Junior IT Consultant at Fujitsu Services
Gent Area, Belgium
- Current
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- Junior IT Consultant at Fujitsu Services
- Local System Administrator at European Commission
- governing board at JH Sjatoo
- Past
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- Field Engineer at Birds Eye Foods
- trainee at Cummins Business Services
- labourer & clerck at Coppens-Lammens
- governing board at JH Sjatoo
- trainee at Verlinden
- clerck at Fortis
- labourer at Van Poecke & zonen
- Education
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- Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen
- Sint-Jozefinstituut Wetteren
- Scheppersinstituut Wetteren
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Sander Fiers’s Summary
Office Administration:
- Microsoft Office ( + Publishes + Frontpage + Visio + Project)
- Microsoft Outlook
- IBM Lotus Notes (+ Sametime)
Ticketing System:
- BMC Remedy
- IBM Peregrine
Development:
- OO programming
- UML (IBM Rational Rose)
- ERD (Erwin Data Moddeler)
- Java (IBM Eclipse, Sun NetBeans)
- C# & VB.NET (Microsoft Visual Studio)
Databases:
- SQL (Microsoft SQL Server)
- SQL*plus, PL/SQL (Oracle)
- Datawarehousing (ETL, Oracle)
- Database Administration (Oracle)
Webtechnologies:
- XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, DTD, XSL
- Content Management System (Drupal)
- Blogs (Wordpress, Blogger)
- ASP (Microsoft Visiual Studio .NET)
- Animations, ActionScript, RIA's (Macromedia Flash)
System Administration:
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft Exchange ( + Antigen/Sybari)
Storage solutions:
- Tape robot library (Fujitsu-Siemens)
- Symantech Veritas / Backup Exec (10d, 11d)
Anti-virus:
- McAfee Anti-virus Scanner + ePolicy Orchestrator
- Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
- Grisoft AVG
Software distribution:
- Microsoft Windows Software Update System
- Avocent LanDesk
Monitoring:
- Hobbit Monitoring
Operation Systems:
- Microsoft Windows (DOS, 95, NT4, 98, Me, 2000, Server 2000, XP, Server 2003)
- Apple Macintosh (OSX 10.3, 10.4, 10.4 Server, 10.5, AppleScript)
- UNIX (Sun Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OSX)
- Linux (SuSE, Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu)
- File-, mail-, print-, webserver configurations
Virtualisation:
- VM Ware (Server, Workstation, Player)
- Virtual PC
Remote connections:
- Avocent KVM over IP + DSView
- Microsoft Remote Desktop Connections
- Dameware
- Apple Remote Desktop
Terminal Services:
- Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server
Networking:
- Cisco CCNA1 & CCNA2
- topics as TCP/IP, LDAP, DNS, Horde, Bind, LAMP, zone forwarding, ...
- security audit ISO17799
Sander Fiers’s Specialties:
Langauges:
- Dutch: excellent (mothertongue)
- English: very good
- French: good
- German: basic knowledge
Management:
- Business Intelligence & OLAP (Cognos Powerplay)
- Project Management
- ITIL foundations (certified green badge)
Driver license:
- European & international driver license
- UK familarisation & defensive driving course (certified)
Interested in:
- datacenter stuff: servers, storage, operating systems, web, ...
Sander Fiers’s Experience
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Junior IT Consultant
Fujitsu Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year)
Working on a fulltime project at the European Commission.
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Local System Administrator
European Commission
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; EC; Government Administration industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year)
Working as a consultant on a project at the European Commission as a Local System Administrator (L2) in the DG Relex. Advicing IT Officers in European delegations worldwide (+250 countries with +5000 endusers in one of the largest networks worldwide). Service delivery, monitoring & optimalisation of networkdevices (switches, routers, VSAT, MPLS) , tape robots, print-, mail- and fileservers.
I'm also in charge of some smaller delegations with no IT Officer to follow up all IT-related things. Currently in charge of the European Delegations in Norway (Oslo), Iraq (Baghdad).
Did a 6-day mission to Norway (Oslo) to move the print- & fileserver (Fujitsu Siemens TX300 Primergy). Installed, patched and configured the network equipment, servers and taperobot. In the meantime I also migrated the print & fileserver and upgraded Backup Exec from 9 to 11d. Plus configured the fully automated backups to a tape robot (Fujitsu Siemens TX24 FibreCat), ... -
governing board
JH Sjatoo
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
May 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Since May 2007 I'm again a member of the governing board of the local youthclub Sjatoo in Kalken. Again I will be furfilling the position of Public Relations. This contains different dimensions: membermanagement, bimonthly newsletter, writing to the press, advertisement, point out the marketing strategy, creating and maintaining our websites: jhsjatoo.org and sjatoobeachparty.be.
Next to my task in the governing board I'm also a normal employee. I help out on parties behind the bar, brainstorming about new acitivities, selling tickets, cleaning, server drinks on normal Fridays, placing advertisement, making flyers and posters, fixing things,...
Durating one work-year I was responsible for public relations. Making posters, writing to the local goverment, writing to the press, updating the website with new information. I also managed a team to make a monthly magazine that we supplied to our two houndred members. -
Field Engineer
Birds Eye Foods
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Food Production industry)
April 2008 — April 2008 (1 month)
Rollout of Microsoft Windows XP on the Fujitsu Siemens workstations and portables for the whole new IT department of Iglo Belgium (Birds Eye) / Unilver. Adding computers to the Iglo domain. Configuring the OS, installing applications, printer drivers, latest patches. Applying patches and installing various applications via scripts. Patching networksockets and setting up the LAN for the new Iglo network.
