Tim Jacobs

Solution Architect / Bid Manager at Xylos

Brussels Area, Belgium

Current
  • Solution Architect / Bid Manager at Xylos
Past
Education
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Connections
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Tim Jacobs’s Summary

I am currently working as a Solution Architect and Bid Manager at Xylos. Together with our customers, I look for a proper infrastructure solution to the problems they are facing & convert this solution into a proposal for a project at the customer.

Previous experience includes:
- working as a Windows Server designer at the Shared Service Center at GDF-SUEZ. My focus areas were on virtualisation (VMWare ESX) and Windows 2003 Active Directory.
- Planning and developing the strategy for a Vista and Office 2007 migration for Fluxys.
- working as a Wintel server infrastructure architect at Eandis (during the migration towards new IT infrastructure)
- doing a SoftGrid infrastructure proof-of-concept at Electrabel Belgium

In addition I have worked on several SoftGrid implementation projects and teaching several SoftGrid trainings. I have performed several IT infrastructure security and renewal projects.

Tim Jacobs’s Specialties:

Active Directory, Virtualization, Application Virtualization


Tim Jacobs’s Experience

  • Solution Architect / Bid Manager

    Xylos

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2009Present (9 months)

  • Senior System Engineer

    Xylos

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2006April 2009 (2 years 7 months)

  • Doctoraatsbursaal

    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

    October 2002September 2006 (4 years )

    Research in the field of mathematical physics, with a specialization in many-particle quantum systems. Teaching statistical physics (exercise sessions) and ombudsman for master students.


Tim Jacobs’s Education

  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

    Dr. , Science (Theoretical Physics) , 20022006

    Thesis Title: "Time, Heat and Work: aspects of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics"
    (Supervisor: Prof. dr. Christian Maes)

  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

    M.Sc. , Physics , 19972002

    Thesis Title: "Niet-Hermitische Localisatie in een Eén-Dimensionaal Reactie-Diffusie Systeem"
    (Supervisor: Prof. dr. Carlo Vanderzande)


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