I have many years practical experience working for a wide range of businesses and organizations, both as employee and freelance consultant, in education and research, government departments, consumer goods manufacturers, banking, Internet & E-commerce, pharmaceuticals & automotive sectors.
My core IT competencies include:
Linux (SuSe/SLES, RedHat/RHEL/Centos/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, Oracle Linux)
Unix (Sun, AIX, HP-UX)
Cloud (AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner & AWS Solutions Architect Associate Diploma qualified)
Virtualization (Oracle Virtualbox, KVM, VMWare)
Monitoring (SMART-Montools, APCUPSD, Checkmk, Monit, Zabbix)Monitoring
Automation (Ansible, RedHat Satellite)
Clusters (Pacemaker/Corosync, HALVM/CLVM, GlusterFS, Ceph, OCFS2/GFS2)
Load Balancers (LVS, HAProxy, keepalived)
Webservers (Apache, Nginx, Squid)
Emailservers (Postfix, qmail)
Networking (DM-Multipathing & Ethernet bonding, VLAN Tagging)
Routing (BGP, RSTP & VRRP)
Security (Firewalling, IP-Tables)
Holder of LPIC1 & LPIC2 Linux Professional Institute Diplomas
Holder of AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate Diploma
I’m currently studying for the CompTIA IT Cybersecurity Diploma
Fluent speaker of German and Dutch (Institute of Linguists Diploma in German & Certificate in Dutch from Flemish Community Belgium)
Graduate B.Sc Upper Second Class, 2.1 with Honours, in Economics & Politics