Curriculum Vitae - Bert de Bruijn

E-mail: bert+cv@debruijn.be

  1. Abstract
  2. As a freelance consultant and trainer, I deliver both VMware and Linux projects, from training and planning over architecture and high-level design to implementation and troubleshooting. With a decade of multi-disciplinary industry experience, my goal is to let the efficiency and flexibility of modern IT make the difference for my customers.

  3. Personalia
  4. Name: Bert de Bruijn
    Location: B-3300 Kumtich, Belgium
    Married & father

  5. Education:
  6. School/University

    1988-1994 - St. Jozefscollege Herentals - Latin-Mathematics
    1994-1999 - K.U.Leuven (Catholic University Leuven) - Master in Science, Mathematics

    Certification

    LPI Level 1 Exam 101 RPM (2003)
    pass: 500p  score: 710p  max: 890p  
    LPI Level 1 Exam 102 (2004): LPI Certified level 1 (LPIC1)
    pass: 500p  score: 780p  max: 890p  
    LPI Level 2 Exam 201 & Exam 202 (2004): LPI Certified level 2 (LPIC2)
    pass: 530p  score: 660p   
    VMware Certified Professional exam VCP-101E (VCP on ESX2, 2004)
    pass: 70%  score: 82%  max: 100%  
    Red Hat Certified Engineer RHCE on RHEL3 (1-day exam, ID:110-016-250, 2005)
    pass: 80p  score: 100p  
    pass: 70%  score: 100%  
    pass: 70%  score: 82.1%  max: 100%  
    VMware Certified Professional exam VCP-101V (VCP on ESX2+VC, 2005)
    pass: 70%  score: 90%  max: 100%  
    VMware Certified Instructor (2005)
    IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family (2006)
    pass: 61%  score: 72%  max: 100%  
    VMware Certified Professional on VI-3 exam VCP310 (VCP3, ID:VCP001982, 2006)
    pass: 70  score: 97  max: 100  
    VMware Sales Professional (VSP Business Continuity Solutions, VSP Testing and Development Solutions, VSP Desktop Manageability and Security Solutions, VSP Server Consolidation and Containment Solutions, ID:VML-46633, 2006&2007)
    Red Hat Certified Engineer RHCE on RHEL5 (1-day exam, ID:110-016-250, 2007)
    pass: 80p  score: 100p  
    pass: 70%  score: 100%  
    pass: 70%  score: 100%  
    VMware Certified Professional on vSphere exam VCP410 (VCP4, ID:VCP001982, 2009)
    pass: 300  score: 413  max: 500  
    Red Hat Certified Trainer -- Red Hat Certified Examiner (RH310, RHCX, 2008)
    Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA)
    Novell Data Center Technical Specialist
    VMware Sales Professional 4 VSP4 accreditation (2010)
    VMware Technical Sales Professional 4 VTSP4 accreditation (2010)
    VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Datacenter Administration VCAP-DCA on vSphere 4, VCAP4-DCA #35 (2010)
    pass: 300  score: 319  max: 500  
    VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Datacenter Design VCAP-DCD on vSphere 4, VCAP4-DCD #206 (2011)
    pass: 300  score: 397  max: 500  
    VMware Certified Professional on vSphere5 exam VCP511 (VCP5, ID:VCP001982, 2011)
    pass: 300  score: 417  max: 500  
    VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Datacenter Design VCAP-DCD on vSphere 5, VCAP5-DCD #206 (2012)
    pass: 300  score: 402  max: 500  
    VMware Technical Sales Professional 5 VTSP5 accreditation (2012)
    VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Datacenter Administration VCAP-DCA on vSphere 5, VCAP5-DCA #35 (2012)
    pass: 300  score: 396  max: 500  
    VMware Certified Associate - Data Center Virtualization 5 VCA-DCV certification (2013)
    pass: 300  score: 400  max: 500  
    VMware Certified Professional on vSphere5.5 exam VCP551 (2014)
    pass: 300  score: 402  max: 500  
    VMware Certified Professional on vSphere6 exam (VCP6, ID:VCP001982, 2015)
    pass: 300  score: 334  max: 500  
    VMware Sales Professional 2015 VSP 2015 accreditation
    VMware Technical Solutions Professional 2015 VTSP 2015 accreditation
    VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 Data Center Virtualisation Design VCAP6-DCV Design (2016)

    Other education

    Sun Solaris System Performance Tuning (2000)
    Brainbench.com Unix Administration (Master, 4.61/5, top 1% worldwide) -- Linux Administration (Master, 4.71/5, top 1% ww) 05/2000 -- Red Hat Linux Administration (Master, 4.65/5, top 1% ww) 05/2000
    IBM Tivoli SecureWay PKI Planning & Implementation (2001)
    Brainbench.com Linux Administration (Master, 4.77/5, top 1% ww) 05/2001
    IBM Tivoli Framework 3.7 -- Distributed Monitoring 3.7 -- T/EC 3.7 (2002)
    IBM Coaching for effective presentations (2002)
    Brainbench.com Red Hat Linux Administration (Master, 4.44/5, top 1% ww) 03/2002
    VMware ESX II (2004)
    VMware Virtual Infrastructure w/ ESX server and VirtualCenter (2005)
    VMware ESX3 and VC2 delta training (2006, VCI training)
    VMware Infrastructure 3 Deploy, Secure, Analyze (2007, VCI training)
    VMware vSphere Troubleshooting (2010, VCI training)
    VMware vSphere Design Workshop (2010, VCI training)
    VMware vSphere Transitioning to ESXi (2010, VCI training)
    VMware vSphere 4.1 ICM (2010, VCI training)
    VMware vSphere 5 ICM (2011, VCI training)
    VMware vSphere 5 Optimize & Scale (2012, VCI training)
    Cisco CCNA bootcamp (2012, ICND1 and ICND2 combined)
    VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.x: Advanced Usage and Dashboard Design (2013, beta training)
    VMware vCenter Orchestrator: Develop Workflows 5.1 (2014)
    EC Council Certified Ethical Hacker v8 (2015)
    VMworld 2006 (Los Angeles)
    VMware Technical Solution Exchange 2006 (Paris)
    VMware Technical Solution Exchange 2007 (Nice)
    VMworld Europe 2008 (Cannes)
    VMworld Europe 2009 (Cannes)
    VMworld Europe 2010 (Copenhagen)
    VMworld Europe 2011 (Copenhagen)
    VMworld Europe 2012 (Barcelona)
    VMworld Europe 2013 (Barcelona)
    VMworld Europe 2014 (Barcelona)

    Trainings (as teacher)

    Linux for Unix Professionals -- Linux Power User -- Linux Advanced Administration (2003)
    Linux Samba and Windows Integration -- Linux Network Administration I (2004)
    VMware ESX installation and basic administration (2004, IBM internal)
    Virtual Infrastructure w/ ESX server and VirtualCenter (2005)
    VMware Infrastructure 3 What's New -- Install & Configure (2006)
    VMware Infrastructure 3 Install & Configure -- Deploy, Secure, Analyze -- Fast Track (2007)
    VMware Infrastructure 3.5 I&C -- DSA -- FT -- Design (2008)
    VMware vSphere 4 What's New -- Install, Configure, Manage (2009)
    VMware vSphere 4 Fast Track (2010)
    VMware vSphere 4 Design Workshop (2010)
    VMware vSphere 4 Troubleshooting (2010)
    VMware vSphere 4 Manage for Performance (2010)
    VMware vSphere 4 Manage and Design for Security (2011)
    VMware vSphere 5 What's New -- Install, Configure, Manage (2011)
    VMware vSphere 5 Fast Track (2012)
    VMware vSphere 5 Design Workshop (2012)
    VMware vSphere 5.1 Optimize&Scale (2012)
    Linux LPI102 training (2013)
    VMware vSphere 5.1 Fast Track (2013)
    VMware vSphere 5.5 What's New -- Install, Configure, Manage (2013)
    Storage Expo 2014 talk "Storage trends in virtualisation" (100+ attendees)
    VMware vCenter Orchestrator: Develop Workflows 5.1 (2014)
    VMware vSphere 5.5 Fast Track (2014)
    VMware vSphere 5.5 Troubleshooting Workshop (2014)
    VMware vSphere 6 What's New (2015)
    VMware vSphere 6 Install, Configure, Manage (2015)
    VMware vSphere 6 Optimize&Scale (2015)
    VMware vSphere 6 Fast Track (2015)
    VMware vRealize Operations 6 Install, Configure, Manage (2016)

  7. Professional experience
  8. 2007 - now
    Freelance VMware en Linux consultant and teacher.
    VMware Virtual Infrastructure courses, architecture consultancy, troubleshooting, projects; Red Hat, CentOS, Linux training, consulting. Tailor-made projects and education.
    2005 - 2007
    VMware and Linux teacher and pre-sales at Logix BeLux. VMware Virtual Infrastructure courses, Red Hat Linux courses, presentations, demo's, consultancy.
    2001 - 2005
    Advisory IT specialist at IBM Belgium. Linux, VMware and education on outsourcing, external and internal projects, presenting for large audiences.
    2000 - 2001
    Linux and Open Source consultant at Mind Linux Solutions.
    1999 - 2000
    UNIX system engineer at UUNET Belgium (Solaris, BSDi).
    1997 - now
    system- en network administration for the Centre for Computational Linguistics, of a network of about ten workstations/servers (Linux/x86, Linux/Alpha, Linux/Sparc, SunOS, Windows NT4/2000/2003, NCD Xterminal).
    1997 - 1999
    system administration of 3 Linux servers for the faculty of Arts at the K.U.Leuven (Linux/i386, Linux/Alpha).
    1995 - 1999
    shared system and network administration of a network of 8 Linux PC's, and daily system administration of a Linux server serving about 150 shell-users for ULYSSIS.

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