Kris Van de Vijver

Current

• Web Applicaton Engineer at SD Worx

Past

• Wintel System Engineer for Web and Application Servers at ING
• IT consultant / Citrix and VMware at Amadeus Benelux
• Support Engineer at Volvo IT

• Network Manager at Oiltanking
• Network Manager at Viveo Cognitive Systems
• System Engineer 2nd Line at Imaware
• System Engineer at Real Software
• PC Client Support and Webdesign at Ahlers

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Education

• Hogeschool Antwerpen
• Hogeschool Antwerpen

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Kris Van de Vijver’s Summary

Highly motivated and efficient IT professional. Analytical and rational, but also creative, practical and flexible. A problem-solver who doesn’t give up until the best solution has been found and implemented. Practical experience in System Engineering since 1996 working in financial, automobile, chemical, shipping, logistic, government and mobile areas, both small and large environments.

Kris Van de Vijver’s Specialties:

MCSE for Windows 2003, Windows 2000 and NT.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) for ESX Server 3.5

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Administering Citrix MetaFrame XP certificate

MCP certificates for Exchange 5.5/2000/2003

Kris Van de Vijver’s Experience

• Web Applicaton Engineer

  SD Worx

  (Privately Held; Human Resources industry)

  November 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Implementing and maintaining new and existing web applications on Microsoft IIS 6 Server and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007.
  
  An international environment where I'm working with a Windows 2008 domain structure, IIS 6 servers, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007, Cisco load balancing, nlyte datacenter management, IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL, Microsoft Dynamics CRM4, Sitecore CMS, EMC Documentum, etc.

• Wintel System Engineer for Web and Application Servers

  ING

  (Public Company; ING; Financial Services industry)

  May 2008 — November 2009 (1 year 7 months)

  Websphere 5 Administrator
  
  Environment:
  Windows2000/2003 (circa 1500 servers in 9 domains), VMware ESX 3.5, Tivoli TSM and TWS, Netiq, HP system Insight Manager, IBM Websphere Application Server 5 and 6, MQSeries, Perigrine, IBM Network Dispatcher, etc.

• IT consultant / Citrix and VMware

  Amadeus Benelux

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; 1A; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Hired for two specific projects:
  - implementation of VMware ESX 3.2
  - implementation of Citrix Presentation Server 4.5

• Support Engineer

  Volvo IT

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

  June 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 10 months)

  60% of the time was allocated to Telecom support (troubleshooting of network LAN/WAN and infrastructure related problems) and 40% of the time I was working with the Windows Support Team. They support around 5.000 Belgian users (Ghent and Brussels) and also give support to other European countries.
  
  Specific projects:
  • upgrading Cisco Aironet 1100 AP series
  • network monitoring with Spectrum One-Click and NetFlow
  • DHCP and DNS management with Lucent QIP
  • IOS upgrades of various Cisco switches
  • general network troubleshooting CatOS and IOS
  • troubleshooting AP’s with NetStumbler

• Network Manager

  Oiltanking

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Chemicals industry)

  June 2003 — May 2005 (2 years )

  Network Manager for the terminal in Antwerp, Ghent and Terneuzen (Holland). Installation and/or supporting all Windows servers and workstations as well as the general network infrastructure.
  
  Specific projects:
  - installation and configuration of a Cisco 800 router
  - installing new Citrix XPe Metaframe
  - installing new Windows Server 2003 IIS Webserver + setup HTTPS traffic
  - troubleshooting Eizo and Neoware thin clients/thin pc's
  - connecting new branch office to main office in Antwerp (IP, DNS, site link, etc)
  - Notes R5 to R6.5 migration on Citrix Metaframe platform
  - troubleshooting and monitoring Microsoft ISA server

• Network Manager

  Viveo Cognitive Systems

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  May 2001 — May 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  Specific tasks/projects:
  
  • switch from Psinet leased line to Skynet ADSL (DNS, e-mail, etc)
  • restore of an Exchange server database
  • installing, securing & hardening IIS on Win2000 Server
  • implementing Groupshield 5.0 op Exchange Server 5.5
  • securing Outlook Web Access
  • Domain migration from NT4 to a Windows 2000 Active Directory
  environment (migration of PDC, DHCP, DNS, with ADC, etc).

• System Engineer 2nd Line

  Imaware

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  System Engineer 2nd Line Windows Server Support.
  
  Specific tasks/projects:
  • backup monitoring and supporting with ADSM and Veritas BackupExec
  • complex user- and group-administration
  • troubleshooting printers (HP JetDirect, Lexmark and LPR ports)
  • WINS (push/pull) troubleshooting
  • disk management
  • research of various disk quota software

• System Engineer

  Real Software

  (Public Company; REA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1998 — December 1999 (2 years )

  General server and client implementations. Implementing / troubleshooting / managing / configuring : Windows NT, TCP/IP, policies, login-scripts, ARCserve, HP JetDirect ports, HP network-scanners, Axis Storepoint CD-rom, Quota-Advisor, Exchange Server, Faxination, DriveImage, Partition Magic, Windows Resource Kit, various support tools, etc.
  - MS Proxy Server project: implementation of a secured NT
  network with Ms Proxy Server 2.0 : Packet Filtering, Reverse Proxying (IIS) + Server Proxying (Exchange 5.5 behind Proxy) via Port Binding, etc.

• PC Client Support and Webdesign

  Ahlers

  (Privately Held; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  January 1995 — December 1997 (3 years )

Kris Van de Vijver’s Education

• Hogeschool Antwerpen

  Professional Bachelor (or B1) , Applied Informatics / ICT , 1995 — 1997

• Hogeschool Antwerpen

  Professional Bachelor (or A1) , tax accounting , 1990 — 1993

Additional Information

Kris Van de Vijver’s Interests:

photography, travel, backpacking, film, art, music, design, snowboarding, playstation 3, scuba diving, comic books, Mac OS X, Adobe Photoshop, the Asian and Indian cuisine

Kris Van de Vijver’s Groups:

•    Microsoft MCSE Club
•    VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
•    CONNICTION.EU
•    MCSE Group
•    VFXY

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