+10y. employed in enterprise IT, prior to that self-employed (consumer IT) and part-time teaching IT.
My skills:
• WEB DEVELOPMENT
• IT / APPLICATION SUPPORT
• DEVOPS / CLOUD
• DATABASES
• TESTING
• LANGUAGES (NL/FR/EN) / COMMUNICATION
My current position (Sep 2018 - Today): IT Generalist at a small software company.
My current activities
• Application support: handling a business app (+200 user base)
• DevOps: automating the software delivery process, managing infra, ChatOps
• Databases: handling MySQL daily, building reporting queries
• Testing: test automation, manual testing
• Communication: collaboration with dev team and product owner
My current toolset
MySQL, Hyper-V, Docker, Bash/Powershell, Linux, Apache, Cloud infra, Git/SVN, Tomcat, Maven,
Java, Spring Boot, IntelliJ, VS Code, Chrome DevTools, Selenium, Postman, Jenkins, Keycloak,
Elasticsearch, Node-RED, JIRA, Crystal Reports, RocketChat, Swagger
Side projects
• Software development: I'm developing a web app allowing educators to search, submit, download or share educational resources
and I built my own Personal Knowledge Mgt. app. Both are built with Java, Spring, Javascript, React.
• Infrastructure using Azure / AWS / Hyper-V / Linux / Docker / Apache / Networking
My prior position (May 2013 - Aug 2018):
Service Desk Technical Lead & Service Desk Coordinator (enterprise IT, 5K managed devices).
I created a self-help tool, a Skill Matrix, for Service Desk agents.
My activities
Incident handling (5y.), Single Point of Contact for Service Desk agents (4,5y.), Single Point of Contact for customer (3y.),
Knowledge management (3y.), SLA reporting (2y.)
Prior work experience (Jan 2002 - Apr 2013): IT shop owner, IT teacher (side job)
My activities
After having been an IT-shop owner, teaching children IT-skills and acquiring a sailboat, I decided to start a new life outside the EU.