Personal Information

My career in the IT started with my own company Marego Productions building a module based accountant software, named COMPAS, for the accountant office and its customers.
In those days this was revolutionary and was sold good. But, not being happy at my position, I left the company and handed it over to my business partner. It still exists and still proud of it.

Not willing to be unemployed i became a cook in an Italian restaurant “La Liguria“, located in Zwolle.

But….my blood screamed for computers and bit / bytes. So after 6 years being away from the IT, I came back into the IT as a servicedesk employee, willing to learn everything.
In the next years I improved my knowledge, and the person in me, to become a IBM software consultant.

I started with OS/2 Warp 4 and 5 servers and IBM Lotus Notes 3. In those days the server was still called IBM Notes Server.
From the beginning I was in love with the IBM software and its simplicity how it was build. It’s semi open source. YEAH !

I am working 27 years with IBM/HCL software !   🙂

Now, after so many years, my skills are improved and specialized into several components of the HCL software portofolio. Most of them now belong to HCL.

IBM Champion ICS 2017-2019
HCL Master 2019
HCL Ambassador 2020-2025

My specialized skills are:

HCL Notes/Domino
IBM WebSphere
HCL IHS
IBM DB2
IBM TDI
HCL Connections
HCL Sametime
HCL License Metric Tool
HCL Verse
HCL Nomad

Apache Load Balancers and PaceMaker for clustering IP/Resources.

And of course:

PHP development
MySQL Administration
MongoDB Administration
jQuery
Javascript
LessCSS
HTML5
CSS3

Platforms:

Linux RedHat
Linux CentOS
Linux Almar
AIX
Windows    ( hahahaha, just kidding. I don’t have the specialized knowledge, but can deal with it during installation of HCL software )

Now learning and gaining knowledge:

Kubernetes
Docker
Laravel  (PHP platform)