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Curriculum Vitae Stefan Goethals

Stefan Goethals

Address

Hogeweg 26

8200 Brugge

Belgium

Phone: +32-50-31 15 93

Phone: +32-473-888 117

Email: mailto:stefan@zipkid.eu

Personal Details

Gender: Male

Date of birth: 10th of January, 1967

Place of birth: Brugge, Belgium

Present Citizenship: Belgian

Working Experience

01/2011—Current Use It Group - System engineer

Use It Group develops software for the building sector.

http://www.useitgroup.com

  • Set up and configure Cloud Compute server instances on Amazon EC2

  • Provide centralised and consistent server management

  • Convert internal and external PHP websites/services to fully MVC based CMS enabled sites with Zend Framework

  • Administer and install PostgreSQL database servers

04/2007—01/2011 Trimble Transport and Logistics, Formerly Punch Telematix Ieper - System engineer

Trimble Transport and Logistics is a total solutions provider in remote fleet and asset management.

http://www.trimbletl.com

At TrimbleTL my responsabilities include

  • Setup and maintain the Puppet configuration management production and test environment.

  • Write and maintain Puppet configuration management recepies.

  • Administer and maintain the J2EE / Jboss application cluster

  • install and administer hardware

    • IBM Bladecenter H

    • IBM SAN DS4800 and DS5100

    • IBM Tapelibrary TS3200

    • Dell and HP rackmount servers

  • Test, debug and install new versions of the Java application.

  • Administer the DMZ and Private network and MySQL database servers.

  • Update and maintain PHP and Perl websites and utility scripts.

02/2006 - 03/2007 Westsite Brugge - Perl Web Developer

Westsite is a small but well established website building firm,
located in Brugge. It celebrated its 10th anniversary in
November 2006.

http://westsite.be

At Westsite I was Developing the Perl scripting for interactive,
database driven, websites.

  • Write fully validating XHTML 1.1 code.

  • Write clean, efficient and easy to understad Perl code.

  • Use technologies like DOM scripting and AJAX in an unobtrusive way.

  • Document my code sufficiently.

10/2003 - 02/2006 Aramiska Liedekerke - Customer Support Level 2 Teamleader / IT Administrator

Aramiska was Europe's leading satellite broadband provider
for businesses. http://aramiska.net. I was hired as Level
2 analyst but got promoted to Team leader as of 01/2004.
On Aug 24 2004 I recieved the additional responsability of
IT Administrator. From Dec 2004 I have switched full time
to IT Administrator.

Aramiska went bankrupt in February 2006.

  • IT Administrator job description

    • Maintaining all internal servers. Installation, configuration, update and security maintenance.

    • Manage and support user base onWindows 2K, XP and Linux workstations.

    • Manage remote access, VPN's and network connectivity for 2 remote locations (UK & NL).

  • CS L2 Teamleader job description

    • Maintaining all internal servers in my responsability of IT Administrator. Installation, configuration, update and security maintenance.

    • Supporting L1 :
      Maintaining and improving Level 1 troubleshooting procedures.
      Preparing and organising training of Level 1 analysts.

    • Incident management : Troubleshoot tickets escalated by Level 1 and resolve them within SLA.

    • Problem management : Match similar incidents and recognise them as general problems to be resolved by the NOC or Engineering departement.

    • Key Account Support : Provide first line support to large accounts.

    • Sales Support : Support the Sales organisation with technical expertise in large sales projects.

    • Maintenance of CareNet : Maintain and update the help website for customers and internal Customer Support analysts.

09/2001 - 07/2003 Adept nv Wevelgem - System Engineer

Adept was a System integrator & Services firm with a strong focus on security and
high availability in Unix. Adept stopped all operations and
laid off all employees. In this firm I performed the following
tasks

  • Install GNU/Linux and Win 2K servers, secure them
    for safe internet connection and perform administration
    and maintanance tasks to keep the servers up to date.

  • Developing cross-platform web-based CRM applications
    with PHP and Perl-CGI on Apache and MySQL.

  • Set up, configure and maintain hardware and software
    firewalls on Linux, Checkpoint, SonicWall, Netscreen

  • Install configure and maintain internet and intranet
    DNS servers with BIND on Linux, on windows and
    hardware devices, and, on the intranet side make DNS
    interact with DHCP server.

