Thomas M. Rue de Stalle Uccle, Belgium Phone +... EMail: Web: Company: Curriculum vitae Proposed roles: Architect/Lead Consultant in the area of Service Management, Data management and Data Protection, Storage infrastructure and management, Business alignment, Standardization, Requirements gathering, RfP documents and processes. Family name: M. First names: Thomas Date of birth: // Nationality: Austrian Civil status: Married Education: Institution Degrees or Diplomas obtained: Technical University of Graz Engineer, Electronic Engineering College of the Chamber of Commerce Engineer, Printing Techniques Language skills: Indicates competence on a scale of to basic; excellent Language Reading Speaking Writing German English French Dutch Key qualifications: Dedicated information management consultant with more than years experience in design, selection, implementation and management of information management infrastructures. Capable and experienced in leading large and very large projects. Very skilled in understanding business requirements and translating them into efficient architecture. Expert recognized as a resource for technical solutions including storage, data management, networking, software/hardware selection and installation, systems troubleshooting, maintenance, and support. Specialized in storage services and networks SAN, NAS, and IP. Skilled at assessing hardware and software and recommending strategies that enhance efficiency and maximize ROI, implementing cuttingedge technology solutions, and training/supporting end users. Practical experience in service management ITIL and project management PMI, Prince. Frequent and sought after speaker at international conferences on the topic of IT alignment with business, IT as a service, standardization, consolidation. Technical knowledge and handson experience with: EMC˛ Symmetrix and Clariion, HDS USP, AMS, NetApp, HP Storage Essentials, HiCommand, HSSM, TrueCopy, McData, Cisco MDS, Brocade, Emulex, Qlogic, JNI, StorageTek, ADIC, Legato Networker, Veritas NetBackup, Tivoli Storage Manager, CommVault, Veritas Volume manager, IBM AIX, IBM Pseries, Microsoft products, SUN Solaris, SUN servers, VMware ESX cluster, Symantec Veritas Cluster Server, Symantec Veritas Command Central, Membership of professional bodies: Storage Network Industry Association SNIA Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE Information Systems Audit and Control Association ISACA IT Service Management Forum itSMF Other skills: SNIA certified Architect: Certified in Assessment, planning and design from a storage networking perspective using ITIL and ITSM principles SNIA certified Professional: Certified knowledge of general storage networking concepts and interoperability in storage networking ITIL and TOGAF trained. Specific experience in regions: Country Date from Date to Austria – , USA Belgium , Now Israel Netherlands Luxembourg Now Malaysia Several business trips between and India Several business trips between and Professional experience Date from Date to Location Company Position Description Now Brussels, Belgium Arados Consulting Principal Consultant and Founder Started Arados Consulting to bring my years of experience in IT as a consultant to companies that have a need in the area of information management, data management and storage management, leveraging also a network of experts in various related domains. Publishing white papers and case studies as well as the weekly IT Weekly Newsletter on the website / – Now Luxembourg, Luxembourg European Commision Storage Architect Delivering a storage architecture framework for the infrastructure for the EC with the managed outsourcing partner SNET Telindus and Dimension Data. This requires the documentation of all their storage services in an ITIL compliant fashion to facilitate handover to the new outsourcing partner TCS. I am in charge of documenting Architecture, Design, and the relevant processes and modules for the HDS and Brocade environment. / – Now Brussels, Belgium SNCB/NMBS Holding Storage, Backup and SAN expert – Now: Development and Deployment of an Infrastructure Service Catalogue to capture all technical services, capture all business services and document them. Establish a process to keep those updated, and help in deploying the processes. Develop a tool to maintain the service catalogue over time. //: Lead the implementation team and negotiate the final details of the contracts, SLA’s and delivery schedules. Delivered the Request for Proposal RfP document for SNCB/NMBS holding to provide the new storage and backup infrastructure which today consists of consolidated HDS storage, McData SAN, StorageTek tape libraries, Legato Backup software over the next five years to support capacity demands and advanced functionality for the open systems Solaris, OpenVMS, Windows, VMware as well as the Mainframe environment. In concert with the storage team, the other IT service units and IT management collected and agreed the requirements and matched or validated them with the business requirements. Developed a methodology for the endtoend RfP process that allows not only to work on the basis of clear sets of requirements, but also facilitates the entire evaluation and selection process and allows using objective criteria throughout the process. Lead the evaluation team during the evaluation and selection process, by applying the agreed methodology up until selection of the supplier. //: Lead architect for the design and implementation of the SNCB VMware hosting infrastructure, in cooperation with consultants from VMware and HDS, and an additional Arados Consulting expert, delivered architecture, design and implementation of the VMware hosting infrastructure and data management policies. //: Audit of the SNCB File Serving environment, identified possible flaws and bottlenecks and proposed an updated design which allowed the fileservers to scale to the expected numbers while keeping up the data protection and Business Continuity strategy Now EMEA Hitachi Data Systems HDS Global Storage Architect Global Accounts Act as global architect and lead consultant for projects at the HDS EMEA global accounts team Shell, TSystems, etc.. / / Den Haag, NL Munich, Germany TSystems Global Storage Architect Shell account Shell outsourced IT to Tsystems where I act in the role of the architect/lead consultant in the MegaCentre project Shell Global SAP consolidation Designing and developing data protection solutions, based on the Shell Global SAP business requirements. The new solution uses HDS USP, USPV, AMS, Diligent ProtectTier, CommVault backup, Brocade SAN, AIX servers, Oracle and , MaxDB and SAP. Producing the architecture, high level and detailed designs. Leading early adopters, pilot implementation and acceptance systems with the project team in Huston, Bangalore, Den Haag and Cyberjaya. Architecting, designing and developing migration scenarios to migrate part of the SAP systems infrastructure into the Tsystems datacentres in Munich. Supporting operational teams in their ongoing efforts to keep u with scale, performance demands and customer pressure. / – / Den Haag, NL, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Bangalore, India Shell Global Storage Architect Lead consultant in the MegaCentre project Shell Global SAP consolidation into the Amsterdam Datacentres Developed the new advanced MegaCentre storage services to address the scalability and performance requirements of the Shell Global SAP GSAP environment. Produced the architecture, high level and detailed designs. Setup lab testing of the technical solution. Designed the migration of the legacy SAP systems to the new storage platform. Designed reconfiguration for legacy SAP systems that have already migrated onto or will be migrated to the new storage platform before the revised services were available. Handover and training of the new storage platform and operational services to GIS Operations in Malaysia Shell Global IT Storage. Planning and execution of remedial activities required to make the storage infrastructure fully GUSto compliant. Contributed to the production of required operational procedures and cookbooks. Service development MegaCentre documentation, scripting, work processes, tariffs, billing, reporting, designing interim backup solutions and provisioning of storage requests for MegaCentre customers during the project. Integrate new services in storage management, monitoring and reporting infrastructure using HSSM, CommVault, Service Center and custom build tools in Shell. Solution Architect, Scalability Setup scalability guidelines for all Shell components and services with HDS and the consortium partners Cisco, NetApp, HP, and CommVault, developed a framework to add scalability in the development workstreams, and developed scalability handbooks for site design and deployment teams. This involved HDS USP and AMS range of products, Cisco MDS series, NetApp Vseries, HP HSSM Storage Essentials, CommVault Galaxy. Solution Architect, Serviceability Successfully setup the serviceability guidelines, developed a framework to add serviceability in the development workstreams. Solution Architect, Disaster Recovery Services Architected, designed and developed the overall Shell Global DR Architecture for the very large global datacenters in the Netherlands, the US and Malaysia, and developed and deliver