Erik Rijks

Erik Rijks

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Solution Engineer / Intelligent Z Optimization and Transformation (IZOT)

  • Education

    • Patijnlaan

      -
      Macrame and clay

      Activities and Societies: rack-climbing, being bullied, crying, yelling and screaming

    • Educational Institution

      1983 - 1988
      Information Technology
    • Schoonoord

      1980 - 1982
      Yes Mathematics
  • Experience

    • Allround Leonardo

      Apr 1989 - Jan 2013
      Onemanshop

      Keeping Erik above the poverty line

    • Dow Chemical

      Jan 1990 - Aug 1992
      System Integrator

      Integrating Forecasting/Scheduling/Production planning into an automated system, Educating myself in a postgraduate Logistic course.

    • Shell Global Solutions

      Oct 1992 - Nov 1994
      Developer

      Shell NederlandCustomers, downstream

    • ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

      Dec 1994 - Feb 1998
      Developer

      Credit cards, Financial reporting, mortgages

    • ING

      Feb 1998 - Jun 2001
      Team leader, Senior designer/developer

      Team leader for the conversion teamDevelopment in Cool:genPensions/Life Insurance

    • United Kingdom Taxoffice (EDS, Telfort)

      May 2001 - Aug 2002
      Lead developer

      New Tax Credit system (Inland Revenue)

    • Telstra

      Aug 2002 - Feb 2004
      Estimator SBI

      Manage and implement business initiatives.

    • National Information Centre, Ministry of Interior, Saudi Arabia

      Mar 2004 - Jul 2005
      Project-lead

      Managing the team of developers to implement new development / changes in the Gen applications for Mobility payment and the web-broker layer.

    • Belastingdienst

      Aug 2005 - Dec 2008
      Senior Designer

      Federal Government of Finance, Customs

    • FOD Mobiliteit en Vervoer / SPF Mobilité et Transports

      Jan 2009 - Dec 2012
      Project-lead

      Federal Government for Mobility

    • Ohio BWC (official)

      Dec 2012 - Apr 2014
      Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation

      Consultant

    • Automobile Club of Southern California

      May 2014 - Aug 2022

      Developping the test automation tool-chain for our IBM-ZOS world. Coaching our feature teams in the tool chain and hand them best practices. Coach good coding practices and programming techniques and 'how to' refactor. Technical advisor for data obfuscation and implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act. Billing, Test automation, guidance and teaching.

      • Sr DevOps Engineer / Mainframe Modernization

        Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
      • Product Developer

        May 2014 - Jan 2020
    • BMC Software

      Aug 2022 - now
      Senior Solutions Engineer

      Delivering REAL mainframe modernization and optimization

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • LESS Practitioner

    • OWASP Top 10: #5 Broken Access Control and #6 Security Misconfiguration

      LinkedIn
      Oct 2021
      View certificate certificate
    • OWASP Top 10: #7 XSS and #8 Insecure Deserialization

      LinkedIn
      Oct 2021
      View certificate certificate
    • GSE-UK23 Speaker

      GSE Europe
      Dec 2023
      View certificate certificate