Tobias Appelo
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English Full professional proficiency
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Dutch Native or bilingual proficiency
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French Limited working proficiency
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German Limited working proficiency
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Bio
Stefan de Graauw
Tobias is an enthusiast, driven, professional and very experienced colleague. He is able to adapt easily to changing surroundings and is able to perform on the highest level in related business fields. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working with Tobias and came to know him as a truly valuable asset to absolutely any team. He is honest, dependable, and incredibly hard-working. Tobias knowledge of SAP Infra hosting solutions and expertise of Linux / Unix and storage was a huge advantage to Capgemini. He put this skillset to work in order to design hosting solutions for several of Capgemini’s customers. Along with his undeniable talent, Tobias has always been an absolute joy to work with. He is a true team player, and always manages to foster positive discussions and bring the best out of other employees.
Stefan de Graauw
Tobias is an enthusiast, driven, professional and very experienced colleague. He is able to adapt easily to changing surroundings and is able to perform on the highest level in related business fields. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working with Tobias and came to know him as a truly valuable asset to absolutely any team. He is honest, dependable, and incredibly hard-working. Tobias knowledge of SAP Infra hosting solutions and expertise of Linux / Unix and storage was a huge advantage to Capgemini. He put this skillset to work in order to design hosting solutions for several of Capgemini’s customers. Along with his undeniable talent, Tobias has always been an absolute joy to work with. He is a true team player, and always manages to foster positive discussions and bring the best out of other employees.
Stefan de Graauw
Tobias is an enthusiast, driven, professional and very experienced colleague. He is able to adapt easily to changing surroundings and is able to perform on the highest level in related business fields. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working with Tobias and came to know him as a truly valuable asset to absolutely any team. He is honest, dependable, and incredibly hard-working. Tobias knowledge of SAP Infra hosting solutions and expertise of Linux / Unix and storage was a huge advantage to Capgemini. He put this skillset to work in order to design hosting solutions for several of Capgemini’s customers. Along with his undeniable talent, Tobias has always been an absolute joy to work with. He is a true team player, and always manages to foster positive discussions and bring the best out of other employees.
Stefan de Graauw
Tobias is an enthusiast, driven, professional and very experienced colleague. He is able to adapt easily to changing surroundings and is able to perform on the highest level in related business fields. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working with Tobias and came to know him as a truly valuable asset to absolutely any team. He is honest, dependable, and incredibly hard-working. Tobias knowledge of SAP Infra hosting solutions and expertise of Linux / Unix and storage was a huge advantage to Capgemini. He put this skillset to work in order to design hosting solutions for several of Capgemini’s customers. Along with his undeniable talent, Tobias has always been an absolute joy to work with. He is a true team player, and always manages to foster positive discussions and bring the best out of other employees.
Credentials
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Text Analytics with SAP HANA Platform
SAPFeb, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Togaf 9
The Open GroupJul, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
Prince 2 Foundation
AXELOS Global Best PracticeNov, 2010- Nov, 2024 -
MCSE 2000 / 2003
MicrosoftJan, 2006- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Logius
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Netherlands
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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300 - 400 Employee
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Architect
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Jul 2022 - Present
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ICT Second Opinion
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Netherlands
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Business Consulting and Services
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ICT-consultant
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Sep 2021 - Present
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Logius
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Netherlands
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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300 - 400 Employee
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System Architect
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Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
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Rabobank
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Netherlands
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Owner Linux Security & Compliance at Rabobank
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Jun 2017 - Dec 2019
Assigned Tasks · Tasks: o Create roadmaps for the Linux cloud & platform team. o Create common approach for Linux Tooling to bring the Rabobank NL team and the Rabobank ITI teams together; align to management regarding costs. o Guide a team of Linux Security specialists; prioritize, present status periodically during Agile Sprint Reviews. o Guiding an agile development team for a proof of concept of Ansible in order to deploy global configuration management. o Write shell scripts and / or ansible code to fix vulnerabilities, provision systems. o Write puppet modules, ansible playbooks and use Chef to enforce configuration states on Linux. · Results: o Successfully completed migration to Ansible from puppet and chef for global configuration management (October 2019). o I reduced the the amount of vulnerabilities considerably on a large scale in an automated way (+5000 servers) Show less
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Capgemini
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France
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Global Solution Architect and Presales Consultant
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2015 - 2017
Assigned Tasks: * Deliver presentations to customers about ERP / business critical infrastructure. * Deliver costing-input for ERP / business critical hosting solutions. * Answering RFP’s and ERP solution-requests from customers. * Assist implementation projects of Bids that were won. Results: * In 2015 / 2016 I have taken part in multiple bids that were won. * I have implemented the solutions I have designed during the rfp-phase as a technical projectleader. Show less
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Infrastructure Architect
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2014 - Sep 2015
Tasks: * Take part at stage-panel VMworld to demonstrate Capgemini's new hosting platform. * Project HANA-implementation on Capgemini’s hosting platform. * Design and implementation automated provisioning hosting platform. * Architect in Canada (on location) for Capgemini's largest customer for ERP hosting including presentation and business Case (migration HP UX to VMware / X86)Results: * The HANA implementations were executed successfully and standardized. * Shorter delivery times infrastructure provisioning (lead time from 1 week to 24 hours) Show less
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Operations Team Lead
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2013 - 2014
Tasks: * Technically lead and steer infrastructure-specialists in Netherlands and India. * Visit offshore-team in Mumbai India for KT new hosting features. * Detailed Design converged infrastructure based on VBlocks. * Project implementation Vblocks. * Taking part and technically lead projects onboarding new hosting customers.Results: * Shortened availability infrastructure (van months to weeks). * improved standardization and documentation infrastructure. * The hosting platform has grown in volume (amount of SAPS) and amount of customers (worldwide / globally) under my authority. Show less
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UNIX & VMware administrator
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2007 - 2013
Tasks:* Add Solaris X86 containers to Capgemini's hosting portfolio.* Design standardized changes / processes for hosting self service portal using ITIL method.* Design and Implement VMware monitoring-solution.* UNIX / Vmware specialist during projects for new Capgemini Hosting customers (onboarding and migrations)* 2012: Solaris support at Capgemini Sweden in Göteborg voor Smart Metering company (Skvader)* 2008: Project Infrastructure-implemetation V&D website: Oracle RAC and virtualized linux servers for application and web-servers. Results: * I have saved Capgemini money implementing the VMware monitoring-solution because: ** There was Lack of a product in the market that could meet the montitoring requirements for Capgemini. ** I wrote perl-scripts myself that integrate between HP Openview and VMware API’s. ** The monitoring-solution has been used over 5 years without much additional effort. * I did not only execute the assigned tasks during projects but I also lead other technical specialists (storage,backup,networking) Show less
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Education
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Delft University of Technology
Civil Engineering -
Barlaeus Gymnasium Amsterdam
High School