Curriculum vitae v16.2
VirtualizeIT
First name :
Last name :
Day of birth :
Place of birth :
Address :
Telephone :
Studies :
Filip
VanderAerschot
October 27 th 1975
Mechelen (Belgium)
Kleine Hagenstraat 18
B-1980 Zemst (Flemish Brabant)
Belgium
+32(0)476847239
A1 Electronics with option Informatics partially finished in 1994
Name :
Founded :
Activities :
FilipVDA QS BVBA
2004
ICT related Consulting
Virtualization
X86 Infrastructure Design
Storage
Data Center management
ICT Logistics – Asset Management
Project Management www.filipvda.be
/ www.virtualizeit.be
Link :
Dutch : Mother tongue
English : Very Good
French : Good
R/C Modeling (helicopters & cars)
Badminton
Last Updated : 11 / 04 / 2012 by Filip VanderAerschot

Curriculum vitae v16.2
VirtualizeIT
Customer : AG Insurance (Insurance)
Period : February 2011 - …
Location : Brussels
N+1 : Mario Bruyninckx ( I&O Server Manager)
Function : Senior ICT Consultant for backup and storage
Tasks : Design and implementing/upgrading new backup infrastructure based on CommVault
Simpana v9 with low cost disk storage
Product knowledge : - Commvault Simpana v8 & v9
- hp P2000 G3 FC / Brocade SAN
- hp C7000 blade chassis and BL460c
- StorageTek SL3000 / STK10000 B&C drives
Customer : ERGOlife (Insurance)
Period : October – November 2010 (4DAYS)
Location : Brussels
N+1 : Walter Janssens (ICT Manager)
Function : Senior ICT Consultant
Tasks : Design and planning vmWARE infrastructure upgrade to ESXi 4.1
Installation new hardware hp BL465c
Upgrade C3000 hp blade chassis
Product knowledge : - vmWARE vSphere 4 ESXi 4.1 , VC
- hp SIM / BladeManagement
- hp C3000 blade chassis and BL465c
Customer :
(Education)
Period : December 2009 …February 2010
Location : Brussels
N+1 : Walter Janssens (ICT Manager) -> Ben Lumbeeck
Function : Senior ICT Consultant
Tasks : Upgrade Proof of Concept VMware View 3 to View 4. (50 thin clients)
Upgrade existing VI3 environment to vSphere 4.0 Update 1
Product knowledge : - vmWARE vSphere 4 ESXi 4.0 , VC
- vmWARE View4
- PCoIP
Last Updated : 11 / 04 / 2012 by Filip VanderAerschot

Curriculum vitae v16.2
VirtualizeIT
Customer :
Period : December 2010 …
Location : Brussels
N+1 : Filip VanderAerschot
Function : Owner
Tasks : Startup Public & Private Cloud for IaaS
Helping customers with migration to Cloud solutions
Product knowledge : - vmWARE vSphere ESXi 5.0 , VC
- hp ProLiant DL G7 Series
- hp G3 P2000 FC – Brocade San
- Juniper SRX clustered firewalls
- Commvault Simpana v9 Suite
- PEASSLER Network & Server monitoring
Customer :
(Consumer Electronics market)
Period : November 2009 …
Location : Mollem (Asse)
N+1 : Paul Notteboom (CEO Europe)
Function : Senior ICT Consultant
Tasks : Setup Business Continuity Plan based on Audit of datacenters in Europe
Define Enterprise Key Applications and how to optimize for HA and DR based on VMware technology and NetApp storage.
Product knowledge : - Business Continuity
- High Availability
- Virtualization / Cloud
- Infrastructure design
- Data Center Management
- Capacity Management / Configuration Management
Last Updated : 11 / 04 / 2012 by Filip VanderAerschot

Curriculum vitae v16.2
VirtualizeIT
Customer :
(Governmental market)
Period : July 2009 … December 2009 … December 2010
Location : Brussels
N+1 : Stefan Coppieters (Application Delivery Manager)
Function : Senior ICT Consultant
Tasks : Cleanup AD and tighten security
Setup test AD for future migration and tests.
Test and Implement PointSec Disk Encryption for TOP 200 VIP
Test and Implement upgrade Symantec Anti-Virus 10.x to Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.x for +16.000 objects
Analyze and test financial applications to run on Enterprise Desktop
Test Windows 7, Server 2008, Office 2007 for the Enterprise Desktop
Analyze implementation of BitLocker and BitLocker 2 Go
Setup standard for Endpoint Security for Enterprise Desktop
Assist in infrastructure design of VDI project.
Product knowledge : - Active Directory / Directory Services
- hp OpenView ServiceCenter
- vmWare View 4 / ThinApp
- Symantec Endpoint Protection / SAVEE
- Symantec Security Information Manager
- Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2
- BitLocker(2Go)
Customer :
(Education)
Period : April 2009 …October 2009
Location : Brussels
N+1 : Walter Janssens (ICT Manager)
Function : Senior ICT Consultant
Tasks : Setup and configure VMware View 3 (proof of concept 25 thin clients)
Product knowledge : - vmWARE VI3 , VC
- vmWARE View3
Last Updated : 11 / 04 / 2012 by Filip VanderAerschot

Curriculum vitae v16.2
VirtualizeIT
Customer :
(Education)
Period : November 2008 …December 2008
Location : Brussels
N+1 : Walter Janssens (ICT Manager)
Function : Senior ICT Consultant
Tasks : Setup and configure VMware ESX 3.5 (4 hosts for +40 VM’s)
Setup and configure Sun StorageTek 6140
Product knowledge : - Business Continuity / High Availability / Disaster Recovery
- vmWARE VI3 , VC
- Sun StorageTEK / Brocade / iSCSI / Zoning
Customer :
(Consumer Electronics market)
Period : August 2008 … June 2009
Location : Zaventem
N+1 : Roberto Sutera (ISE Infrastructure Manager)
Function : Wintel Infrastructure Architect / Senior Systems Engineer
Tasks : Design / Update Wintel Server Infrastructure
Design / Update VMware Virtual Infrastructure (25 hosts + 800 VM’s)
Design / Update hp StorageWorks EVA8100, MSL6060 & VLS6600
Design extra Datacenter for DR to run Active/Active
Server and Storage performance tuning
Install new hp c7000 Blade Chassis
Documentation SOX Compliant
Product knowledge : -vmWare VI3
- hp SIM / Storage Manager
- hp/Brocade 4100 Fiber Switch Management / Zoning & Presentation
- hp C7000 Enterprise Class Blade Chassis
- BL680c Blades
- hp StorageWorks EVA81xx Enterprise Virtual Array
- hp MSA
- Continious Access and Business Copy
- hp OpenView DataCenter Protector backup
- hp MSL6060 & VLS6600
Last Updated : 11 / 04 / 2012 by Filip VanderAerschot

Curriculum vitae v16.2
VirtualizeIT
Customer :
(Consumer Electronics market)
Period : March 2007 … August 2008
Location : Mollem (Asse)
N+1 : Paul Notteboom (CEO Europe)
Function : ICT Manager Europe (Technical & Executor)
Tasks : Replace current ICT Infrastructure to have minimum management
Standardization of all end-user workstations and notebooks
Brussels Office : 100 people
London Office : 125 people
Across Europe : 10x 4 people sales offices
Proposed and implemented infrastructure :
Brussels HQ : 1x NetApp FAS 3070 iSCSI SAN Storage
(Mollem)
London :
Europe :
4x 2U rack servers in VMware cluster for AD, Exchange, SQL, File & Print,
AV, and others …
1x Redundant Nortel Switch Stack
1x Juniper SSG firewall (UTM) – 20Mbps fiber internet connection
See Brussels Office but 50Mbps fiber internet connection
10 offices in Europe VPN connected with Juniper SSG firewall (UTM)
Product knowledge : - ICT Management
- ISP DataCenter hosting
- vmWare VI3
- Business Continuity / High Availability / Disaster Recovery
- ICT Infrastructure Design
- hp ProLiant DL Series
- NetApp FAS3070 SAN/NAS iSCSI/FC Storage
- Archiving and deduplication
- Veritas Backup Exec
- hp MSL6060 Tape Library
- Performance monitoring
- Nortel ERS Ethernet Routing Switch
- Juniper SSG firewall
- Juniper SA2000 SSLVPN
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007
- Microsoft SQL 2005
- Microsoft IIS
- Belgacom Enterprise Forum 550 VoIP / IVR
Last Updated : 11 / 04 / 2012 by Filip VanderAerschot

