Eric
Tomson
Strategic
& Tactical Expert in Service Support & Delivery
Expert
in Strategy in Information & Communication Technologies
Evolution
Cisco,
ITIL, and Microsoft certified – Member of the IEEE, the IETF, the Internet
Society, and the PIR.ORG
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Change Manager for ING South ·
Process Analyst & Writer for
ING ·
Edition/revision of SLAs and OLAs for ING
& CONTRASTE EUROPE ·
Consultant in ITIL implementation for
FO ·
Process Analyst & Writer for
FO ·
In charge of MIS projects for CONTRASTE
EUROPE o
Project Management, analysis, design,
follow-up of the development, deployment,
documentation |
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Manager of a department (Office
Infrastructure Services) composed of several teams (Office
Infrastructure/Terminal Server Engineering, Office Infrastructure/Terminal
Server Support, Lotus Notes Support, Desktop Factory/DP Storage) in
Production (3/4 team leaders + 15 to 20 persons) ·
Terminal Server version 2 Project Leader
(migration of 20-30 NT4/W2K servers to 60-80 Windows 2000/2003 with
Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame ; migration of all workstations to
Terminal Server and Citrix clients, including migration of desktops to
Thin Clients) ·
In charge of technical and business
validation of all applications (last steps before migration and
production) ·
In charge of User Acceptance
Tests ·
In charge of administration,
organization, and coordination for my teams ·
In charge of coordination between
different teams/departments/projects ·
Interface between Accenture/Avanade and
Euroclear ·
In charge of the Help Desk statistics and
reports ·
Reporting to the
Management |
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Internal consultancy (audit) for
networking and security ·
Analyzing and auditing the ICT
infrastructure (network, security, applications) ·
Responsible for documentation of the ICT
infrastructure and security ·
Analyzing and auditing the DRP
infrastructure ·
Responsible for documentation of the DRP
infrastructure and procedures ·
Writing technical documentation for
internal use only ·
Writing marketing documentation for
customers use ·
Making recommendations to improve
security and DRP |
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Design of a small business
infrastructure ·
Analyzing the needs (organization,
planning, accounting) ·
Responsible for documentation,
demonstration, and comparison of the different technologies, applications,
and solutions on the market |
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Consultant for the EMEA infrastructure
support group (world’s biggest Microsoft Active Directory
project) ·
3rd line support for all
Microsoft TechNet technologies ·
Responsible for the ·
Responsible for some strategic services
(Exchange, IIS, SAP, SQL, Web) ·
Responsible for documentation and
procedures regarding the administration and management of the ·
Project Management and People
Coordination (updates, migrations) ·
Cleansing and restructuring the
DNS |
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Head of the Datacom training team inside
the Telecom training department ·
Design of complete datacom/network
solutions for SIEMENS customers ·
Management and coordination of
datacom/network projects ·
I developed the complete catalog of
Datacom courses for Siemens I and C ·
I developed all the Voice-over-IP courses
for Siemens BeLux ·
I initiated a new catalog of Security
courses for Siemens I and C ·
Most of the courses I developed are part
of the SIEMENS certification process (equivalent of the well-known Cisco
and Microsoft certifications), mandatory for all EMEA technicians and
engineers working on SIEMENS HICOM/HIPATH solutions ·
I delivered LAN & WAN courses to all
the Network Administrators of the Belgian Federal
Police ·
“Train the Trainer”, training of
SIEMENS technicians, engineers, project managers, account managers,… up to
the decision-makers |
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Implementation of the new Training
Management System in all SIEMENS training centers ·
Training (Microsoft courses, Windows NT
4.0, TCP/IP, networking) ·
Development of new datacom/networking
courses |
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Founding Member of HEARIS (Health Care
Information Systems), delivering services and solutions for Mutual
Insurance Companies and Hospitals ·
In charge of all “New Technologies” (Data
