Kris Van de Vijver

Current

• System Engineer at Bayer

Past

• IT consultant / Windows System Engineer at Amadeus Benelux
• IT consultant / Windows System Engineer at Makro
• Support Engineer at Volvo IT

• Network Manager at Oiltanking
• Network Manager at Viveo Cognitive Systems
• System Engineer 2nd Line at Imaware
• System Engineer at Real Software
• PC support + webmaster at Ahlers

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Education

• Hogeschool Antwerpen
• Hogeschool Antwerpen

Recommended

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Connections

169 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Kris Van de Vijver’s Summary

Highly motivated and efficient IT professional. Analytical and rational, but also creative, practical and flexible. A problem-solver who doesn’t give up until the best solution has been found and implemented. Practical experience in System Engineering since 1996 working in financial, automobile, chemical, shipping, logistic, government and mobile areas, both small and large environments.

Kris Van de Vijver’s Specialties:

MCSE for Windows 2000 and Windows NT

Certificate for Updating Systems Engineer Skills (MCSE) from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) for ESX Server 3.5

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Administering Citrix MetaFrame XP (FR3) certificate

Exchange 5.5/2000/2003 + (MCP Certificate for Exchange 2000)

Microsoft ISA Server

Kris Van de Vijver’s Experience

• System Engineer

  Bayer

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BAY; Chemicals industry)

  November 2007 — Present (7 months)

  Working for the Regional Server Unit (RSU), supporting and maintaining all operational servers in Antwerp.

• IT consultant / Windows System Engineer

  Amadeus Benelux

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  April 2007 — October 2007 (7 months)

  Hired for two specific projects:
  - implementation of a new VMware ESX3 server
  - implementation of a new Citrix Presentation Server 4.5

• IT consultant / Windows System Engineer

  Makro

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wholesale industry)

  October 2006 — March 2007 (6 months)

  Migrating workstations to Active Directory.
  General client and server support on the Windows platform.
  Installing new HP file servers.
  Troubleshooting general network issues (dns, proxy, etc).

• Support Engineer

  Volvo IT

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 4 months)

  60% of the time was allocated to Telecom support (troubleshooting of network LAN/WAN and infrastructure related problems) and 40% of the time I was working with the Windows Support Team. They support around 5.000 Belgian users (Ghent and Brussels) and also give support to other European countries.
  
  Specific projects:
  • upgrading Cisco Aironet 1100 AP series
  • network monitoring with Spectrum One-Click and NetFlow
  • DHCP and DNS management with Lucent QIP
  • IOS upgrades of various Cisco switches
  • general network troubleshooting CatOS and IOS
  • troubleshooting AP’s with NetStumbler

• Network Manager

  Oiltanking

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Chemicals industry)

  June 2003 — May 2005 (2 years)

  Network Manager for the terminal in Antwerp, Ghent and Terneuzen (Holland). Installation and/or supporting all Windows servers and workstations as well as the general network infrastructure.
  
  Specific projects:
  - installation and configuration of a Cisco 800 router
  - installing new Citrix XPe Metaframe
  - installing new Windows Server 2003 IIS Webserver + setup HTTPS traffic
  - troubleshooting Eizo and Neoware thin clients/thin pc's
  - connecting new branch office to main office in Antwerp (IP, DNS, site link, etc)
  - Notes R5 to R6.5 migration on Citrix Metaframe platform
  - troubleshooting and monitoring Microsoft ISA server

• Network Manager

  Viveo Cognitive Systems

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

  May 2001 — May 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  General network + Windows server and client management.
  
  Specific tasks/projects:
  
  • switch from Psinet leased line to Skynet ADSL (DNS, e-mail, etc)
  • restore of an Exchange server database (after disk crash)
  • installing, securing & hardening IIS on Win2000 Server
  • implementatie Groupshield 5.0 op Exchange Server 5.5
  • research ‘How to secure Outlook Web Access’
  • Domain migration from NT4 to a Windows 2000 Active Directory
  environment (migration of PDC, DHCP, DNS, etc). Gewerkt met Active
  Directory Connector (ADC), LDAP, etc.

• System Engineer 2nd Line

  Imaware

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

  January 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  System Engineer 2nd Line Windows Server Support.
  
  Specific tasks/projects:
  • backup monitoring and supporting with ADSM and Veritas BackupExec
  • complex user- and group-administration
  • troubleshooting printers (HP JetDirect, Lexmark and LPR ports)
  • WINS (push/pull) troubleshooting
  • disk management (config various RAID implementations)
  • research of various disk quota software

• System Engineer

  Real Software

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1998 — December 1999 (2 years)

  General server and client implementations. Implementing / troubleshooting / managing / configuring : TCP/IP, policies, Kixstart, login-scripts,
  ARCserve, HP JetDirect ports, HP network-scanners, Axis Storepoint CD-rom
  Towers, Quota-Advisor, Exchange Servers, MS Proxy Server, Faxination,
  DriveImage, Partition Magic, Windows Resource Kit, various support tools, etc.
  - MS Proxy Server project: implementation of a secured NT
  network with Ms Proxy Server 2.0 : Packet Filtering, Reverse Proxying (IIS) + Server Proxying (Exchange 5.5 behind Proxy) via Port Binding, etc.

• PC support + webmaster

  Ahlers

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  January 1994 — December 1997 (4 years)

  supporting the PC network and designing various websites

Kris Van de Vijver’s Education

• Hogeschool Antwerpen

  Professional Bachelor (or B1), Applied Informatics / ICT, 1995 — 1997

• Hogeschool Antwerpen

  Professional Bachelor (or A1), tax accounting, 1990 — 1993

Additional Information

Kris Van de Vijver’s Websites:

• My Website

Kris Van de Vijver’s Interests:

photography, music, film, art, design, snowboarding, travelling, backpacking, games, playstation 3, scuba diving, comic books, Mac OS X, Adobe Photoshop

Kris Van de Vijver’s Groups:

•    VMware Certified Professional (VCP) member

Kris Van de Vijver’s Honors:

PiXistenZ was elected for the PhotoblogAwards 2007 as a Top 10 Finalist for "Best European Photoblog"

http://www.photoblogawards.com/2007/European.html

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