Customer :
(Governmental market)
Period : March 2004 … March 2007
Location : Brussels
N+1 : Stefaan Compernol (Infrastructure Manager)
Function : Windows Team Leader / Senior Systems Engineer
Tasks : Maintain Wintel Infrastructure, updates, new installs, migrations, …
Design / Implement / Maintain Virtual Infrastructure
Case Study : Full blown servers versus Blade servers
DataCenter move (+400 physical servers) planning and execute
Curriculum vitae v16.2
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Product knowledge : - IBM x345 x346 x366 HS12 x86 Wintel Infrastructure
- IBM BladeCenter H
- Microsoft Virtual Server
- vmWARE ESX 3.x
- Windows 200 / 2003
- Project Management
- Capacity Management
- Configuration Management
Customer :
(Banking)
Period : June 2003 … March 2004
Location : Brussels
N+1 : (Active Directory & Messaging Manager for Europe)
Function : System Engineer & 3 rd line support for Active Directory & Exchange
Tasks: Maintain Active Directory, Group Policies
Migrate Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 of 60000 mailboxes
Migrate Active Directory with +100000 objects
3 rd line support for Active Directory and Outlook issues
Product knowledge : - Microsoft Active Directory NT/2000/2003
- Microsoft Exchange 5.5/2003
In 2004 I started my own company FilipVDA QS BVBA (VirtualizeIT) mainly providing project based consultancy.
Last Updated : 11 / 04 / 2012 by Filip VanderAerschot

Curriculum vitae v16.2
VirtualizeIT
Employer :
(Vers A Versa) (ICT Consultancy)
Period : July 1999 … June 2003
Location : Groot Bijgaarden (Brussels)
N+1 : Team Leader
Function : System Engineer
Tasks : Project management / Install / Manage / Support of Wintel based projects at customer site
Customer : Jan De Nul, ITT Promedia, VRT, Betonac, Pauwels Trafo, UZ Gent, Sitel, Puratos, …
DEMO setup available :

2x Server with XEON Quad Core X5550 with 16GB RAM

4TB iSCSI/NFS NAS/SAN

All VMware 60 days demo licenses available.

All Microsoft 180 days Trial versions available.
Employer :
(ISP & Telephony)
Period : January 1996 … July 1999
Location : Mechelen (Antwerp)
N+1 : IT Manager function : Systems/Windows administrator
Tasks : Install / Manage / Support Wintel servers for internal users.
Team leader Help Desk for internal users
(6 help desk engineers for +400 end users)
Employer : APEM NV (IT Service Center)
Period : September 1994 … January 1996
Location : Schelle (Antwerp)
N+1 : Service Manager
Function : Service Engineer
Tasks : Field Repair IBM and Compaq hardware (servers, desktops, notebooks)
Implementing first Windows server at customer side with Active Directory and Exchange
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Microsoft : Server NT/2000/2003/2008 R2
Windows XP/Vista/7
Linux &
Solaris
Office 97/2000/XP/2003/2007/2010
Cluster and Load Balacing
Exchange 5.5/2000/2003/2007/2010
SQL 2000/2005/2008
ISA 2004/2006
Virtual Server 2005/Hyper-V
Basic knowledge
CentOS, RHEL, Apache & MySQL
VMware : VCP & VSP (Technical and Sales Professional) VI3 & vSphere 4
VMware View 3 / View 4
VMware Professional Partner
Commvault : Simpana v8 & v9 Suite
TrendMicro : Enterprise Security Suite (servers & endpoints)
Symantec : Endpoint Protection 11.x
Endpoint Encryption
IBM : Intel/AMD Server Hardware / Blades / Storage
Dell :
HP :
Intel/AMD Server Hardware / Blades / Storage
Intel/AMD Server Hardware / Blades
Intel Workstations / notebooks
StorageWorks MSA 1000/1500/23xx
EVA 8xxx, Lefthand SAS
MSL Tape Library & VLS Virtual Library
Nortel :
Cisco :
OpenView Backup Data Protector 5.5
OpenView Service Center
Ethernet Routing switches
Routers & Switches
Juniper :
BCM400 IP PBX
SSG firewall (UTM), SSL VPN
Watch Guard : SOHO firewall
Checkpoint : SOHO firewall
NetScreen : Firewall & SSL VPN
NetApp : FAS Series SAN iSCSI/fiber
Belgacom : Forum 5xx IP PBX, Wifi, Dect Enterprise Solutions
Brother :
…..
Official dealer and enterprise printing
……..
Various management tools …
Curriculum vitae v16.2
VirtualizeIT
Last Updated : 11 / 04 / 2012 by Filip VanderAerschot