Eindhoven Area
An energetic, stress-resistant and proficient IT & Program Manager with a can-do, pioneering attitude. Seasoned in IT & OT security, manufacturing, data centre, software/services, logistics and pharmaceutical/chemical and engineering industries. A highly motivated person, independent learner, creative thinker, positive self-starter and team player who works to the highest standards with a strong history of success in satisfying even the most demanding multi-national companies. Has proven flexibility to initiate and manage change to meet required ROI and SLA goals. True IT Generalist with broad industry and technical knowledge in both width and depth; flexible to relocate; willing to travel up to 50%.
✔ Managing a portfolio of projects in the following areas: • Information Security Management System (ISMS) • IT / OT / Product Security • Crisis Management and Alerting ✔ Act as a SCRUM master and then PO for one of the ISMS projects. ✔ Using an ITIL & Prince2 / Agile hybrid model applying ISO 27001, 27002, and IEC 62443 as a guideline to manage InfoSec and IT security projects. ✔ Used SIAM as an Operating model (Currently being phased out)
✔ Various short temporary contracts including Independent contracting for the investment industry, Data Center redesign, Optimization of Procurement processes, Office move, Departmental NAS deployments, ... ✔ Doing volunteering work with handicapped children ✔ Doing volunteering work in the FLOSS community and became moderator in slightly less than 1 year of volunteering work in the Manjaro (Arch-based) community
✔Led a small team of Data Center engineers ✔ Implemented Next-Generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in a business-critical 24/7 environment. ✔ Oracle ExaData, Oracle Sun X5→X8, Cisco HW upgrades and more
✔ In a fast-moving Enterprise Cloud Technology and Services company, install new infrastructure and upgrade the existing one for Compute (Cisco, Dell, Bull Sequana, ...), Storage (VMAX, Unity, NetApp, …), Network (Cisco, F5, …), Security (FortiNet, Cisco, …), Backup (DataDomain, …) in a fully virtual environment (VMWare) ✔ Design, Plan, and Execute Disaster Recovery Tests ✔ Personally added 100s of K$ to company bottom line by creating standardised SKUs for DR Tests. ✔ Build and decommission Data Centers using SAP as the procurement tool of choice (with occasional hands-on to motivate DCOps) ✔ Large customers worked for include The Coca-Cola Company, Vodafone, AlmavivA, Telkom ZA, SAP, ...
✔ Project Management and budgeting for various small (60K€) to large (4,5M€). Projects ranging from 1 month to 20 months (Project Director A.I.) and 1 site (sole resource, hands-on) to 65 countries. ✔ Projects varied from Merger&Acquisition integration over deployment of new processes/products/infrastructure, Development using SCRUM, implementing ITIL/Agile Processes for best practices, SAP B2B XML interfacing to construction of a new EMEA HQ. ✔ Largest personal save on initial project budget was 250K€ by requesting ROI calculations for all changes. ✔ Large customers worked for include DHL, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens Business Services, Sanofi, ...