Peter Bodifée

Current

Owner/President at Bodifee Consulting Group Inc.

Past

ICT Architect at Amarantis Onderwijsgroep
Sr. Consultant at Comparex Nederland
Corporate ICT Architect at Essent

Advanced Architecture Manager at EMC Engineering
Pre-Sales Systems Engineer at EMC Benelux
Datacenter and Network manager at Fluke Europe
System Designer at BSO/Origin Automation Technology
Software Developer at BSO Aerospace
Computer Programming Instructor at Royal Dutch Navy Reserve

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Education

Saxion University (formerly IHBO "de Maere")
Universiteit van de Nederlandse Antillen
Radulpus College

FEANI

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Peter Bodifée’s Summary

Peter Bodifee is the president of Bodifee Consulting Group Inc., a firm specializing in helping you leverage information technology for dramatic success and maximum profitability.

Peter has been a consultant since 2005 and a former software developer, data center manager, network specialist, system engineer, and IT architect. He has worked for and with profit and non-profit organizations such as ESA, Bosch, General Electric Plastic, Ericsson, Fluke, EMC, Ernst & Young, Essent, KPMG, and KLM Airlines, as well as lesser-known medium-sized organizations such as Amarantis Education Group.

In the past 23 years, his openness to new challenges lead him to work on projects in eight countries with people from 15 countries. He has lived in five different countries on three continents, which has given him a taste of the multicultural and truly global workplace. As a result, he now has a command of three languages: English, German, and Dutch. He has worked on both the demand and the supply side of the table. As no other, he can relate to business-to-business issues in the IT domain.

Keywords experience (in alphabetical order): architect, coach, client facing, consultative selling, data centers, design, development, disaster recovery, helicopter view, high availability, human machine interfacing, implementation, integration, IT infrastructure technology, networks, networked storage, operating systems, performance analysis, project management, team player, testing, security, storage management, strategy, virtualization.

Contact: peter@bodifeeconsulting.com

Peter Bodifée’s Specialties:

Disaster resilient data center solutions, (Re)building IT infrastructure after mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure standardisation and policies.

Peter Bodifée’s Experience

Owner/President

Bodifee Consulting Group Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Custom consulting services for both organizations as well as individuals.

We offer a results-based approach to solving problems without focusing on a particular methodology, framework, or technology. We work in a rigorous but informal manner, in order to raise the bar.

We provide custom-tailored engagement to specifically meet your particular needs. Our project is complete only when we both agree that a set of goals and measures set at the beginning has been met.

CONTACT: peter@bodifeeconsulting.com
ICT Architect

Amarantis Onderwijsgroep

(Education Management industry)

July 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Defined a long term vision for an IT infrastructure for a group of 65+ high schools and vocational education institutes. Assist IT management in daily decision making on IT technology. Paved the initial road for the future ICT architects.
Sr. Consultant

Comparex Nederland

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

January 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 9 months)

Selected assignments:
* Defined test strategy for DR of a twin data center at major global airline. Coached project management team (7 people) on the testing effort. Implemented a test structure using Quality Center.
* Coached IT management at a health insurance company with selecting, deciding, acquiring, implementing and migrating datacenter infrastructure using Sun/EMC/Oracle. Performed performance analyses.
* Managed project at a large federation of labor unions to design, build and implement central twin datacenter, 5 regional datacenters, WAN infrastructure and the subsequent migration to Exchange. HP Proliant, EVA, VMware ESX, Windows 2003, for enterprise wide applications and VoIP.
* Designed a new IT architecture at a Big4 accountancy firm for a disaster resilient twin data center using virtualization techniques on Cisco, IBM xSeries (VMWare ESX) and IBM SVC. Coached project managers and team leaders during the implementation phase.
Corporate ICT Architect

Essent

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

April 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 9 months)

Formulated and maintained the corporate ICT strategic architecture, policies, guidelines and standards for the ICT infrastructure. Directed ICT architects from business units responsible for Business ICT alignment and ICT architects from service providers to achieve a cost effective standardized ICT infrastructure.
Direct report to the CIO. Selected, prioritized and consulted on all ICT investments for Office Automation, Networking, Communication, Information Security.

Essent is in the business of energy production, transportation and service delivery, cable communication (TV, Radio, Internet, Voice) and waste management. Organized in a federal division structure employing 10.000 persons serving 3 million customers.
Advanced Architecture Manager

EMC Engineering

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMC; Computer Hardware industry)

May 1999 — January 2002 (2 years 9 months)

Coached and trained all Networked Storage technical architects in Europe in their efforts to provide account teams with ready to implement solutions for EMC’s customers. Providing principal design to evolve current and future infrastructure concepts based on market and customer demand. Obtained customer input at councils for R&D purposes. Organized and led dedicated customer design and R&D interaction seminars. Provided architecture consultancy at CIO level with key accounts. Managed technical aspects of alpha and beta programs at various customers. Provided VP Engineering with information of European market demands in networked storage. Contributed to Engineering and Product marketing white papers on network storage architectures.
Pre-Sales Systems Engineer

EMC Benelux

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMC; Computer Hardware industry)

November 1996 — April 1999 (2 years 6 months)

Provided pre-sales systems engineering support and technical consulting for EMC Open Systems hardware and software products (Symmetrix, Celerra File Server, Data Manager, SRDF, TimeFinder, PowerPath, Volume Logix, Symmetrix Manager). Provided technical feedback to Product Management. Lead a team of 6 Systems Engineers for the verticals Manufacturing, Finance and Government.
Lead a multi-disciplinary team to implement end-to-end solution for a search application on a centralized infrastructure serving clients across the world.
Architected information infrastructures based on EMC product range and other IT vendor products.
Datacenter and Network manager

Fluke Europe

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

July 1994 — October 1996 (2 years 4 months)

Provided system integration support for the Implementation of a complete new standardized IT infrastructure in 17 sites located in 14 countries to support the mission-critical business systems (MFG/PRO) for the European operations.

Subsequently managed the operations of the European IT infrastructure consisting of the datacenter, the network center and the headquarters telecommunication facilities. Maintained the relationship with all infrastructure vendors.
System Designer

BSO/Origin Automation Technology

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Industrial Automation industry)

October 1989 — June 1994 (4 years 9 months)

Performed various roles ranging from software design, system integration, integration and acceptance testing, quality management and project management on projects for a Warehouse information system, various communication modules, manufacturing plant monitoring systems, spacecraft simulator, GSM authentication systems, TV broadcast control system, spacecraft information system.
UNIX, X11, C, C++, VMS, ACMS, Pascal, RdB, Windows 3.1, Oracle, TCP/IP, NFS
Software Developer

BSO Aerospace

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)

November 1986 — September 1989 (2 years 11 months)

Designed, coded and implemented using Pascal, Fortran and Oracle the workstation presentation system, communication links and data processing compiler for a multitenant software system to evaluate space craft performance data at ESA/ESOC. Supported start of Hipparcos mission.
Computer Programming Instructor

Royal Dutch Navy Reserve

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

August 1985 — October 1986 (1 year 3 months)

Monitored and evaluated student lab exercises for basic and advanced programming on the navy academy. Part of my military duty drank beer with HRH Prince of Orange.

Peter Bodifée’s Education

Saxion University (formerly IHBO "de Maere")

ing, B.Eng. (Honours) , Computer Science & Software Engineering (HIO) , 1981 — 1985

Activities and Societies:

student society ENIAC
Universiteit van de Nederlandse Antillen

Electrical Engineering 1980 — 1981
Radulpus College

1973 — 1980
FEANI

Eur Ing , Information Technology , 2005

http://www.feani.org/euring.html