
Application Engineer at HP Enterprise Services
Almere Stad Area, Netherlands

Application Engineer at HP Enterprise Services
Almere Stad Area, Netherlands
Unix System Administrator experienced in:
. FreeBSD (x86/x86_64)
. Sun Solaris (7 to 10 on (Ultra)SPARC)) / 10 on x86/x86_64
. OpenSolaris on x86/x86_64
. Linux distro's such as Debian and Gentoo (x86/x86_64).
Application Engineer in the field of designing and managing multi-tiered Apache Tomcat-based web clusters.
. Setting up TCP clustering in Apache's Tomcat application server
. Apache Webserver Virtual Hosting
. Postfix (Mail) server configurations
. BIND (DNS) server configurations
. pf (OpenBSD's packet filter) configurations
. Sun Microsystems server architecture (Ultra SPARC)
(Public Company; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
. In charge of (re)designing, maintaining and running multi-tiered web clusters (development, staging and production environments) consisting of backend Apache Tomcat application servers, frontend Apache web servers behind software linux-based loadbalancers.
. deploying of in-house developed applications.
. working closely with software testers and our application developers to make sure everything's been done that can be done to make the platform as stable as possible.
(Public Company; TIS; Telecommunications industry)
2000 — 2006 (6 years )
Daily activities were very broad, ranging from:
. installing, maintaining and upgrading boxes with various flavours of Unix-like operating systems.
. maintaining and running core ISP services like DNS, Mail and Radius.
. handling of ticket flow.
. writing scripts for automating tasks among many other ISP-related tasks.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Daily activities were very broad, ranging from:
. handling ticket flow
. placing outbound calls to customers
. supplying and maintaining internal knowledge base for employees
. providing support on customer ISDN modem configurations
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
Daily activities were very broad, ranging from:
. handling ticket flow
. providing phone customer support for:
. windows based TCP/IP installations and configurations
. windows based mail installations and configurations
. placing outbound calls to customers for follow-ups
(Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years )
Daily activities were very broad, ranging from:
. handling ticket flow
. providing phone customer support for:
. windows based TCP/IP installations and configurations
. windows based mail installations and configurations
. placing outbound calls to customers for follow-ups
Netopia Certified Specialist 1999 — 1999
Passed a Netopia course for installing and configuring the Netopia R3100 Router
Passed the Microsoft Windows and DOS environments Specialty Examination 1996 — 1996
A+ Certification Program
MEAO , Dutch, German, English, Economics, Commercial Economics, Computer Science , 1988 — 1993
MAVO , Dutch, English, German, Math, Science, Chemistry, Technical Drawing , 1983 — 1988
unix(-like) Operating Systems, new technology, movies, computer games, music