Systems Administrator at Nederlandsch Octrooibureau
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands
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- Systems Administrator at Nederlandsch Octrooibureau
- Systems Administrator at iSense
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- Systems Administrator at DHL Exel Supply Chain
- Systems Administrator at Sylis
- Systems Admin at Sylis Nederland BV
- System/Security at DSM Anti Infectives India Ltd
- System Administration / Systeem Design / Consultantcy at Azivo
- Software Intake Tester at Fujitsu Services
- Education
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- Crabeth College Gouda
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Robert Kloosterhuis’s Summary
Enterprise-level systems and data center administration is where my interests lie. Large scale role outs, systems architecture, platform and hardware management, deep automation and enterprise scale alerting and management.
I am increasingly interested in IT policy, how to handle and deal with the challenges of large IT organizations. Structuring knowledge sharing, collaboration, documentation, aspects of ITIL, best practices, etc.
I am also interested in IT security, and managing security in large IT environments.
Personality profile:
I like to think out of the box and ask the hard questions. I assume nothing and always try to build context and a sense of the big picture in everything I do. I enjoy extreme complexity and digging into, and making myself master of, complex IT systems. The devil is in the details. Because of the amount of importance I place on accuracy of information, context and detail, I will often be the go-to guy for understanding how something -actually- works. In my communications, I always provide context and prefer giving too much information, that too little.
I am a collaboration junkie. I love tools that make it easier to share information with people, and to connect to others. I am a great proponent of introducing social software into the enterprise, such as blogs, forums, wiki's etc. I am a fan of Microsoft's Sharepoint technology, and will often refer to it as a good starting point to achieve higher forms of collaboration and information dissemination.
Robert Kloosterhuis’s Specialties:
- Windows Systems administration in Enterprise environments
- Citrix (Metaframe XP)
- Security and patch management
- RES Powerfuse
- IBM and HP platform management, including enterprise tooling (HP Insight Manager, IBM Director)
- SNMP and general large-scale monitoring and alerting technologies and practices
Robert Kloosterhuis’s Experience
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Systems Administrator
Nederlandsch Octrooibureau
(Privately Held; Legal Services industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
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Systems Administrator
iSense
(Public Company; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
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Systems Administrator
DHL Exel Supply Chain
(Public Company; DHL; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)
June 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 7 months)
At DHL, I was team lead of the Systems Management team of DHL’s Global Services devision in the Benelux. In this position, I was originally responsible for the day-to-day running an administration of the corporate data center of DHL-Exel supply chain and logistics operations in the Netherlands.
This included administration of a 200-server Citrix Metaframe farm, 10 IIS application/IDE process-flow servers, and the usual Infrastructure servers such as: Domain controllers, DNS and DHCP servers, SQL servers, and various application servers.
As part of our administrative tasks, we where also responsible for many servers at remote sites. The enterprise-level nature of the operations, required strong knowledge of data center management technologies such as KVM-over-IP systems, platform management hardware and software, snmp, and planning large scale network and infrastructure. -
Systems Administrator
Sylis
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2001 — December 2008 (7 years 9 months)
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Systems Admin
Sylis Nederland BV
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — December 2008 (7 years)
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System/Security
DSM Anti Infectives India Ltd
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
May 2004 — July 2004 (3 months)
At DSM, my primairy responsibility was to inventorise so called process pc's out on the network, and apply patch management where possible, and backup using Symantec Ghost. To achieve this, I employed a combination of patch-management solutions including manual installation, scripted and stringed installation, Windows update, and a third-party patch-management product called HFNetcheck pro. Other tools included Microsoft's security and patch applications such as MBSA, and other patch-role out automation utilities. Because DSM had no native system in which to register these process pcs, I built a small Access database, and though that, also provided reporting to management.
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System Administration / Systeem Design / Consultantcy
Azivo
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Medical Practice industry)
March 2004 — May 2004 (3 months)
• I was originally called into Azivo's Pharmacy branch office to migrate a number of PC's to Windows 2000, as part of a larger Windows 2000 migration that had taken place at the main office. I started a project to migrate this branch office to become part of the corporate Windows 2000 domain. This included writing a detailed migration plan, specifying all aspects of the migration that needed to take place, purchasing new hardware to support the new environmental requirements, solving a large number of application and hardware incompatibilities, and building up a number of new servers. The migration itself also included the design and roleout of a RIS server and associated creating of baseline images, design of a deep group policy structure, role out of additional applications using group policy, integration of DFS for cross-site share browsing, a subnet migration, a new routing infrastructure, remote administration facilitation and migration of data from the old environment.
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Software Intake Tester
Fujitsu Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2003 — March 2004 (7 months)
As part of an enterprise-wide migration project to a standardized desktop and server environment at the Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM), my rolerole was to inventorise, test and document applications and their use across different business units. This required to dig deeply down into individual applications, and their integration into the business processes, so that installation packets could be created for role out in the new environment. Application compatibility testing often included the solving of deep compatibility issues, involving the coordination of various departments and suppliers.. For every application, extensive documentation was written.
Robert Kloosterhuis’s Education
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Crabeth College Gouda
Technische Informatica
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Gaming, IT, Internet, Internet Culture, Technology, Web
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