over: bert boerland
On this "book" about bert boerland you will find out who I think am. It is work in progress so you might want to come back after some time.
But then again you will have more change of finding out who I am (You are what you blog) by visiting my weblog at willy.boerland.com and more specific postings on this blog about with the taxonomy term "bert"
The Sections below are a good starting point however.
My Business Cards
Since I graduated from The RijkUniversiteit in Groningen, I have been working for two companies; PinkElephant en Unisource. I joined PinkElephant around 1996. I started as a temp at AT&T's Global Network Management Center in Amsterdam.
There I learned a lot about Cisco's IOS, BGP and Unix. I had never touched a Unix prompt before that date and out of the blue I had a root account on some of the firewalls of woldwide top 10 companies. You learn quickly that way! After 1.5 years, my contract was expireing, and while AT&T did offer me a job, I choose to stay with PinkElephant. I moved to another department, that was supposed to do lots with internetworking and webhosting. The reality was they only had 3 hosts, 128Kbits inte4rnet connection and 10 Novell servers. Office Automation sucks IMHO, so I accepted an offer from Unisource.
Unisource was a trans-European ISP, but the Dutch company only did Dutch ISP's. However, being at a tier2 provider, managing and designing big OSPF clouds and BGP clouds while maintaining Big Radius-es, mailrelays, DNS-es and being part of the core of the only commercial CERT in the Netherlands, UniCERT, I had a good time and learned a lot. And it was the docom periode so yes, I had a good time! UniSource was part of KPN again around 2000.
I rejoined PinkElephant around 2001 or 2002. And had different functions, mostly in the Datacentre doing high end webhosting but less in operations and more in Infrastructure designs and later Business Consultancy, presales and management.
And I still am at Getronics-PinkRoccade as the beast is called nowadays. So I only worked for 2 companies, only have 10 years of working experiences, but have a dozen different functions and hence business cards.
I dont have them all anymore but in this book you can find a couple.
1997 pink-elephant intranet management services
Not my first business cards I think, but the oldest I still have. The one before probably read something like "IT Trainee", this one is from around 1997. I started at this department in Voorburg but they moved to Amsterdam shortly after I joined there. I like most of the people there, especially Pim Berger, Eltjo van Wijck and Paul Geurts. Those last two still work at Getronics-PinkRoccade.
A couple of things to note:
At this time all the operational units of PinkRoccade used their own domains, I work for "pink.nl". The company was founded by some students from Delft, hence the name Pink Elephant.
The second thing, there was a policy to display your academic tittle, in the Netherlands "Drs." for Master of Art/Science.
And third, my Christian names are "Elibertus Mariunus Tobias". My first name is "bert". I never ever called myself something like Bert "M" Boerland. I dont know where this mixed came from but not from me, I am not a "ooh, look how creative I am" Rolf "X" Wouters, Japke-"D" Bouwma or Peter "air" de Vries.
During this time the company had the most stupidest user name convention I am aware of, 3 or 4 letters from your business unit, first letter of your first name, first letter of your second name and then a number. So when you moved from one unit to another, your account was deleted, created and the data moved. And you could get really funny names. For example, someone was named Ixxx Sxxxx and workped at the business unit Pink Elephant Netherlands (the holding). Can you make the username for her?
My latest account is this range was pimsbb2 (Pink Intranet Management Services) and I still use that one on all my unix servers.
1999 KPN
I missed one card between PinkElephant and this one. I should have a card labbeled "Unisource Business Networks Netherlands" but dont have it anymore. During the time I had this card, I did design and operations of the internet of KPN, AS1136, later AS286. I also was shortly in the core of UniCERT.
KPN also has a policy of using "Drs", and my department illegally used KPN.net which we bought, while the rest of teh (non internet workers) had to use KPN-Telecom.nl.
2002 pinkroccade nerd-geek
Around 2001 I returned to PinkRoccade. I worked as an architect for the "Architectuur en Innovatie" department. During that time -it was still the late dotcom period in the Netherlands- I made this special Business Card. Now having a card with the function "nerd/geek" would be impossible to get, during that period someone just called me what a "nerd/geek" was, I answered "someone who is good" and they printed it :-)
Note that our email addresses changed to user@businessunit.pinkroccade.nl, there was still no corporate email system within PinkRoccade, just a buch of loose exchange and novell server. Branding towards sub.pinkroccade.nl was an easy first step to integrate.
2002 pinkroccade tc ist
During 2002 / 2003 I was "team coordinator" of a group that was doing the webhsoting. The group grew from 10 persons we started with to 35 people 1 year later. It still it the basis of our webhosting proposition, though we now have several 100 people managing and building sites.
2003 pinkroccade naamloos
during 2003 I changed titles and functions so often, I ordered an "empty" Business Card. We changed our email addresses to @pinkroccade.com after the "mono branding" period. Mobiles were still not on the Business Card, on every desk there was still a wired phone.
2004 pinkroccade ict architect
During 2003-2004 I was the lead architect for a Server Based Computing environment. In total about 15k users were on the platform. Though we dont use the system internally anymore, it was a state of the art environment with delegated user rights, budget holders and real time billing.
