Marc
van de Logt

Environment

Fondo is in the Netherlands a specialist for offering an “anytime, anywhere computing” concept, a partner and reseller for VMware Workspace ONE and Horizon. VMware Workspace ONE and Horizon are extensive solutions for mobility and managing digital workspaces in a safe and controlled environment where end-users get access to corporate applications and services. Fondo Solutions also delivers a skilled service desk which supports VMware Workspace ONE and Horizon.

Work activities

As a SDDC consultant Marc was involved with several projects from a couple of health care and national governments organizations. Marc wrote the designs and executed the implementations from one or more Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) for those customers.

Design and implementation where based on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in combination with the VMware products vSphere, vSAN en NSX-T. Some of these customers had a requirement for a container automation solution. Therefore Marc has implemented VMware Tanzu to serve their needs.

The environments consists of one or more SDDCs which are managed through a central management interface. This interface was delivered with the SDDC Manager component from VCF. The SDDCs consists of a management domain and one or more workload domains. NSX-T was deployed for micro-segmentation and vSAN was deployed as a software-defined storage (SDS) solution.

Environment

12.000 Employees, one international producer of meat, meat products and vegetable alternatives, with production locations in the Netherlands and Germany. Citrix infrastructure management, App-V migrations, VMware vSphere and vSAN infrastructure management.

Work activities

Marc was responsible for the complete management and maintenance of the Citrix infrastructure at Vion Food Group. From incidents, problems to complex changes and projects. In addition, Marc was also responsible for the applications offered on the Citrix platform via App-V, the VMware vSphere Environment at all branches and the VMware vSAN clusters at a number of Vion branches. Marc has migrated the App-V infrastructure from App-V 4.6 to App-V 5.x. Marc repacked about 200 applications. Furthermore, Marc has performed the following management activities for this client:

• Regularly updating Citrix MCS and PVS images;
• Updating SSD disk firmware on HP ProLiant servers;
• Virtualizing applications using App-V;
• Publish applications on the Citrix platform for different departments;
• Scale-out of the Citrix Environment;
• Update documentation including drafting work instructions.

Environment

An innovative IT-Service organization with 150 Employees. VMware vSphere upgrades, Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) conversion and migration, SCCM migration and regular management activities.

Work activities

Marc has, among other things, upgraded the hosted VMware platform for customers from vSphere 6.5 to vSphere 6.7. Marc has performed one vSphere upgrade from 6.5 to 6.7 for the customer Hogeschool TIO, including VMware NSX and VMware vSAN. Marc rebuilt the Citrix Provisioning Services infrastructure for the client Box Consultants in another data center and converted and migrated the PVS image to another virtualization platform and data center. Marc has completed one SCCM migration and performed the following management activities for customers:

• Certificate change on SURFnet's Exchange platform, consisting of 6 Exchange servers across 3 locations;
• Regularly updating the Citrix PVS images for different customers;
• An Azure MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) implementation at DNA Medical Group;
• Management of the Exchange Environment at Reinier de Graaf Groep;
• Ivanti Workspace Control changes at various customers;
• Complex problems solved and documented within the VMware, Citrix and Microsoft infrastructures at Winvision end customers.

Environment

One of the most unique ICT environments in the field of security, 10.000 employees. Configuration, implementation and transfer to management.

Work activities

Within the Ministry of Defense Marc has been responsible for setting up and organizing the management of the TITAAN system. He had a major contribution to the design and structure of the management. Marc carried out the management himself and took care of the transfer to the internal management organization of the TITAAN system. The following management activities on the TITAAN platform have been mapped, implemented and improved:

• Created a new management document (baseline measurement) for the management organization;
• Improved the process of updating SCEP antivirus updates;
• Improved SCOM monitoring by fine-tuning and adjusting thresholds;
• Resolved and documented complex incidents within the AD forest and domain infrastructure, Exchange, SCCM, SCOM and other application servers;
• Drawn up work instructions for dealing with certain known issues;
• Daily control checks on the server and network infrastructure;
• Updating the management documentation.

Environment

An innovative IT-Service organization with 150 Employees. VMware vSphere 5.5 upgrade to vSphere 6.5.

Work activities

On behalf of Winvision, Marc has upgraded the current vSphere 5.5 Environment to vSphere 6.5 for the customer Marente. This concerns a vCenter Server upgrade to the vCenter Server 6.5 appliance in both datacenters and an upgrade of the underlying ESXi hosts. In addition, Marc has also redesigned and set up the complete vSphere replication and site recovery manager (SRM) for the customer Marente. In addition to activities for the customer Marente, Marc has solved all remaining issues from the transfer of the migration project at Box Consultants. Marc has carried out the following (management) Activities:

• Citrix NetScaler configuration changes for MFA functioning;
• Citrix NetScaler configuration changes for the functioning of ICA sessions via mobile phones;
• Solved complex issues within the Citrix NetScaler;
• Solved complex issues surrounding the combination of Citrix StoreFront and Delivery Controller;
• Management of soft tokens performed within Safenet;
• Regularly updating the Citrix PVS images at various customers;
• Microsoft Office 365 management and the use of SSPR (Self-Service Password Reset);
• Ivanti Workspace Control changes at various customers;
• Exchange server management at various customers;

Environment

6000 employees, largest hospital in Arnhem region. Management and migration of (virtual) servers and SQL-Clusters.

Work activities

Within Rijnstate, Marc is responsible for the maintenance and management of the (virtual) servers. This particularly includes the database servers that function in a SQL Cluster. In addition, Marc takes care of the migrations of SQL Clusters that are operational within Rijnstate to newer and modern SQL Clusters in combination with new SQL Cluster techniques such as SQL AlwaysOn. Marc also creates the various virtual servers and databases.

