Mark B. Email & Phone Number

Antwerp, Be

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium

As an Azure Cloud Engineer at PSA Antwerp, my expertise lies in the implementation, maintenance and design of cloud infrastructure, closely collaborating with the Azure Architect. My role primarily revolves around offering daily support for various workloads within our Azure environment, including Popaay, OptiBarge, OptiTruck, SCR, NMOT, among others. In addition to providing support, I actively propose and implement enhancements to our systems. Utilizing Bicep, I employ Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to streamline and simplify the development and deployment processes.In my role I am also responsible for improving our security protocols in Azure. This encompasses overseeing and implementing security measures within Azure, conducting regular check-ups, hardening of various key Azure components and reducing risks. This also includes close collaboration with the third-parties providing applications for our Azure environment, ensuring that these deployments happen in a secure manner.

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium

As a member of the Wintel Infrastructure team I manage the Windows Server environment, the virtualisation environment running on VMware and the underlying storage & compute that runs all these components. Within the team, I am the main point of contact for Azure & VMware Horizon, and I am frequently consulted on this topic for various new projects.Daily tasks include:- Managing the infrastructure (applications/hardware/software), implementing patches, upgrading systems and troubleshooting any issues that arise;- Incident, problem & change management using Service Now;- Ensuring availability, continuity and performance of the infrastructure;- Design & implement new infrastructure frameworks, applications, technologies;- Technical lead for various infrastructure projects where I advise business & operations teams and work closely together with the architects to deliver a tailored solution for the customer.Technologies I work with:- VMware vSphere 7.0/8.0- VMware vRealize Operations Manager- VMware vRealize Log Insight- VMware NSX-T- VMware vRealize Network Insight- VMware Horizon View 8- VMware DEM- VMware App Volumes- Exchange 2013/2016- Active Directory- Powershell- System Center Configuration Manager- NetApp CDOT- Dell V-Max- Cisco Ironport- High Availability Clustering- SQL Server- Cisco UCS- End Point Protection (McAfee, Crowdstrike, Carbon Black & Symantec)- Office 365 (migrations, daily administration, ...)- Identity and Access Management (Active Directory, Okta, RBAC)- Microsoft Azure- Azure DevOps Services

Antwerp Area, Belgium

Extensive experience with infrastructure projects in Enterprise & SMB environments.This ranges from full on-premise implementations of various technologies as well as implentations in hybrid and full-cloud environments, aiming for a smooth integration of the existing business applications & processes with new technology.Technologies I work with:- VMware vSphere 6.5/6.7/7.0/8.0- VMware Horizon View 7 & 8- VMware DEM- VMware App Volumes- Active Directory- PKI Infrastructure- High Availability set-ups- SQL Server- Identity and Access Management (Active Directory, Okta, RBAC)- Disaster Recovery implementation- Exchange 2007 - 2019- Office 365- Windows Server (2003 - 2019)- Veeam- Azure (design & implementation)- Azure DevOps- Client & server hardware- Change management- Technical lead in projects- 2nd & 3rd line system engineering- System Architecture for IT environments- Firewalls & networking

Kontich

Enterprise Infrastructure Consultant, focus on VMware and Microsoft products. Also worked on migration projects (hybrid setups, cut-over migrations, staged migrations, ...) from Exchange on-premise to Office 365.- Hybrid set-ups with Azure/AWS- Veeam Cloud Connect set-ups in Azure.- Managed Services 3rd line support- 24/7 on-call support

Antwerp Area, Belgium

- VMware vSphere 5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7- VMware vRealize Operations Manager- VMware vRealize Log Insight- VMware vRealize Network Insight- VMware Horizon View 7- VMware UEM- VMware App Volumes- Exchange 2013- Active Directory- Powershell- System Center Configuration Manager- IBM StorWize V3700 & V7000- IBM SVC- NetApp CDOT- Dell V-Max- Cisco Ironport- Cisco UCS- End Point Protection (McAfee, Crowdstrike, Carbon Black & Symantec)- Office 365- Azure

Aartselaar

As a System Engineer my job consists of providing support for our SMB customers, this includes helpdesk support, working on various projects, advisory roles, ...Day to day tasks include:- Supporting the technical aspects of projects, ranging from advisory roles to full-scale implementation- Primary technical contact for multiple companies, advising them in their daily IT needs as well as looking ahead and planning future implementations to support their core business- 2nd & 3rd line support for our Managed Services customersManaging the internal network of Mobile Access, both our main office and datacenter.2nd line 24/7 support for critical issues.Experience with: Migrations for MS products (Lync/SFB, AD, Exchange, ...), VMware implementations and migrations, Storage (NetApp), firewall/routing & switching.

Kapellen

Residential and business networking support, either remote or on-site.Installation of new server & networking environments, integrating solutions into existing networks.System administrator for the server & network environment of Van Havere.Designing and implementing infrastructure solutions for new projects.

Stabroek, Belgium

On-site computer repairs and consultancy.I provided technical support to both company's and home users, hardware, software or networking related.Development of small custom tailored (web) applications for companies, written in ASP.NET and C#.Also provided IT support to maritime customers in the Port of Antwerp.

Associate'S Degree, Toegepaste Informatica (Systeem- En Netwerkbeheer)

Bachelor, Applied Computer Science

Unfinished

Bachelor, Toegepaste Informatica

Tso, Informaticabeheer