DC-Synergy Project

Telecommunication, Alcatel-Lucent 10.2007 – 03.2008 – Migration of 870 sites into 6 Mega-Datacenters – SPOC for EMEA (Technical Solutions) – management of several Workgroups to create new standards to deal with the technical problems to avoid issues during the centralisation – Proactive prevention of problems – Technical consultant and  technical project lead

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Insourcing of a datacenter in Antwerp

Telecommunication, ALCATEL Antwerp 09.2004 – 12.2005 – Migration of all Solaris Systems onto new hardware – Migration of ClearCase Vob- View- und Build- Servers – Consolidation of all Oracle Databases – Migration of all Services (DNS, NIS, Samba, etc)onto new hardware – installation of a new backup infrastructure incl. SAN (on EMC CLARIION Basis) – NIS […]

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Planning of the move of a datacenter

Telecommunication, ALCATEL Antwerp 12.2005 – 07.2006 – planning of the new datacenter, racking and cabling – creation of the concept for the move – creation of shutdown and start-up scenario – creation of disaster recovery concept – consulting for the network infrastructure – consulting for the power planning – creation of cable plans – analysis […]

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Proof of Concept for ClearCase centralization

Telecommunication, Alcatel-Lucent 04.2008 – 09.2009 – Creation of concept to centralize ClearCase – Server and application installations – Cloning of the production environment from Antwerp to Stuttgart – Problem: CC over WAN – successful implementation and proof of the technical feasibility with superbatch test on a real product

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System administration and project work

IT Senior Consultant, Telecommunication, Alcatel-Lucent, HP 09.2009 – 03.2011 – Migration from DDTS to ClearQuest – Installation of a new SUN Grid (Solaris 10 and Linux RH) – Administration of several Datacenters in EMEA (approx. 1100 Solaris, 30 HPUX, 300 Linux Systems) – Patch management etc.

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Technical Consultant

Telecommunication, Alcatel-Lucent 09.2006 – 09.2007 – defining worldwide standards for Alcatel-Lucent + Solaris 10 Zones (container) + IPMP + SAN +Veritas Storage Foundation (HA incl.) – Administration of approx. 1000 Unix Servers in different EMEA datacenters –  Solaris, Linux, HP-UX – Installation and conception of Solaris Zones  (Oracle, Peoplesoft, Tuxedo, Weblogic….) – Installation of several Veritas HA […]

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UNIX and ClearCase Architect T2 Transformation

Telecommunication HP (ALU Account) 03.2011 – 11.2012 Creation of technical standards and documents for the centralization of approx 400 ClearCase environments spread over the world into 6 mega datacenters. Analysis of all environments. Pilot installation in the Atlanta datacenter. In parallel: level 4 UNIX administration

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IT Architect

IT-Consulting January 2013 – Present (4 years) Setup of a clustered LDAP infrastructure for several thousands of UNIX Servers. Migration of several thousands of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux Servers from local users to LDAP. Hardening of UNIX Servers – all flavors of derivates. Deployment of SUDO out of LDAP for Solaris, Linux, AIX and […]

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