Personal
| Name: | Richard Speelmans |
| Date of birth: | January 14, 1984 |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| City: | Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands |
| Drivers license: | Yes |
Education / Certificates
| 2012, January | EX300: Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHEL 6) Certificate number: 110-350-634 |
| 2012, January | EX200: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHEL 6) Certificate number: 110-350-634 |
| 2011, November | EX401: Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management Certificate number: 110-350-634 |
| 2011, March | EX436: Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Certificate number: 110-350-634 |
| 2010, March | SNIA Storage Network Foundations |
| 2009, December | VMware Certified Professional – VMware vSphere 4 VCP ID: VCP035591 |
| 2009, February | ITIL Foundations |
| 2009, February | LPIC-2 Certification |
| 2009, February | LPIC-1 Certification |
| 2008, July | LDAP Directory Services |
| 2008, June | Project Management and Leadership |
| 2008, April | VMware Certified Professional – VMware Infrastructure 3 VCP ID: VCP035591 |
| 2007, November | RedHat Certified Engineer (RHEL 5) Certificate number: 110-350-634 |
| 2000 – 2002 | Albeda Scholengemeenschap Rotterdam MBO: ICT level 3 & 4; (secondary vocational education) |
| 1997 – 2000 | Melanchthon Scholengemeenschap Rotterdam Mavo (lower general secondary education) |
Work Experience
Loeniks |
| June 2009 – Present |
Founder
Co-founder: Eelco Wesemann
We use XenServer as the virtualisation platform. Bacula is used as the backup solution.
Buzzwords: XenServer, Apache, Plesk, Debian, CentOS 5, Bacula, Bash, Perl, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Snow |
| February 2009 – Present |
Senior Linux Specialist
ING Insurance |
| August 2011 – Present |
Senior RedHat Engineer
- Designing and implementing Red Hat Satellite;
- Migrating over 300 applications from the banking business to the new insurance datacenter;
- Create RPM’s to install those application;
- Support the operational team (third line troubleshooting).
Buzzwords: Red Hat Enterprise 5, Red Hat Satellite 5, Bash, Python, Perl, HP OpenView, Apache, RPM
Nuon / Vattenfall |
| February 2009 – July 2011 |
Senior RedHat / Linux, Windows & ESX Specialist
As member of the development team I was responsible for:
- Designing a new baseline based on Red Hat 5;
- Configuring HP Server automation, and developing scripts to make unattended deployment completely automated;
- Deploying Linux, Windows and ESX systems;
- Building RPM’s to prepare the systems for specific applications like BEA, Oracle, SAP and Siebel;
- Third line troubleshooting;
- Problemen Management.
Also was the new entitie bough up by a Swedish company which had datacenters accross Sweden, Polen and Germany. Here I was responsible again to make a new datacenter which was ready for the new company. We migrated all servers slowly to this new datacenter.
As member of the engineering team I was responsible for:
- Designing and building a new datacenter;
- Make automated installation of Linux possible through Altiris;
- Migrating all “office technology” servers from Atos Origin to this new datacenter, so the new company could do office technology in house;
- Deploying Linux, Windows and ESX systems;
- Designing RHN Satellite infrastructure;
- Third line troubleshooting.
Buzzwords: Red Hat Enterprise 4 en 5, HP Server Automation, HP Server Management, Bash, Global Shell, Perl, PHP, EMC Networker, EMC Celerra, EMC Symmetrix DMX, ESX 3.5, HP OpenView, HP Systems Insight Manager, Apache, MySQL, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, HP-UX 11i, ITIL, Altiris Deployment Solution
Traffic and Transport related company |
| March 2009 – April 2009 |
Linux Specialist
Buzzwords: OpenSuse, NTP, Bash, Perl, Security
ProServe B.V. |
| Apr 2006 – Feb 2009 |
R&D, Senior Linux and Windows engineer
My other tasks included:
- Research and Development, developing new services for example:
- Designing and maintaining an ESX environment;
- Configuring and installing an LDAP environment to handle the complete ISP landscape, including failover;
- Monitoring service for customers;
- High Availability clusters, with HeartBeat, DRBD, GFS and GNBD.
- Pre- and post-sales;
- Internal support for our Linux, Windows and Plesk departments;
- Migrating around 200 servers from FreeBSD 4.11 to CentOS 4 remotely with zero downtime.
Buzzwords: FreeBSD 4, 5 and 6, CentOS 3, 4 and 5, Debian, Ubuntu, Apache, Bind, MySQL, PowerDNS, Postfix, Sendmail, HeartBeat, DRBD, CMAN, GFS, GNDB, Windows 2003, OpenVZ, Virtuozzo, ESX 3.5, PHP, MySQL, Bash, Perl, MS Exchange 2007, IIS 6.0, LDAP, Cobalt, Red Hat Enterprise 4.0, Windows 2000, Plesk, MS-SQL 2005
Netnation Europe B.V. |
| April 2005 – March 2006 |
Linux Specialist
- Maintaining a fast growing server environment (around 900 servers in April 2006) mainly based upon Linux but some FreeBSD and Windows servers as well;
- Developing scripts (Perl / Bash) to automate the backup routine;
- Developing scripts (Perl / Bash) to see the traffic usage and disk quotas of customers;
- Spam and virus prevention on the mail frontends;
- Active monitoring of the network;
- Confirming bugs in Plesk and communicating this to the technical department of SW-Soft;
- Third line support.
Buzzwords: Linux, CentOS 3, Red Hat 3, Fedora Core, Debian, Bind, MySQL, PowerDNS, Postfix, Sendmail, QMail, Plesk, Virtuozzo, HSP Complete, OpenVZ, Server Virtualisation
Main Information Technology |
| April 2001 – April 2005 |
System Engineer
- Microsoft Windows NT 4, 2000, 2003;
- Linux Red Hat 6, 7, 8, 9 and Enterprise 3.0;
- Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, XP and 2000;
Where remote support wasn’t possible we went onsite to give support.
Besides the maintaining of systems I was part of a 3-man programming department. We created the following products:
- A complete helpdesk application in PHP for Woondrecht;
- A statistical survey application in PHP for Woondrecht.
Other tasks was first and seconds line support to our customers.
Mission Statement
Finding a job that enables me to develop myself, both in technical and personal areas, and to work together with creative and motivated people.
My personal buzzwords: stress resistant, stickler, responsible, team player, selftaught-man
Other
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