Environment

750 employees, one of world‘s largest Logistics Service Providers (LSP). Citrix 7.x upgrade.

Work activities

Because of the outdated Citrix XenApp 6.5 Environment and the old IMA architecture, there was a need for a completely renewed shared desktop Environment. Marc was responsible for setting up a new XenApp shared desktop Environment based on Citrix XenApp 7.15 (LTSR) and Windows Server 2012 R2 as OS. Here, except for a single component (License Server), all Citrix components are redundant, including the StoreFront servers, Delivery Controllers, Workers (VDA), NetScaler Gateway and the Database servers (AlwaysOn). The migration to the new shared desktop Environment was realized and supervised by Marc.

Environment

750 employees, one of world‘s largest Logistics Service Providers (LSP). New internal PKI structure based on AD CS.

Work activities

Because the current internal PKI structure consisted of only 1 CA that issued certificates for internal purposes, there was a need for a completely new PKI structure based on the two-tiered Microsoft best practice model. Marc has provided a new PKI structure with a new root CA and subordinate CA. Marc has replaced the certificates already issued by the old CA with new certificates issued by the new subordinate CA. Marc has carried out both the preparation of the plan and the supervision and implementation.

Environment

750 employees, one of world‘s largest Logistics Service Providers (LSP). Implementation new file server structure.

Work activities

Due to the explosive growth of the customer through multiple acquisitions and the growth in the number of employees, it became necessary to redesign the file server structure. Marc has taken care of the transition to a completely new file server structure in which two new file servers have been implemented that ensure the redundancy and high availability of the data and the many dependencies of applications. The involved techniques used herein are DFS-N, DFS-R, Data Deduplication and File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) within two Windows Server 2012 R2 servers. During this project all UNC paths were also converted to the created DFS Namespace.

Environment

300 employees, a Logistics Service Provider (LSP) in the food industry. Exchange mail migration.

Work activities

In connection with Microsoft's announcements that support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 will expire (EOL), the customer requested to perform a mail migration to a newer version of Exchange. Marc has performed the full e-mail migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 including the complete phasing out of Exchange 2007. In this mailbox approximately 270 mailboxes have been migrated from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013.

Environment

300 employees, a Logistics Service Provider (LSP) in the food industry. Database migration Exact Globe, Exact eSynergy and Exact Event Manager.

Work activities

Due to the expiration of support for the new Exact updates on SQL Server 2005, the customer asked to perform a database migration from Exact Globe, Exact eSynergy and Exact Event Manager to a new database server. The migration involved approximately 20 administrations from Exact Globe, an HRM database from Exact eSynergy and two databases from Exact Event Manager. These have all been migrated to a new database server equipped with Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014. Within this change in the IT Infrastructure of Den Hartogh, Marc performed the entire migration in collaboration with the client's Application Manager.

Environment

Multi-year ICT policy plan foundation with 10 primary schools. Foundation with 200 employees and 2,000 primary school students. Project duration 2 months.

Work activities

In the light of the Education 2032 policy vision, the management asks whether the ICT provision within the foundation is in order and whether new investments are necessary to adjust the need for digital facilities in the short and long term. At the time, Marc performed an IT audit and inventory for the foundation, in preparation of the ICT policy plan.

Environment

220 employees, 100 million turnover, migration budget 1,6 million, project duration 15 months. ICT Carve out realization.

Work activities

After the takeover of Sappi Nijmegen BV (which at that time was renamed InnovioPapers BV), the entire industrial and office automation was transformed to the new situation. The factory has been detached from the European network and re-equipped for 80% with a new ICT Environment with 48 new servers and 250 workstations reconfigured for the new Citrix Environment. In the server environment, RES Workspace, Citrix, VMWare, Cisco UCS, Cisco core and access networking, Cisco Wifi Meraki Wifi, SAP, Honeywell Optivision (MES), Trend Micro and Microsoft Office365 were used. In this project Marc was Interim System Administrator to realize the new Environment, and afterwards Service Desk employee to ensure that the transformation runs smoothly. Marc has led the design of the service desk, asset management and change management based on Topdesk hands-on.

Environment

500 employees, 300 million turnover. On-site support for location Nijmegen.

Work activities

The Sappi Netherlands BV service desk required support at a local level for the paper factory in Nijmegen. Marc has been involved in patch management throughout Europe at this service desk. He has also done network management, ticket management and asset management in Topdesk. Also participated in the 24x7 service, where he was completely responsible for the IT Environment outside office hours (24x7x365).

Environment

25 employees, project duration 1 month. Opening of two new locations and migration to Cloud servers.

Work activities

After a takeover and all kinds of internal changes, there was a need at Sarto Fashion BV to open two new locations and simultaneously no longer host the server park indoors. Together with the customer, Marc has made a migration plan to migrate the Navision servers, RDS Environment and data storage to a VMWare vCloud solution in the Cloud. Marc implemented the drawn up migration plan and, as a system administrator / service desk employee, carried out and supervised the implementation.

Environment

1.300 employees, 5 million turnover. Project duration 2 months. Implementation VoIP 160 workplaces on 3 locations.

Work activities

The assignment was to prepare and realize the migration of the current telephony to VoIP for 3 KION locations. Subsequently, VoIP was implemented at the two main locations and a smaller location. In this project, Marc has realized all the technical matters for the migration and acted as a service desk employee during the implementation.