2005 PinkRoccade consultant
2004 pinkroccade ict architect
100 things about bert boerland
2005 PinkRoccade ICT Architect
2005 PinkRoccade consultant
100 things about bert boerland
2006 Getronics-PinkRoccade Business Consultant
2005 PinkRoccade ICT Architect
100 things about bert boerland
100 things about bert boerland
I am in my early 30ies
I don't have illegal software installed on my systems
I am righthanded
I have two left hands
I regularly drink beer
I wish they sold SCOX put options
I am surprised by my love for gardening
I miss travelling alone
I have worn spectacles since I was 10
I am 1.95 tall (that is in meters)
I weigh less than 80 kilos
I live with my girlfriend
I still remember the first time I was called "Sir"
I use to make loads of animations on my amiga
I can become an asshole when drunk
I don't miss living in a city as much as thought I would
I have more than 4 different Linux distributions on my systems
I like my coffee hot and strong, two sugar
I do not were a tie
I trust my girlfriend
I am not anti microsoft, I am pro GNU/Linux
I have never done a bungeejump
I visited church up till the age of 15
I watch every race of GrandPrix
I read too fast
I own a car despite my priciples I use to have
I shower for more than a quarter of an hour per day
I should spent more time rebuilding my house
I love the Dutch skies
I am good in presales
I spell my name all in lower case
I studied in Groningen
I love IBM and love to bash SUN
I have too much testosterone
I don't like soccer
I have the sweetest mother in the world
I still know all my PIN codes
I should spent more money
I hate hangovers
I don't do windows
I own a playstation I
I interrupt people
I am not an Instant Messaging kind of guy
I wish I could be a good programmer
I cook any recipe in one cooking pot
I spent more than 5 hours per day on the Internet
I wrote for a computer magazine when I was 18
I cried when my daughter was born
I cried when Nelson Mandela walked out of prison
I wish I could cry more
I like to sleep with my feet out of the bed
I think 3 years ahead of my time
I use firefox
I used to be good in TCP/IP routing protocols
I take friends for granted
I love to do useless stuff
I don't read newspapers
I drive to fast
I don't like people with sunglasses in their hair
I change my underwear daily
I used to smoke a lot of cigars
I donate to the EFF
I am an atheist
I would love to have my own company
I can't remember my dreams in the morning
I can't stand injustice
I love sailing with experienced sailors
I can give a presentation without powerpoint
I have more than 5 PC's
I can think fast, ...I think
I am a member of the PvdA
I watch less than an hour television per day
I love my little girl Brecht as much as I love her mother Francis
I am not as smart as I think I am
I don't draw cartoons anymore
I am an OpenSource advocate
I visit the hairdresser three weeks too late
I dislike one trick pony people
I don't use capitals (often)
I hate it when people write about Mb when the mean MB
I love walking through cities on my own
I like the company of close friends
I get bored soon
I love creative people around me
I love young creative people who are willing to change the world
I believe in distributed computing
I buy my clothes twice a year
I have still all the issues of hacktic
I have a very strong physical language when I m bored (or so I was told)
I get more than 300 spam mail per day
I use spamassassin
I still want to be 20 again
I am not the nicest person in the world
I can spent days alone
I rejoined a company that I left half a decade ago
I still see my "Jaarclub" on a regular basis
I can get quite a temper
I would love to meet the Beatles
I shouldn't touch computer hardware
I am finished
100 things about me
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Wishlist
In case you want to give me something (hee my b-day is comming up) or you want to know who I am by looking what I want, take a look at my whishlist.
Here is a preview of things I like:
Chat with me using Google Talk
Here you can chat with me using Google Talk. My account is bert.boerland at gmail dot com. If you are using a Jabber client, you can connect to me as well. An other option to chat with me is by using Skype (userid:bert.boerland). I have both IM client on all (windows) machines and are usually logged in on both. No MSN and that kind of IM clients for me.
My Twitter box
Headhunters: My Linkedin profile
You can find my LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/bertboerland.
If you have a job opening for me that seems to fit my profile, you are free to contact me; bert AT boerland DOT com. Please note that I am very restrictive when it comes to sending my resume, if you are just a resume shifter or bulk contractor, dont try to waist both our time by contacting me.
Please do some background checks to see who I am and what I can do. To give you a hint, I care about my family (hence in the neighbourhood of Amsterdam/ Haarlem), opensource, Drupal and would love to have my own company combining all these.
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contact
Mail
Please contact me by mail first, bert @ boerland dot com. Please use a relevant subject and use plain text.
VOIP
You can also download a client from skype and bug me by VOIP. Search for bertboerland (or bert boerland) to request a call with me.
Jabber
bert.boerland @ gmail . com can be used for VOIP, IM as well as Jasbber
Other services
On all social network sites I registered, I use the nick "bertboerland". Please look for this nick and use the service provided by the social network to connect to me.
IRL
Search the whois databases to find out where I life.
Social Networking
Orkut
Orkut is een zogenaamd sociaal netwerk.
Voor mij is het een manier om contact te behouden met mensen, maar meer dan dat hoe techniek sociale structuren kan beinvloeden en faciliteren (in plaats van andersom). Als je een orkut account hebt, kan je mij tot de virtuele vriendenkring van je uitnodigen door mij op te zoeken. Ik
sta er te boek met mijn echte naam; bert boerland.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is anders dan orkut, de nadruk ligt niet op het creeeren van een vriendenkring, maar het uitdragen van het credo "je bent wie je kent". Waar orkut een grote flirtzone is, is linked-in duidelijk meer voor het aangaan van
zakelijke contacten. Mij kan je ook op deze wijze benaderen.
