Supporting MS Windows 95 -
ISES
ITIL Essentials 1995 — 1995
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Vos & Partners
Professional Skills: Customer Contacts 1994 — 1994
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Vos & Partners
Professional Skills: Presentation Techniques 1994 — 1994
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Vos & Partners
Professional Skills: Writing reports 1994 — 1994
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Study Assignment
VMS Architecture & Concepts 1993 — 1993
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AMBI
HP.4 – Development: Methods & Techniques 1992 — 1992
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AMBI
HP6: Datacommunication & Networks: Essentials & Technical Design 1991 — 1991
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AMBI
HP1: Introduction to Application Design 1989 — 1989
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AMBI
S1: Organization & information Management 1988 — 1988
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AMBI
T2: COBOL 1986 — 1986
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AMBI
B1: Introduction to Database Design 1986 — 1986
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University of Cambridge
First Certificate English 1986 — 1986
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AMBI
I2: Introduction to Information Technology - Part 2 1985 — 1985
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Technical School (MTS)
Electro Techniques 1982 — 1985
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AMBI
I1: Introduction to Information Technology - Part 1 1984 — 1984
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Local evening school
Introduction to Information Technology 1983 — 1983
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General School (MAVO)
Physics 1976 — 1981
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