Dirk Van den Berghe

Current

• Owner at Elisa IT

Past

• Technology Lead Consultant at BT Global Services
• IT Consultant at Siemens IT Solutions and Services
• Systems Engineer at Siemens Business Services

• Systems Administrator at Siemens Business Services
• Consultant at Real Information Services
• Product Field Engineer at Cosmo - Computer Services and More
• Technical Support Engineer at Dataconsult Bvba

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Education

• CVO-IVV
• Stedelijk Atheneum Wispelberg
• Stedelijke Middenschool Wispelberg

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Dirk Van den Berghe’s Summary

* Freelance IT Consultant with over 10 years experience in managing and maintaining large server environments for large enterprises. Specialized in Microsoft based technologies such as Active Directory environments, Exchange email infrastructures and SharePoint. Always interested in infrastructure projects like architecture design, implementations, upgrade and migrations or advanced operations.

Check out my SharePoint blog at http://www.dirkvandenberghe.com !

* Application Developer interested in development for automating administrative tasks for systems management. Development is not my main focus.

* Technology Enthusiast. Always interested in new technologies

* Certified MCSA, MCSE, MCTS and MCITP

Dirk Van den Berghe’s Specialties:

- Programming skills in C#, Vb.Net and Java
- Expert knowledge in Microsoft collaboration products:
* Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2003, 2007
* Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS), Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
* Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS), Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS)
Also other Microsoft products such as SQL, Active Directory, MS Clustering, ISA 2006

Dirk Van den Berghe’s Experience

• Owner

  Elisa IT

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Messaging and Collaboration infrastructure consultancy.
  Architecture, design and operations excellence for complex collaboration environments.
  
  Large focus on SharePoint technologies

• Technology Lead Consultant

  BT Global Services

  (Public Company; BTA; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 3 months)

  Consulting Projects:
  August 2009 - October 2009 (50% - 2 to 3 days a week)
  Customer: Axa Tech
  Function: SharePoint Infrastructure Designer
  Design and implement a new Sharepoint Service within Axa.
  
  May 2009 - June 2009 (60% - 3 days a week)
  Customer: CSC
  Function: SharePoint Consultant
  SharePoint project for CSC customer, FOD Economie:
  - Assessment of the current MOSS 2007 infrastructure environment.
  - Technical analysis of the business requirements for 2 workflow related projects to be implemented using SharePoint technology.
  - Assist the project team functional analyst in his task to describe the functional analysis.
  
  December 2008 - December 2009 (50% - 2 to 3 days a week)SharePoint System Engineer at Dexia Bank
  Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 infrastructure support. Maintaining large SharePoint 2007 farms for intranet, extranet and internet usage.
  
  November 2008 - May 2009
  Technology Consultant at Hewlett-Packard Belgium
  Function: SharePoint Consultant
  Main technical lead in a SharePoint Migration project for HP customer, Solvay:
  - design the upgrade and migration plan of the existing SharePoint Portal Server 2003 environment to MOSS 2007.
  - Describing the design of the architecture in a detailed design document,
  - prepare the migration by installing and configuring the MOSS software in both an acceptance and production environment,
  - preparing/developing a migration script for individual site upgrades.
  - delivering a detailed cookbook for having the migration of the individual sites executed by a third party
  
  July 2008 - October 2008
  Microsoft Premier Support Engineer: On-Site Consultancy for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 infrastructure support at Dexia Bank.Maintaining large SharePoint 2007 farms for intranet, extranet and internet usage. As a external employee for Microsoft Belgium, act as the first point of contact for all issues that need to be channeled to Microsoft Support.

• IT Consultant

  Siemens IT Solutions and Services

  (Public Company; si; Information Services industry)

  May 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 3 months)

  • Main function: Office SharePoint Server 2007 Infrastructure consultant
  • Implementing and maintaining Office SharePoint 2007 infrastructure for Siemens Belux.
  - Install and configure new “virtual” Office SharePoint 2007 infrastructure for Siemens internal usage as a tool to replace existing procedures and processes and file share based document repositories used within Siemens IT Solutions and Services
  - Design and implement workflows using SharePoint Designer
  - Design InfoPath forms for replacing existing processes using normal documents. (e.g. replace documents used for adding servers to the datacenter by InfoPath Forms; replace predefined change request documents by InfoPath Forms, combined with workflows for better change request handling
  - Provide technical support/consultancy for internal SharePoint related projects
  - Design / Organize project related site template to be used in new projects and promote the usage of SharePoint to internal users by organizing trainings and presentations
  
  • Implementing and maintaining Office SharePoint 2007 infrastructure for Beverage Partners Worldwide.
  • Customer Consultancy projects:
  o Microsoft Belux:
  Microsoft Premier Support Engineer: On-Site Consultancy for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 infrastructure support at Dexia Bank
  o Bekaert:
  Consultancy for Office SharePoint Server Proof of Concept Project for integrating SAP within Office SharePoint Server
  • Additional tasks:
  o Maintaining the Siemens Belux E-Mail infrastructure, inherited from previous function
  o Governing the Siemens Global Exchange Infrastructure as a member of the Siemens Exchange Task Force, inherited from previous function

• Systems Engineer

  Siemens Business Services

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 1 month)

  • Main Function: Messaging Infrastructure Engineer
  o Maintain the Microsoft Exchange 2003 infrastructure
  o Maintain the linux based mail gateways
  
  
  o Maintain BlackBerry and Fax Servers.
  o Member of Siemens Exchange Task Force, responsible for identifying demand, developing technical solutions and decide on these solutions for central regulations and configurations of the Siemens worldwide Exchange 2003 environment. Monthly meetings at Siemens Headquarters in Munich or any other country organizing the meeting.
  o Technical lead in Exchange migration projects for carve-in and carve-out of Siemens companies
  
  • Additional Tasks:
  • Maintaining the Siemens Belux Active Directory and DNS infrastructure
  • Provide support for customer projects in the following products:
  o Microsoft Exchange 2003
  o Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005
  o Microsoft ISA Server 2004/2006
  • Maintaining Siemens Belux Microsoft ISA Server 2004 / 2006 environment

• Systems Administrator

  Siemens Business Services

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2001 — May 2005 (4 years 1 month)

  • Main function: Messaging Administrator:
  o Exchange 5.5 Organization, Exchange 2003 environment, including migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 project
  o Active Directory and DNS
  o Linux-based mail relays with Sendmail (SuSe)
  o Microsoft Metadirectory Services, MIIS 2003
  o Mailbox management
  o Automation of administrative tasks using programming skills (programming tools in .Net languages):
   Development of synchronization tools for synchronizing Active Directory data with SQL databases using C#
   Development of Web Frontend / Backend application for Active Directory management. Specifically designed for automation of mailbox management tasks using C#.
  
  • Additional tasks:
  o Active Directory and DNS management
  o Support for Microsoft Exchange Server
  o Support for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 / 2000

• Consultant

  Real Information Services

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2001 — May 2001 (3 months)

  IT Consultant

• Product Field Engineer

  Cosmo - Computer Services and More

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 1998 — March 2001 (2 years 11 months)

  2nd Line Helpdesk Engineer

• Technical Support Engineer

  Dataconsult Bvba

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 1998 — May 1998 (5 months)

  Computer assembly
  Desktop Support

Dirk Van den Berghe’s Education

• CVO-IVV

  Graduate (pending thesis completion) , Programming and Analysis , 2003 — 2006

• Stedelijk Atheneum Wispelberg

  Science & Mathematics 1991 — 1995

• Stedelijke Middenschool Wispelberg

  Science 1989 — 1991

Additional Information

Dirk Van den Berghe’s Interests:

Sci-Fi, Paramedic, Fire Fighting

Dirk Van den Berghe’s Groups:

•    Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
•    SharePoint Experts
•    BT Global Services
•    Siemens Worldwide Alumni & Employees Network >>> 2000+ Members<<<
•    MOSS2007
•    MCITP - Enterprise Administrator
•    Alumni Axxent Information Services
•    MCITP - Server Administrator
•    MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator
•    Belgian IT Freelancers / Contractors
•    Brandweer
•    Belgian Freelance ICT Professionals
•    Belgian Sharepoint Professionals
•    Microsoft SharePoint Professionals in The Netherlands

Dirk Van den Berghe’s Honors:

Microsoft Certifications achieved:
MCP - Microsft Certified Professional
MCSA - Microsft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows 2000
MCSE - Microsft Certified Systems Engineer on Windows 2000
MCSA - Microsft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows 2003
MCSE - Microsft Certified Systems Engineer on Windows 2003
MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Office SharePoint Server 2007
MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Exchange Server 2007
MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Windows Vista
IBM Certified Deployment Professional : Tivoli Compliance insight Manager V8.5
MCITP - Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator
MCITP - Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator
MCITP - Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Microsoft Exchange 2007, Enterprise Messaging Administrator

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