Description

I help organizations maintain secure, reliable, and scalable cloud and data center infrastructures. With over 20 years of experience in NATO, government, and multinational environments, I ensure mission-critical services remain available, compliant, and resilient. I lead diverse technical teams, implement high-availability architectures, and coordinate with international stakeholders—delivering IT infrastructure that supports business continuity and strategic growth.—so you can focus on your core business.

Languages

German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Dutch
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Brussels (up to 50km)

NATO Communications and Information Agency,
IaaS Service Area Owner
DEFENSE AND MILITARY
April 2009 - Today (17 years and 2 months)
Brussels, Belgium
• • Overall responsibility for 17 data centres located in multiple countries, operating across different security domains
• • Led and managed a team of 46 technical and engineering staff, including planning, performance management, and skills development
• • Accountable for availability, reliability, and security of mission critical IaaS platforms
• • Oversaw data centre operations, including capacity planning, lifecycle management, and service continuity
• • Coordinated with international stakeholders, government bodies, and NATO entities
• • Ensured compliance with strict security, governance, and operational standards
• • Acted as senior escalation point for infrastructure incidents and strategic decisions
• • Worked on the design and implementation of resiliency and survivability architectures across geographically distributed data centers. High-availability and disaster recovery solutions, enterprise-level business continuity and infrastructure survivability strategies across global data center sites.
• Capacity planning • Incident management • Infrastructure design Business Continuity Desaster Recovery
BRAINS Direct,
Senior software engineer
DEFENSE AND MILITARY
July 2001 - April 2009 (7 years and 9 months)
Mons, Belgium
Worked as Software engineer on a new Enterprise application with multiple Business cases. I replaced the entire access system of the Company, including Vehicle registration and Family registration as well as Permissions.
German Forces
Data Center Manager
DEFENSE AND MILITARY
December 1996 - July 2001 (4 years and 7 months)
Euskirchen, NW, Germany
Was responsible for a Data Centre and the full migration from a client server system to a multi-tier storage data centre.