Eric - Administrateur système VMS

Employment History

Company/Organization: NewB Bank
Period: 09/2020 – now
Position Held: Project Manager Infrastructure, Transition Project Manager, IT Service Manager
Description: Support vreation of the Bank and implement IT Service Management framework
Project Summary: Provide standard project management consultancy and services.
Infractructure: Cloud (AWS, AZURE, IBM Cloud), Datacenters, Network, Security (FW,…), Storage, Servers, Virtualisation, Containers,….
Implement ITIL processes and operational support for the Core Banking System (On-boarding, Payments, Cards, Swift,….)
Risk analysis: Services, Monitoring, Alerting.
Working languages: English, and French.
Company/Organization: NRB Herstal. Dacatenter and Hybrid Cloud provider (Benelux)
Period: 04/2020 – 09/2020
Position Held: Project Manager Infrastructure, Transition Project Manager
Description: Support IT Internal projects and onboarding of Cloud customers
Project Summary: Provide standard project management consultancy and services.
Infractructure: Cloud (AWS, AZURE, IBM Cloud), Datacenters, Network, Security (FW,…), Storage, Servers, Virtualisation, Containers,….
Specialisation on Finance Customers
Risk analysis: Services, Monitoring, Alerting.
Working languages: English, and French.

Company/Organization: KBL epb Wealth Management Bank (Quintet), Luxembourg
Period: 09/2019 – March 2020
Position Held: Senior Project Manager Infrastructure
Description: Support IT Infrastructure/Exchange&communication/Network services
Project Summary: Provide standard project management consultancy and services.
Wealth Management Banking.
Risk analysis: Service, Monitoring, Alerting, applications landscape.
Projects involve security, network, infrastructure services.
Planning and implementing Telephony (IP voice, IP Video), WIFI for new subsidiary in Denmark, in Zurich, in England. Cutting telephony network and services for a subsidiary in France (multi sites), and helping for the new telephony of this subsidiary.
Mainly: Exchange migrations, mailboxes, PST and related aspects (Mx Records, archiving,…)
Working languages: English, German and French.
Technology Summary: MS Project, MS Office, Internal tools, Project Server
Company/Organization: LUX ICT Solutions / Engie Cofely/ IBM
Period: 02/2019 – 09/2019
Position Held: Project Manager / Service Manager / Data Center Services Consultant
Description: Support the Twins DataCenter Services provided by Cofely to IBM

Project Summary: Provide standard project management consultancy and services. Implement Proximity and Data Centre services at the Twins Data Centres (South Belgium).
Strong focus on: PSM, GDPR, DR and BCP for the service. Security. Architecture
Risk analysis: Service, Monitoring, Alerting, applications landscape.
Management of PenTests
Validation and finalisation of the service “Security officer”
Working languages: English, German and French.
Technology Summary: MS Project, MS Office, Internal tools, Project Server

Company/Organization: LUX ICT Solutions
Period: 11/2018 – 01/2019
Position Held: Project Manager
Description: Management of a department migration, CREOS - ENCEVO
Project Summary: Provide standard project management consultancy and services.
Manage the migration of Groupt IT department from ENCEVO (Mother Company) to CREOS, part of ENCEVO group. Energy provider of Luxembourg. Alongside with a pilot of Office 365 migration (Exchange on premise).
Main streams of the project:
Physical move
HR aspects (related to re-organisation of the department it-self)
Communication (Inside the group, inside ENCEVO, outside to providers)
All aspects of the telephony
Back-END IT aspects (AD, E-mail, security appliances, network)
Processes alignment
Urgent stream: manage all “visibility” aspects: e-mail addresses (SMTP), AD, phone numbers, business cards, contracts (providers) changes, contracts (HR, employees contrats) to be managed in a tight time frame.
Risk management (Security, Regulatory,tec….)
Align with concurrent projects.
Working languages: English, German and French.
Technology Summary: MS Project, MS Office.Internal tools, Project Server

