Freek Kauffmann

Business Unit Manager IT Security at ITQ Consultancy BV

Location: The Hague Area, Netherlands
Industry: Information Technology and Services

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Freek Kauffmann's Overview

Current

Business Unit Manager IT Security at ITQ Consultancy BV
Linux Specialist at Alliander
Management Committee member at Sunryse

Member Steering Committee "Knowledge Sharing" at Microjustice Initiative

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Past

Recruiter & Linux Specialist at Accretus IT Security & Open Source
European Executive at Hack in the box Jobs
Co-founder and Member of the Board of Directors at Microjustice Initiative

Open Source Consultant at Inter Access
Security Consultant at Agentschap BPR, Ministries of Internal Affairs and Kingdom Relations
Open Source & Security Consultant / Architect at IBM
Security Specialist at GOVCERT.NL
System Engineer & Technical Project Manager at Port of Rotterdam
System Engineer & Trainer at Open Office

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Connections

500+ connections

✔ Responsible for the business development of ITQ Security.
✔ Experienced Unix/Linux System and Network Administrator.
✔ In-active recruiter of IT Security and Open Source specialists.

Phone: +316 457 61 857
Mail ITQ: freek.kauffmann@itq.nl
Mail other: freek@accretus.com

Specialties

Linux & Security

Expert in system administration and re-structuring existing Linux deployments as well as bare metal provisioning. Securing or auditing systems depending on role.

Technologies used:
Security: Custom OS hardening, IDSes, OpenSSL
Storage: iSCSI, SAN, Multi-pathing
Deployment: Puppet, Custom DHCP/TFTP/PXE/DNS,kickstart,debootstrap
High Availability: LinuxHA, Hartbeat, GFS
User Management: OpenLDAP, Novell eDirectory
Virtualization & cloud computing: IBM AIX POWER/Xen/KVM
etc

Business Unit Manager IT Security

ITQ Consultancy BV

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

November 2011 – Present (3 months) Leiden

Also available as a Linux & Infrastructure Open Source specialist!

Please call for more info: +316 457 61 857

Linux Specialist

Alliander

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Oil & Energy industry

November 2011 – Present (3 months) Haarlem

AmaziqSource arranged a temporary assignment to migrate monitoring services (nagios) to new platform (using OMDdistro.org, check_mk and new nagios).

Puppet Labs software was used to deploy the new monitoring systems.

Management Committee member

Sunryse

July 2011 – Present (7 months) Amsterdam

We are a group of affiliates based around the world, each running international programmes in transformational leadership, leadership that uplifts humanity.

We are dedicated to improving the world through courses that develop and equip social entrepreneurs, public innovators and ambitious individuals to lead sustainable and effective change.

We are spotted around the globe in North America, South Africa, Australia, Macedonia, Ireland and The Netherlands. To date, we have run courses for over 6000 people of all ages around the world!

Member Steering Committee "Knowledge Sharing"

Microjustice Initiative

May 2010 – Present (1 year 9 months) The Hague Area, Netherlands

# Non-profit organsation for legal empowerment.
# Reflecting on the topic of knowledge sharing in a network of legal aid and paralegal projects world wide.
# Supervising budged spending.

Recruiter & Linux Specialist

Accretus IT Security & Open Source

Information Technology and Services industry

April 2009 – January 2012 (2 years 10 months)

NOTE: Under special circumstances I might still be able to recruit specialists for you. Please contact me directly.

Worked with a limited set of fast moving companies to close the IT Security and Open Source vacancies they find most difficult to fulfill.

Also an experienced Unix/Linux System and Network Administrator.

Experienced in selecting the most suitable (often open source) software. Able to implement generic solutions configured specifically for your needs. (system integration)

European Executive

Hack in the box Jobs

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Human Resources industry

March 2010 – July 2010 (5 months)

Accretus IT Security and HITB Jobs sourced beyond theoretical knowledge and mediate between IT specialists and employers, primarily focused on IT technical abilities.

Unfortunately the majority shareholder in HITB Jobs decided to freeze all operations in July 2010.

Co-founder and Member of the Board of Directors

Microjustice Initiative

April 2008 – February 2010 (1 year 11 months)

Microjustice uses a self-organizing, bottom-up approach to facilitating access to justice and legally empowering the poor. Low cost processes, fair solutions and transparency are key.

Rights are universal entitlements, and should be accessible to all. But delivering rights is more than a moral duty. Justice is a proven concept for overcoming poverty and stimulating human development. Legal identity means access to education, health care and the economy. In secure, safe relationships, people will invest more. For themselves, but also for their children, for their community and for their business partners.

