Rik Habex

Current

Owner at IB WORX bvba
Senior Consultant at itigate bvba

Past

IT Architecture Manager at Damovo Belgium NV
Global IT Systems Manager at Damovo Group
ICT Support Manager at Enterprise Solutions Ericsson NV / Damovo Belgium NV

Customer Support Engineer at Ericsson NV

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Education

Universiteit Hasselt
Groep T - Leuven Hogeschool
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Rik Habex’s Summary

Allround ICT professional with specialist knowledge and international experience in systems, networking and ITIL processes areas.

Personal strenghts are common sense, pragmatic approach, quick learner, people management and passion for technology.

Rik Habex’s Specialties:

Systems (Client & Server) Architecture & Design
Remote Server & Network Management
Microsoft specialisation (MCSA & MCSE 2003, MCTS certified): MOM, Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, ISA Server, OCS, ...
Networking (Cisco/Extreme), Firewalls & VPNs (Juniper/Netscreen), Security
Virtualisation & consolidation (VMware VCP on VI3 certified)
IT Infrastructure Management, ITIL (certified)
Project Management, PRINCE2 Practitioner (certified)
Business Process Management (SOA, BPMN)

Rik Habex’s Experience

Owner

IB WORX bvba

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Senior Consultant

itigate bvba

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

IT Management Consultancy
(Providing consultancy for IT Management, Service Level Management, IT Projects & Infrastructure Management/Design.)

IT Infrastructure Management
(Design, Management & Monitoring of IT Systems & Networks, remote & on-site, 24/24h.)

ITIL Process Management
(Mapping of IT processes into graphical ITIL-based framework, designed in a pragmatic way.)

Current main activities:

ITIL Process Consultant/Project Manager for Tessenderlo Group, Brussels
- implementation of ITIL Configuration Management

IT Architect/Technical Account Manager for tie limited, Edinburgh, UK
- management of their complete IT infrastructure from A to Z (24x7)
- technical lead for all ICT projects
e.g.
- Remote Office implementations, with full hotdesking functionality
- Cisco network backbone implementation
- Virtualisation/consolidation of complete infrastructure on VMware & HP blades
- E-mail journaling & archiving implementation
- etc.
IT Architecture Manager

Damovo Belgium NV

(Telecommunications industry)

November 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Global IT Systems Manager

Damovo Group

(Telecommunications industry)

June 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 6 months)

Global responsibility of worldwide Client PC & Server infrastructure (18 countries, 44 locations, 110 servers, worldwide)
Technical design of worldwide IT infrastructure (systems)
Team Leader in Remote Server & Network Management team (Damovo infrastructure & external customers)
ICT Support Manager

Enterprise Solutions Ericsson NV / Damovo Belgium NV

(Telecommunications industry)

March 2001 — June 2002 (1 year 4 months)

IT Helpdesk Support (Windows 2000 Professional, Office XP, …)
Server & Network Management (Windows 2000, Active Directory, Exchange 2000, BackupExec, …)
180 users, Remote & On-Site
Customer Support Engineer

Ericsson NV

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

September 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 7 months)

Remote- and On-Site Support Engineer: Ericsson MD110 PABX, PABX related applications (Callcenters & Unified Messaging, e.g. DNA, Solidus, OneBox, …)

Rik Habex’s Education

Universiteit Hasselt

Post-graduate in Business Administration / Economics / Management 2008 — 2010 (expected)

- Accountancy & Financial Management
- Marketing, HRM & Strategy
- Management
Groep T - Leuven Hogeschool

MSc , Industrial Sciences, Electronics , 1995 — 1999
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven