About Me
I am Bert De Meyer, located in Leuven. Belgium. I am a system engineer for over 20 years, with broad knowledge in IT Architecture on-prem, hybrid and in the cloud.Certifications
Feb 2021: Microsoft Cloud Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Jun 2023: Microsoft 365 Foundation (MS-900)
Work Experience
First IT (2023 – 2024)
System & Cloud Engineer (2023 - 2024)
Responsibility:
- As part of managed services, proving support for small business environments
- Validation of operational procedures, providing improvement plans
- Supporting and managing different environments hybrid on prem (under Hyper-V and VMWare), and in the cloud (Azure tenants).
- Validating operational procedures and providing improvement plans
- Configuration and setup of the inTune / Autopilot environment at First IT.
Cegeka (2021 – 2023)
Technical Architect (2021 - 2023)
Responsibility:
- Translating functional questions into technical solutions
- Building detailed technical designs for the customer environment
- Supporting the operational environment of the customer assisting technical system engineers, service delivery manager, incident management end change management.
- Validating operational procedures and providing improvement plans
- Supporting audit validations for the customer environment
Amcor (2008 – 2021)
IT Infrastructure Architect (2015- 2021)
Responsibility:
- Designing solutions linked to Active Directory (including DNS, DHCP, PKI, etc.), Azure AD, Azure MFA, Azure SSPR, Conditional Access, etc.
- Writing well-structured documentation to present technical topics to a wide audience.
- Assist and collaborate with other infrastructure architects in developing IT solutions.
- Taking part in IT strategic planning that reflect the future vision of the organization.
- Secure and managing the identity life cycle (joiners, movers, leavers) through automation and integration within key systems.
- Definition of AD standards: Naming Conventions, Delegation, Structure …
- Configuration and Design of security environment with NPS & PKI Servers
- Supporting the collaboration team to migrate from Lotus Notes to O365
- Extending the integration of AD into Azure via ADFs and AD Connect (Entra)
- Integration of ServiceNow for AD orchestration and life cycle management
- AD Migration project of Bemis, a company purchased by Amcor in 2018
Responsibility:
- Leading a team of 3 regional AD specialists (AMER, EMEA & APAC).
- Managed an external third-party provided Active Directory services.
- Management and maintenance of a very large AD domain.
- Providing Level 3 Active Directory Support in tickets raised.
- AD Migration after the acquisition of Alcan in 2011
- AD Migration after a demerger with Orora in 2013
- AD Migration after the acquisition of Aperio in 2014
- Active Directory Domain Upgrades and Schema updates
- Global centralization of DNS and DHCP services in the datacenters
- Streamlining, updating and leveraging security in Active Directory
Responsibility:
- Coordinating infrastructure projects and changes (maintenance and migration projects).
- Coordinating with third-party companies on planning for upcoming changes
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Following up on internal projects regarding business applications and server infrastructure
(e.g., Virtualization, antivirus roll out (Symantec), security patching …)
- Datacenter Migrations with HP in Brussels
- Virtualization project of Datacenter servers (VMWare)
- Rollout of Application servers and local Storage in factory plants
- Rollout of Symantec Antivirus project
- Coordination of Lotus Notes upgrade projects
United Film Organizers Europe (2007)
IT Coordinator
SpaceChecker (2006 - 2007)
Unix/Linux System Engineer
Aramiska N.V. (2003 - 2006)
NOC Shift Team Leader (2004 - 2006)
NOC Engineer (2003 - 2004)
AB Computers N.V. (2001 - 2003)
Solaris Unix System Engineer
Skillteam N.V. (1998 - 2001)
Junior Scripting Administrator (1999 - 2001)
Field Engineer & Helpdesk L1 Support (1998 - 1999)
Education
Katholiek Hogeschool Leuven, Departement Regaschool
A1 Graduaat (Batchelor) : Toegepaste Informatica