- Jean-Pierre Claeys is an industrial engineer with over 30 years of experience in system engineering, administration, and management roles across various industries.
- His technical skills include expertise in Solaris administration, virtualization, storage, networking, and monitoring tools.
- He is currently a Senior UNIX Solaris System Engineer at ING, where he is assisting with migrating their Solaris infrastructure to a new Linux environment.
1. CLAEYS Jean-Pierre - CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: CLAEYS Jean-Pierre
Address: Rue du Château le Docte, 9 / R1, 5030 Gembloux
Birthday: 27 June 1954
GSM: +32 477980698
Web: www.jpclaeyscc.net
E-mail: jpclaeys@gmail.com
Part I: Summary
Profile
• Industrial engineer with experience as senior system engineer, design engineer, senior system
administrator, IT capacity manager, project team member, technical project manager and team
coordinator in various industries (transport, telecom, banking).
• Good experience of processes, projects, systems design & administration.
• Pragmatic, Specific, Stress Resistant, Result-oriented approach combined with strong communication
skills, flexibility, team spirit and a high level of commitment.
Education:
• 1977 : Industrial Engineer in Electricity, Université du Travail Paul Pastur, Charleroi, Belgium
Languages
• French: Mother tongue; Dutch: Fluent; English: Fluent; German: intermediate.
Last position:
• SENIOR UNIX SOLARIS SYSTEM ENGINEER at ING
Sectors
• Transport: Infrabel, SNCB/NMBS (ICTRA)
• Banking: Artesia, Dexia, ING, and BNB.
• Telecom: Proximus, Belgacom.
Technical skills:
• OS experience: Solaris, HP-UX, Fedora, CentOS (free RedHat), Ubuntu, HP TRU64, OpenVMS, and Windows.
• OS: Deep knowledge (14 years) of Solaris 8, 9, 10 & 11.
• Virtualization: Domains, Containers, Zones, HA, Oracle VM Server (LDOMS), VMware Player, Virtualbox, KVM.
• Volume Manager V3.x & V4.x : UFS, Linux LVM
• ZFS administration (create, extend, mirror, snapshots)
• Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance (Type 7420)
• Sun Cluster V3.x & V4.x, Sun Geographic Cluster V3.x & V4.x (Geo Cluster).
• Capacity and Performance Management
• Expertise on VERITAS vxvm, vxfs and VERITAS Cluster with GCO (Global Cluster Option).
• Network and SAN connectivity (MPxIO multipathing).
• Deep knowledge (5 years) of TeamQuest (Monitoring & IT Capacity Management)
• Deep knowledge (5 years) of BMC Patrol Perform (Monitoring & IT Capacity Management)
• Good knowledge (3 years) of Zabbix (Monitoring)
• Installation & Patching: jumpstart, JET (Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit), Live Upgrade & IDR’s.
• LDAP, NIS (Yellow pages), NFS, autofs, DNS, Sendmail, Projects, ACL, RBAC (Roles), SSH, TCP/IP Protocols,
IPMP, DMZ, auditing, SUDO (sudoers), Firewall.
• Solaris Auditing (Basic Security Module configuration - BSM)
• Sun Security Toolkit (JASS)
• ALOM, ILOM, XSCF configuration and management
• Flash Archive (FLAR)
• Zones creation, patching, live upgrade.
• Basic oracle operations: restart db, check ASM cluster status, check tablespace, check invalid entries, show
listener status, view error logs, oratab, oraenv, adrci (show alert).
• SQL for data-fixes on Oracle (sqldeveloper)
• Linux Workstation: (7 years): Fedora, CentOS (free RedHat), Ubuntu & VM (KVM, VMware Player& Virtualbox).
• Apache & PHP web server configuration.
• Legato Networker Backup/Restore (NSR), Netbackup.
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• Nagios, OpsView, Zabbix, NetBackup, Apache, PHP, Oracle VM (OVM)
• Windows AD, Apache Directory Studio (LDAP browser and directory client)
• Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Visio & Project.
Methodologies
• Knowledge of ITIL processes (incident, problem, change, release, resource/capacity management)
• Agile
Programming languages
• Shell scripting (Korn, Bash, Perl, AWK, sed, grep), HTML, CSS, SAS ITRM.
Hardware environment
• Complex environments on large (>500 servers) heterogeneous Unix (Solaris) infrastructure (multi-platform),
multi datacenters, SAN HDS (HITACHI), Sun Cluster, Sun Geo Cluster, VERITAS Cluster & Global Cluster.
• High End, Mid-range & low-end servers: SUN M9000, M5000, Sun Fire E25K, T4, T5
Soft skills
• Fast learner, can quickly adapt to new environment.
• Knowledge of the railway environment (Oracle, SAP) (5 years’ at Infrabel/SNCB-NMBS).
• Knowledge of Telecom environment (7 years’ at Proximus)
• Pragmatic, result-oriented approach combined with strong inter-personal and communication skills, flexibility,
team spirit and a high level of commitment.
• “Can do” attitude.
• Stress resistant and priority management skills.
• Customer oriented and well organized.
• Working in a specific and accurate way.
• ITIL experience in Incident, Problem, Change & Resource management
• Plan & negotiate interventions with involved people
• Define, document and implement new processes
• Work in collaboration with other IT people (cross team)
• Available for stand-by out of business hours (24x7).
• Execute/co-ordinate weekend/out of business hours’ interventions.
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): ESTJ
Additional Training
• SUN Solaris 10 system administration 1 & 2 (SUN Microsystems)
• Oracle VM Server for SPARC Administrator (LDOM)
• VERITAS Cluster Server V5.0 for Solaris (VERITAS UK)
• SUN Solaris 10 System Performance Management (SUN Microsystems)
• SUN: VERITAS Volume Manager Administration (VERITAS UK)
• SQL Fundamentals + Workshop
• ITIL basics (Proximus)
• Project Management Basics (Proximus)
• People Management (Proximus)
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Part II: Past missions
1. ING BELGIUM
MAY 2016 -
OCT 2016
SENIOR UNIX SOLARIS SYSTEM ENGINEER
Join the existing Unix Team as Solaris Expert
Project: Solaris Infrastructure Overhaul Design
Facilitate the decommissioning of the Solaris platform
Assist in the migration towards the new Linux (RHEL) virtualized
environment.
2. TRASYS PSF LUXEMBOURG –
MISSION @ CSC - LUXEMBOURG
JAN 2016 -
MAY 2016
UNIX SYSTEM ENGINEER SOLARIS
Join the existing Unix Team as Solaris Expert
Day to day administration of the infrastructure (Sun Solaris)
Oracle Mid-range & low-end servers: M5000, T5xx0, T4, T5
3. VICTOR BUCK SERVICES - LUXEMBOURG
JUN 2015 -
DEC 2015
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Join the existing Unix/Windows Team as Unix Expert
Day to day administration of the infrastructure (Sun Solaris)
Solaris 11.2, Sun Cluster 3 & 4, Centos 6 & 7, LVM
Nagios, OpsView, Zabbix, NetBackup, Apache, PHP, Oracle VM (OVM)
Windows AD, Apache Directory Studio (LDAP browser and directory client)
Participate in DR exercise
4. CONSULTANT AT SNCB-NMBS & INFRABEL
APR 2010 -
JAN 2015
SENIOR UNIX SOLARIS SYSTEM ENGINEER
Join the existing Unix Team as Unix Expert as well as TeamQuest &
Zabbix Expert (Monitoring, Capacity & Performance management Tools).
Day to day administration of the infrastructure (Sun Solaris)
Deploy & maintain TeamQuest on the High End Servers.
Identify & analyze the capacity & performance issues in the Oracle and
SAP environments by means of TeamQuest & Zabbix and produce reports
for the management.
Provisioning: install new servers, zones & LDOMS (Design, OS installation
& configuration + Sun cluster setup)
Design & setup the applications & DB environments (Oracle, SAP,
Artemis, Atlas, ECM,).
Migrate SAP environments to new servers (Solaris zones, Ldoms) in
collaboration with the application and storage responsible people.
Develop scripts in order to automate & secure recurrent tasks.
Complex environments on large (>500 servers) heterogeneous Unix
(Solaris) infrastructure (multi-Platform), multi Datacenter, SAN HDS
(HITACHI), Sun Cluster, Sun Geo Cluster
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5. CONSULTANT AT DISTRILOGIE
DEC 2009
FEB 2010
SYSTEM ENGINEER AT DISTRILOGIE
Setup Sun Solaris 10 Servers for external client (Roamware)
This involves hardware & software setup.
This has to be done for multiple projects each running on multiple
servers
6. CONSULTANT AT NBB
APR 2009 -
OCT 2009
INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT AT NBB
(NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM)
Assist the Base Infrastructure Team in the design, engineering and
implementation of a Geographical-dispersed Solaris Cluster
configuration, including all monitoring and management aspects.
Environment: Sun Solaris, Sun Cluster & Sun Cluster Geographic Edition
7. CONSULTANT AT ING BANK
AUG 2008 –
APR 2009
SWIFT TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER AND
SENIOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR FOR ING BANK
In the context of the SWIFT application, setup & implement a model in
the Service Management Knowledge Base (SMKB) that will facilitate the
alerts handling.
Facilitate the Operations day to day work by organizing and populating
the SMKB (Service Management Knowledge Base)
Day to day administration of the infrastructure (Sun Solaris)
8. EMPLOYEE AT PROXIMUS
JAN 2001 –
JUL 2008
SENIOR UNIX SYSTEM ENGINEER
TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER
UNIX CAPACITY MANAGER
UNIX DESIGN ENGINNER
Daily monitoring of the performance and capacity of the Unix & MS
Windows systems.
Produce quarterly Unix & MS Windows CPU & storage capacity forecasts
mainly based on historical data regression plus information coming from
projects and new applications or extensions (Excel reports).
Day to day administration of the infrastructure (Sun Solaris)
Complex environment, Dual Datacenter