Sebastien Schmets

Freelance IT Consultant

Autodidact, highly focused on customer satisfaction and highly motivated. Curious by nature, I like to discover new things and put them in application. Iโ€™m constantly reading technical books, papers and measuring myself every day against new challenges. My main goal in my job is to improve my personal knowledge to be state-of-the-art as often as possible.

โ If you have to do something twice, then automate it. โž

๐Ÿ“… November 17th 1984 - โœ‰๏ธ sebastien@schmets.info - ๐Ÿ“ž +352 691 171184 - ๐Ÿš— B driving license

Keywords

  • Linux/Solaris systems engineering
  • Scripting and automation
  • Business analysis
  • Information management
  • Project coordination
  • Design and architecture

Experience

Project Coordinator at European Commission ๐Ÿ•“ June 2018 - Present

  • Technical coordination.
  • Documentation creation and maintenance.
  • Infrastructure analysis.
    • Testing VMware Cloud Foundation for a potential replacement of our deployments and management methods.
  • Information management.
  • Cloud management platform integration.
    • Coordination of the selection process for the Cloud Management Platform; in-depth comparison of three different platforms (Redhat Cloudforms, VMware vRealize Suite, Microfocus Hybrid Cloud Management).
  • Design and architecture analysis.
    • Creation of a Content Management System design (based on Atrium CMDB, vRB, vROPS, vRA, ...).

Founding Partner / Director at BeeSailor ๐Ÿ•“ November 2018 - Present

Automation Engineer at European Commission ๐Ÿ•“ March 2016 - April 2018

  • Daily operations automation.
  • Infrastructure analysis and reporting for error correction.
  • Information management.
  • Asset inventory.
  • Data collection on various technologies.
  • Documentation creation and maintenance.
  • Development of a custom framework for NAS and SAN automation.

Founding Partner / Director ICT at BlueSailLtd ๐Ÿ•“ November 2014 - October 2018

Unix System Engineer at European Commission ๐Ÿ•“ April 2012 - March 2016

  • Unix Operating Systems administration (Solaris 9/10, RHEL 5/6).
  • Daily operations (duties participation, on-call).
  • Development and deployment of a multi-platform life cycle tool for Legato Networker client and its plugins.
  • Documentation creation and maintenance.
  • Quality management on inventory database.

IT Administrator at euroscript International ๐Ÿ•“ August 2010 - March 2012

  • Unix Operating Systems administration (Solaris 9/10, Ubuntu).
  • EMC Clariion and Fujitsu-Siemens San systems administration.
  • Daily operations (duties participation, on-call).
  • Architecture and deployment of a company proxy solution based on squid and clamav.
  • Technologies benchmarking (ZFS vs ext4, Solaris x86 vs Ubuntu on VMWare).

IT Training Management at Sagi Europe ๐Ÿ•“ August 2007 - November 2009

  • Installation and configuration of secured PABX systems in jails across France and Belgium.
  • Linux and Windows servers maintenance.
  • Trainings for supervisors on installed technology and telecommunications security.
  • Disaster recovery procedures writing and testing.
  • Documentation creation and maintenance.

Customer Service Agent at Call-IT nv ๐Ÿ•“ February 2007 - August 2007

  • Customer service support front office and back office.
  • Assisting IT service with backups, updates and life-cycle of workstations.

AppleCare Engineer at Apple ๐Ÿ•“ August 2005 - December 2006

  • Hardware, software and network end-users support across Europe.
  • Internal demo lab maintenance.
  • Internal trainings.

Education

Institut Chaฬ‚teau Massart Lieฬ€ge ๐Ÿ•“ 2004 - 2005 โ†’ Networks Management

Universiteฬ de Lieฬ€ge ๐Ÿ•“ 2004 - 2005 โ†’ Web Components development on Linux

Haute Eฬcole Albert Jacquard (HEAJ) ๐Ÿ•“ 2003 - 2004 โ†’ Computer Graphics

Institut Saint-Jean Berchmans Lieฬ€ge ๐Ÿ•“ 2003 โ†’ CESS, Computer Sciences.

Languages

Native speaker

Fluent

Referrals

Available upon request.