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Curriculum Vitae

1. Personal details:

name: Ramses Smeyers
Email: ramses@smeyers.be
Mobile: +32 479 202 194
Date of Birth: 22 june 1979
Nationality: Belgian

2. Education:

Certifications:
VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 (VCP5 42152)9-Nov-2011
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate7-Oct-2011
Cisco Data Center Network Infrastructure 25-Oct-2011
Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Support - 14-Oct-2011
Implementing Cisco Storage Network Solutions3-Oct-2011
Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist28-Sept-2011
VMware Certified Advanced Professional - DataCenter Design (VCAP-DCD-4 346)27-Jul-2011
VMware Certified Advanced Professional - DataCenter Administration (VCAP-DCA-4 311)04-Jul-2011
Cisco Data Center Application Services Design Specialist29-Oct-2010
Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Design Specialist29-Oct-2010
CCDA - Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions15-Oct-2010
Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist15-Oct-2010
MCITP - Enterprise Administrator29-Jan-2010
VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4 (VCP4 42152)27-Jan-2010
VMware Certified Professional on VI3 (VCP3 42152)10-Aug-2009
MCSE - Microsoft Windows Server 200305-Feb-2009
MCSA - Microsoft Windows Server 200309-Dec-2008
Red Hat Certified Engineer - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHCE5)01-Mar-2008
Kepner Tregoe Certified Program Lead01-Feb-2007
Red Hat Certified Engineer - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHCE4)01-Apr-2006
IBM eServer Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L01-Jun-2004
Higher education: 1997- 2000
Applied Informatics
Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen (KHK)
Secondary Education: 1993 - 1997
Sint Lambertusschool - Westerlo
Science Mathematics (8h) (ASO)

3. Experience:

3.1 Employment:

3.3.1 Cisco, 2011 April - ...

  • Customer Support Engineer Voice - TAC VNG-Belgium (Voice Networking Group)
    • CUCM / Gateways / H323 / MGCP / CME / ...
  • Customer Support Engineer SV - Server Virtualization
    • UCS B and C series servers, Nexus 1000V
  • Kepner Tregoe Certified Program Lead

3.3.2 Fit IT - Imtech ICT, 2010 January - 2011 March

  • Advisory Systems Engineer
    • Pre-sales on
      • Cisco UCS
      • Cisco Networking
      • IBM xSeries/Bladecenter
    • System Engineer on AIX/Linux/Networking/Storage

3.3.3 Cisco, 2005 June 16 - 2009 December

  • Customer Support Engineer - TAC NMS-Belgium (Network management)
    • NMS products (LMS / CUOM / CUSM / ISC / Netflow / SNMP / ....)
    • Linux / Solaris / Windows OS support for NMS products
  • Customer Support Eng. - TAC SAN-Belgium (Storage)
    • MDS / VmWare ESX
  • Kepner Tregoe Certified Program Lead, delivered 10x 5days workshops

3.3.4 International Business Machines of Belgium N.V., 2002 April 1 - 2005 June 15

  • AIX/Linux/SAP/Oracle
    • Clustering
    • High availability
    • Performance monitoring/sizing
    • Networking
    • Storage
  • Performance and capacity management on multi platform/multi customer env.
  • Delivery of 15x 5-days Linux trainings (Full IBM Linux curriculum)

3.3.5 Xatrax Education NV, 2001 October (8 - 12)

  • Delivery of basic Unix/Linux course to KBC

3.3.6 Acunia NV, 2001 April 12 - 2002 March 31

Network/System Administrator

  • System Administration (Linux and Solaris)
  • Network Administration (3Com, Cisco, VPN's, ...)
  • Coach IT team
  • Support all ICT networking: intranet, internet, wired/wireless telephony and wireless LAN's
  • Support test infrastructure for Acunia's OTF product (application center, communication center, terminals)
  • Evaluate commercial hardware-software packages
  • Follow up and control ICT budget (PC's, hardware, software)

3.3.7 Cronos 4C, 2000 June

  • Setting up an Oracle test an production system / application server

3.3.8 Mind NV, 2000 Aug 1 - 2001 April 11

  • Linux consulting projects on RedHat Linux
  • Delivery of Linux trainings for IBM

3.2 Traineeship

March 2000 (3 months), AB Computers, SNMP network monitoring (Unix - Solaris)

3.3 Vacation jobs:

08/1995, 08/1996, 08-09/1997 and 07/1999
Pallieterhoeve (Restaurant, Booischot)

July 1998, July 1999
Ericom (Tiensestraat 178, Leuven, IT store)

4. Additional Information & specific skills:

4.1 Voluntary work

March 1998 - June 2000
Participation in SIN. SIN is an organization which helps the students at the KHK with PC's and the Internet.
Tasks: Maintaining a central server with approximately 2500 mail users and 150 active shell users. My task was keeping the system continuously updated with all the latest software. The services included mail, pop, imap, www, ftp, ssh, telnet, etc..

4.2 Language knowledge:

Dutch:mother tongue
English:excellent
French:average (good technical French)

4.3 Etc....

  • Unix
    • Linux (RedHat / CentOS / ...)
    • AIX (HACMP, CSM, WLM, ...)
    • Solaris
  • Windows
  • Consolidation
    • ESX
    • Physical 2 virtual migrations
  • Networking
    • Network Protocols (TCP/IP)
    • Firewall
    • Applications (Apache,DNS,Squid,Sendmail,Samba,MySQL...)
  • Backup/Storage
    • TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) / Lan free
    • SAN technologies (SanOS/FCIP/FM)
  • Hardware
    • IBM xSeries / Blades
    • IBM pSeries
    • Cisco UCS
    • HP DL Server / Blades
  • Software
    • Oracle
    • LMS / CUOM / CUSM / Netflow / ISC / SNMP / ...
    • Tomcat / Websphere / BEA Weblogic
  • Program languages
    • bash / ksh
    • JAVA / C / C++
    • Cobol / Visual Basic
    • SQL en Oracle PL/SQL
    • HTML / ASP / PHP / Perl
  • etc...
    • Problem & Change management
    • Outsourcing

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