Ing. Ronald de Vries
Neeltje Lokerseland *, **** MB Heerhugowaard
Telephone +316********
e-mail: ******.**@*****.***
Place and date of birth: Schermerhorn, the Netherlands
Marital status: Married
Nationality: Dutch
Sex: male
Qualifications Ing in Computer science Bachelor degree. Technical
High school, Netherlands
Cisco CCIE
HP Master ASE Networking
Profile Highly skilled Pre Sales Consultant with 25 years of
experience in ICT as Pre-sales consultant, IT specialist,
IT architect and Project Manager. Confident with Cisco
Systems (CCIE, Cisco highest degree on internetworking
expertise) and HP Networking (Master ASE highest degree on
HP networking expertise), designing networks and knowledge
how to implement these designs. Experienced with creating
high level and detailed designs, technical team leading and
documenting. Area's of design are:
. Datacenter networking design with Cisco/HP networking
products in a cloud environment.
. Cisco/HP access wired and wireless.
Lately focused on the Software Defined Networking and new
developments around NextGen HP firewalls.
Key Skills Pre-sales Networking Solution Architect, technical trusted
advisor and high level designer.
Key Courses and Cisco CCIE routing switching (highest level of Cisco
certification)
Training Certified Cisco Datacenter Application Services
Design Specialist
Certified Cisco Datacenter Application Services Support
Specialist
Certified Cisco Datacenter Network Infrastructure Design
Specialist
Certified Cisco Datacenter Storage Networking Design
Specialist
Certified Cisco Datacenter Networking Sales Specialist
Certified Cisco Datacenter Storage Networking Sales
Specialist
Certified Cisco Datacenter Unified Computing System Design
Specialist
Certified VMware VCP 4.0
IBM IT Architect Masterclass
HP Master ASE Networking
Latest courses:
HP Wireless & BYOD (pre-sales)
HPN IMC Network Management
HPN A-Series (H3C)
VMware vShepre Design Workshop 4.0
VMware VCP 4.0
Cisco Unified Computing System Design Specialist
Cisco Datacenter Application Services Design Specialist
IBM IGS Method training:
. IGS Fundamentals
. Component modelling.
. Enterprise reference architecture.
. Architectural Thinking.
IBM IT Architect study (Master class):
. Participative design.
. Consultancy training.
. Real-time systems.
. Creative thinking and acting.
. Hardware and operating system architecture.
. Network and protocols.
. System management.
. Business transactions.
. Middleware.
Languages English Fluent
Dutch Fluent
German Basic
Career History 01/2011 - To date HP Nederland b.v.
Pre-sales Consultant / Solutions Architect Networking
Pre sales consultant with focus on Datacenter networking
environment, wired and wireless access. Main job is
creating designs, visiting customers, presenting the latest
technology internal (sales) and external (partners and
customers) and solution design in the datacenter and
campus. Current focus area's is Partner Pre-Sales support
with the goal to get our channel partner to a higher
technical level with respect to HP Networking.
10/2008 - 12/2010 Telindus-Isit
Pre-sales Consultant Networking
Pre sales consultant with focus on Datacenter environment.
Main job is creating designs, visiting customers,
presenting te latest technology internal (sales) and
external (customers) and solution design in the datacenter.
One of my technical focus area's is Cisco Unified
Computing, together with Networking, virtualisation
(VMware) and Storage. Besides datacenter networking also
wired and wireless access.
05/2007 - 09/2008 IBM, Netherlands
Project Manager / IT Architect
Acting job role Projec Manager Leading project from a
technical point of view.
04/2001 - 05/2007 IBM, Netherlands
IT Architect
Acting job role IT Architect / Technical lead, designing
networks (LAN, WAN, Wireless, etc.) mostly as pre-sales
support. Also more overall Architecting like relocation
design designs, Technical project management and Disaster
recovery high-level network design.
09/1997 - 03/2001 IBM Netherlands
IT Specialist
Switched from support to project organisation which was
mainly non-mainframe. Acted as IT Specialist engineer and
Project Manager.
09/1984 - 08/1997 IBM, Netherlands
IT specialist
IT Specialist Network support specialist (mainframe).
Started as customer service engineer keeping track of
software issue etc. Finally as network support specialist,
analysing dump, traces and maintain contact to the IBM
software development teams.