PETER VAN GEEM

PI CONSULTING

Professional Network Services – Expert Enterprise Engineer

PERSONAL DATAPeter Van Geem. Paellepelstraat 16, 9400 NederhasseltTel : 0474/316.969eMail : peter@piconsulting.netWebsite : http://www.piconsulting.net

Born on April 13 1973 in Aalst, Belgium.Married and father of 5 children.

General: Quick-learning, team-leader & player and result-oriented.Appreciates a challenge.

Languages: Fluent in English, Dutch. Very good knowledge of French.

Interests: My family, science & technology, music, martial arts & spirituality.

OBJECTIVE

As a freelance technical consultant I wish to work in enterprise environments where I can contribute in achieving goals.My main skills are:

Virtualisation : Vmware (& Microsoft.) Enterprise Storage: Clustering, SAN (HDS & EMC), NAS,

Backup etc… Infrastructure systems: Windows enterprise technologies,

Linux. Server based computing: Citrix Messaging: Exchange, Mimesweeper, Unified Messaging

etc… Security: Firewalls, VPN, Content Filtering, Anti Virus,

intrusion detection etc… …

EDUCATION

1994–1997 Hogeschool BME Gent

3 Years Information Technology (Graduate)

1st year succeeded with high distinction

1991-1992 Hogeschool HIBO

Gent

1 year communication management

1988-1991 Heilig-Maagd College Dendermonde

Commercial education

1985-1988 Sint-Jozef College Aalst

Traditional education (Moderne)

EXPERIENCE

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2001-2006 PROXIMUS Brussels

System & Network Consultant

Participated in multiple projects :

Virtualistation projects:Upgrade to Virtual infrastructure 3 (10 ESX Servers, 100VM’s)Rollout of Vmware Virtual Center 2 & Vmotion.Rollout of VMWARE ESX for virtual enterpsise server environment & server consolidation, HA & DR abilities.

Server based computing projects:Rollout of Citrix Presentation Server 4 with web interface, secure gateway infrastructure.Citrix XP Implementation on 2 separate farms, 10 Metaframe Xpe servers, Web interface implementation.

Storage related projects:EMC² Symmetrix to HDS 9980 Lightning & Tagma store storage migrations.Exchange migration from 5.5, with EMC² storage technology (BCV’s & SRDF) to Exchange 2000 & later 2003 clusters with HDS storage (Lightning) with Shadowimage & Truecopy disk array technologies. Mirrored Datacenter project (with DWDM technology), focus on migrating windows & backoffice environment to a highly available infrastructure.Enterprise Backup robots replacement of StorageTek with ADIC robots. Windows storage management with Veritas Volume Manager & Veritas Foundation Suite. Working with EMC² & HDS Lightning & Thunder Disk arrays, using tools like SYMCLI, HORC (Truecopy & Shadowimage), HiCommand, Powerpath, Hitachi DLM, Veritas DMP etc…

Cluster projects: Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, SQL 2000, DHCP, File & Print clusters.

Implementation of management tools like, SMS2003, SUS & WSUS, Mcafee ePolicy Orchestrator, HP Systems Insight Manager & IBM Director, Fujitsu Siemens Serverview.BMC Patrol on Windows & backoffice app’s : Agent installation & configuration on the windows & backoffice environment.

Messaging projects:Exchange 2003 Clustered backend environment with HA & DR capabilities.Anti virus, anti spam on exchange with Sybari.Mail gateways based on Clearswift Mimesweeper with advance message hygiëne capabilities.

Windows Infrastructure projects: Win2003 AD, Win2000 AD, implementation of group policies & security tuning.Advanced configuration & management of network services (AD, GPO’s, DNS, DHCP, Domain DFS, Exchange, MMIS/Activesync, …)

Deployment projects: Automated server deployment with IBM RDM & HP RDP (Altiris Express), later Altiris.

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Many other projects (Faxservers, COLD (Billing archiving) & Netclearing (credit card clearing), …)

Daily Systems Management of 40 HP Servers, 45 IBM xSeries Servers & 100 Fujitsu Siemens servers. (design, implementation, management, monitoring & troubleshooting,).

…

Freelance assignment via Elan IT.

2001 TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE Brussels

E-Business Production Team Supervisor

Managed a team of 6 people, responsible for the E-Business environment.

Backoffice application support (IIS, SQL, Proxy)

Managed Internet access (FW1, Proxy, Websense web filtering)

Freelance assignment via Datapool

2000-2004 E2E Solutions GentNetwork Consultant

Setup & configuration of complete network infrastructure:Firewall-1, Windows 2000 AD, Backup & Anti Virus solution, Content filtering (Websense), SQL2000, Exchange 2000, ISA Server .

Freelance on a when needed basis.

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1998-2000 TECHMAR BrusselsSenior Network/Systems Engineer & ICT Manager

Responsible for ICT in all (4) European departments.

