Oracle DBA

Telegraaf Media Groep N.V.

december 1999 to september 2005

Oracle DBA for Oracle 7- and 8i databases on Windows NT and Sun Solaris.

Business Objects Engineer

Telegraaf Media Groep N.V.

december 1999 to september 2005

Full Stack Business Objects engineer, building reports and design of semantic layer.

Oracle DBA Consultant

Valid

May 2006 to April 2008

Oracle DBA and PL/SQL developer ranging from Oracle 8i up to 10g on Linux, Unix and Windows.

Freelance Linux / Unix SysOps and Oracle DBA Consultant

Binary Vision

May 2008 to May 2017

As a freelancer I provided consultancy services for Linux-, Unix- and Oracle for a number of large companies and municipalities in the Netherlands.

Technical Consultant

QNH

May 2017 to Februari 2018

I was asked to build an Oracle 11g RAC cluster on an HPE blade chassis for a large telco in the Netherlands. This project was succesfully completed.

Linux Engineer & Google Cloud Architect

Moonen Packaging

March 2018 to December 2022

I was hired as a senior Linux engineer tasked with system- and network administration of an on-prem infrastructure running Debian Linux machines virtualized on KVM hypervisors.

In 2019 the company built a new warehouse without a facility to host the infrastructure on-prem, which meant the entire infrastructure had to be migrated to the cloud.

Google Cloud was chosen as the cloud provider to host the infrastructure. Due to time pressure, a lift-and-shift methodology was chosen. After succesfully migrating the infrastructure to the cloud, the focus shifted to documentation and standardisation as well as converting legacy applications to cloud native where possible.

Freelance Linux / Unix SysOps / DevOps

Binary Vision

January 2023 to current day

Freelance Linux SysOps / DevOps and architecture, with an emphasis on Google Cloud Platform.

Due to my broad skillset, I am currently exploring the field of penetration testing and Red Teaming. I have not yet decided on a specialization in this field.