Company/Organization: Engie
Period: 11/2017 – 10/2018
Position Held: Data Centre Services Manager
Description: Data Centre, Proximity Services, Service Management, BCP and DR, GDPR
Project Summary: Implement Proximity and Data Centre services at the Twins Data Centres (South Belgium).
Strong focus on: PSM, GDPR, DR and BCP for the service.
Coordination of Exchange/Outlook/Teams services
Implementation of the Security officer “service”
Risk analysis: Service, Monitoring, Alerting, applications landscape.
First Phase: Initiation phase
Build the team (Team Leaders, technicians, specialists, operators)
Knowledge transfer from incumbent to Engie Team.
Build the service, financial proposals
Prepare Phase 2 and 3.
Second Phase: Evaluation phase
Fully responsible for the service.
Increase the team (Team Leaders, technicians, specialists, operators)
Improve the knowledge (knowledge transfer very poor)
Fine-tune the service, fine-tune financial proposals
Prepare Phase 3.
Phase 3 start 1st April.
Working languages: English and French. Dutch.
Technology Summary: MS Project, MS Office.

Company/Organization: Cronos Lux
Period: 09/2017 – 11/2017
Position Held: Security / DRP Officer
Description: Security / DRP Officer, BCP and DR at the European Parliament Infrastructure department.
Project Summary: Provide standard consultancy concerning DR and BCP.
Evaluate the current processes and documentation in place.
Evaluate the alignment needs between different entities, LISO and CISO.
Provide a long term plan for the DR implementation.
Evaluate the current situation and plan for the technical teams DR procedures and plans.
Working languages: English and French.
Technology Summary: MS Project, MS Office.

Company/Organization: Prodata Systems
Period: 11/2016 – 07/2017
Position Held: Project Manager
Description: Project manager, Storage roll-out, Vendor Manager, BCP and DR
Project Summary: Provide standard project management consultancy and services, vendor management and coordination (technical and linguistic).
The project: Replace the storage/backup/archive infrastructure of a major Health organisation (Hospital).
Standard project management duties, including financial.
Strong focus on Vendor management (Vendors are Huawei and COmmVault). First time for the customer and for ProData to work with a Chinese provider.
Strong focus on language and cultural related issues.
Mostly remote working.
Specific stream for the DR and BCP implementation in a third datacentre.
Sustain and enhance DR and BCP (Network, Storage, Backup, through ITIL services and procedures)
Working languages: English and French.
Technology Summary: MS Project, MS Office.


Company/Organization: Tata Consulting Services
Period: 08/2016 – 10/2016
Position Held: Data Centre Architect
Description: Data Centre Architect, Competitive Due Diligence
Project Summary: Provide consultancy and project management services related to Infrastructure, mainly Data Centre and Data Centre consolidation, involving Cloud services and Office 365
The project: Competitive Due Diligence for a x00 millions contract. Involved as Data Centre architect, Due Diligence expert. Specific responsibilities concerning cultural differences and language potential issues. The customer is a top level French Aerospace and Defence manufacturer, with many subsidiaries in many countries. Official language of the call for tender is French; Official language of TCS is English. Core activities around Data Centres consolidation, evaluation for Cloud possibilities and Storage/Backup SME during workshops with customer. DR and BCP stream being a key component
Part of the solution involves Microsoft AZURE and Amazone Cloud services, with a strong focus on Microsoft Office 365 and migration of Mail systems (Exchange and Notes) to SHarepoint plus Office 365.
Manage the relationship with DataCentre, Storage and Tools vendors.
Specific stream for the DR and BCP implementation, based on storage and several datacentres.
Sustain and enhance DR and BCP (Network, Storage, Backup, through ITIL services and processes)
2 weeks colocation in India, Chennai. 6 weeks colocation in Paris.
Working languages: English and French; baed in Eschborn (Franckfort) and Luxembourg.
Technology Summary: MS Project, MS Office.

Company/Organization: German Stock Exchange
Period: 05/2016 – 07/2016
Position Held: Infrastructure Project Manager
Description: Project Manager
Project Summary: Provide consultancy and project management services related to Infrastructure.
The main project: management of Lotus Notes migration to MS Office 365, workstream responsible for the Clearstream applications hosted in Luxembourg (Core business and Local apps).
Evaluate the impact on the workstations of the various Finance teams in Luxembourg (desktops, laptops and virtual desktopds (Citrix VDI), plan the roll-out phases (tasks, resources, risks, planning, test plans)
Working languages: German, English and French; based in Eschborn (Franckfort) and Luxembourg.
Technology Summary: MS Project, MS Office.

