CURRICULUM VITAE
| Lastname | Lodder |
| Firstname | Remko |
| City | Barendrecht |
| Date of Birth | 16 October 1983 |
| Place of Birth | Rotterdam |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Maritial State | Married |
| Gender | Male |
School Education
| Direction | Graduated? | Package | Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAVO | Yes | Dutch, English, German, Economics 1 and 2, History, Math A1 and A2, Management and Organisation, Geography | Johannes Calvijn, Rotterdam |
| MBO | No | Technical Computer Science | ROC Zadkine, Rotterdam (Hofplein) |
Courses through my employers
| Year | What | Company |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Email and DNS | Tunix |
| Webservers and Webtechnology | Tunix | |
| TCP/IP | Tunix | |
| Windows NT 4.0 Administring | Compu’Train | |
| Networking Essentials | Compu’Train | |
| NLUVG1 (Unix for users 1) | Global Knowledge | |
| 2002 | Firewalls, Perimeter protection and VPN’s | The SANS Institute |
| Cisco Secure IDS | Global Knowledge | |
| Shell Programming for System Administrators | SUN Educational Services | |
| Sun Solaris Administration 1 | Global Knowledge | |
| ITIL Foundations | PinkRoccade Educational Services | |
| 2003 | Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling (GCIH) | The SANS Institute |
| 2004 | Netscreen course (Specially desgined for Employer) | Juniper Networks |
| 2005 | ISS RealSecure IDS | Internet Security Systems (ISS) |
Certifications
| Year | What |
|---|---|
| 2006 | GSEC (GIAC/SANS) |
| 2007 | LPI 101 (Linux Professionals Institute) |
| 2007 | LPI 102 (Linux Professionals Institute) |
| 2007 | ITIL Foundations |
| 2008 | Checkpoint Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) |
| 2008 | Berkeley Software Distribution Associate (BSDA) |
| 2008 | Checkpoint Certified Security Expert+ (CCSE+) |
| 2008 | Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA-FWV) |
| 2009 | Juniper Networks Certificate Internet Specialist (JNCIS-FWV) |
| 2010 | Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) |
| 2012 | LPI 201 (Linux Professionals Institute) |
| 2012 | LPI 202 (Linux Professionals Institute) |
| 2013 | CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Associate) |
Presentations
| Year | What | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Dutch FreeBSD Presentation: From Projectleader to Developer | Link [EN] |
| 2009 | Dutch FreeBSD Presentation: Welcome, FreeBSD 8! | Link [EN] |
Working experience
| From-Till | Employer | Role | Experience |
|---|---|---|---|
| nov2010-present | Snow B.V. | Senior Network Engineer / Technical Projectleader at Ziggo | At Ziggo I am working as a Technical Projectleader, where I am responsible for a group of people within a project. The project has the goal to migrate all legacy networks to a standarised and uniform network. The network is intended to make management possible without affecting the production side of the network. I am responsible for leading my team of people, planning them, making migration decisions (with the designer of the infra), delivering the project to the operations group. We take care of Firewalls, routers, switches and Console servers. The team currently consists of 4 people, where I am directly managed by the Projectmanager.It is also my job to write the technical documentation needed to do the migration, I am part of the main migration team where we give help and support to the other parties that are connected to our management network.Periodically I support the projectmanager with various tasks, including taking over when he is free or otherwise busy. At those moments I am the main responsible for the project and first point of contact for the project. |
| 2004-present | JR-Hosting | Co-Founder and Co-owner at JR-Hosting | Together with a friend of mine we host a little Hosting company on our colocation machine. Hosting a wide range of people, from photographers to infrastructure experts (damage experts) and from music bands to schools. I am responsible for the well-being of the machine and various technical solutions that build our infrastructure. We use Webmin and Virtualmin for our hosting platform, and FreeBSD as main operating system. |
| nov2009-oct2010 | Snow B.V. | Senior Network Engineer, Security Engineer at Getronics Datacenters | Member of the network infrastructure teamHandling a multitude of clients, amongst them large government agencies, various public resources etc. Here I took care of a large customer, made improvement changes throughout the infrastructure, upgraded various devices, did massive troubleshooting for some clients.Writing Technical Design’s for a large project which involves the migration of one of the Dutch airline companies to a new location and datacenter. Our manager made me Technical Lead, right next to the Technical Consultant. For this we use various firewall blades (FWSM), ACE and VRF’s which run through multiple devices. Secondary project to help migrate outstations to the new environment, for this I needed to write Technical Design’s.For another client, I am responsible for making sure that multiple regions are able to maintain the client, which involves creating standarized drawings, standarized documentation, connecting the management environments etc. I also do advanced troubleshooting on the firewalls and proxies (Bluecoat) of the client.Helped troubleshooting the environment of an health insurance company, where performance issues had been found. I assisted and supported various troubleshooting periods, worked along with Juniper to get to a resolution of the problem etc. |
