Stefan Goethals

Address

Hogeweg 26

8200 Brugge

Belgium

Phone: +32-50-31 15 93

Mobile: +32-473-888 117

Email: stefan@zipkid.eu

Personal Details

Gender: Male

Date of birth: 10th of January, 1967

Place of birth: Brugge, Belgium

Citizenship: Belgian

experience

Working Experience

Punch Telematix

04/2007—Current Punch Telematics Wervik - System engineer

Punch Telematics is a total solutions provider in remote fleet and asset management.

http://www.punchtelematix.com

At Punch my responsabilities include

  • Setup and maintain the Puppet configuration management production and test environment.

  • Write and maintain Puppet configuration management recepies.

  • Administer and maintain the J2EE / Jboss application cluster

  • install and administer hardware

    • IBM Bladecenter H

    • IBM SAN DS4800 and DS5100

    • IBM Tapelibrary TS3200

    • Dell and HP rackmount servers

  • Test, debug and install new versions of the Java application.

  • Administer the DMZ and Private network and MySQL database servers.

Westsite

02/2006—03/2007 Westsite Brugge - Perl Web Developer

Westsite is a small but well established website building firm, Located in Brugge.

http://westsite.be

At Westsite I was Developing the Perl scripting for interactive, database driven, websites.

Where possible, I attempt to :

  • Write fully validating XHTML 1.1 code.

  • Write clean, efficient and easy to understad Perl code.

  • Use technologies like DOM scripting and AJAX in an unobtrusive way.

  • Document my code sufficiently

Aramiska

10/2003—02/2006 Aramiska Liedekerke - Customer Support Level 2 Teamleader

Aramiska was Europe’s leading satellite broadband provider for businesses.

http://aramiska.net

I was hired as Level 2 analyst but got promoted to Team leader as of 01/2004.

On Aug 24 2004 I recieved the additional responsability of IT Administrator.

From Dec 2004 i switched full time to IT Administrator.

Aramiska went bankrupt in February 2006.

  • IT Administrator job description

    • Maintaining all internal server. Installation, configuration, update and security maintenance.

    • Manage and support user base on Windows 2K, XP and Linux workstations

    • Manage remote access, VPN’s and network connectivity for 2 remote locations (UK & NL)

  • CS L2 Teamleader job description

    • Maintaining all internal servers in my responsability of IT Administrator.

      Installation, configuration, update and security maintenance.

    • Supporting L1 : Maintaining and improving Level 1 troubleshooting procedures.

      Preparing and organising training of Level 1 analysts.

    • Incident management : Troubleshoot tickets escalated by Level 1 and resolve them within SLA.

    • Problem management : Match similar incidents and recognise them as general problems to be resolved by the NOC or Engineering departement.

    • Key Account Support : Provide first line support to large accounts.

    • Sales Support : Support the Sales organisation with technical expertise in large sales projects.

    • Maintenance of CareNet : Maintain and update the help website for customers and internal Customer Support analysts.

Adept

09/2001—07/2003 Adept nv Wevelgem - System Engineer

Adept is a System integrator & Services firm with a strong focus on security and high availability in Unix.

Adept stopped all operations and laid off all employees.

In this firm I performed the following tasks

  • Install GNU/Linux and Win 2K servers, secure them for safe internet connection and perform administration and maintanance tasks to keep the servers up to date.

  • Developing cross-platform web-based CRM applications with PHP and Perl-CGI on Apache and MySQL.

  • Set up, configure and maintain hardware and software firewalls on Linux, Checkpoint, SonicWall, Netscreen, …

  • Install configure and maintain internet and intranet DNS servers with BIND on Linux, windows, hardware devices, and, on the intranet side make DNS interact with DHCP server.

  • Design and/or configure emergency recovery and backup systems, useable via network to take daily backups of servers and workstations and create complete images of these to be restored when needed. This is done with tar, partimage, amanda, tapeware or the available, ideal for the job, software.

  • Configuring, installing and maintaining Apache - PHP - MySQL servers in combination with SSL (OpenSSL) to provide secure data driven dynamic websites.

  • Design assembly and implementation of a CD-bootable linux system to create backups of systems, do maintenance tasks and possibly debugging of hardware and network problems. Building on this system, I developed a Linux server distribution allowing installation in under 20 minutes. Administration is done via a Perl-CGI web interface and all configuration settings are stored in a MySQL database. From thes settings a complete configuration is created. These settings can be saved in an external format which allows complete disaster recovery of the server within 30 minutes.

Yournet

08/2000—08/2001 YourNet.be Brugge - Part time Independant Web developer and Network technician.

YourNet.be is a company to provide server, network and client services and hardware to SME’s in the Brugge region.

YourNet.be provides following services.

  • Web development and hosting with Apache, PHP, MySQL, …

  • Server installations, mainly on Linux platform, for small intranets. These include firewall setup, relaying mailserver, samba file and print sharing and internet access.

  • Hardware sales and maintenance for SME’s and private persons.

B.A.E.B.

08/2000—08/2001 B.A.E.B bvba Brugge - Administrative clerck.

ABO Service

08/1996—07/2000 ABO Service Sijsele - Programmer, Networktechnician.

Abo-Service is a company based around bookkeeping program made by the owner. It also provides computer services for the clients who use that program. In 2000 Abo Service opened a computer shop. Abo is a Microsoft-oriented firm. My tasks at Abo Service were

  • Programming a complete shop-management program, containing clientlist, stocklist, supplierlist and generation of all the necessary sales-documents.

  • Programming a product catalog, provided on cd, with an image catalog, updatable pricelist and possibility to place orders via modem.

  • Programming a price-information and ordering program for an wholesale firm of electrical appliances. the program offered the posibility to have a constantly updated article and pricelist on the pc in the shops. It contained data about +/- 15.000 articles wich could be ordered via modem communication. This program is used by over 180 shops in Belgium.

  • Assembling, maintaining and repairing pc’s

  • Network installations and mainenance of network in SME’s and in our own offices.

  • Installation and maintenance of our own NT4 Backoffice server.

  • Designing web-pages.

Other"

1993—10/1995 BAV Oostende - Teamleader Buildingsector
1992—1993 Pizza-Line Brugge - Distribution Foodsector
1990—1992 Kunstbronsgieterij Degroeve Hansbeke - Bronzefinishing
1989—1990 LC Forwarding Zeebrugge - Driver International transport
1988—1989 Several Interim jobs

Knowledge

Operating Systems

GNU/Linux Extensive experience.

SLES

Centos

Slackware

Debian

Red Hat

Gentoo

…

Mac OS X
Windows 9x, NT, 2K, XP
AIX 4.3, 5L Installation and basic administration.

Servers & daemons

Apache

Postfix

Courier-IMAP

Exchange server

Fetchmail

MySQL

Squid

Technologies & Protocols</h5>

TCP/IP

PPPoE

dhcp

smtp

imap(s)

pop

High Availability

Languages

html

PHP

Perl

Bash

sql

Education

1987 Diploma Architectual drawing, High school, Stedelijke Academie Brugge

Language Knowledge

Dutch native

French near native

English near native

German spoken

Driver license

CE

References

These persons are familiar with my professional qualifications and my character:

  • Kenny Gryp

    MySQL Consultant - Percona

    Phone: +32-476-780 692

    Email: gryp@dakin.be

  • Frederic Descamps

    IT Consultant - Inuits

    Belgium

    Phone: +32-495-698 668

    Email: fred@inuits.be

  • Pascal Geenens

    CTO Adept nv

    Etienne Sabbelaan 51

    8500 Kortrijk

    Belgium

    Phone: +32-476-42 91 89

    Email: pascalg@adept.be