Company/Organization: LUX ICT Solutions
Period: 02/2016 – 04/2016
Position Held: Data Centre Manager
Description: Data Centre Manager
Project Summary: Data Centre Manager: Security, Access, Procedures, Racking, Infrastructure
Data Centre (adjoint), responsible for Access, Security (physical and IT), Procedures, Service Management for 2 Tier4 datacentres, near the Belgian/Luxemburgish border.
Managing a team of specialists (Security officer, Storage and asset manager, cabling controller) and teams of sub contractors (Racking, delivery, asset management, proximity services)
Coordinate/manage, oversee all Vendor activities and services.
Specifics concerning DR and BCP:
Specific stream for the DR and BCP implementation through 2 datacentres
Sustain and enhance DR and BCP (Network, Storage, Backup, through ITIL services and procedures)
End of mission due to the fact that the Datacentres have been sold to IBM.
Technology Summary: MS Project, MS Office.

Company/Organization: RBC I&TS Luxembourg
Period: 10/2015 – 01/2016
Position Held: Project Manager
Description: Project Manager
Project Summary: Project Manager : Audits management (IT, Infrastructure), Risk, Compliance, Datacentres.
Project Manager
Assigned to the IT follow-up and management of several Audits (Internal, External)
Key areas: Infrastructure, DataCentres. Applications, Risk, Compliance.
Key focus on Vendor Management, most of the problems coming from lack of communication and bad vendor management practices.
C-level stakeholders, Line managers.
Key risks items related to BCP (and DR) not aligned to BIA’s. Align DR and BCP features.

Technology Summary: PlanView (eppm), MS Project, MS Office.

Company/Organization: Clearstream Luxembourg,
Period: 12/2014 – 09/2015
Position Held: Project Manager
Description: Project Manager
Project Summary: Project Manager : DataCentre move, Applications move, testing,
INVESTMENT FUNDS
Project Manager , fund management department.
Due to the acquisition of business department (Funds Management), datacentre infrastructure, and hosted applications must move from Geneva/Bern to Luxemburg.
Roles: Planning, risk management, resources management, communication plan, and all standard PM activities.
Align to the Clearstream DR and BCP needs; Plan and prepare DR/BCP tests
Vendor management: Underlying infrastructure services, storage services and hardware, Fax services, training services, licences…
Coordination of Lotus Notes and Exchange related aspects.
Special focus on: data migrations, security, infrastructure readiness and cultural differences existing between the different teams involved: Dev and business in Cork, Ireland, to be integrated in the corporate structure (Luxembourg)

Technology Summary: Clarity, VISIO. MS Project

Company/Organization: ArcelorMittal
Period: 08/2014 – 12/2014
Position Held: Project Manager / Infrastructure Specialist
Description: Infrastructure Specialist
Project Summary: Project Manager / Infrastructure Specialist
Project Manager at the department: Corporate Applications ArcelorMittal.
Several small projects related to development (BI, dot Net), Databases, SharePoint Servers, stress tests.
Major projects: Win2003 Upgrade, DataCentre closure and datacentre consolidations.

Technology Summary: SharePoint Portal; SharePoint Services; VISIO.
MS Project
Company/Organization: AdvisoryKey Lux
Period: 06/2014 – 08/2014
Position Held: Project Manager / Infrastructure Specialist
Description: Infrastructure Specialist
Project Summary: Project Manager / Infrastructure Specialist
Project Manager at the SGBT Luxembourg.
Infrastructure improvement project, not disclosed, PSF issues.
Can be explained without specifications during interview
Technology Summary: SharePoint Portal; SharePoint Services; VISIO.
MS Project, Clarity.

Company/Organization: Freelance
Period: 04/2014 – 06/2014
Position Held: Project Manager / Due Diligence Manager
Description: Operations specialist / Service Delivery specialist
Project Summary: Due Diligence, Project Manager, Service analyst

Due Diligence and Project Manager during a Competitive Due Diligence, for ATOS Benelux, Zaventem. Customer: EUROCONTROL,
Due Diligence feedback very positive, report provided in due time, all issues managed successfully

Technology Summary: SharePoint Portal; SharePoint Services; VISIO.MS Project. Extensive use of Outlook.


