= Curriculum Vitae - Dag Wieers Dag Wieers May 2007 // FIXME: Using ë does not work with docbook2pdf // FIXME: Using {amp}euml; and {amp}rarr; does not work with docbook2odf yet .Availability and work interests **************************************************************************** My technical experience and interests as a system engineer and system developer focuses on Linux and Open Source software, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS. Skills include deploying, migrating and managing Linux servers and desktops, packaging Unix software, designing and implementing system tools and automating operational tasks using shell scripting and python. I'm available for contract work inside and outside of Europe, but not willing to relocate on a permanent basis. **************************************************************************** == Personalia Full name:: Dag Johan Maarten Wieers Location:: Ghent, Belgium Phone:: +32 478 436 299 Email:: dag.wieers@gmail.com, dag@wieers.com Website:: http://dag.wieers.com/[] == Work experience === Dag IT consulting // may 2007 {amp}rarr; present Independent contractor:: Available for contract work. === Euroclear // dec 2005 {amp}rarr; may 2007 Unix system engineer:: Deployement of Unix systems and services. Design and implementation of management infrastructure (configuration and documentation management, change management). Packaging for Solaris, AIX and Linux. Custom software development. Troubleshooting. Automation. === IBM Belgium // jun 2001 {amp}rarr; dec 2005 Unix system engineer:: On Unix and Linux systems. (eg. packaging on Linux/AIX, implementing various system and network services, general troubleshooting) Unix system developer:: Implementing hosting infrastructure on Linux. (eg. resource and availability monitoring, capacity planning, firewall framework) Consultant:: Designing and implementing solutions for automatic deployement of Linux clients, Point-Of-Sale systems, network services, clusters and big parallel storage systems for digital media projects. (broadcasting) _incl. Real Software, VRT, EVS, RVA_ === Mind Linux Solutions // oct 1999 {amp}rarr; apr 2001 Founder:: Taking care of various parts of the organisation, including sales and marketing. Business Unit manager:: Experience with project-management and pre-sales for a small (15 headcount) consultancy company. Consultant:: Linux and Open Source consultancy and training for several customers in on-site projects varying between 1 and 3 weeks. === IBM Belgium // internship feb 1999 {amp}rarr; apr 1999 // sep 1999 {amp}rarr; feb 2000 Internship:: Implementation of a monitoring system and writing a paper called 'Platformonafhankelijk systeem voor dynamische websites' under supervision of Erik De Cock. Linux system engineer and developer:: Implementation of a tool to automate the documentation of production systems and tracking changes on these systems. General sysadmin automation. Quality control:: Analyzing software problems and optimizing the program flow of an in-house ticketing system. === SISA Software/Winsome // summer job 1996/1997 // oct 1997 {amp}rarr; sep 1999 Consultant:: Analysis and design of an off-line website generation program (further developed as WebEngine) and web-scripting. System administration:: Installation of Linux-servers and routers and operational management of these systems. === Provinciale Bibliotheek Limburg // voluntary oct 1996 {amp}rarr; nov 1997 Network administration:: Maintenance of 12 public Internet terminals (based on Windows 95) and an ISDN Internet connection. Internet training:: Individual training and training in group about the Internet, search-engines and popular websites. == Skills === Overall - Ability to learn quickly from self-study - Thorough experience in Unix system administration and automation - Thorough experience in configuring and deploying systems in a scalable and coherent manner - Experience in developing and marketing products using the Internet and Internet communities - Experience in project-management and leading a technical team === Operating systems - Excellent knowledge of Linux (since 1994) incl. Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, SUSE, Debian, Slackware and others... - Experience with various Unix systems including AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, SCO Unix and Digital Unix. - Knowledge of MSDOS, Novell DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x, Windows NT and Windows XP (both as server as well as client in heterogenous networks). - Experience with Windows 2000, Windows ME and Windows 2003. - Experience with MacOS (6.x - 8.x). === Software - HyperText Markup Language (HTML), SGML, DocBook v3 and v4, XML, CSS, DHTML and CGI Programming (in Perl and C) and PHP3/4 - IP (TCP/UDP), ICMP, ARP and protocols like IRC, FTP, SMTP, HTTP, NNTP, POP3, IMAP, DHCP, IPsec, ... - SQL (MySQL, msql, PostgreSQL and DB2) - Experience with clustered web-servers for load-balancing and fail-over - Experience with firewalling, virtual private networking (VPN), building high-capacity, load-balancing and high-available systems (IPVS) and network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) - Experience with GPFS clustering and SAN environments for large digital media environments - Experience with building Red Hat kickstarts for mass deployement and building Red Hat RPM packages - Thorough experience in designing and implementing a multi-customer monitoring and reporting infrastructure. - Thorough experience in compiling, installing, and configuring of Unix system software, e.g. NFS, Samba, lpd (and LPRng), Qmail, Bind, DHCP, XFree86, Apache, ssh, ntpd, Snort, Dante, RRDtool, Nagios, ... - Thorough experience in compiling, installing, configuring, and using almost any software from standard Linux-distributions, including XFree86, Gnome, Perl, rpm, ... - Experience in programming and scripting in various computer languages. === Programming languages - Active: Python (since 2002), PHP (since 1996), AWK & Unix-shells (since 1994), C (since 1994) SQL (since 1997), Perl 4 and 5 (since 1994), Java (since 1996), Javascript (since 1995), C# and Mono (since 2003), - Passive: Pascal (1991 - 1999), Assembler (x86) (1992 - 1996), Tcl/Tk, BASIC (1988 - 1990), RPG on AS/400 (1997 - 1998), Visual Basic (1997), COBOL (1996 - 1997) === Languages - Dutch (mothertongue) - English (fluently spoken and written) - Afrikaans (basic spoken) - French (basic spoken and written) - German (notions) == Education === Technical writing IBM Redbook Residency, Poughkeepsie, NY (5/2005):: Co-written a Redbook about the design and implementation of GPFS (General Parallel File System) in a digital media (broadcasting) environment. [SG246700] IBM Redbook Residency, Austin, TX (11/2002):: Co-written a Redbook about the design and implementation of a Linux-based deployement in a branch banking environment. [SG246813] === Certificates .http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=652882[Brainbench Certificates] - Linux Administration (General): 4.71/5 (30 March 2005) #1 Belgium [> 99% of all test takers] - Linux Administration (Red Hat 9): 4.34/5 (30 March 2005) #2 Belgium [> 98% of all test takers] - Linux Administration (Red Hat): 3.93/5 (30 March 2005) #2 Belgium [> 96% of all test takers] - Linux Programming (General): 4.21/5 (30 March 2005) #1 Belgium [> 89% of all test takers] - Unix Administration (General): 4.53/5 (30 March 2005) #3 Belgium [> 94% of all test takers] //// Linux Administration (General):: Master, 4.34/5 (23 May 2000), top 5 for Belgium [Scored higher than 95% of all previous test takers] Linux Administration (Red Hat):: Master, 4.25/5 (23 May 2000), top 3 for Belgium [Scored higher than 98% of all previous test takers] //// === Education XIOS Hogeschool Limburg, Diepenbeek (1996 {amp}rarr; 1999):: Applied Computer Science (~ Bachelor degree) Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek (1994 {amp}rarr; 1996):: Computer Science, 1st year Heilig Hartcollege, Heusden-Zolder (1988 {amp}rarr; 1994):: Latin-Greek, Latin-Mathematics and Science-Mathematics === Congresses and workshops - http://www.whatthehack.org/[What The Hack] in Boxtel, NL; July 2005 - http://www.fosdem.org/[FOSDEM] 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 - http://www.hal2001.nl/[Hacking At Large 2001] in Twente, NL; September 2001 - 7th and 8th http://www.linux-kongress.de/[International Linux Kongress] August 2000 and November 2001 - http://www.linuxtag.org/[LinuxTag] 2000, 2001 and 2002 - http://www.ccc.de/events/camp/[Chaos Communication Camp] in Berlin, DE; August 1999 and August 2003 - http://www.hip97.nl/[Hacking In Progress '97] in Almere, Flevoland, NL; August 1997 == Additional activities - Member of the http://wiki.centos.org/[CentOS development team] - Maintainer of http://dag.wieers.com/apt/[Dag RPM Repository] with more than 3400 Open Source software RPM packages for RHEL and CentOS - Author of http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/[various Open Source software projects] _incl. dconf, dstat, mrepo, sarah_ - Author of http://dag.wieers.com/howto/[various pieces of documentation] - Volunteer at http://www.fosdem.org/[FOSDEM] and other community events - Hobyist programmer, audiophile, cinephile, squash player, chess player and frequent Catan/Carcassonne player // vim: set syntax=asciidoc: