1. Geb Nicolaï
Muurbloemtuin 52, 2724PP Zoetermeer, The Netherlands.
Home: +31 79 341 50 58
Mobile: +31 6 40 25 61 75
Email: gnicolai@casema.nl
SUMMARY
Highly experienced systems manager on a variety of systems incl. PDP’s, HP
VAX and Alpha, both stand-alone and clustered systems, IBM systems such
as System34, 36 and 38/AS400 and IBM P520 and P550 series. Experience
with LAN setup, cabling and management Cisco and 3Com switches/routers.
CAREER HISTORY
Avery Dennison, EDC, Leiden
Sr. Systems and Network engineer 2002 – July 2013
 Participation in the investigation into defining a knowledge base in reference to the
already implemented ITIL managements.
 Aside from the special projects mention below, responsible for day to day system
management for both AIX and OpenVMS systems, including (second/third line
support) incident management, Change Management, security reporting, system and
software upgrades, failover and disaster recovery, etc.
 Member of the development and environmental team responsible for ensuring that
the functionality of the VMS systems was ported to the new AIX environment.
 Senior role in the planning and replacement of business critical HP Alpha systems in
Leiden and several European plants.
 Development of Emergency support procedures including security and SOX controls
and reporting.
 Development and implementation of SOX procedures and reporting on all VMS
systems.
Avery Dennison, MGE Central Purchasing
Purchasing Analyst 2000 – 2002
 Project leader/analyst for the development and automation of the Central Purchasing
System Europe (CPS).
 Responsible for user training in the use of CPS
 Developed SOP’s for analysis of purchasing metrics.
 Assisted in the development of a Vendor rating system.
Avery Dennison, Central MIS
Sr. System Programmer 1990 – 2002
 Engineered the configuration of VAX Clusters 6300 and (later) 6410 for
implementation of Tolas (central order and logistics system).
 Implemented the roll-out of VAX systems to all FRE plants and STDE.
 Implemented the replacement of DEC VAX’s to Alpha’s.
 Advisor for the IT infrastructure new Gotha plant.
 Advisor for the IT infrastructure new Luxemburg plant.

2. CAREER HISTORY (continued)
Avery Dennison, Research and Technology
System Administrator 1986 - 1990
 Advisor in the selection of the site security and entrance registration system
Lammenschans building.
 Implemented the first Avery LAVC (Local Area Vax Cluster) in Leiden and later
assisted with the implementation at Avery Research Center Pasadena.
 Implemented Apple Macintosh Network (Alisatalk).
 Responsible for acquisition, management and maintenance of all R&T computers
(Digital and Apple).
Fasson Europe, Factory Information Systems
Jr. Systems analyst/programmer 1979 – 1986
 Programmed the proprietary message-switching system (FASNET) on several
platforms such as PDP’s, IBM system 34, system 36 and system 38’s (in Cobol,RPG
II) and AS/400 to interface with central IBM 4341.
 Programmed a complete file-handling middleware interface in Marco-11 assembler on
PDP/11 systems.
IWIS –TNO.
Cobol programmer/assistant DBA 1973 - 1979
 IWIS- TNO was the Institute for Mathematics, Information technology and Statistics
for the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research.
 Assisted in the introduction and implementation of a hierarchical database
management system
 Responsible for programming and maintenance of the administrative systems for
TNO’s agricultural institutions.
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Shulton b.v. Leiden
Cosmetic factory, makers of. Old Spice and Dessert Flower cosmetics a.o..
Administrative assistant 1968 - 1973
Jr. Operator IBM System/20
Jr. Programmer RPG/Basic Assembler

3. EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
Lisgar Collegiate Institute Ottawa, Canada
4-year Arts and Science, High School.
Training / Courses:
Over the years a very large variety of courses generally aimed at increasing my knowledge in
(hardware) systems and programming language skills. Also courses such in
ITIL,telecommunications and data networks as well as TCI/IP multi-protocol routing albeit that
these were a number of years ago.
More recently:
 ITIL Service Capabilities
o Planning, Protection and Optimization Sep. 2012
o Operational Support and Analysis Oct. 2012
 ITIL Foundations-3 Jun. 2012
 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3.2 Mar. 2007
 AIX System Administration II Mar. 2006
 AIX System Administration I Jan. 2006
 UNIX Basic Oct. 2005
 Several AMBI modules, (Open)VMS pre 2000
Additional skills
Languages:
 English: Native Dutch: Native
 French: Conversational
Teaching:
 10 years experience with PBNA in adult education of basic IT: AMBI modules,
including programming languages Basic and Cobol.
Other experience
 Stichting Seniorweb Zoetermeer (voluntary) sept 2013- present
o Teacher MS Windows (7&8), tablets, Ipads etc.
o Advisor during so-called “walk-in afternoons”
 Registered First-Aid (and BHV) incl. CPR, AED 1982 - present
 Trade Union representative 1999 – 2013
 Chairman of the Leiden and Central Works Council 2004 – 2007
 Works Council Member (Leiden, Central and European) 1996 - 2007
 Member of the board for different clubs/societies/associations
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of birth: December 29, 1950
Marital status: Married
Childeren: 3
Personality:
 Creative ‘out of box / functional’ thinker
 Disciplined
 ‘Can do’ mentality
 Problem solver
 Self motivator / initiator
 Social-minded