Curriculum Vitae

(Updated March 2011)

Guy Heirman

1. Personal details
Name Heirman
First Name Guy
Address Schriek 254
B-2180 Ekeren
Antwerpen-Belgium
Phone/Fax +32 0477 31 29 73
Date of birth 10 October 1957
Nationality Belgian
e-mail gheirman@telenet.be
Web page http://www.heirman-consulting.be
Languages Dutch, English, French and notions of German

2. My passion and ambition

Managing networks and High-end Unix servers with Solaris and/or HP-UX.
Configuring and tuning high-end servers, building cluster environments connected to a Storage Area
Network. (SAN)
I was project leader to set up these environments for Sun-Microsystems customers.
My experience and verbal skills made me also a perfect trainer for all these products.

Sun Microsystems and Hewlett Packard used my skills since more than 9 years to teach
their high-end trainings to Sun internal employees, partners and demanding customers.

Sun professional services uses my experience and technical skill to use me as project leader
for several implementations at customer’s sites.

My cooperation with Sun and Hewlett Packard kept me off course "Up to date" about all their new products.

I am looking forward to do the same for you.

You can benefit from my experience and skills for your business.

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 3. Product knowledge overview

Hardware
Mainly High end servers from Sun Microsystems, configured as cluster nodes.
From V240 up to E10K – E6800 – E25K – T2000 ( with Ldoms ) M8000 and M9000 platform
New T5240 and new M5000 servers

Solaris
Sun Solaris 8 – 9 – 10
In depth knowledge of virtualization on solaris 10 with zones
Virtualisation with Oracle VM 2.0 Logical Domains.
Solaris Disksuite ( SUN implementation of logical volumes )
Solaris jumpstart ( Automatic installation )
Solstice Backup ( Legato networker )
Sun live upgrade. ( In depth )
Sun Cluster. ( In depth )
In Depth knowledge of ZFS ( zeta-filesystem )

Network administration
LAN/WAN on TCP/IP networks.
Solaris traffic manager ( IPMP and MPxio )
Vlan Trunking
Sun Trunking
Network services like NIS – NIS+ - LDAP

HP-UX
HP-UX: Releases 9, 10.20 and 11
HP-Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
MC-service Guard= clustering software

Veritas/Symantec
Veritas Volume Manager ( Managing RAID levels )
Storage foundation since Veritas volume manager 2.x till 5.1 SP1
Veritas cluster VCS with GCO option. ( Datacenter failover )
Veritas Filesystem
Veritas Operations Manager ( VOM 3.1 )

Storage
SAN concepts – Hitachi – EMC XP24000
HBA qlogic and JNI

Microsoft Windows
OUTLOOK-WORD-EXCEL and common windows tools

Programming
Korn shell programming

Oracle
SQL and SQLplus
Oracle database administration
Oracle implementation on Unix
Oracle RMAN and Legato integration

Others
Sendmail and commercial sendmail
DNS Domain name services
Configuration of high end servers with Dynamic reconfiguration capabilities
Big Brother monitoring and patrol monitoring ( As user )

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 4. Training
For Sun I teached almost all high-end classes, and latest Clustering products.
I have international training experience. (I teach all my classes in English).

It is obvious I have had many trainings all over the world to keep my own knowledge up to date.
I was in Greece, Italy, Japan, Finland, Poland for teaching these classes for multinational companies.

List of Classes I teached for Sun Microsystems:

Basic Unix
System administration level 1,System administration level 2
Migration of BSD-SUNOS to Solaris
Networking TCP-IP,LAN,WAN,PPP,DNS,SENDMAIL,NFS,PPP,NTP,HTTP
NIS administration and NISPLUS configuration
Solstice Backup (=Legato Networker)
Solstice Disksuite (Sun logical Volume management software)
Veritas Volume Management (including Veritas filesystem and update classes to release 3.2)
Storage arrays and troubleshooting storage arrays (A5000,ssa100,T3,A1000,D1000 etc....)
High Availability cluster (Release 2.2- 3.0 – 3.1)
Sun Cluster 3.0 Troubleshooting class
RAC cluster (running parallel oracle databases )
E10000 server (since ssp version 3.2)

List of Classes I teached for Hewlett Packard:

System administration level 1, level 2 and accelerated 1 + 2 (all release 11.0)

Logical Volume Management
MC-Serviceguard level 1 and level 2

List of Classes I teached for Omnis Source:

Legato Networker on Unix

5. Projects
Because my skills are on expensive and specific hardware from Sun.
In cooperation with Sun Professional Services:

Belgacom (configuring cluster scripts for webserver and mailserver)

BBL (configuring cluster scripts for AAA application)
Alcatel (configuration of complete production server and failover scripts)

In cooperation with Sun Education Services:

La derniere Heure (Brussels- Cluster and solstice backup configuration)

Vers L'avenir (Charleroi - Backup strategy and configuration)
Lucent (Poland - Clustering 2.2)
Nokia (Helsinki - Clustering with oracle on E10K's)
Clearstream (Luxemburg - Jumpstart -storage arrays - clusters)
Gantek (Istanbul - Storage arrays)
NEC (Tokyo - Storage arrays - backup)
Aramco (Saoudi-Arabie - Cluster - backup)

In cooperation with Sun Enterprise Services:

Telephone support (first level, second level and third level)

On my personal behalf in cooperation with orqua

De Post 1,5 years as System Administrator in Brussels

Proximus Since 2005 as Solaris-Unix System engineer in Brussels.

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 6. Career overview
1982-1985 MIETEC

 Designer of integrated circuits and assistant system manager at INCIR (Mietec).

 First experience with Computervision's CADDS2 product and with digital VAX computers.
 First experience in system administration in 1983.

1985-1987 VDAB

 Trainer for VDAB at Brugge in CAD/CAM department.

 Trainer for CADDS4X Design and Drafting and Advanced Surface Design (ASD)
 Customized trainings for PHILIPS, VOLVO , CLARK , FORD etc...

1987-1993 Computervision

I joined Computervision in 1987 as customer support engineer.

My activities as support engineer:

 Telephone support for Unix and Cadds problems

 Technical on site support for installations and problem solving
 Customer basic Unix training and system administration
 Consultancy for implementation and customization

Beginning of 1992 I grew into a pre-sales job to support sales opportunities.

My activities as presales engineer:

 Demonstrations to customers and prospects (BENCHMARKS)

 Technical organization of seminars
 Coordination of the Cadds users group in Belgium
 Training to sales people about product packaging
 Beta testing of new products on different platforms such as SUN, HP and DEC.

1994- NOW .Since Beginning of 1994 I am a Freelance Unix consultant

 1994-2003 Mainly teaching solaris and HP-UX

 2003-2005 Solaris consultant at De Post as System administrator
 2005-2011 Solaris consultant at Proximus as Solaris System engineer ( Unix Engineering )

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