Experience

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  Koninklijke landmacht

  Jun 1983 - Apr 1985

  Military services, drill instructor
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  Wang nederland b.v.

  May 1985 - Sept 1998

  3rd level Phone and on site Support of Customer's with high end Unix systems from IBM. HP and Sun Microsystems. Training of Field engineers and Customers, Supporting Field engineers in case of incidents,Development of disaster recovery plans for Enterprise customers.Implementation of large systems and clusters for Enterprise customers. System administrator in a large international HP-UX, SCO Unix and Novell Netware environment.Realigned infrastructure and processes to regain a stable environment.Implementation of the ITIL Service Desk and Configuration management processes Solve hardware/software problems at Customers. Fully Technical responsible for larger customers,

  • Unix/Linux Support specialist

    Oct 1995 - Sept 1998

  • System administrator / Consultant

    May 1993 - Sept 1995

  • Senior Customer Engineer

    May 1985 - May 1993
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  Sun microsystems

  Mar 1999 - Dec 2010

  I was Teamlead for the proactive support group consisting of ITIL Service Managers and very high skilled Unix/Sun/Solaris/Storage engineers.Next to leading the team als acting as a Service Account Manager / Service Delivery Manager, responsible for service delivery to a set of larger Sun/Oracle customers in the Netherlands. The goal of the proactive services group is to prevent issues and/or to limit the impact of these issues to the end users.Participating in international projects for EMEA and part of global account teams for Sun's global customers.On rotation basis as Duty Manager 24x7 responsible for customer situation management and coaching of engineers. SpecialtiesSLA management and perception management, coaching of engineers.ATS (Analytic Trouble Shooting) according to Kepner Tregoe.Certified ITIL Service Manager based on ITIL V2 Certified Prince2 Project Manager at practitioner level.ITIL Expert based on ITIL V3 Show less

  • Teamlead Proactive Services

    Jul 2007 - Dec 2010

  • Service Delivery Manager

    Jan 2005 - Sept 2010

  • Senior Proactive Technical Analyst

    Mar 1999 - Dec 2004
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  Oracle

  Jan 2011 - now

  Sales leader responsible for the Cloud at Customer proposition in the West Europe region which covers UK, Nordics and Benelux countries.I am helping customers to migrate from any on-premise platform to an Exadata Database or Compute Cloud Service in their datacenter or co-location, behind their firewalls, with governed security controls, federated IDM setup and exclusive ownership of the Master Encryption Keys. Experienced in Cloud migrations in the regulated industries where data sovereignty, data privacy, encryption, key management and Cloud Operator access is part of the discussion.No latency to your applications, no data residency concerns, contact me for more information. Show less Sales Consultant Systems and Cloud Infrastructures for Oracle's systems business unit.I am responsible for the technical design of the Oracle solution for the larger Enterprise customers. Customers are seeking a way to the cloud and in my solution design I help them to pave their journey to the cloud, either by migrating selected applications to the cloud or by providing an on-premise solution that can be replicated to the cloud over time when the business owner or security officer is ready for the transition.Starting with the customers Business Challenge and ambitions I develop solutions for private, public or hybrid cloud solutions based on Linux or Solaris using Engineered Systems like Exadata, Exalogic, SuperCluster or hyper converged systems like PCA.Performing Proof of Concepts and benchmarks with customers. Giving customer presentations and demonstrations. Specialized in IaaS transitions to public cloud, either lift and shift or hybrid approach. Competitive knowledge is key to the successes I have, therefore I am always interested in our competition. Show less

  • Cloud at Customer Sales Leader West region, covering UK, Benelux and Nordics

    Feb 2021 - now

  • Director Solution Engineering Benelux, Nordics and Alps

    Jun 2018 - Jan 2021

  • Director Sales Consulting Benelux

    Feb 2017 - Jun 2018

  • Senior Systems Sales Consultant

    Jan 2011 - Jan 2017