Rick Wezenaar

Rick Wezenaar

Owner of MitraNet, Information Technology and Services Consultant and Contractor

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Current
  • UNIX Application Engineer at Ziggo (merge of @Home, Casema & Multikabel)
Past

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Education
  • School voor vakfotografie Apeldoorn
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
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Rick Wezenaar’s Summary

Experienced IT Professional with broad knowlegde of UNIX and MS Windows seeking interesting contracting/freelance projects in The Netherlands or Indonesia.

Keywords: Consulting, System Administration, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HPUX), Linux, FreeBSD, scripting, Perl, Ksh.

Rick Wezenaar’s Specialties:

TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, FTP, SSH, SCP/sFTP, FreeBSD, RedHat Linux, Sun Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Windows 2000/XP, Photography, Digital Media/DTP, Sendmail, Apache, Bind (named), Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Adobe Photoshop, Perl, (and so on...)

Rick Wezenaar’s Experience

  • UNIX Application Engineer

    Ziggo (merge of @Home, Casema & Multikabel)

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2008 — Present (1 year )

  • UNIX Systems Administrator

    SABIC Innovative Plastics

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

    2007 — 2008 (1 year )

  • UNIX Scripting Expert

    ING Real Estate

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

    September 2007 — December 2007 (4 months)

    Implement the FOCUS application monitor software system, which monitors Application Servers, Peoplesoft, Websphere servers, Oracle Databases and so on. The scripting is mainly done in Perl and KSH. The output is HTML based.

  • UNIX Systems Administrator

    ING Bank The Hague, Netherlands

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

    August 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 1 month)

    Global systems administration for the research (OPS/IT) serverpark. Perl and KSH scripting for (secure) file transfers from and to clients, start/stop scripts, and so on, converts, and database in- and exports. Second task: Support Analyst for researchers in the department.

  • UNIX Consultant / UNIX Scripting Expert

    Albert Heijn Group Zaandam (Ahold)

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

    2005 — 2006 (1 year )

    Mainly KSH and some Perl scripting for (secure) file transfers from and to clients, start/stop scripting for applications, reports from logfiles, and other activities.

  • UNIX Consultant (detachment)

    Devoteam

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2004 — 2006 (2 years )

  • UNIX Consultant / UNIX Systems administrator

    Schiphol Group N.V. (Amsterdam Schiphol Airport)

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

    2004 — 2005 (1 year )

    Maintenance of servers, systems administration, setting up and installing new servers, handling user requests, passwords, new accounts, setting up new policies for change management, handling changes, incidents, troubleshooting, maintain ticketing system, perl scripting, korn shell scripting. Platforms: Sun Solaris, AIX, RedHat Linux.

  • UNIX Systems administrator & Support Engineer

    ASML

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

    Troubleshoot common Unix problems on Sun workstations and Servers, handle email administration (sendmail, aliases, etc), handle nis administration (nismaster), handle OS upgrades on workstations, handle printing problems (print spooling), handle graphics problems whithin sun workstations, handle user rights administration on sun servers, handle web administration (apache), handle dns and dhcp administration, handle common networking and dhcp problems on workstations, handle CDE problems on sun workstations, handle Netapp issues, handle windows NT4 administration for workstations, Perl scripting, Korn shell scripting.

  • IT Engineer

    Philips

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2002 — 2004 (2 years )

  • UNIX Applications engineer / UNIX Systems Engineer

    Philips N.V. (Philips Research)

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

    2002 — 2004 (2 years )

    Installation and maintenance of IC-Design software on HP-UX, Sun Solaris and Linux, Installation and maintenance of a Linux server for the department, Revision and improvement of procedures and information flow, Analysis and problem-solving with respect to software installations, Provide designers with information regarding upgrades and migrations, maintenance of /cadappl tree, LSF and FlexLM, Perl scripting, Korn shell scripting.

  • IT Engineer

    Philips

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2000 — 2002 (2 years )

  • IT Engineer

    UPC

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2000 — 2002 (2 years )

  • 3rd line support engineer (Senior Agent)

    UPC Nederland

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

    1999 — 2002 (3 years )

    Analysis of event reports by call agents, Guarding of information from and to several departments, Share technical knowledge with call agents, Maintenance of error and event database, Revision and improvement of communication and support procedures. Maintain a Linux server for internal operations.

  • 1st line support engineer (Call Agent)

    UPC Nederland

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

    1998 — 1999 (1 year )

    Assist customers with internet related problems, Maintaining the event database, Assist the senior agents with their tasks.

  • Professional Photographer

    Foto Rick Wezenaar

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Photography industry)

    1989 — 1998 (9 years )

    In 1989 I founded a professional photography studio. Artistic work was my main occupation with portrait photography as specialty.
    In august 1998 I received the official Hasselblad Diploma for photography, the oeuvre prize of a prominent professional camera manufacturer. In April 1999 I won the first prize of the Kodak
    Professional Portrait Award.

    Making professional photographs of persons, objects, buildings and landscapes, Editing photographs by computer (image manipulations), Building and maintaining several Linux servers for my customers (this for downloading photographs, Speed and efficiency is essential.), Designing posters, flyers, and creating artwork for magazines.

  • Managing Director / CEO

    CPU / McAfee Nederland

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    1984 — 1989 (5 years )

    In 1984 the sole right to sell the McAfee Viruscan software in The Netherlands was acquired, through contacts in America. Since I was one of the founders, I became CEO of this company. After several years this company was sold.

Rick Wezenaar’s Education

  • School voor vakfotografie Apeldoorn

    bachelors , Professional Photography , 1989 — 1993

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Rick Wezenaar’s Interests:

computers & internet, photography, reading, painting, art, tennis, gadgets, technology, space, science fiction, fantasy, music, etc...

Rick Wezenaar’s Honors:

> The Kodak Professional Portrait Award 1998/1999 (1st Prize)
> The Hasselblad Open. For Creative Excellence. 1998.

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