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Working experience
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'09-'18
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Cisco Systems
UCS sales for Western Canada
position
- pre-sales Systems Engineer for Cisco UCS
responsibilities
- sales engineer for Cisco Unified Compute System, which climbed in six years from zero to #1 market leader in blades
- expert in converged infrastructures like Vblock and FlexPod
- ambassador for Enterprise Applications on UCS, like SAP, HANA, Oracle and Big Data
- demo's and proof of concepts for customers accross Western Canada
- specialist in programming the UCS Rest API, including the development of an Android app for UCS management (UCSand & UCShow)
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'05-'09
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Sun Microsystems
Canada wide server sales
position
responsibilities
- pre-sales systems engineer for Sun SPARC and X64 servers
- national specialist role for virtualization, both VMware and Solaris Containers
- server consolidation workshops for banks, telecom and government accross Canada
- pre-sales benchmark assuring a five million dollar deal for one of the large banks
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'00-'05
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Sun Microsystems
Sun Professional Services, Canada
position
responsibilities
- lead architect for identity management solution for workplace insurance
- server consolidation assessment and migration plan for telecom industry
- infrastructure architecture and deployment for pharmaceutical portal-application
- high performance computing architecture, including technical compute portal
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'99-'00
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H&R Block Canada
Information Systems, Calgary, Canada
position
- software development manager
responsibilities
- managing a software development group of 15 software engineers and business analysts
- in-house software development and out-sourced applications, including tax preparation, EDI, data warehousing, Web-presence, Intranet development
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'99-'99
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Compaq
Compaq OMS, Utrecht, Holland
position
- project manager / solution architect
responsibilities
- analysis and design of a system management environment at the head-quarters, two production sites and an R&D department of a large multi-national
- set-up and installation of IBM Tivoli
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'95-'98
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Gintic
Gintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology in Singapore
position
- manager of a 15 people "manufacturing and third party logistics" group in the Automation Technology division
responsibilities
- functional requirements and system design of a Shop Floor Control system
- IT consultant for cargo terminals at Changi Airport (Singapore Airlines)
- development of navigation system for an autonomous unmanned vehicle, including message passing software bus and GPS positioning
- chairman editor of company magazine "Cutting Edge"
- part-time lecturer at CIM masters program of Nanyang Technological
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'90-'94
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Philips Electronics
TASS - Technical Application Software Services
position
- project leader / lead architect
responsibilities
- lead architect and project manager for Singapore tunnel Plant Monitoring and Control System (12 man-year project)
- analysis and implementation of Shop Floor Control system for mass-production factory of LCD flat panel displays
- investigation in CIM architectures of IBM, Dec and HP
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'85-'90
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Nederlandse Philips Bedrijven
CAM centre of the Centre for Manufacturing Technology (CFT)
position
responsibilities
- information analysis and functional design of a Statistical Process Control system for a Philips semiconductor factory
- design of an overall factory-automation architecture for the business unit Display Systems (world-wide 14 plants)
- feasibility-audit of a national traffic control system project for the Dutch government
- chairman of an international working-group on preventive maintenance and repair
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'83-'85
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Volmac
software house later merged into Cap Gemini
position
- programmer / systems analyst
responsibilities
- banking applications development with PL/1
- 4GL investigation for IBM Research Labs in Uithoorn
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