- Abstract
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.
- Personalia
- Name: Bert de Bruijn
- Location: B-3300 Kumtich, Belgium
- Married & father
- Education:
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)
- 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: 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)
- 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)
- Professional experience
- 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.
- Skills
- Overall
- Strong ability to do analytical and logical thinking.
- Proven self-education skills.
- Experience in UNIX system administration, both solo and in a team. Focus on scalable system design and automatic system management.
- Experience in leading a small IT team.
- Experience in teaching IT courses, organizing and running demo's, giving presentations.
- Languages:
- Dutch: mother tongue.
- English: excellent.
- French: good.
- IT
- Operating systems:
- excellent knowledge of Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (2.1 and up), CentOS (3 and up), Fedora Linux (1 and up), Slackware 2.x, RedHat (4.0 and up) distributions, on Intel/AMD, Sparc, and Alpha architectures.
- excellent knowledge of VMware ESX 1.5.x - current, vCenter, VMotion, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, and other vSphere components
- thorough experience with system administration on other UNIX versions: SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x, AIX 4
- thorough experience with configuring Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 (and older) in a UNIX network.
- Software:
- very thorough experience in compiling, installing, and configuring UNIX system software, e.g. NFS, Samba, sendmail 8.7.5 and up, bind 4.x to 9.x, XFree86 3.x and 4.x, Apache 1.2.x to 2.x, openssh, ntpd, mrtg, ipchains, iptables (firewalling tools), ...
- very thorough experience in compiling, installing, configuring, and using almost any software from standard Linux-distributions, including LaTeX, XFree86, Perl, rpm, Zabbix, Nagios, ...
- programming and scripting languages: thorough knowledge of Perl and Bash, good knowledge of Python, passive knowledge of C, Pascal.
- IT-domains:
- very thorough experience with Intel(-alike) servers from various vendors, including blade technology.
- thorough knowledge of Sun SparcStations: from Sparcstation 1 to Netra t11xx (including SMP).
- thorough knowledge of ethernet devices: hubs, switches, VLANs, PVLANs
- thorough knowledge of Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN storage technology, and disk arrays from multiple vendors (EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp).
- thorough understanding of operating system internals: CPU scheduling, memory management, NUMA, etc.
- Varia
- Drivers license.
- 3rd prize in the Flemish Mathematics Olympiad (1994).
- Active member of ULYSSIS (student organisation in Leuven) from 1995 to 1999, chairman from 1996 to 1998.
- Co-founding member of L2U (the Leuven Linux User group), 1999.
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