Warehousing, Delphi, Fast Ethernet, Groupware, Internet/Intranet, Rapid
Application Development, Windows NT) in a “traditional” environment
(AS/400, RPG, Token-Ring) ·
My main mission was to migrate all my
customers (Belgian health care insurance companies and hospitals) from
“legacy” IT to “modern” IT ·
Implementation of new architectures in
coordination with sub-contractors ·
Negotiating budgets ·
Design of new architectures (cabling
systems, LAN equipment, servers, workstations, applications,
training) ·
Design of the Belgian IP subnetting
infrastructure for our Mutual Insurance Companies ·
Selling products, solutions, and
services |
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Auditor in business efficiency related to
the IT infrastructure ·
Founding Member of the IT department of
Carlson Wagonlit Travel ·
In charge of the AS/400, the backups, the
Helpdesk, the migrations, the MIS, the network, the procedures, the
reports, the statistics, the support ·
1st level and 2nd
level support in a heterogeneous environment : AS/400, dial-up
connections, DOS, modems, NetBIOS, Novell NetWare, Office suites, Rumba,
Sabre, SNA, Token-Ring, Windows 3.x, X.25, 5250
connectivity |
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In charge of office automation tools
(Lotus 1-2-3, OS/2, Windows, WordPerfect) ·
Development of macros
“on-demand” ·
Technical support for Office
tools ·
In charge of sales for |
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Technically in charge of an
education/seminar/training/workshop center ·
Responsible for
documentation ·
In charge of 3270 connectivity, OS/2,
PS/2, and Token-Ring ·
Organization of international workshops
at EMEA level ·
Analyst/Programmer on Point-of-Sales
systems in BASIC ·
Training on AS/400 ·
Analyst/Programmer on AS/400 in CL and
RPG ·
Developing an “Advanced RPG Programming”
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Technical
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All LAN & WAN concepts, theories, and
practises ·
All layers concepts, theories, and
principles ·
Some practise (TCP/IP, IPv6,
NetWare) | ||
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All layers concepts, theories, and
principles ·
General systems security best
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Windows NT, Windows 2000 (Active
Directory), Windows XP ·
Linux (Caldera, Corel, Knoppix, Mandrake,
Red Hat, Suse) ·
Some UNIX (DEC Alpha, IBM AIX, SUN
Solaris) ·
Some legacy personal systems (DOS,
Windows 3.x) ·
Some legacy mainframe & midrange
(MVS/TSO, OS/400, VM/CMS) | ||
EDUCATION and ce | ||||
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2005 : ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT
Service Management (100% in each of the
following topics : Service Desk, Incident Management, Problem Management,
Configuration Management, Availability Management, Capacity Management, IT
Service Continuity Management, Financial Management for IT Services, and
Other ITIL Topics ; all topics passed in English) ·
2003 : Graduat en Informatique, ISFCE
(evening courses – not completed) ·
2001 : CompTIA
Network+ ·
2000 : Cisco Certified Network
Associate ·
1998 : Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineer ·
1987-1988 : Graduat en Informatique, IPL
(not completed) ·
1986-1987 : Licence en Histoire de l’Art
& Archéologie, ULB (not completed) ·
1978-1986 : Enseignement Secondaire
Supérieur Scientifique, Saint-Boniface | ||
LANGUAGES | ||||
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FRENCH : mother
tongue ·
ENGLISH : fluent ·
DUTCH :
fluent | ||
MISCELLANEOUS | ||||
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Member of the Communications Society, the
Computer Society, the ICANN-at-Large, the IEEE, the Internet Society, and
the Belgian IPv6 Task Force – Member and Secretary of the Round Table
Ottignies 69 ·
Contributor to the IETF and the ISDF/ISTF
; Founding Member of the PIR .ORG Advisory Council, Vice-Chair of the IDN
committee ·
Administrator, Secretary, and Member of
the Executive Committee of Wallonie-ISOC (Belgian chapter of the Internet
Society) ; Secretary and Member of the Board of the ISOC-ECC (European
Chapters Coordinating Council) ·
Musician (author, composer, interpret ;
regularly performing and singing, playing piano, synthesizers, guitars,
bass, drums, brass) ·
Travel and tourism (Austria, England,
France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain,
Switzerland, UK, USA – soon Qatar &
Sweden) | ||