My name is Bas, I am 38 years old, freelance network architect / senior network engineer and owner of Virtualink IT Consultancy. I have over 14 years of experience in the field and have a broad IT knowledge with a specialization in networking, cloud, firewalling, security & automation. I am experienced in creating high- and low-level designs for complex enterprise networks, implementing these designs, large-scale migrations, leading projects, managing colleagues and performing operational tasks. I have worked for Routz, KPMG, Vodafone, TATA Steel, Vancis and Sabic, among others.I am Cisco CCNP certified and have experience with Cloud, Firewall, LAN, WAN, data center and wireless environments. I have worked with equipment and solutions from various vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Infoblox, Aruba, Microsoft, Alcatel Lucent, SolarWinds and WireShark. Also with a wide range of networking protocols and techniques such as Spanning Tree, VLANs, LACP, port aggregations/channels, 802. 1q trunks, IPv4, IPv6, Unicast, Multicast, NAT, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, ECMP, IPSEC, GRE, VRRP, HSRP, PIM, IGMP, MPLS, MPLS VPLS, MPLS L2VPN, MPLS L3VPN, LDP, QoS, VPN, VRF, VXLAN, RADIUS, 802. 1x, DNS, NTP, DHCP, SNMP, LLDP, CDP, Proxy, Load Balancing, NetFlow and sFlow.I have experience with Microsoft Azure and am familiar with the aspects of software defined networking.Besides my areas of expertise, I am a true jack-of-all-trades with experience in compute, virtualization, storage, backup, scripting, web development, Microsoft products and Linux.I am customer-oriented, communicatively strong, pragmatic, proactive and assertive. I also have strong analytical skills and am a perfectionist. I quickly master products or solutions I do not yet know. I like to look for challenges and think outside the box. I am independent but can also work well in a team. Innovation is where my heart lies. I like to motivate the people around me to work together to bring the IT landscape to a higher level. The customer is central to me. Besides a good technical solution, it is equally important to listen carefully to the needs of the customer. Translating functional wishes and requirements into a technical solution is one of my strengths.I live with my fiancé in Almere and have two sons aged 14 and 4. In my spare time I like to undertake activities with my family and friends and can also be found a lot in the gym.