Unfortunately, justice is hard to deliver. Throughout the world, lawyers, courts and legislators find it difficult to serve the poor. Legal empowerment through innovative, low cost legal services is needed.

Open Source Consultant

Inter Access

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

March 2005 – May 2009 (4 years 3 months)

Started as a Junior System Engineer in an organisation that had no open source policy. In the end, as a subject matter expert, I was responsible for creating and maintaining the Open Source portfolio within the infrastructure business unit (200FTE).

Activities included market analysis, business planning, product selection, establishing partner relations, recruitment, coaching peers in personal development planning & pre-sales.

Parallel to the "business development" activities before mentioned, I also worked as a Technical Consultant designing, implementing and maintaining infrastructure solutions often based on open source software.

One project was maintaining a 300 blade Oracle data center hosted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Security Consultant

Agentschap BPR, Ministries of Internal Affairs and Kingdom Relations

November 2008 – December 2008 (2 months)

✔ Designed a highly secure and highly available infrastructure to facilitate retrieval of biometric data from the Dutch passport.
✔ Set up a simple "OTAP" environment for functional testing of biometric data acquisition.
✔ All in close cooperation with the supplier of Dutch identity documents Sagem Sécurité (former Johan Enschedé/SDU Identification).

Open Source & Security Consultant / Architect

IBM

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry

May 2008 – December 2008 (8 months)

✔ Co-developed a new default Linux building block.
✔ Represented IBM as ICT Infrastructure Architect in a performance tuning task force. (Alfresco ECM, 3.000 users)
✔ Managed the transition of two data centres (APAC and EMEA) with Linux nodes on VMware into production.
✔ Re-implemented IBM global security guidelines and customer specific demands on an existing data center (SAS70 complaint).

Security Specialist

GOVCERT.NL

Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry

July 2006 – March 2008 (1 year 9 months)

✔ Initiated a Source Fourge project for a Distributed Intrusion Detection System: http://ids.surfnet.nl/
✔ Restructured the code development process together with SURFnet. Used Trac and SubVersion for issue and version management.
✔ Reviewed infrastructure building blocks as an ICT architect. The main objective was to co-define a highly secure operating system building block, based on Open Source Software technologies.
✔ All information systems where in compliance with strict laws and regulations for government organisations working with confidential information, notably the Dutch VIR-BI.

System Engineer & Technical Project Manager

Port of Rotterdam

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Maritime industry

October 2005 – November 2006 (1 year 2 months)

✔ Build a highly redundant infrastructure solution for the Harbor Control Center's map (DHK), which provides real time insight in chemical threats using Novell Linux and Oracle.
✔ Expanded the default Linux building block's to incorporate all (non)-standard software thus making the deployment process more flexible.
✔ Build a three node FreeRADIUS VPN authentication & authorization cluster using Novell e-Directory.

System Engineer & Trainer

Open Office

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

2003 – 2003 (less than a year)

✔Trained lawyers in using openoffice.
✔ Assisted in migrations from closed source to open source software in SME.
✔Co-developed an open source desktop operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux.

English
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
Dutch
(Native or bilingual proficiency)

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- Red Hat Academy
- License 804005148718087
- December 2005 to January 2011
Data Center Technical Specialist
- Novell Technical Training
- November 2010
Certified Linux Administrator (CLA)
- Novell Technical Training
- License 10137747
- December 2010
Satellite Starter Edition - Partner Certification
- Red Hat
- May 2009
Open Source Participation Guidelines
- IBM
- June 2008
Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist (RHCDS)
- Red Hat Academy
- License 804005148718087
- July 2007
Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management (EX401)
- Red Hat Academy
- License 804005148718087
- March 2007
Enterprise Security: Network Services (EX333)
- Red Hat Academy
- License 804005148718087
- August 2006
Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication (EX423)
- Red Hat Academy
- License 804005148718087
- November 2006
Enterprise Storage Management (EX436)
- Red Hat Academy
- License 804005148718087
- June 2007
Advanced Level Linux Professional level 2 (LPIC-2)
- Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
- License LPI000034428
- August 2007
Junior Level Linux Professional level 1 (LPIC-1)
- Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
- License LPI000034428
- February 2006
Certified Professional
- XenSource
- March 2007
ITIL Foundation
- EXIN
- June 2005
PRINCE2 Foundation
- EXIN
- September 2005
Tivoli Storage Manager
- IBM
- April 2005
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- Cisco
- December 2004
Information System Design and Development Foundation
- EXIN (Dutch University College)
- 2004
Puppet Master
- PuppetLabs
- November 2011