Curriculum Vitae

About
I'm an easy going, self-taught, likable and critical guy. Eager to learn, a quick thinker and a tendency towards simple solutions.

Skilled in use and/or administration of different operating systems, including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows 9x-XP.
Skillfull in finding the right tool for the right job.
Capable of managing and debugging large Linux-desktop installs.
Good planning skills.
Excellent customer care skills by asking the right questions and narrowing down possibilities quickly.
Able to setup automatic Linux installations using PXE-Boot, TFTP, DHCP and customized installer scripts.
Great understanding of the possibilities and limitations of internet-services such as SMTP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, DNS.
Skilled in ever growing list of sofware: Trac, Apache 1.x en 2.x, Exim, Postfix, Mailman, Sendmail, QMail, SpamAssassin, Minimalist, BIND, SAMBA, NFS, Bash, Tcsh, MySQL, IPTables, IIS, MSSQL, ProFTPd, Horde, Wikimedia, Subversion, Trac, Ruby-On-Rails, Tracks, Veritas Backup Exec, Jabber Daemon, and more.
Newly aquired skills: Cisco IOS, Python, IPtables, WiFi, OpenVPN
All skills learned by hands-on experience through genuine interest, eagerness and stubborness.

Working Experience
Jan 2008 - Current	Optiver Trading .	Unix Systems Administrator and UNIX Tech Lead. Maintaining 600+ servers. (Grew from 120 servers in 2008).
Juli 2007 - Dec 2007	the Waag Society for the Old/New Media.	Unix Systems and Network Administrator, maintaining 20+ servers. Mostly webservices and streaming servers. Network mostly cisco switchers and core router (6500), as well as an old ExteremeNetworks router.
Sep 2004 - June 2007	Netherlands Institute for Space Research.	Unix Systemsadministrator, maintaining 60+ Desktops, 20+ servers providing printing, remote access (ssh, ftp, sftp), web- and storage-services.
Sep 2003 - Aug 2004	Centre for IT and Media at the University of Utrecht	Systems Administrator and Supporttechnician
Mar 2002 - Aug 2003	DenIT Internet Services	Systems Administrator. maintaining 150+ Unix-like servers, as well as 30 Windows 2000 servers.
Oct 2000 - Feb 2002	Cistron Internet Services	Helpdesk and technical support. Left after Cistron filed for Chapter 11.
Oct 1998 - Jul 1999	Duijvelaar Pompen	Data-entry. Manually migrating BAAN to Oracle 8. Supporting end-users in learning the new system.
Oct 1997 - Jun 1998	Australia	Assorted jobs during travels around Australia.
1997	Dept. of Children's wellfare in Utrecht.	Data controller and case manager.

Education
1989 - 1995	HAVO in Alphen aan den Rijn
1995 - 1997	PABO in Utrecht (incomplete)
1999 - 2000	History at the EFA: Educatieve Faculteit Amsterdam (incomplete)

Trainings and Courses
Oct '06 - Jan '07	The Challenge Training at Essence Trainings B.V.: Training in projectmanagement, communicationstyles.
Mar 2005	Dialogika at Essence Trainingen B.V.: Communications-training
Oct 2004	Internet Security and Firewalls at Tunix. Hands-on 3-day course in standard networking security.
Oct 2004	Administrating the Tunix Firewall at Tunix. Hands-on training on standard administration of a closed-sourced BSD based firewall.

Extra Curriculair
Mar 2007 - Present	Open Community Camp 2007: Organising training/hobby camp for open communities. Teaching basic Unix skills and the setting up of open infrastructures using open technology such as WiFi.
Dec 2006 - Jan 2007	Installment of, and training in Nagios and Cacti VoiPRO: an upstart VOIP company.
1999 - Present	Parttime Redhat Systemsadministrator for Studio Projectie.

Extra Information
Hobby's: VirtualBox, Puppet, OpenVPN, Debian GNU/Linux, PHP, Perl, Python, mucking about with Linux on my iBook, creating music, cooking and drinking coffee. Married on june 1st 2007: 1juni2007.info Nickname: mverwijs Cheerful, open, dedicated and innovative.