Portfolio

Client: Vlaams Woningfonds
Project description: Upgrade Red Hat Virtualization environment
Project timeframe: December 2016 – December 2020

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– Upgrade Red Hat Virtualization environment from 3.5 to 4.1
– Client support

Keywords :  RHEV 3.5, RHEL 6, RHV 4, RHEL 7

Client: Brussels Airport Company
Project description: Server hardening and patching using Foreman and Ansible/AWX
Project timeframe: May 2019 – August 2020

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– Design and implement self-provisioning architecture using ManageIQ, Foreman, AWX
– Design and implement central identity management architecture using FreeIPA
– Design and implement container platform using Docker Swarm and Portainer
– Design and implement monitoring platform using Zabbix
– CentOS server hardening using Ansible/AWX
– CentOS server patching using Foreman and Ansible/AWX
– Fine-tuning of the VMware vSphere environment
– Daily system administration tasks

Keywords :  CentOS 7, ManageIQ, Foreman, Katello, Candlepin, Pulp, AWX, Ansible, Puppet, Bitbucket, VMware vSphere 6, IBM SVC, oVirt, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Gluster, WildFly, Docker (Swarm), Portainer, FreeIPA, Zabbix, Windows Server, Nexus

Client: Grid BVBA
Project description: Improve linux environment
Project timeframe: July 2018 – April 2019

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– Design and implement Spacewalk architecture
– Design and implement Zabbix architecture
– Design and implement MongoDB architecture (clustered)
– Design and implement PostgreSQL architecture (clustered)
– Design and implement Puppet architecture
– Daily system administration tasks

Keywords :  CentOS 7, CentOS 6, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Spacewalk, Zabbix, PostgreSQL, Pgpool-II, MongoDB, Puppet, Gitlab, Docker

Client: National Bank of Belgium
Project description: Make Red Hat environment enterprise ready
Project timeframe: March 2017 – June 2018 (1 year and 4 months)

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– RHEL server hardening using Red Hat Satellite server and Puppet
– Design and implement Red Hat Ansible Tower architecture
– Design and implement Red Hat Gluster Storage architecture
– Design and implement Graylog architecture
– Configuration and fine-tuning of Red Hat IPA
– Configuration and fine-tuning of GitLab
– Daily system administration tasks

Keywords :  RHEL 7, RHEL 6, Red Hat Satellite server 6, Puppet, GitLab, VMware vSphere 6, Red Hat Ansible Tower, Red Hat IPA, Red Hat Gluster Storage, Graylog, Elasticsearch

Client: ENGIE Electrabel
Project description: Design Red Hat Satellite architecture
Project timeframe: November 2016 – April 2017 (6 months)

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– Design Red Hat Satellite architecture
– Installation and configuration of a Red Hat Satellite server on an IBM Pure system

Keywords :  RHEL 6, Red Hat Satellite server 5.6

Client: Baxter International Inc.
Project description: Installation, configuration and fine-tuning of the Nagios XI monitoring platform (CentOS 6)
Project timeframe: March 2015 – February 2017 (2 years)

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– Installation, configuration and fine-tuning of the EMC VPLEX/VNX storage environment
– Implement 10G backup network
– Installation, configuration and fine-tuning of the Nagios XI monitoring platform (CentOS 6)
– Testing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to see if it can be used as a VDI environment
– Configuration and fine-tuning of the backup environment using EMC Networker (+NMDA, +NMM, +VMware Protection) and EMC Data Domain
– Installation and configuration of VMware vRealize Operation Manager 6
– Daily system administration tasks

Keywords :  Novascale Bullion, VMware vSphere 5, vRealize Operations Manager 6, CentOS, Red Hat, Oracle linux, Nagios, EMC VPLEX, EMC VNX, EMC Networker, EMC Data Domain, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Windows Server

Client: Federal police
Project description: Review the Red Hat Virtualization environment
Project timeframe: September 2016 – November 2016 (3 months)

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– Design Red Hat Virtualization (RHV 4) architecture
– Implementation of Red Hat Virtualization (RHV 4) on two sites

Keywords :  RHV 4, RHEL Server 7

Client: Business Solutions Builders
Project description: Auto provisioning and configuration management of workstations (RHEL 6) which are located at 4 different sites by use of Red Hat Satellite (Capsule) Server
Project timeframe: December 2014 – March 2015 (4 months)

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– Installation and configuration of Red Hat Satellie server (RHEL 6)
– Installation and configuration of Red Hat Satellite Capsule server (RHEL 6)
– Daily system administration tasks

Keywords : RHEL Server 6, RHEL Workstation 6, Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server

Client: International Post Corporation
Project description: System administration of the production and development environment
Project timeframe: February 2014 – February 2015 (1 year 1 month)

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– Installation and configuration of several Tomcat application servers (RHEL 6)
– Installation and configuration of a Spacewalk server (CentOS 6)
– Installation and configuration of a Puppet server (CentOS 6)
– Automatically provision and configure an Oracle DB server (Oracle linux 6)
– Redesigning the archiving solution by use of NetVault Backup
– Implementing Veeam Backup & Replication as a new backup solution
– Rack, install and configure IBM Storwize to be used as storage backend for Veeam Backup & Replication
– Daily system administration tasks

Keywords : VMware vSphere 5, Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle linux, Dell Compellent, Multipath, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle, Nagios, Bash, Perl, Groovy, Unitrends Virtual Backup, NetVault Backup, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Jira, Confluence, Git, Puppet, Jenkins, IBM Storwize

Client: Federal police
Project description: Migration from Novell Netware v6 to RHEL 5
Project timeframe: June 2011 – February 2014 (2 years 9 months)

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– Migration from Novell Netware v6 to RHEL 5
– Installation and configuration of a KVM platform (RHEL 6)
– Installation and configuration of a Red Hat Cluster (RHEL 6)
– Installation and configuration of an EGroupware server (RHEL 5)
– Installation and configuration of a Spacewalk server (RHEL 5)
– Installation and configuration of a Clonezilla server (RHEL 5)
– Configuration of the Bacula backup environment (RHEL 5)
– Configuration of the Opsview monitoring platform (RHEL 5)
– Testing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to see if it can be used as a new vitualization platform
– Daily system administration tasks and user support

Keywords : Novell Netware, Red Hat, Samba, PDC, openLDAP, DHCP, DNS, TFTP, DRBL, Clonezilla SE, Opsview (Nagios), Subversion, ReaR, Bacula, Bash, Perl, HP Systems Insight Manager, HP Smart Array (CLI), EGroupware, Spacewalk, KVM, Red Hat Cluster, iSCSI, NTP, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Client: Eurocontrol
Project description: System administration of the production and development environment
Project timeframe: May 2010 – May 2011 (1 year 1 month)

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– Migration from OMU (HP Operations Manager for Unix) to OML (HP Operations Manager for Linux) (RHEL 5)
– Installation and configuration of GroundWork (Nagios) monitoring platform (RHEL 5)
– OS and configuration deployment using Red Hat Satellite server (RHEL 5)
– Project management (Doc Platform) using MS Project
– Daily system administration tasks
– Incident management, Change management, Release Management, Problem management

Keywords : Red Hat, HP-UX, LVM/Multipath, NIS, NFS, HP Serviceguard, Red Hat Satellite Server, Bash, Perl, GroundWork (Nagios), EMC NetWorker, BMC Remedy, HP Systems Insight Manager, Omnivision, HP Operation Manager for Linux, VMware Infrastructure 3.5, vSphere 4

Client: Hostbasket
Project description: System Administration of the shared and dedicated hosting environment
Project timeframe: January 2010 – May 2010 (5 months)

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– Enhance the security of the web environment (Ubuntu LTS 8.04)
– Migration of some websites to a new web environment (Ubuntu LTS 8.04)
– Testing Vmware vSphere 4 to see if it can be used as a new vitualization platform
– Testing OS deployment using FAI (Fully Automated Installation)
– Network administration
– Daily system administration tasks and user support

Keywords : Ubuntu, CentOS, Apache, MySQL, Bash, PHP, FTP, Juniper, VMware vSphere 4, FAI

Client: Ghent University
Project description: Installation and configuration of the UGent HPC
Project timeframe: January 2008 – December 2009 (2 years)

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– Creation of a fully automated user management system using openLDAP and Perl (RHEL 5)
– Installation and configuration of a Nagios monitoring platform (RHEL 5)
– Installation and cofiguration of a High Availability cluster using Pacemaker/Heartbeat (RHEL 5)
– Installation and configuration of the scheduling and resource management software (RHEL 5)
– Installation and configuration of a Linux firewall (RHEL 5)
– OS and configuration deployment using Quattor
– Storage administration
– Daily system administration task and user support

Keywords : Red Hat, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Torque/Maui/Moab, Gold, openLDAP, Bash, Perl, Python, Apache, DHCP, DNS, TFTP, Nagios, NFS, PostgreSQL, Pacemaker/Heartbeat, Quattor, Shorewall/Iptables, HPC, Grid Computing, OTRS, Subversion

Client: Ghent University (Laboratory of Microbiology & KERMIT)
Project description: Installation and configuration of a professional linux environment
Project timeframe: January 2006 – December 2007 (2 years)

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– Installation and configuration of a Linux (Debian) HPC environment
– Installation and configuration of a Linux (SLES 9) HPC environment
– Installation and configuration of a Samba Fileserver (SLES 10)
– Installation and configuration of a FTPserver and Sun One Webserver (SLES 10)
– Installation and configuration of a OpenVPNserver (SLES 10)
– Installation and configuration of a Bacula Backupserver (SLES 10)
– Installation and configuration of an Oracle Databaseserver (SLES 10)
– Migration of the existing Oracle DB on Windows server 2003 to SLES 10
– Development and design of the department website
– Daily system adminstration tasks and user support

Keywords : SUSE, Debian, Iptables, Xen, OpenQRM, DNS, openLDAP, Sun Grid Engine, NFS, SAMBA, DHCP, TFTP, NIS, FTP, Sun One Webserver, OpenVPN, Oracle, Samba, Bacula, Bash, Windows XP, WIndows Server 2003