Company/Organisation: Aramis Services Lux
Period: 02/2014 – 04/2014
Position Held: Project Manager / Datacentre manager
Description: Datacentre specialist
Project Summary: Datacenter, Project Manager, Service analyst

1 project: Gap analysis (confidential): Evaluate the gaps between the SLA's of the different service providers. Strong focus on Datacentre infrastructure (SAN, Firewalls, Storage, Servers,...), access and control.
1 project: feasibility study concerning the move and integration of various servers to modern datacentres (Government, confidential) .This project is the feasibility study and the start of the macro plan. To be finished end of March, begin of April.

Technology Summary: SharePoint Portal, Office 365

Company/Organisation : Aramis Services Lux
Period: 05/2013 – 01/2014
Position Held: Project Manager
Description: Project Manager at Swift: infrastructure, office automation, servers , SharePoint Portal
Project Summary: Project Manager.
Managing several projects related to infrastructure and office automation, mostly based on SharePoint and SharePoint portal as entry point for end users..
Standard Project management duties: Planning, risk and resource management, communication, meetings management .
For Sharepoint projects, plan the roll-out of the applets on the end-user workstations
Keep control on timing, budget and priorities. Manage escalations and deviations.

2 projects are “Feasibility studies” Livelink to SharePoint
3 projects are related to technical upgrades and enhancements (Migration to SharePoint 2010, native mode).
1 project is related to Datacentre management and Cloud migrations.

Technology Summary: Windows servers and Solaris servers, SharePoint Portal; SharePoint Services; VISIO.
MS Project, MS Project Server .

Company/Organisation: Aramis Services Lux
Period: 11/2012 – 04/2013 (6 month contract)
Position Held: Project Manager
Description: Project Manager at BNP IP: infrastructure, middleware, release management
Project Summary: Project Manager.
Project 1: Management of a sub-project of the global Windows7 roll-out:
Dealing with all stakeholders (from director to architect )
Evaluation of the required packages for EMEA (Domain IT tools)
Packaging, packaging testing, releases and follow-up
Roll-out plan for Paris and Brussels
Consultancy for APAC area
Project 2: management of a platform/middleware upgrade (Investment Funds)
Project 3: Initiation of 2 major projects: application upgrade and methodology implementation.

Technology Summary: Windows 7,SharePoint Portal; SharePoint Services; VISIO. Clarity and Open Workbench. IBM tools: WAS, WTX, Datastage, …Firewalls, Security, BDP; DR, RTO and RPO.
Process improvement. Testing and quality management tools and processes.

Company/Organisation: Telindus PSF (Belgacom) Luxemburg
Period: 09/2011 – 10/2012
Position Held: Project Manager Outsourcing
Description: Project Manager / Outsourcing / Cloud
Project Summary: PSF Project Manager.
Main project: Outsourcing of the whole infrastructure of a Finance Company (Swiss Life Luxembourg) to the Cloud of Telindus. The role involved project management duties following PMI (PMBOK) methodologies and datacentre integration/rationalisation/migration.
Vendor management: Storage, Cabling, Fiber, Software, Phone, OS,…..
The project included:
The set-up of the cloud infrastructure, network, SAN, Storage, Servers, VMware layer and applications. Monitoring and reporting on the tasks and deliverables.
Complete review of the AD architecture (new forests setup, integration of the mother company's AD and security)
Implementation of the new AD architecture in parallel with the maintenance of the old one.
Windows 7 migration of the desktops and laptops (in phase with the AD migration) Full roll-out, small scale, less than 200 users.
The set-up of the BCP and DR plan
Specific stream for the DR and BCP implementation in a third datacentre.
Sustain and enhance DR and BCP (Network, Storage, Backup, through ITIL services and procedures)
The set-up of the monitoring and Help-desk for the infrastructure
The development of a MSA and related SLA’s
Maintenance of SHarePoint portal for documents and project data.
Secondary projects: Implementation of VM POC for the virtualisation of the Windows servers of the EIB, including security and BCP aspects.

Technology Summary: SharePoint Portal; SharePoint Services; VISIO. Microsoft Project. Firewalls (checkpoint), Security, BDP; DR, RTO and RPO. Cisco, NetApp, VMWare.