Achievements:Designed, set-up & Managed 4 sites. Total 250 users.Implemented pan-European network based on NT4 technology. Migration to a global (EU+US) Win2000 (AD) domain spanning 6 sites.Using Cisco backbone technology in all sites (Fibre & VLAN’s) & Checkpoint Firewall-1 VPN technology for intersite linking. Migration from VPN to Frame Relay PVC’s for WAN. Managed 30 Compaq Proliant servers. Used mainly Backoffice products like SQL7, Exchange 5.5, IIS, Proxy etc… Set-up Compaq Insight Manager for monitoring & management server & PC hardware of 4 sites. Designed, implemented & managed an Exchange Multi site set-up covering Techmar globally (EU+US) (6 physical sites, 2 Exchange sites). Designed global Win2000 Active Directory & integrated with Exchange5.5 (ADC).

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REFERENCE: Mr. Ludwig Bollaerts lbollaerts@techmar.com

1998 TECHMAR BrusselsCisco Technical Trainer

Technical trainer for the Cisco project (inter-network training).

Unofficial training curriculum towards CCNA certification.

REFERENCE: Mr. Ludwig Bollaerts lbollaerts@techmar.com

1997-1998 SITEL Corporation BrusselsNetwork Team Leader

Complete Network and System administration for SITEL Benelux.

Fully Responsible for 2 network segments (total 400 users)

Representative of IT Benelux in the European IT steering group.

Responsible for evaluating and implementing new products like network management tools (BMC Patrol, Compaq Insight Manager, Fax servers…)

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Managed a roll out of NT workstation for 150 workstations.

Managed multi site Exchange Server migration from 4.0 to 5.0

Complete management of NT network & Exchange Server environment…

REFERENCE: on request

1996-1997 SITEL Corporation BrusselsSystem & Network Engineer

Full System and Network administration of a network segment of 150 users.

Second level support.

1996 NOKIA BrusselsNOKIA Mobile Phones & Data Products

Product Specialist

Second level Technical support on all Nokia Data Products

1995 NOKIA BrusselsNOKIA Mobile Phones & Data Products

Technical Service Professional

First level Technical support on Nokia Mobile Phones

First Level Technical support on Nokia Data Products

SKILLS Excellent Security product knowledge : Checkpoint

Firewall-1 (NG, 4.x), Sonic Firewall, Watchguard Firewall, ISA Server, Mimesweeper, Personal Firewalls, Anti-Virus suites (NAI ePolicy Orchestrator, Trend Micro etc…) , ISS Real Secure intrusion detection, VPN products (Cisco, Checkpoint, Symantec, Microsoft), Encryption products (PGP, EFS), PKI (I am a notary for thawte WOT since 2001).

Excellent knowledge of messaging products: Exchange 5.5 , 2000 & 2003, DMZ SMTP relay security products (Mimesweeper, Websense, antivirus) different flavours of

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fax & SMS connectors etc…

Excellent Server Hardware knowledge: HP, IBM, DELL, FSC, Clustering & related technologies.

Deployment tools like SMS 2003, Altiris, IBM RDM ,HP RDP, MS ADS & RIS.

Excellent LAN & WAN Hardware knowledge : IP Routing, Switching technologies (VLAN’s), Frame Relay Routing etc ... (Focused on CISCO products)

Excellent knowledge of ALL Microsoft Operating Systems. (Windows Expert Level)

Excellent knowledge of backoffice applications: ISA, Exchange, IIS, SQL, SMS, Virtual Server …

Good knowledge of management tools: HP Systems Insight manager, IBM Director, Fujitsu Siemens ServerView & BMC Patrol.

Very good storage knowledge : HBA’s, HDS & EMC² storage, SAN & NAS advanced concepts, Backup softwares (ARCServeIT, Backup Exec & Legato), Multi I/O (Powerpath,, Volume Manager DMP, HDLM), iSCSI (to NAS) …Working experience with EMC² & HDS storage (Symcli & HORC CCI).Storage local & remote replication (Truecopy, Shadowimage, SRDF, BCV)

Excellent server based computing knowledge : MS Terminal Services & Citrix Metaframe (XP & Presentation Server 3 & 4)

Excellent Virtualisation software knowledge : VMWARE ESX, GSX & Workstation. MS Virtual Server & virtual PC, P2V Tools, Vmotion & Virtual Center Management software.

Certificates:

VCP : Vmware Certified Professional (2005)

MCSE : Microsoft Certified System Engineer on NT4, Win2000 & Win2003

MCSE Security+Messaging on Win2000 & Win2003 (see transcript below)

CCNA : Cisco Certified Network Associate

CCSA: Checkpoint Certified System Administrator

CCA : Citrix Certified Administrator (XP FR3 + Presentation Server 4)

CCEA : Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (XP FR3)

MASE : HP Master ASE : Messaging specialisation (Exchange).

