As of January (2024) I'm for hire on freelance basis.
November 2022 - Present
45 Degrees (Cronos Group), a company focused on helping clients transition to the cloud. Providing Enterprise Architects, Cloud Architects and cloud engineers.
I've been assigned to an enterprise in the harbor of Antwerp, setting up governance in Azure together with another Cloud Architect and Enterprise Architect.
From automating tasks, to intelligent and efficient migrating workloads to the cloud, that's what 45 Degrees is all about.
July 2022 - November 2022
Konfidi IT Services is a small player, located in Antwerp. With a focus on delivering senior profiles to large clients.
At Konfidi, I will take up a new role of Azure Implementation Engineer, leaving the CyberSecurity space, but not leaving behind my knowledge of business.
With the change from short-based projects to long term projects, to design, implement and guide the client to a solution driven and not product driven outcome.
Januari 2018 - June 2022
NTT Ltd; previously known under the name Dimension Data, is a multi-national with over 300.000 employees worldwide.
Responsible for projects in it's entirety at Fortune 500 clients. Tasks exisiting out of presales, creating designs, implementating, writing documentation, troubleshooting and aftercare.
Here I learned how to be senior engineer, and broaden my knowledge to domains related to Network-Security.
Became the SPoC for a premium vendor, maintaining relationships, testing out new products.
Did my first deployments in Public Cloud, which were a nice new challenge!
November 2017 - Januari 2018
Cegeka is a big company within Belgium and expanding abroad, with multiple large divisions in software, infrastructure, ...
I was asked to start to build a new project based network-security team, since Cegeka didn't have one.
This seemed like a new challenging opportunity, which I love.
However, sadly, we could not overcome our difference in approach.
May 2016 - November 2017
TrueGEN is a small company which was based in Antwerp, where the focus was on delivering a full service to clients.
The combination of helpdesk (L1-L3) and projects With a rotation system in place, created an environment where knowledge about products and clients was well known.
Here my scope of products was widened from solely CyberSecurity to Networking (wired/wireless) and Link Loadbalancing.
April 2014 - May 2016
RealDolmen was my first real professional job, where I learned the basics of how to work in project mode.
Under the wings of senior engineers, I learned the concepts of CyberSecurity,
Where I implemented my first projects alone in Small - Medium Enterprises (SME).
| Vendor | Certification |
|---|---|
| Microsoft | AZ-400 - Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions |
| Microsoft | MS-900 - Microsoft 365 Fundamentals |
| Microsoft | MS-102 - Microsoft 365 Administrator |
| Microsoft | MS-500 - Microsoft 365 Security Administrator |
| Vendor | Certification | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Check Point | CCSE R80 (Security Expert) | 08/2020-08/2022 |
| Check Point | SandBlast Agent Specialist | 04/2019-04/2021 |
| Check Point | CloudGuard IaaS Specialist | 04/2019-04/2021 |
| Check Point | CCSA (Security Administrator) | 08/2016-08/2018 |
| Palo Alto | ACE (Accredited Configuration Engineer) | 06/2016-06/2018 |
| Apple | ACTC (Certified Technical Coordinator) | 07/2015-07/2016 |
| Apple | ACSP (Certified Support Professional) | 06/2015-06/2016 |
| EC Council | CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) | 03/2015-03/2017 |
| OneSpan (Previously Vasco) | VCE Authentication Server (Vasco Certified Engineer) | 09/2014-09/2016 |
| Fortinet | FCNSP (Certified Network Security Professional) | 06/2014-06/2016 |
| Fortinet | FCNSA (Certified Network Security Administrator) | 05/2014-05/2016 |