Company/Organization: Getronics PSF Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Period: 07/2009 – 08/2011
Position Held: Project Manager / Storage Consultant
Description: Project Manager / Pre-sales Storage Consultant / Service delivery manager
Project Summary: PSF Project Manager / Pre-sales Storage Consultant / Service delivery manager:
The main goal of the role is to support the PSF projects of Getronics PSF Luxembourg and the European Institutions projects. The role is three fold, based on the previous projects and experiences.
Project Manager and process designer.
1. Project management of the infrastructure layer of the Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration of the European Commission (80000 mail boxes)
2. Storage and tools:
1. Anti-Virus and anti-Phishing
2. Active directory
3. SCOM and SCCM
4. Client side (Windows XP and Windows 7)
5. Reporting and KPI's
6. Mailbox management
3. Pre-sales support for SharePoint related projects (Archiving projects, Document management processes)
4. Service Delivery Manager
5. Storage and BURA (Backup/recovery/archive) consultant.
Technology Summary: SharePoint Portal; SharePoint Services; VISIO. Microsoft Project. EMC Storage and BURA; DELL/EMC EqualLogic.


Company/Organisation: Getronics PSF Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Period: 05/2009 – 06/2009
Position Held: Project Manager / Storage Consultant
Description: Project Manager
Project Summary: Data Centre Operations Outsourcing:
This project concerns the set-up and planning of the out-sourcing of a huge Data Centre. This involves all the Data-Centre teams and operations. The key words of this project are ITL V3 for the operations, Prince 2 for the Project Management and Cobit for the auditing aspects.
This role involves also: reporting to the management, enforcement of ITIL and Best Practices, architectural consulting in the infrastructure areas and analysis for the collaboration tool (SharePoint Services).

Technology Summary: SharePoint Portal; SharePoint Services; VISIO.

Company/Organisation: European Commission Data Centre, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Period: 12/2008 – 04/2009
Position Held: Project Manager
Description: Project Manager
Project Summary: Harmonisation and Coordination Project Manager:
Project manager
As a member of the Data-Centre Harmonisation and Coordination team, involved in the various projects impacting all the Data-Centre teams and its management. Mainly: provisioning (Hardware life cycle), security (harmonising and enforcing security policies) and the development of a common operational management platform for all the teams.
Coordination of the DR test (every 6 month, full DR of the datacentre)
Specific stream for the DR and BCP implementation in a third datacentre.
Sustain and enhance DR and BCP (Network, Storage, Backup, through ITIL services and procedures)

Implementing the process in SharePoint Services, evaluating the SharePoint Infrastructure performance and lay-out. Participating in the design; lay-out of the SharePoint Portal.
This role involves also: reporting to the management, enforcement of ITIL and Best Practices, architectural consulting in the infrastructure areas.

Technology Summary: SharePoint Portal; SharePoint Services; VISIO.



Company/Organisation: European Commission Data Centre, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Period: 07/2008 – 11/2008
Position Held: Operations Manager
Description: Operations Manager, project coordinator
Project Summary: Data Centre Operations:
Computer Rooms Operations Manager (Team Leader)
Management and supervision of the Computer Rooms Supervisors team, in charge of: Access Management, Change Management, Incident Management, Problem Management related to the Commission Data Centre Rooms in Luxembourg and Brussels. The Team is composed of 9 IT specialists (6 Infrastructure specialists and 3 Project Managers)
Vendor Management: HVAC, Logistics, Security, all companies having duty in the Data Centres
Coordination of the DR test (every 6 month, full DR of the datacentre)
Specific stream for the DR and BCP implementation in a third datacentre.
Sustain and enhance DR and BCP (Network, Storage, Backup, through ITIL services and procedures)
This role involves also: reporting to the management, project management, enforcement of ITIL and Best Practices, architectural consulting in the following areas: Cooling, Power, structured cabling, Racks and space consolidation.
Specific task: Formalisation of the provisioning process and the Incident management process. Implementing SharePoint Services as global collaboration tool and document repository.
Follow-up of the moves between the Data-Centre rooms.

Technology Summary: Internal Computer Room management tools. Remedy (Used for the Incident management and change management). VISIO. SharePoint Portal

Company/Organisation: European Commission Data Centre, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Period: 09/2005 – 06/2008
Position Held: Operations Team Leader
Description: Operations Team Leader , project coordinator
Project Summary: Data Centre Operations:
First role: Backup and Storage Team Leader
Management and supervision of the backup and storage team, in charge of: backups, SAN storage, NAS storage of the data-centre of the European Commission; also in charge of the remote backups of decentralised servers (of the Directorate Generals,…). The Team is composed of 10 IT specialists (SAN, Storage and backup specialists). 2000 SAN Ports and 500 TB of Storage (320 HDS and 80 EMC and 100 NetApps)
Vendor Management: Storage (EMC, Hitachi, NetApp, Brocade, CISCO,…..), OS (Microsoft, SUN,…) Oracle, Servers (Various providers, SUN, …) Licences, Logisitcs, many third-Party)
Coordination of the DR test (every 6 month, full DR of the datacentre)
Evaluation of BIAS, and BCP needs.
As backup and Storage PM, responsible for Backups and File Services tasks, in the roll-out of European Commission workstation roll-out.

