About Me

An IT Infrastructure generalist, with a broad knowledge of the IT industry, a keen business understanding sense and Open Mind.

Currently active with RealDolmen, as an Infrastructure Architect, responsible for sustainable advice with enterprise customers. Past experiences have been influenced greatly as an linux system engineer with a bridge / key function between infrastructure & development during the migration of a legacy mainfraime ERP application towards a service oriented JAVA environment. Also able to translate complex technical issues to an understandable business terms. Understands what IT can, or cannot, do for a business to achieve to right fit for each environment.

My Skillset

Architect

Broad knowledge of the entire Infrastructure stack, with an in-depth experience within the datacenter stack.

Enterprise Grade, High Availability, Load Balancing, Various Virtualization Platforms, Various Operating Systems, Various Database Systems, Various Storage Systems/Architectures, Various Directory Systems, Various Monitoring Systems
Devops

Fulfilled a great time within a bridge function between development & infrastructure.

Java, J2EE, Weblogic, Tomcat, Build Management, Release Management, CVS, SVN, Oracle Databases, MYSSQL, Alfresco, Jython, Python, PHP
System Engineer

Expert System Engineer with a keen affinity towards Linux & Unix.

RedHat, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Shell Scripting / Bash
Project / Team Management

Experienced with project management and as team lead.

Accustomed to dealing with small to large projects, and to managing teams directly & indirectly.
Advisor

Advisor to various customers ranging from small enterprises to large enterprises.

Trusted advisor with an objective IT look towards business issues.

What Do I Bring To The Table

Open Mind
Broad Experience
Objective Perspective
Cost Effective Solutions
Deep Technical Insight

Karim Vaes

Infrastructure Generalist

About Me

My Skillset

What Do I Bring To The Table

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