Curriculum Vitae

Personal data

Full name Hans-Christiaan Abraham Maria Speel

Date of birth: 19-03-1969

Gender: Male

Address: Too private for internet

Telephone: same here

E-mail hanscees@hanscees.com

Url: http://www.hanscees.com

Marital status: married, and proud father of a son

Nationality: Dutch
 
 

Education:

Drs. Biology in the Ecological and General school. Radboud University Nijmegen , the Netherlands 1993. Major: Experimental Plant Ecology, (on the relation between physical characteristics and inundation tolerance of several Rumex species). Minor: Animal Ecology (The ecology of Hyla Cinerea [treefrog] in the indoor tropical hall of Burgers Zoo, Arnhem).

Drs. Scientific Environmental Sciences (a program that focuses on the biological, chemical, technical and management aspects of environmental problems). Catholic University Nijmegen, the Netherlands 1993.

PH.D. Postponed. University of Technology Delft. School of Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and management. Planned thesis: The memetics of Policy making: Evolution or Control.
 
 

Computer skills and experience

During the final years of my formal education I developed a growing interest in matters concerning computers. This developed from a hobby of building single-floppy linux-firewalls to my current professional record in Information Technology. I believe my education plays a crucial part in my ability to communicate with people from many different educations. For instance as intermediate between engineers and management. The thought-building blocks from my education, like system-and evolution theory in biology, and policy and management theory in my PHD-programma, have proven to be very helpful tools in the IT world.

From May 15th 2002 until now I am working for Tunix network security as a security consultant. This involves supporting network and system administators, in the zone where the Tunix firewall secures the internal and DMZ networks from the internet. This includes firstly educating network professionals about risks and possibilities of network technologies like VPN's and tunnels, email management and HTTP browsing and secondly the implementation of these technologies. The Tunix firewall is a BSD-based security product configured with mainly VI.
As part of the support team I am project manager for some company-wide projects dealing with the management of firewall alerting and log-streams. The aim of these projects is to reduce workload and increase the effectiveness and smartness of monitoring processes of streams of logging and data about security systems.
As part of my job I took some courses in Perl, Ipsec and also created a number of decently sized perl scripts.

From June 1th 2001 until April 2002 I have worked at KPN as a product engineer looking into the snmp functionality of the internal KPN data-network. This involved the second line support and design of network management tooling. I was part of a team that designed monitoring systems using unix servers with programs like HP-openview. CiscoWorks 2000 and so on. As such we worked with SQL servers, Sun Solaris on Sparc machines, HP Ux on HP servers and Linux. The aim was to effectively monitor and administer Cisco, Nortel and 3com switches. To do so we worked with the snmp protocol managing snmp implementation and change projects. My role explicitly involves some interfacing between experts and 'customers' within the organization. My technical expertise concerns explicitly Unix in general, network health management, firewalling, and scripting.

From April 2000 until may 15th 2001 I have been working at TDV Systeembeheer (www.tdv.nl) where I installed and maintained Windows NT and 2000 networks. I also managed some Cisco isdn routers and linux lrp firewalls. In addition I have helped with problem solving and level two helpdesk problems, including some Novell networks. I have been involved in structuring the organization of the helpdesk and the organization as a whole, especially the information flow between helpdesk, system engineering and sales.

From februari-1999 until september 1999 I have worked as a helpdesk person at the School of Systems Engineering, Policy analysis and Management from the University of Technology in Delft. There I worked with Novell netware 4.11 intranetware. managing windows 95 and NT workstations and printers using Zenn and Norton ghost.

As editor and founder of JOM-EMIT I have over three years experience with the management and organisation of an online journal that is dependent on the cooperation of professionals.

Most of my computer skills stem from reading and trial and error (hacking and seeing what works).
I do not have have any certification, just a great deal of experience: I believe no certification can make up for that. I would be willing to get certification if needed for my work.

My two main interests in IT are the management of security and the management of an efficient IT department.

In the past year I did take some courses: Tcp/ip; Perl Ipsec and Tunix firewall.

I have experience with Novell netware 4.11 and 5, Microsoft windows Exchange, 2000 - server 2000, -workstation 2000, XP, NT4, -98, -95, Windows DNS, Citrix, VPN's (ipsec, pptp, openvpn), Linuxes, FreeBsd, BsdOs, Cisco switches, routers and pix, Ldap, Sendmail, Bind, and deep knowledge of many forms of firewalling.

I have some pretty good understanding of protocols like HTTP, SMTP, SNMP, DNS and many others. I speak some XML, HTML, Perl.

I have published some internet howto's with Linux journal: Meet OpenVPN (2004); Exchange Functionality for Linux (2003); Caldera Volution Messaging Server: A Product Review (2002) and also some other Linux howto's on my home-site.

I am the proud owner-designer-maker of bomengids.nl: the free online tree guide for North-European trees. With 5000 tree-photo's online.

Special skills