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.