  • Design and/or configure emergency recovery and backup
    systems, useable via network to take daily backups of
    servers and workstations and create complete images of
    these to be restored when needed. This is done with tar,
    partimage, amanda, tapeware or the available, ideal for
    the job, software.

  • Configuring, installing and maintaining Apache - PHP

  • MySQL servers in combination with SSL (OpenSSL)
    to provide secure data driven dynamic websites.

  • Design assembly and implementation of a CD-bootable
    linux system to create backups of systems, do maintenance
    tasks and possibly debugging of hardware and
    network problems. Building on this system, I developed
    a Linux server distribution allowing installation in less than
    20 minutes. Administration is done via a Perl-CGI
    web interface and all configuration settings are stored
    in a MySQL database. From these settings a complete
    configuration is created. These settings can be saved
    in an external format which allows complete disaster
    recovery of the server within 30 minutes.

08/2000 - 08/2001 YourNet.be Brugge - Part time Independant Web developer and Network technician.

yournet.be was a company to provide server, network and
client services and hardware to SME's in the Brugge region.
Yournet.be provides following services.

  • Web development and hosting with Apache, PHP,MySQL,. . .

  • Server installations, mainly on Linux platform, for small intranets. These include firewall setup, relaying mailserver, samba file and print sharing and internet access.

  • Hardware sales and maintenance for SME's and private persons.

08/2000 - 08/2001 B.A.E.B bvba Brugge - Administrative clerck.

08/1996 - 07/2000 ABO Service Sijsele - Programmer, Networktechnician.

Abo-Service is a company based around bookkeeping program
made by the owner. It also provides computer services
for the clients who use that program. In 2000 Abo Service
opened a computer shop. Abo is a Microsoft-oriented firm.

My tasks at Abo Service were

  • Programming a complete shop-management program,
    containing clientlist, stocklist, supplierlist and generation
    of all the necessary sales-documents.

  • Programming a product catalog, provided on cd, with
    an image catalog, updatable pricelist and possibility to
    place orders via modem.

  • Programming a price-information and ordering program
    for an wholesale firm of electrical appliances. the program
    offered the posibility to have a constantly updated
    article and pricelist on the pc in the shops. It contained
    data about +/- 15.000 articles wich could be ordered
    via modem communication. This program is used by
    over 180 shops in Belgium.

  • Assembling, maintaining and repairing pc's.

  • Network installations and mainenance of network in
    SME's and in our own offices.

  • Installation and maintenance of our own NT4 Backoffice
    server.

  • Designing web-pages.

1993 - 10/1995 BAV Oostende - Teamleader Buildingsector

1992 - 1993 Pizza-Line Brugge - Distribution Foodsector

1990 - 1992 Kunstbronsgieterij Degroeve Hansbeke - Bronzefinishing

1989 - 1990 LC Forwarding Zeebrugge - Driver International transport

1988 - 1989 Several Interim jobs

Knowledge

Operating Systems

  • GNU/Linux Extensive experience

    • SuSE / SLES

    • Slackware

    • Debian

    • Red Hat

    • Gentoo

  • Windows 9x, NT, 2K, XP

  • AIX 4.3, 5L Installation and basic administration.

Servers & daemons

  • Apache

  • Postfix

  • Exchange server

  • Fetchmail

  • MySQL

  • Ms SQL server

  • Squid

Technologies & Protocols

  • TCP/IP

  • PPPoE

  • dhcp

  • imap(s)

  • smtp

  • pop

  • High Availibility

  • Puppet system management

Languages

  • Perl

  • sql

  • JavaScript

  • AJAX

  • PHP

  • html

  • Bash

Education

  • 1987 Diploma Architectual drawing, High school, Stedelijke Academie Brugge

Extra activities

  • Speaker Samba Topic At the Common Europe Congress
    2002 in partnership with IBM. the conference program and
    presentation slides can be found at http://zipkid.com/
    pub/cv/files/.

  • Cofounder OpenStandaarden.be OpenStandaarden.be is
    an organisation to promote the use of Open Standards in
    all electronic communications between individuals, companies
    and the governement. More info can be found at http:
    //openstandaarden.be.

  • Webserver administration Administration and maintanace
    of my webserver. This server hosts the websites of the Linux
    User Group West Vlaanderen and of OpenStandaarden.
    be. It also hosts the maillists for these organisations.

Language Knowledge

  • Dutch native

  • French near native

  • English near native

  • German spoken

Driver license

CE

References

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