During his career Gert Jan has obtained an extensive knowledge and a broad range of skills regarding methods, technologies, trends, products and vendors in the area of IT and information management. An overview of these is given below. In addition, Gert Jan’s educations and language skills are specified.
Knowledge overview
General
- IT governance models and practices
- IT organisation and management
- Project management methods (Prince2)
- Business case development
- Marketing and product development
- SaaS, Paas, IaaS
- Contract and vendor management
- IT service management (ITIL)
IT Architecture
- TOGAF, DYA, SOA, Archimate
Information Security
- PKI, cryptography
- IT security and control frameworks (CoBIT, ISO 27000)
- Network security (Firewalls, DMZ)
- Access control
- Jericho
IT Infrastructure
- Storage systems: NAS, SAN, DAS
- Databases
- Servers, server virtualization, Linux, MS Windows
- Data communication and telephony networks
- Workplace automation
- Email, real time communications, groupware
- Data centers, fail-over, business continuity
- Systems management
Middleware and integration technologies
- Message Buses, Composite Applications, Orchestration
- Identity Management, Directories, Identity Federation
- Master Data Management, Data Warehouses
Application Development
- Development methods and tools
- Specification and programming languages (XML, Java, Ruby)
- Application testing methodology
Business Intelligence
- Business Intelligence architectures
- Datawarehouse modeling (star scheme, 3NF, data vault)
- ETL methods en tools
- BI reporting methods en tools
Vendor Products and Technologies
- Microsoft
- SAP
- HP
- NetApp
- Cisco
- Oracle
Education
State University Groningen PhD
Nuclear Physics, 1982 – 1987 (Cum Laude)
Research in the area of Heavy Ion Nuclear Collisions at the Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut in Groningen, The Netherlands.
State University Groningen MSc
Physics, 1976 – 1982 (Cum Laude)
Languages
Dutch (native), English (fluent), German, French