This role involves also: reporting to the management, project management, enforcement of ITIL and Best Practices, architectural consulting in the SAN, NAS, Storage, Backup areas.
Second role: Backup and Storage Change Coordinator, member of the CAB (Change advisory Board)
Specific task: Migration of the Exchange infrastructure to an integrated Exchange2003/Win2003 entreprise clustered solution based on DMX shared storage and CDL (VTL) backup solution ; including fail-over disaster recovery (40.000+ mail boxes)
Implementing SharePoint Services as global collaboration tool and document repository, planning and evaluating the replacement of WIKI based solutions by SharePoint Portal.
Co-elaboration of the Service Catalog "Entry Backup" (ITIL focused) Follow-up of audits (Cobit based).
Technology Summary: SUN/HDS 9980-9990 (Tagmastore), EMC CDL740, DMX, Celerra; EMC Networker, EBA, ECC. SAN : Brocade Silkworm, Cisco MDS. NetApps Filers. Peregrine. ITIL, Cobit, Audits,….


Company/Organisation: IFDS (State Street Bank), Luxemburg, Luxemburg.
Period: 08/2005 – 09/2005
Position Held: Operations Team Leader
Description: Team leader. Finance IT Operations: finance cycles handling and monitoring.
Project Summary:
Technology Summary: Various Unix flavours, Communication tools, Proprietary finance tools
Company/Organisation: European Southern Observatory, Munich, Germany
Period: 11/2002 – 07/2005
Position Held: Operations Consultant / Team Leader
Description: Senior team member. Data Centre Operations: data handling, data integrity and data dispatching.
Project Summary: Management of the data production : scientific data are produced by the Observatories in Chile (Paranal, Vitacura) , saved on disk or DVD’s and sent to Munich. I am responsible for advising and helping the Science Archive Team. We are checking the validity of the data, organising their archiving in the Data Centre and managing the shipment of dedicated set to the astronomers all over the world, on CD,DVD’s, USB Disks or via FTP. I am developing scripts in Python (and sometime in Shell) to increase the security and the performance; I am also responsible for the coaching of the other colleagues. Also : time scheduling and team overview.
Technology Summary: Solaris 8, Red Hat 9 and 10, Sybase Enterprise Manager, T-SQL, XML, Python.

Open/VMS Consultant , Senior system manager
Data Center manager
Project manager (technical)
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Nov 2002 – Up to now Major European Institute (Germany)

Operations Consultant.
Data Flow, Integration and manpower efficiency
Unix (Linux, Solaris, HP) environment.


Jul 2002 – Nov 2002 Hydra ( Germany )

Infrastructure Manager

Design and implementation of a new IT infrastructure.
Network – Servers (OpenVMS , Linux, Win2000) – Printers
Disaster recovery : analysis and procedures.

Aug 2001 - Jun 2002 Compaq Germany

Data Centre Manager.

Head of the Legacy Data Centre of Compaq Germany.

Data Centre Manager tasks :
People management :
System managers
Operators
Call desk
Call Desk management
Support procedures
SLA´s : writing and enhancements

Project Manager Tasks:
Systems (VMS, True64)
Applications Roll-out (Phase in, upgrades, Phase out) .
Network and Telecoms
E-procurement (Based on Clarus and Windows NT – 2000)

Special Consultancy :
Move of the German VMS Legacy Data Centre to the EMEA headquarters.
(Consequence of the merge of Compaq and HP)

Sep 1999 – Jul 2001 Compaq Germany

Data Centre Manager.
Head of the Legacy Data Centre of Compaq Germany.
Same as above, without the e-Procurement with also :
Year2000 activities : project management, applications roll-out and vendor follow-up.










March 1999 - Aug 1999 Compaq EMEA (Munich)

Senior System Manager VAX/VMS + Project Manager.

