Chris Coppens

Retired IT Professional

Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

Experience

  • Owner at CO-Pro
    Nov 2010 - Present · 15 yrs 8 mos

    ICT Consulting & Project Management

  • Technical Account Manager (Channel BeLux) at EMC
    Mar 2014 - Sep 2023 · 9 yrs 7 mos

  • Pre-Sales & Competence Center Manager at Azlan, part of TechData Group
    Jun 2011 - Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Infrastructure Services Manager (EMEA) at Descartes Systems Group
    Mar 2010 - Nov 2010 · 9 mos

    Porthus acquired by Descartes Systems Group Realisations: - Define standard installation procedures for our corporate datacenters (Brussels and Amsterdam) - Build up a new datacenter in Slovakia and The Netherlands - Reponsible for the architecture and implementation of the complete redundant basic infrastructure (UPS systems, airco units, fire detection, firewalls, networking, backup, monitoring, EMC² fiber channel storage, … ) - Define maintenance contracts for the datacenters - Implementation of a Network Operations Center (NOC) in Slovakia to provide 24/24h systems monitoring with a completely new team of operators - Define company standards of all IT-related infrastructure to obtain a heterogenious environment to simplify the maintenance and to reduce the TCO - Legato Networker backup and EMC² storage implementation (Clariion & Datadomain products) - Consolidation & Virtualization projects on Vmware hypervisor for over 400 hosts - Datacenter consolidations of several acquired companies in Europe to our main datacenters - Setup Legal archiving service based on EMC² Centera solution with synchronisation between different datacenters

  • Operations Manager at Porthus
    May 2000 - Mar 2010 · 9 yrs 11 mos

    Responsible for the production environment with an install base of about 700 servers (Windows and Unix/Linux environment) across all our datacenters (EMEA) Reponsible for all internal projects of the complete operational environment Setup Operations department as third line support People management (Job talks, exits, recruitment, …) The purchase of all IT-related infrastructure Advise architects and project leaders to setup a maintainable, solide and reliable infrastructure Capacity management, planning and reporting House keeping Work out Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan Quarterly report for the management board Member of the Change Advisory Board (CAB) Order management – from the purchase and reception of the order until the final acceptance of the systems by the end-user / customer