CURRICULUM VITAE:

Francis van Dun

Heiveldstraat 253,

B-9040 Gent

› francis.vandun@eu.didata.com

Ĺ +32 (0)477300976

 

STATUS: CURRENTLY NOT LOOKING FOR A JOB

                                                                                                                 

Personal Details                                                                                                                   

Date of birth :

14-09-1974           

Nationality :

Marital Status:

Belgian

Single

 

 

 


EDUCATION

 

Civil Engineer in Computer Sciences – 1997 – Univeristy of Ghent, Belgium

Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Specialisées Réseaux – 1998 – Université de Lyon, France.

 

 

 


WORKING EXPERIENCE

April 2005 - Present
Dimension Data Belgium
Storage Consultant for NAS and SAN (FC, iSCSI)
Design, install and support enterprise storage solutions (EMC, Vmware, Symantec, Netapp). Plan and implement data center consolidation, disaster recovery en business continuity.

Plan and conduct data-center assessments and inventories for storage and server classification, sizing and virtualization.

Presales, design, technical project management, postsales and support.
OSS Consultant

Setup and integrate/customize Operations Support Systems (monitoring and provisioning) for telecom and data network environments using Lucent VitalQIP, Infoblox and CiscoWorks products. Presales, design, technical project management, postsales and support.

Implement customized network management monitoring and automation, using shell scripting and SNMP and Perl programming.

Sept 1998 – March 2005

Getronics (WANG GLOBAL) BELGIUM

EMEA data centre: systems integration and support (from Sept 2003)

Member of team responsible for application and server consolidation (a.o. HPUX clusters, SAP on Siemens Solaris PrimeCluster, Microsoft SRDF/CE clusters), storage (EMC + McData), VMWare ESX virtualization, data classification and life cycle management, disaster recovery and business continuance.

Network Management Product Specialist (till Aug 2003)

Responsible for design and implementation of network/IP management and security management solutions for industrial and corporate customers in Europe and Middle East.

April  - July 1998 

 

SOFT MOUNTAIN, France

Apprentice developer

Prototype and test a real-time event request broker.

 

·       Development:

Corba 2.0: Visigenic’s Visibroker, Java JDK 1.2, C++, Perl, Oracle 7, ProC

 

 

 


Product Experience

Last used

Product

Number
of years

Description and implicated projects

2008

EMC Clariion
CX500, CX3x0, AX45

3          

As result of an ILM workshop, migrate applications from DMX to Clarion storage with FC and SATA disks.
Plus several other Clariion integrations

2008          

EMC Control Centre

Symmetrix Solutions Enabler

2          

Setup, maintain and upgrade ECC.

Use it for daily storage provisioning, reporting and inventory.         

2008          

EMC Celerra NAS

NS50x, NS20, NS40, NSX

NDMP backup protocol  

2          

Install redundant NAS with replication at Ghent high school.
Plus several other NAS installations

2008

VMWare ESX 2x, VI3

VirtualCentre

P2VTool

Vmware Capacity Planner

2

Server virtualization platform from VMware.

2008

Symantec Backup Exec

0.5

 Server backup product from Symantec.

2008

Symantec Enterprise Vault

1.5

Email archiving product from Symantec for Microsoft Exchange.

2007

EMC Symmetrix  (DMX800, DMX200, DMX-3),

SRDF,

PowerPath ,

Geospan (SRDF/CE)

2

Storage Area Networking (SAN)

Storage provisioning and administration for W2K, HPUX and Solaris servers at Getronics data center in environment with Geospan and SRDF/CE clustering on McData SAN.

 

Storage and SAN migration at Fluxys.

Storage and SAN design at EU Council

2008

Cisco MDS directors
McData directors

2

Migration from McData SAN to Cisco SAN with MDS 9509 and MDS 9120. Design and implement VSAN’s using Fabric Manager and ECC.

2008

Oracle (v9)

1

Basic DB installation and administration.

SQL programming

2008

CiscoWorks 2000 suite

6

Cisco's network management suite for LAN, WAN and security devices, including QoS and RMON modules and SMARTS Incharge event correlator.
Presales, implementations, workshops and maintenance for several industry, banking and government customers.

2008

Lucent QIP

5

IP Management product (DNS, DHCP and subnet provisioning)
Implementation for Belgian bank's international network.

2008

Windows 2000 Active Directory

1

Design DNS, DHCP and domain architecture for bank's corporate wide directory.