Special consultancy
German Data Centre (VMS Legacy) move to a new building
!! After this, I have been chosen by Compaq Germany to take over their new Data Centre (see above).


Senior System Manager Consultant : Y2K and Project Manager : Y2K
Overview of all the aspects of Year2000 complexity : Firmware, hardware, software.
Also acting as Senior VMS Consultant and third line VMS support, in the Y2000 roll-out area.


Nov 1998 - Feb 1999 EDS Germany

Senior System Manager VAX/VMS + Project Manager.
The role involved also second line support for Database (Oracle RDB) and consultancy in the following areas : Security : handling and analysis , Help-desk , Windows NT infrastructure, Database Tuning.
Writing and maintenance of the support manuals (highly technical) and support procedures.
Writing and maintenance of the SLA´s


Jul 1997 - OCT 1998 DIGITAL EQUIPMENT C. (DEC) Germany.
Senior System Manager VAX/VMS + Project Manager for DEC Germany.
Main System Manager activities (consultant).
Security : handling and analysis.
Help-desk (second line).
Windows NT infrastructure.
Writing and maintenance of the support manuals (highly technical) and support procedures.
Translation of German manuals to English.


Oct 1995 - Jun 1997 DIGITAL EQUIPMENT C. (DEC) Belgium.
Senior System Manager VAX/VMS + Network Manager, PC Manager.
Work for DEC in Brussels, in the Euro Finance Customer Support Group.
Datacenter analysis and rationalisation : centralisation of the numerous finance cluster to 2 main Finance Data Centers : one in the UK, on in the Netherlands.
The role involved Remote system Management of all financial sites of Digital in EMEA.
Mainly VAX/VMS Cluster management and PC networking of many types .
Plus some other tasks like : RDB database support, help-desk second line and operators overview.
A big part of the job dedicated to DataCenter centralisation and disaster recovery.
Writing of technical documents.


Oct 1994 - Sep 1995 DIGITAL EQUIPMENT C. (DEC) Belgium.
Senior System Manager VAX/VMS + Network Manager, PC Manager.
Work for DEC in Brussels, in the Euro Finance Customer Support Group.
The role involved Remote system Management of all financial sites of Digital in EMEA.
Rationalisation of the Storage elements : implementation of a new Storage-Disks technology.
Mainly VAX/VMS Cluster management and PC networking of many types .
Plus some other tasks like : RDB database support, help-desk second line and operators overview.
Writing of technical documents.


Mai 1994 - Sep 1994 FASSON Luxembourg (Avery Group).
System Manager VAX/VMS + Unix, Network Manager, PC Manager.
The role was divided into 2 main tasks : VMS support and PC support
A main DSSI VMS cluster and 30 PC-DOS + 40 MAC (MS office PRO).
The role also involved help-desk first line - second line.



Jul 1993 – Apr 1994 Various Interim Jobs as PC support



Jul 1992 - Jun 1993 Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
System manager VAX/VMS, Network manager, PC manager.

Cluster management : 13 Microvax
Management VAX : 20 microvax (including 4 ELN).
Management PC: 85 PC DOS/Windows, 10 PC OS2.
Handling : Help-Desk, security, backups, peripherals.
Network handling : Ethemet, Decnet, Novell, TCP-IP, NAT-NMS.
Database handling : RDB, SQLBASE, DBASE, Superbase.
Operators and Help-desk : overview and management.
Handling of furnitures and miscellaneous (insurance, stocks,).
Handover of the Trading System (ATS2).

Writing of technical documents.
Translation of support manuals and technical documents and reports from English to French.

Jan 1992 - May 1992 BBL (Banque Bruxelles Lambert).
System manager VAX/VMS, Network manager, PC manager.

Cluster Management : 3 VAX 6320 + satellites (Vaxstations, PC).
Help-Desk handling.
Support for Back Office and Front Office operations

Feb 1990 - Dec 1991 TRASYS (Tractebel Group.) Bruxelles.
System manager VAX/MS, Network manager, PC manager.
Standard VMS System Management and Network management (Routers and PC´s).
Software et hardware setup of new systems (all type of Vaxes and PC's)
Help-Desk handling.
The role included the same duties on the customers´s sites and the installation of the systems customised in the Trasys Data Center to the Customer DataCenter.