| jan2009-oct2009 | Snow B.V. | Senior Network Engineer, Security Engineer at Getronics Datacenters | From KPN a project was initiated to physically move the datacenters. I was hired by Getronics to make that happen for the government group I worked for. I was the main responsible for this project. With a collegue we did an inventory, cleanup, buildup, administrative tasks, executing the migrations, moving hardware, arranging documentations, communicating with the customers etc. We scored 100% on this move.After that project I am now doing various projects to assist with the customer and implement new features as they desire. |
| jun2008 – dec2008 | Snow B.V. | Senior Network Engineer, Security Engineer at KPN | At KPN I am doing a large project to migrate the central facilities of a dutch government department. The central facilities included migrating a standalone Juniper firewall to a redundant Fortigate cluster, and migrating a loaded Checkpoint environment to a new Juniper (SSG series) platform. The migrations itself went smoothly given the base that had been used it was a big success! I also helped out the operational team managing all devices by setting up a new monitoring system (NMIS) and using Rancid for various important devices to keep a version track of all configurations. On the social plate I am guiding my collegue’s and training them where needed on area’s that I could help with. |
| feb2008 – jun2008 | Snow B.V. | FreeBSD liason | In February, I started helping Ed Schouten with his study, Ed is a student temporary working at Snow B.V, writing an MultiProcessorSafe (MPSAFE) TTY layer for FreeBSD. I act as a liason between FreeBSD and Ed to make sure he can graduate. We both traveled to Canada to let Ed give a presentation for the FreeBSD development team. Ed finally graduated with a 9! |
| okt2006 – may2008 | Snow B.V. | Unix Engineer, Network Engineer, Security Engineer at Financial Institute | At the “Financial Institute” I was a member of the Security / Unix and Networking Team. It was my responsability to maintain various access routers and switches, core routers and switches, as well as key Unix systems and the Firewalls throughout Europe. I was also part of a team that is going to consolidate services and networks from Europe towards one central data Centre (Design phase). I was providing Network architecture, Firewall architecture and where possible Unix server Architecture. From June 2007 till Oct 2007 I trained a new team member with our main area’s of attention: Cisco, Checkpoint and Unix.Starting from late 2007, I was also participating within a consolidation project (Architecture and technical implementation of the design), where I lead the implementations that needs to be done on the networking/unix/checkpoint side. I was responsible for implementing the entire Firewalling infrastructure (multiple clusters, internal security, exteriour security and vpn (remote users, remote site to site) security), both architectural as technical implementation and setup. Together with a Snow Collegue I was also building up the regular network within the new datacenter, implementing a common ground for the routers and switches, implementing tftp services, building up new management hosts with new monitoring tools; all as standarized and flexible as possible. Both my Collegue and I were also very active with communication migrations for the connected countries (we move them from the previous WAN/MPLS provider to the new provider). |
| 2001-sept 2006 | ING Bank | Operational Firewall Administrator / Security Administrator | System administration multiple Sun machines including: Email: Sendmail, DNS: BIND, Checkpoint Management stations and various other tasksSystem administration multiple GUI Applications: Netscape Proxy/Mail Server, Checkpoint, Provider-1, Nokia Horizon Manager, Netscreen Manager, Siteprotector (ISS), HSESystem administration multiple IPSO (3.7, 3.8) machines:Checkpoint FirewallsSystem administration multiple BSD/I , FreeBSD machines: Tunix FirewallsSystem administration multiple ISS RealSecure machines: IDS Server Sensors (Mostly Windows based) IDS Network Sensors (both External as Internal) (based on Windows, Proventia A-series, and G-series appliances)
System administration multiple Cisco devices: SCA’s, Appcelera’s, CSS, HSE, Routers, Switches Reading and acting on multiple security mailinglists/groups Processing Security Events (alerting from the IDS machines) Keeping the security filtering up to date for processing and alerting (Perl based) |
| Functional Security management | Maintaining contacts with external branches all over the worldParticipating in projects taking place all over the world (physical location: NL). Here I need to deliver the concept, implementation options and guiding the technical implementor.Reviewing and maintaining security policies, reviews and important security documentation. | ||
| Temporary teamcoordinator | I replaced the teamcoordinator multiple times when he was not available for work |
Projects
| From-Till | Project | Role/Activities |
|---|---|---|
| 2003-present | FreeBSD | Maintainer of the Dutch Documentation Project
Member of the FreeBSD Documentation Team Member of the FreeBSD Security Team FreeBSD Security Team Secretary (till apr 2013) Member of the FreeBSD Source Committer Team Member of the FreeBSD Bugmeister Team (till jun 2012) |
| 2004-2011 | Evilcoder.org | Writing my own Administration Toolkits in Perl, I stopped this project to focus more on my work.Writing check_honeynet, a custom tool to check the mirror status for various honeynet mirrors. Honeynet later migrated to a dynamic website which stopped all mirrors and thus the tooling. |
| 2001-2005 | DSINet.org | Writing Security Articles (Dutch and English) |
| 2001-2004 | Mostly-Harmless.nl | Guiding newcomersProjectleader Documentation (contents) |
Operating system experiences
| Operating System | Experience |
|---|---|
| SUN (5.6, 5.8 and 5.10) | mailserver, operational management, scripting, routing, etc. |
| Linux (various kernels, variants, SUSE, Redhat, Slackware, Ubuntu etc.) | Installation, Managing and User experiences (firewalling, software maintenance, hosting, routing, etc.) |
| FreeBSD (4.X, 5.X, 6.X, 7.X, 8.X, 9.X / HEAD) | Installation, Managing and User experiences (firewalling, software maintenance, hosting, routing, etc.) |
| PFSense (1.2.3, 2.0) | Installation, upgrading, managing, user experiences, firewalling, VPN, site to site connections etc. |
| OpenBSD (2.9, 3.X, 4.X) | Installation, Managing and User experiences (firewalling, software maintenance, hosting, routing, etc.) |
| NetBSD (1.6.X) | Installation, Managing and User experiences (firewalling, software maintenance, hosting, routing, etc.) |
| Mac OS X (10.3,10.4,10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8) | Installation and User experience |
| Windows (95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7) | Installation and User experience, using office applications (Microsoft based) |
| Windows 2003 (Adv. Server) | Administration, patching, troubleshooting |
Software Experience
| Application |
|---|
| Apache (Unix & Windows) |
| Bluecoat Proxy (5.x) |
| Bluecoat AVscanner |
| Netscape Proxy on Solaris |
| Netscape Mailserver on Solaris |
| Iplanet Webserver on Solaris |
| Nokia IPSO: 3.7, 3.8, 4.0, 4.2 |
| Juniper ScreenOS: 5.x/6.x |
| Juniper JunOS: 10.x |
| Fortigate: 1000AFA2 |
| ISS Realsecure (incl. Siteprotector Management station): various releases |
| F-secure SSH |
| BMC (ITIL Support tool) |
| Tivoli Service Desk |
| OTRS |
| IRMa |
| Bigbrother |
| NMIS: 4.x |
| Nagios: 2.x, 3.x |
| Opsview Core / Pro |
| OpenOSPF: 4.x |
| GIF (ipencap) |
| Various Cisco software applications (IOS, CSS, SCA, AppCelera, CatOS, FWSM, ACS) |
| VPN: IPSEC/isakmpd and OpenVPN (ssl based) |
| Smokeping |
| Tunix applications (Winplug VPN software) |
| Qmail |
| Postfix |
| Exim |
| Courier-Imap |
| Maildrop |
| Dovecot |
| DirectAdmin |
| Webmin |
| Virtualmin |
| MySQL: 3.2x, 4.0x, 4.1x, 5.0x, 5.1x |
| PostgreSQL: 8.x |
| Bind: 4.x, 8.x, 9.x |
| ProFTPD |
| Sendmail |
| PHP |
| OpenSSH (unix) |
| MRTG: unix and windows versions |
| tar/gzip/bzip and other standard tool (less, sed, more, grep, etcetera) |
| Vi/Vim |
| Mutt |
| CVS |
| SVN |
| Mercurial |
| Perforce |
| ipchains |
| iptables (basics) |
| ipmasqadm |
| ipfw |
| ipf |
| pf |
| ALTQ |
| Squid Proxy |
| TinyProxy |
| ipv6 configuration |
| kernel configuration |
| sgml (Markup for textdocuments, see FreeBSD Documentation) |
| xml/xslt (Markup for textdocumenten, see FreeBSD Documentation) |
And a lot more not mentioned here
Software development
| Language | Experience |
|---|---|
| C | Basics |
| Perl | Intermediate |
| PHP | Basics |
| Shell Scripting | Intermediate |
Free Time / Hobbies
In my free time I first of all enjoy being with both my sons and his mother (my wife). Whenever I am “free”, I like to develop new solutions for my colocated machines (which runs a little hosting company), work on FreeBSD, reading various books ranging from fantasy to technical computerbooks, reading up on security issues, playing my guitar, socializing with friends and family, taking pictures with my digital camera.
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