ASE: HP Accredited System Engineer NT4 & WIN2000

APS : HP Accredited Platform Specialist (Proliant)

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Courses followed:

Ms-Office 95

Lotus Notes System Administration I

Windows NT System Administration

Windows NT Core Technologies

CISCO Introduction to Networking

Windows NT Enterprise Technologies

MS - TCP/IP

CISCO Router and LAN Switching

Checkpoint Firewall 1 System Administration

MS - SQL server 7 System Administration

Checkpoint Firewall 1 Advanced Management

MS - Upgrading NT4 skills to Windows 2000

COMPAQ ASE NT4 Courses: -How to do business with Compaq Services & Support-Systems Product Architecture-Windows performance & Integration-Systems Management

COMPAQ ASE Win 2000 : W2K integration & Performance

MS Exchange 2000 Implementation & Administration

MS Windows 2000 Clustering

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BMC Patrol

Citrix Metaframe XP Administration

Upgrading MCSA Skills to MCSA 2003

Upgrading MCSE Skills to MCSE 2003

Upgrading Exchange 2000 Skills to Exchange 2003

Veritas Volume Manager 3.1 official training.

NETAPP (NAS) Fundamentals

Citrix Metaframe XP : Securing & deploying applications over the web.

Citrix Metaframe XP Enterprise

Hitachi Data Replication Technologies (ShadowImage & TrueCopy)

Citrix Secure Access Manager

SAN Fundamentals by Hitachi Data Systems.

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS)

VMWare ESX System Management I & II.

Citrix Presentation Server 3.0

HP Technical Update Courses.

Citrix Access Suite : Password Manager 4

Exchange 2007 (beta2)

Vmware Virtual Infrastructure 3

For the latest status of my Microsoft certification, you can connect to : http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/transcripts

Transcript ID : 667435Transcript Sharing Access Code : P13V04G73

Microsoft Certified Professional TranscriptLatest Activity Recorded Feb 03, 2006

PETER  VAN GEEMPAELLEPELSTRAAT16 NEDERHASSELT,  9400 BEpeter@piconsulting.net

Microsoft Certified Professional ID: 1022818

Microsoft Certification Status

Credential Certification / Version Date Achieved

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Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security

Oct 28, 2005

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Oct 28, 2005

Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator

Apr 09, 2004

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Apr 09, 2004

Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Messaging

Apr 09, 2004

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Apr 09, 2004

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Messaging

Nov 28, 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Sep 05, 2005

Microsoft Windows 2000 Nov 28, 2003Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security

Jul 22, 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Nov 24, 2005

Microsoft Windows 2000 Jul 22, 2003Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Apr 02, 1999

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Jun 04, 2004

Microsoft Windows 2000 Aug 20, 2001Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Apr 02, 1999

Microsoft Certified Professional Apr 30, 1998

Microsoft Certification Exams Completed Successfully

Exam ID Description Date Completed350 Implementing Microsoft Internet Security and

Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004Feb 03, 2006

298 Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network

Nov 24, 2005

299 Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network

Oct 28, 2005

285 Designing a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Organization

Sep 05, 2005

296 Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSE Certified on Windows 2000

Jun 04, 2004

292 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000

Apr 09, 2004

284 Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

Dec 18, 2003

225 Designing and Deploying a Messaging Infrastructure with Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server

Nov 28, 2003

220 Designing Security for a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Network

Jul 22, 2003

214 Implementing and Managing Security in a Jul 22, 2003

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Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure221 Designing a Microsoft® Windows® 2000

Network InfrastructureJun 03, 2003

270 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional

Dec 23, 2002

223 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Clustering Services by Using Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server

Nov 27, 2002

227 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Enterprise Edition

Aug 26, 2002

224 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server

Jun 17, 2002

219 Designing a Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure

Aug 20, 2001

240 Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Accelerated Exam for MCPs Certified on Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0

Jun 25, 2001

081 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft® Exchange Server 5.5

Dec 27, 1999

088 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft® Proxy Server 2.0

May 07, 1999

077 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft® Internet Information Server 3.0 and Index Server 1.1

Apr 02, 1999

068 Implementing and Supporting NT™ Server 4.0 in the Enterprise

Dec 23, 1998

059 Internetworking with Microsoft® TCP/IP on Microsoft® Windows NT™ 4.0

Dec 04, 1998

064 Implementing and Supporting Windows®95 Jul 31, 1998058 Networking Essentials Jul 17, 1998073 Implementing and Supporting NT™ 4.0

WorkstationJun 03, 1998

067 Implementing and Supporting NT™ Server 4.0 Apr 30, 1998

CITRIX Certifications:

CREDENTIAL VERIFICATION REPORT

Peter Van Geem - sp2070423

This Publish Credential Verification Report for peter@piconsulting.net, prepared on 11/19/2006, is available for viewing until 12/03/2006.

Candidate Information Name Peter Van Geem

Address Paellepelstraat16

City Nederhasselt

State/Province

Postal Code 9400

Country BELGIUM

Email Address peter@piconsulting.net

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Personal Note From Candidate

Certifications

Credentials Status Certified Expires

Citrix Certified Administrator

Citrix Certified Administrator for Citrix Password Manager 4 Certified 10/13/06

Citrix Certified Administrator for Citrix Presentation Server 4 Certified 6/25/06

Citrix Certified Administrator for MetaFrame XP Presentation Server Certified 3/1/05

Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator

Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator for MetaFrame XP Presentation Server Certified 3/1/05

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