2008

Infoblox Network appliances

1

DNS, DHCP and Radius appliances from Infoblox.

2006          

HPUX LVM and ServiceGuard           

1          

Maintain two ServiceGuard clusters connected to DMX, configure cluster packages and maintain logical volumes using LVM.

2005

HP Openview Network Node Manager (5-7.01)

5

HP's SNMP based network monitoring product.
Presales, implementations, workshops and maintenance for several industry, banking and government customers.

2005          

Fujitsu Siemens Primepower cluster with RMS volume management

1          

Maintain a 3 node stretched cluster, connected to DMX, used for SAP on Informix. Do disk management.

2005

Netcool Omnibus,

Netcool ISM

0,1

Integrate Netcool’s network and service monitoring suite into EC telecom helpdesk.

2003

Cisco routers and switches

3

Knowledge to configure authentication, authorization and accounting, management, basic routing and VLAN's on Cisco switches and routers. I am no CCIE.

2003

Optivity NMS 8,9,10

3

Network management system for Nortel devices.
Presales and implementation for Telecom, Industry and Banking customers.

2003

HP Openview IT Operations for Windows (6.1-7.2)

1

HP's system management suite.
Implementation to manage server park (AIX +Oracle, Windows 2000, NT4) for Belgian factory.

2003

ONTech CCM

0.4

ON Technology’s software distribution, staging, and remote control tool for Microsoft platforms.

Implementation for SNBA.

2002

Thales e-security crypto box

1

VPN appliance
Test, implement and manage VPN tunnel network for European council.

2002

Concord eHealth

0.2

SNMP based network trending and reporting tool.
Setup proof of concept for a Saudi telecom corporation.

2002

CiscoSecure ACS

1

Cisco's RADIUS and TACACS+ authentication server.
Implement Dial-in authentication for Belgian bank.
Demonstrate wireless LAN security using Cisco LEAP + ACS.

1999

Unicenter TNG

1

System management framework.
Presales, design and proof of concept (including software delivery and asset management modules) for government IT provider.

1998

Olivetti's SiteSentry

1

Server agent and manager.
Configuration and tuning for remote monitoring of 100+ servers for a Belgian bank.

 

Reference projects

 


Storage Area Networking

(2006 – 2007) Implement EMC SAN, using Clariion arrays and Cisco or Brocade/McData FC switches, and NAS, based on Celerra file servers, for small and large customers, sometimes including Vmware ESX virtualization platform, Symantec Enterprise Vault and backup software, data replication (over IP or FC) and disaster recovery.

 

(2006 – 2007) Assess customer’s server and storage environments for consolidation, optimization (tiering) and for disaster recovery. Establish a formal methodology for this assessment, including forms and calculations.

Storage Area Networking

 

(2004) Assist with redesign and upgrade of a storage area network to latest EMC technology, including DMX cabinets, 2Gbps McData switches and SRDF. The SAN, which spanned two sites, had to be highly available and disaster recoverable and supports business critical applications on different platforms (Solaris cluster, HPUX ServiceGuard cluster, MSCS and Geospan clusters).
Activities included:

Document and test migration procedure for minimum downtime.

Installing, upgrading and configuring host bus adapters and fibre switches.

Fibre patching.

Logical volume reconfiguration on HPUX and Solaris clusters.

 

Storage Area Networking

(2004) With the help of EMC consultants, design a data classification model to align enterprise applications on the right storage layer.

IP Services

 

(2007-2008): Design, consolidate and migrate IP addressing and naming for the different operational companies from an international bank to a uniform platform consisting of VitalQIP6.2 software on Infoblox appliances, using Anycast addressing. Includes automation scripts, operator trainings, joint designs for Windows 2008 and networking.

 

(2001) Design, implementation and training on WINS, Windows 2000 DNS and DHCP for Belgian bank. Facing a merged environment with many different organizations, this bank wanted as a first step to offer uniform corporate wide intranet browsing and secondly, prepare its IP services for a corporate wide directory system. This project started with assigning responsible parties, defining central naming policies and making an inventory of all the organizations, their naming and addressing schemes (DNS, WINS, static hosts files, DHCP), their Internet access methods (proxy, default gateway, …). The second step involved defining firewall access-lists, setting up a central naming registration authority and integrating the new and existing naming servers into the central internal root hierarchy. After a pilot phase and some workshops for the network operators, the phased production rollout was accomplished.

 

(2002) Workshops QIP 5.2 for a Saudi telecom corporation. This customer needed two 7-day courses covering basic and advanced DNS (Bind and Windows 2000) and DHCP and Lucent QIP administration.

 

(2000) Design, implementation and workshops on Lucent QIP 5.0 at a Belgian bank.
To consolidate it’s different naming and addressing policies for it’s corporate network (national and international) as well as to be ready for new technologies like dynamic DNS and Active Directory, this bank opted for Lucent’s DNS/DHCP and IP management software.
This project included extensive CGI scripting using Perl, writing SQL queries for Oracle, Oracle tuning, testing different versions of Bind and DHCP, network sniffing and acting as a support liaison between the customer and Lucent. Detailed phased migrations scenarios were designed and tested for the national and international rollout.

Network Management

 

Network management being my main specialization in my previous function, I setup many network management systems in the last 4 years for several industry, banking and government customers. My typical network management project starts in the presales phase with NMS architecture design (central, distributed or remote), server sizing, software product choice (mostly from the Openview and/or CiscoWorks suite) to match customer’s size, device types and requirements. During the implementation I install, configure and harden the O.S. (Solaris or Windows 2000). After installation, an initial network discovery is done and basic event correlation and filtering is configured. The different modules are customized and integrated. For instance: CiscoWorks, MRTG and Network Node Manager can be served from the same web portal. Or, NNM can be integrated with an existing asset database.
When necessary, problems are escalated to HP or Cisco.
One-day workshops for network operators are often included in my projects.
Upgrading and patching are part of maintenance.

 

Design and setup VPN network and monitoring station for a European council (2001 - 2002). This VPN network covers 15 countries and is being monitored 24x7. The VPN’s were setup with Thales crypto boxes using PKI. The monitoring station is a SUN running Openview Network Node Manager. Security constraints for the network as well as the monitoring station were very restrictive.

 

OSS systems for a Saudi telecom network operations centre (NOC) (2002).
As part of a take-over of the NOC from another team, I was responsible for assessing and redesigning the existing tools (HP Openview Network Node Manager, Netmetrix, Lucent QIP, CiscoWorks 2000, Concord eHealth)

 

 

 


ΙΤ&Τ EXPERIENCE

Operating Systems

Solaris 2.6 - 2.9, HPUX 11.x, Windows NT, 2000 and 2003, AIX, Linux

 

Development

Perl, Korn shell scripting, Apache web server + CGI scripting , PL/SQL

 

Protocols

TCP/IP suite (including PPP, ICMP, ARP, RIP, VPN…)

CGI, HTTP, XML, SNMP, FibreChannel, SCSI, iSCSI

 

Network Management

SNMP v1 – v3, MIBs (standard and non-standard), RMON I and II,
Secure Shell (SSH)

CA Unicenter TNG, Olivetti’s SiteSentry, CiscoWorks2000,

HP Openview Node Manager and Operations, Lucent QIP,

Concord eHealth.

 

Other

Training :

1998: Unicenter TNG Basics: 5 days

         Unicenter TNG Advanced: 5 days

1999: Perl Scripting: 5 days

2000: ‘DNS & DHCP complete’ course at Lucent.

         ‘QIP System Administration’ course at Lucent

2001: Cisco Quality of Service

2002: Cisco VPN’s

2004: Prince2 project methodology training

 

Certifications :

1999 : CCNA : Cisco Certified Network Associate

1999 : CCNP : Cisco Certified Network Professional

2000: ‘DNS & DHCP complete’ course at Lucent.

2000: ‘QIP System Administration’ course at Lucent

2000: HP Openview Certified Consultant: Network Node Manager (6.X) on UNIX and NT

2001: HP Star Certified Openview Consultant

2001: MCP (Administering and implementing directory services)

2002: Cisco Certified Design Professional

2002: Sun system administration (Solaris 8)

 

NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET clearance till February 2007

 

2006: EMC Technology Foundations exam

         EMC associate level

2006: EMC Celerra File Server – NAS management course

         EMC NAS expert level

2006: EMC Clariion storage array courses
         EMC Clariion expert level

2006: Symantec Enterprise Vault

2006: Packeteer iShared, Cisco WAAS (WAN Optimalization)

2007: Symantec Netbackup

2007: Infoblox appliance training.

2007: Vmware VI3 Training and Certification.

 

 

 

               

LANGUAGES

 

Dutch, fluent

 

English, fluent

 

French, fluent

 

German, basic