Mark Verboom

Current

Unix, storage and network administrator at Dutch Space

Past

Coordinator Unix at Essent Kabelcom
IT Coordinator Unix at Telegraaf media ICT
Unix consultant at Rent a Shop

Unix administrator at @Home Benelux
Software engineer at PSINet
Unix Administrator at Fokker Space
Consultant at Unix Support Nederland

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Education

van der Bilt & Libosan
Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Mark Verboom’s Summary

Years of experience in Unix related environments, especially the more complex ISP configurations. Related to this much experience in debugging software, performance tuning complex environment with dynamic work loads, designing and implementing complex architectures, including networking and storage.
Team lead experience for medium sized (8-14 people) teams, including managent reporting, team performance evaluation and coaching.

My full resume can always be found on my personal website:

http://www.verboom.net/cv/cv.html

Mark Verboom’s Specialties:

Unix (specifially Linux and Solaris), Network Appliance, Internet related applications (apache, bind, exim, sendmail etc), architecture design and implementation, teamleading, software development (assembly, C, php, python)

Mark Verboom’s Experience

Unix, storage and network administrator

Dutch Space

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Defense & Space industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

As unix, storage and network administrator responsible for the complete infrastructure. Next to keeping systems, storage and network operational, I also run projects, consulting for engineering projects and troubleshooting for other departments.

Projects I've been involved in are:
* Design of a secure remote access architecure
* Spam management
* Securing root privileges
* Move of complete IT infrastructure to our new building
Coordinator Unix

Essent Kabelcom

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 5 months)

Next to operations now also responsible for planning, operational coordination and Unix infrastructure. Operational administration of systems, designing of architectures and running projects. Working directly with the project department for estimating task times, planning of resources and steering at project progress problems.
IT Coordinator Unix

Telegraaf media ICT

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2001 — March 2003 (1 year 8 months)

Coordinate operations, plan changes, coordinate projects. Together with the administrators design new infrastructures, make new technical solutions.
Optimze the infrastructure and operational tasks so the headcount could be reduced from 14 to 4.
Participated in project to reduce the infrastructure costs by changing the network infrastructure, migrate to 1 platform (linux) and optimize the administraional tasks.
Technical and organisational role in the architecture sessions for the whole of De Telegraaf.
Unix consultant

Rent a Shop

(Internet industry)

May 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 8 months)

Parttime trouleshooting, advising and coaching at Rentashop. Creating procedures, writing support software and help with expanding their IT infrastructure. Systems running Solaris, Irix and Linux and using applications intershop, apache, networker and sendmail.
Unix administrator

@Home Benelux

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

December 2000 — July 2001 (8 months)

Management of Solaris, Irix and Linux systems for @Home Benelux. Troubleshooting and maintaining of intermail, sendmail, typhoon and networker software. Executing and planning projects, planning and executing changes, knowledge transfer within the unix team and restructuring the Unix administration.
Software engineer

PSINet

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PSIX; Internet industry)

September 2000 — November 2000 (3 months)

For PSINet Datacenter Netherlands creating the design, implemeting and documenting a bandwidth monitoring system to create reports about customer bandwith usage. Written in PHP with a PostgreSQL database as backend (both running on Linux), scalable for the complete datacentre (over 90.000 systems).
Unix Administrator

Fokker Space

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

January 1997 — August 1999 (2 years 8 months)

Administration (based on ITIL) of the Unix systems at Fokker Space (around 50 Sun and Sillicon Graphics systems, running Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6 and Irix 5.3 - 6.5). Administration of the Internet connection (leased line with Cisco router), application administration of Checkpoint Firewall-1, Legato Networker (serverside and the client side for all unix systems), DNS, Email (sendmail), misc. web- and samba servers. Installation and troubleshooting of (technical) problems for different engineering tools (Euclid, MSC Patran, MSC Nastran, Ideas and Abaqus). Together with the SAP administrators performing software and hadware upgrades and performance tuning. Advising on software development, security and purchage of hard- and software.
Consultant

Unix Support Nederland

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1994 — August 1999 (5 years 1 month)

Unix consultant doing jobs for different companies on contract base.