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trainee
Cummins Business Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)
January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)
In order to obtain a degree & gain a first work experience I had to apply for an IT-internship. Belgian internships have a duration of 2months, but since I went abroad it was a 13weeks contract. During my 3months in the UK, I lived in Peterborough (Cambridgeshire). Where I worked as a trainee for one of the largest engineering companies worldwide: Cummins. To be more correct, I worked for Cummins Business Services, were I was located in the most important datacenter of the EMEA region. I didn't had 1 large task to do, so I gained knowledge on various domains: 6sigma, problem&change management, telecom, datacenter ops,... Thanks to P. Corbett I had a short introduction into UNIX. He took me down to datacenters to rack, install and configure new servers. During my time in datacenters I also got the opportunity to get familiar with Avocent & Veritas products. Next to my normal tasks I also had the chance to attend a weekly change board and to be a member of the Student Charitee Committee.
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labourer & clerck
Coppens-Lammens
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wholesale industry)
June 2003 — January 2007 (3 years 8 months)
During a few weekends and school-hollidays I'm employed at a chrysantheumnursery. As leading specialist in a wide range of multiflora chrysantheums, extraordinary shapes and large globes in decorated pots, Coppens-Lammens BVBA exports a variety of this flower to whole Europe. Because of my yearly summer-employment I have done all kinds of tasks and I'm familiar with the whole process. I have been preparing the fields, setting up plumbing, removing weeds, potting flowers, feeding the flowers, installing the darkning system, making the flowers dark, labelling flowers, making orders, transporting with a wheelcarier, loading lorries, watering flowers,... All this on a very busy schedule: long days, even on Saturday, Sunday morning and Sunday evening. Occasional I also have to fix day-to-day computerproblems, making pricelists and helping out with invoices.
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governing board
JH Sjatoo
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 2 months)
As said before, I was member of the governing board of the local youthclub Sjatoo in Kalken. Durating one work-year I was responsible for public relations. Making posters, writing to the local goverment, writing to the press, updating the website with new information. I also managed the workgroup 'Information' in order to make a bimonthly magazine that we supplied to our two houndred members.
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trainee
Verlinden
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Automotive industry)
May 2003 — May 2003 (1 month)
Verlinden NV was an official Ford garage in Wetteren. In order to receive my highschool degree I had to make a website for a small company in the region. Because of the extremly short period of highschool internship, 1 week, I worked also during two weekends and in the evenings.
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clerck
Fortis
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)
July 2002 — August 2002 (2 months)
As the biggest bank in Belgium, Fortis NV offered one month contracts for students during summer. I was employed in Ghent on the department credits & loans, where I did various administration task. I copied and faxed files, answered phones, entered information in computer systems, archived files, reviewed loans,... Afterwards I received a bonus upon my normal salary for my fast and good work.
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labourer
Van Poecke & zonen
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wholesale industry)
July 2001 — June 2002 (1 year)
On the age of 15 you are only allowed to work in horeca or agriculture. So I worked as a labourer at the tree- and rosesnursery Van Poecke & zonen BVBA in Wetteren. During the summer I worked there on rosesfields during the day and sorted little trees in the evening. The following year I tried to make some extra money by working in wednesday afternoons, weekends and schoolhollidays. In that year I helped on orders, weeding, planting, potting, transporting, sorting, feeding,...
Sander Fiers’s Education
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Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen
bachelor, Information Management & Systems, 2003 — 2007
I did a security audit ISO17799 at a local goverment in Rotselaar during the second year. In the final year I also made a groupproject about developing a car rental application. We had to make an ASP.NET and VB.NET back- and frontend, object oriented offcourse. We had to make a functional design in UML and discuss the information architecture. As extra we had to make a Rich Internet Application in Macromedia Flash were people could book a car. As internship I went abroad to the United Kingdom to work for Cummins Business Services IT. As final project I made a paper about the subject: 'Can Web 2.0 have an added value for enterprises ?'
- Activities and Societies:
- During my internship at Cummins I was a member of the Student Charitee Committee. Two British students and I have planned activities to raise money for Comic Relief on Red Nose Day. We also collected all the old mobile phones from the EMEA region, in order to sell them and donate the amount of £1500 to the local Sue Ryder Care hospital. At the end of my internship we did this action again and raised £1200 for the same hospital. We also participated in their sponsored Bedpush-event.
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Sint-Jozefinstituut Wetteren
highschool, Bookkeeping-Computer science, 2000 — 2003
On the end of my final year, during the proclamation, I received an award for 'Best graduating thesis 2003'.
Together with a normal technical highschool degree I have received an certificate 'company management', that is necessary to start an own business.- Activities and Societies:
- Together with two other collegues I founded the digital schoolpaper, Big Brosser, during my two last schoolyears from 2001 to 2003.
I also installed a new computer classroom together with another student and J. Borgeljoen during weekends.
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Scheppersinstituut Wetteren
highschool, Industrial Science, 1997 — 2000
- Activities and Societies:
- During the course Technology Education we entered a contest by making an automatic bridge for a ship with Lego-blocks.
Additional Information
Sander Fiers’s Websites:
Sander Fiers’s Interests:
My girlfriend Nathalie, macintosh, internet, youthclub Sjatoo, photography, actua, music, movies,...
Sander Fiers’s Groups:
Sjatoo (local youthclub of Kalken-Laarne)
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Fujitsu Services
Sander Fiers’s Honors:
Best graduating thesis 2003 (highschool)
