Cormac - Chef de projet LINUX

Global Incident and Problem Manager, R&D IT
NXP Semiconductors ( Based at company HQ, Eindhoven, Netherlands)
2008– Present ( >4 years)
(Formerly Philips Semiconductors, NXP has a $5 Billion p/a turnover and 30,000 employees worldwide).

I manage technical incidents and problems in the R&D IT environment for several thousand design engineers in over 20 countries. This complex global R&D design grid is built on more than 1,000 linux servers in datacentres around Europe, Asia and the USA.
From the NXP Headquarters in Eindhoven, I lead an internationally based team of linux specialists. With their help, I ensure 24/7 R&D IT continuity in the NXP R&D centers around the world.

In addition to this responsibility, in early 2011, I became Operations Manager Europe for the IT Secure environments in France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
I report to the CTO of NXP, and provide a monthly report for the Board of Management.
I hold a monthly presentation for all IT staff around the globe (video conference) and conduct a daily call with the local IT managers.
I visit the European locations every few weeks and those further afield every few months.

Project Manager, Testing & Acceptance
ING Bank ( Based at company HQ, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2008 (<1 year)
Managing IT projects following corporate acceptance process.
During the time I worked at ING Bank NV I was involved in a.o. the integration of the National Post Office Bank into ING.
My chief areas of responsibility were :
• Monitoring progress of IT projects and steering Project Managers
• Supervising Junior Project Managers
• Ensuring compliancy of Change Managers activities
• Auditing of IT design documentation
• I reported to the department head on a daily basis and held a weekly presentation.

Senior Unix Project Engineer
Ziggo (Based at company HQ, The Hague, Netherlands)
(With its origins in a.o. France Telecom, Ziggo is the largest triple-play provider in the Netherlands)
2006-2008 (>2.5 years)
Project responsibility for:
Internet telephony (SIP) (Asterisk)
Fibre To The Home (Provisioning and management applications)
Open LAN campus network (4000 users) (Provisioning and management applications)
Cyber abuse monitoring and detection software
Security applications

Environment:
Linux (Debian, RedHat), Solaris 10, HPUX.
Hardware:
Cisco / Alcatel / Siemens routing+telephony.
Sun x4100, x2100, v65x.
Motorola Speedstreams, Allied Telesys.

Experimentals:
Linksys S3000 ATAs
Vizufon videotelephones
Asterisk PBX

EARLIER FUNCTIONS
Senior Project Engineer Syconos IT Consulting BV
2005-2006 (>1 year)
Pilot implementation of the National Online Patient Database for medical practitioners and hospitals.
Application implementation and testing.
Network management
Application deployment
Linux environment base
Database management & migration (Oracle)
High Availability cluster environment (RHEL 4)
Custom scripting in shell (bash, python) where needed

Chief Project Engineer (OS Migration) University of Enschede (NL)
2005 (<1 year)
Planned, designed and managed the migration of 2,000 Sun Solaris workstations to HP based Linux (Red Hat) for the University IT faculty. Oversaw the software testing (compatibility, future proofing) and replacement. Delivered a turn-key solution within deadline.
Project keywords:
LDAP authorisation
RedHat Kickstart configuration
Custom installation scripts
System backup/restore facilities
Centralised mail & agenda service
Lotus Notes

Director Aap Studios
2002-2005 (3 years)
Co-founder & co-owner (sold in 2005)
Avant-garde web technology & scripting.
MySQL database front/backends, LAMP operations
XML and Flashscripting
Vector based design & animation.
5 full-time staff, 1 office.

Director Solas BV
1998– 2004 (6 years)
Founder & owner (sold in 2004).
Pre-millennium startup, government contracting & MSB IT services. Advice on and implementation of emerging information technologies. Provision of IT skills to client staff, according to custom requirements.
16 full-time staff, 4 offices.

Senior Engineer, Electronic Data Acquisition Expro PLC
1991-1999 (8 years)
(Oil & Gas exploration)
Electronic Data acquisition & analysis (geo- petro)
Computer Data Modeling & software development
Frequent remote operations in new & existing petroleum rich locations
Locations worked : Algeria, Tunisia, Denmark, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Norway, Russia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad.