Remko Lodder

Barendrecht remko@elvandar.org
Netherlands Linkedin: remkolodder

I am an experienced (people) manager, coach and (technical) engineer. My expertise lies in management, coaching, virtualization, automation, Unix, networking, CI/CD and security.

Currently I spend my days as ChapterLead (Managing Engineer) in the Virtualization and Storage team within ING, where I am supported by a team of strong Virtualization experts. Next to being the peoplemanager of the team, I am also the Ansible automation expert within the team.

In the past I have been a -long term- FreeBSD contributor, active as Security Team member, Documentation Team member (I created and led the Dutch Documentation project for a long time), Source committer and a lot of additional roles within the FreeBSD team.

I am known as a stress resistant person, I am able to keep cool when something high pressure happends. I am there for my team, always trying to make them better one step at a time, therefor I am a team player. My team members will tell you that I am thoughtful and reliable. I have a consistent way of working making me stable to work with. With all the experience I have, I am self assured that I can do the job perfectly well, yet I remain inventive to find new ways of working, listening to new arguments and learning each new day. Knowing how things work, I can keep the end goal in scope, I am result driven. I am also organised in how I work to keep overview and control.

Professional Experience

: 09-2021 - Present

ING Bank NV, Rotterdam/Amsterdam

ChapterLead Virtualization and Storage
Highlights: Management, Coaching, HR, Various virtualization solutions (VMware, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vRealize Suite/Aria suite, HP Oneview, Dell Openmanage), Powershell, Ansible, Azure DevOps, Agile

At ING, I have a dual task.

  • I am the HR/People Manager for my team. I am responsible for all people related activities from hiring, performance management, coaching, periodic talks, member of the GTDCN MT. I challenge my team members where possible and help them to develop themselves to find their ’next extended version’ of themselves. Within the MT I have a strong precense and I enjoy working on new ideas, either pushed by myself or others, and make them a succes. I have a keen eye for individual needs and can use my experience and coaching skills to get through the point of how and why someone wants to develop. I stimulate that the best I can, either by challenging them or facilitating the requirements. I also represent our tribe within ING and beyond on the topic of manegerial items and engineering related activities. Using my network background I try to bridge between the various groups, departments and business units to make work better for everyone I am in contact with.

  • Secondly, am also an Engineer for the Virtualisation team. I am responsible for the automated deployment of our VMware stack using Ansible. I finished, refined and updated the automation for a full deployment stack. This deployment starts with a vanilla server and ends with a fully installed virtualized hosting platform, forming our Private Cloud. I am member of the Security and Risk team within our tribe, and I manage the Disaster Recovery tests and take part in one of the DR’s periodically. I write documentation, and experiment with self writing documentation using Markdown, Ansible and Mermaid. I use automation like pipelines within Azure DevOps to automate our mentioned deployments and beyond. I share my knowledge to everyone who takes interest in the topics we handle by giving presentations, assisting/supporting colleagues by helping them getting further, but also challenge them where applicable. Together with my peers (either Chapterleads and/or technical peers), we challenge each other most often and proceed with the best knowledge moving forward. I am creative since we as ING most often exceed the usage of a product beyond to what is documented, we need to find our own way in using products to the best capability.

: 10-2006 - 08-2021

Sue B.V. (Formerly Snow B.V.), Geldermalsen

Technical Field Manager, Unix/Network/Security Consultant
Highlights: Field Management, Coaching, Networking, Security, Unix

Within Sue I did a lot of various consultancy assignments, ranging from top ISP’s, financial institutes, healthcare industry and government bodies and more. My main specialties included here are: Coaching, Consultancy, Designing, Team Leading, (Technical) Projectleading, Engineering and building solutions for the customer(s). I used, configured, designed, changed, setup a lot of various products, like Aruba, Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Alcatel. For this it was often needed to have communications with colleagues, management, other groups, projectgroups, projectleads. I often found myself in a sort of Technical Projectleader role and/or organisational role to personally guide all these efforts. Team sizes ranged from 4 to 24 people, and at Snow/Sue internally 35+ people that I Was responsible for. I needed to write a lot of parsers (shell scripts, python) to convert data from A to B to be able to do proper monitoring and such. I am able to speak with colleagues, management, director level people. I can write recommendations and am able to parse information back from management to fellow colleagues.

Jobs Positions:

  • Stiching de Opbouw: 2021 (Technical Specialist)
  • Sue B.V.: 2019-2021 (HR Coach/Technical field manager)
  • Gemeente Woerden: 2017-2019 (Sr. Unix/Network Administrator/Designer)
  • Snow/Sue B.V.: 2016-2017 (Sr. Unix/Network Administrator)
  • Wintershall Noordzee B.V.: 2016 (Sr. Network Administrator)
  • Ziggo / Liberty Global: 2011-2016 (Sr. Network and Security Administrator)
  • KPN Telecom B.V.: 2008-2011 (Sr. Network and Security Administrator)
  • Intrum Justitia: 2006-2008 (Sr. Network and Security Administrator)

: 2001-2006

ING Bank NV, Rotterdam/Amsterdam/Arnhem

Firewall, Unix and Security Engineer
Focus: Projects, Security administrator, Networking, Risk Management

Part of the Security and Firewall team of ING Banking, replacement teamlead, technical implementator. Updated various chunks of the monitoring, managed unix and firewall devices based on Solaris and/or Nokia devices.

Recent Education

  • Grafana
  • CI/CD Pipelines in Azure Devops
  • Powershell Step by Step
  • Modern Productivity Superhuman focus in a distracted world
  • Frazzled to Focused
  • Clear and simple vSphere 8 professional,
  • VMWare vSAN: Deploy and manage v7,
  • Github actions,
  • Hashicorp Terraform,
  • Excel Data analysis with Excel Pivot Tables,
  • VMware vSphere 8: Install Configure Manage via VMware (Global Knowledge)
  • Create Consistent Technical Documentation
  • Git & Github Masterclass
  • VMware Cloud Foundation: Install Configure Manage (VCF) via VMware (Global Knowledge)
  • NLP Practitioner via Bureau Personal Development (Rob Kamps);

Certifications

  • GSEC
  • LPI1
  • LPI2
  • ITIL
  • Checkpoint CCSA, CCSE+
  • BSDA
  • JNCIA-JunOS
  • NSE1, NSE2 (Fortigate)
  • CISSP
  • CCNA
  • CCNP
  • RHCSA
  • RHCE8 (Ansible)
  • Oplossingsgericht Coachen

Publications

Hobbies/Interests

Whenever I am not at work, busy for work or studying for work, I like to spend time with my wife & kids. I like to go out for a walk with my dog, bike, swim. I periodically get together with friends, and we chat about current life events, play a game, have a good time together, or visit the theater/concerts. I like to listen to various music flavours but mainly rock music. I like to pretend that I can drive as fast as any F1-driver in my F1 simulator, and I like to play the guitar or learn for my guitar lessons. For that I use one of my two Epiphone Les Paul Standards combined with a NUX Loop pedal, driven by a Boss Katana 50 MK2 amplifier.

I read on a daily basis, sometimes about coaching, management related books, or just a fantasy book to just relax when I can. Book suggestions are always welcome!

Recently I also become more curious to how the human brain works in combination with what you say, think and do. This is one of the reasons why I did the NLP Practioner extended course at BPD Training.