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Tom Snauwaert
Belgian nationality - Married
I have more than 25 years of experience in various responsibilities as an independent contractor:
Strong skills in detecting and defining customers' needs and requirements as well as the translation of these needs into ICT solutions and services. I take pride in my ability to combine these solutions and services into correct and adequate quotations to meet the requirements of the customer.
Roles:
Complex deals require a lot of out of the box thinking, recombining and innovating components into new solutions.
Roles:
Policy making, translating and implementing (embedding into business processes).
Roles:
Managing a complete portfolio of simultaneous projects, including the guidance of individual projects, which is a necessary requirement to support the above.
Roles:
My preferred responsibilities are outlined in the summary. However, I gained a lot of in-depth technical knowledge over the last 25 years, which helps me to fulfil these responsibilities.
Profound knowledge of many domains of the ICT security such as, security architecture and design, telecommunication and network security, remote access, access control, disaster recovery planning and business continuity, cryptography, applications security, information security and risk management, legal and forensic investigation, operations security, physical security, security awareness, CSIRT Services, threat intelligence, vulnerability management.
Running a complete Managed Security Services environment - including the service (SLA) and contract management; developing the tools; running the incident and problem management, change management and other relevant processes.
Designing, installing, managing and monitoring networks with routers and switches (Cisco and others) - including the usage of VLANs and routing protocols, as well as the implementation of an adequate security.
Installing and managing various security devices such as firewalls (Fortinet, Juniper, Checkpoint, Cisco, Open source), intrusion detection and prevention systems (IBM Internet Security Systems, Tippingpoint, Open source), unified threat management devices (IBM Internet Security Systems, Fortinet, Open Source), Anti-SPAM (TrendMicro, IBM internet Security, Open source), Anti-Virus (TrendMicro, IBM Internet Security Systems, McAfee, Sophos, Webroot, Open source).
Designing, installing, automating, orchestrating, managing and monitoring of Windows networks (Windows Server 2012R2, 2016, 2019) (including virtualization using VMware and Hyper-V) with Active Directory, SQL server, Exchange Server and various other applications running on Windows server, including the installation and management of the client environment.
I have about 10 years of experience designing, installing and managing Linux based server infrastructures (CentOS/RHEL, Ubuntu, Kali) including various open source applications such as MySQL, MariaDB, Postfix, SpamAssassin, Nagios, Cacti, Graylog, Bind, SAMBA, Apache and others.
I have a profound knowledge and many years of experience in the development of various applications in C on the Windows Server platform. This includes the development of multi-threaded applications communicating using TCP/IP (both TCP and UDP), as well as database design and connectivity.
Since 1994, I am performing web development using languages and toolsets such as HTML5, CSS, Javascript, jquery, PHP, CGI-BIN, ISAPI and ASP (vbscript).
Dutch:
Mother tongue.
English:
Very good knowledge.
French:
Practical knowledge in speaking; reading and understanding is very good.
Bachelor degree in electronics - microprocessors with honours.
Cyber security:
Risk Management
Service- and Project Management:
Microsoft:
Lead / Participant in large, multi-million-euro bids for the Proximus Corporate Customer segment. I take up the roles of solution lead, service architect and financial modeller in these bids.
I also participate in the development of the services portfolio of Proximus.
Design, Implementation, Management and Operation of the ICT Infrastructure of the Interbyte SME customers. This includes network & security infrastructure, server infrastructure and storage infrastructure.
Demand management, Contract and Service Management.
Service Portfolio Development and Management.
Design, development and management of the SIEM (Security Incident and Event Management) engine to service the NextiraOne Managed Security Services clients.
Design and creation of the NextiraOne SOC (Security Operating Centre).
Development of the NextiraOne Managed Security Services Portfolio.
Taking the lead in the creation of offers for the Managed Security Services clients of NextiraOne.
Version date: November 12th, 2019.