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Wesley Geelhoed IT Architect | Software-Defined DatacentersWG

Wesley Geelhoed

IT Architect | Software-Defined Datacenters
  • Suggested rate
    €880 / day
  • Experience8-15 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
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  • and around Rotterdam (up to 50km)
  • and around Den Haag (up to 100km)
  • and around Amsterdam (up to 100km)
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My name is Wesley Geelhoed, living in Dirksland (NL). To me, enjoyment is the driving force for success.

I am a very driven Freelance IT Architect with my own company Altocumulus Cloud Services. I mainly specialized myself within the VMware multi-cloud industry for the last 8-10 years. With a focus on Networking, Security, Connectivity, and Hybrid Cloud. Before I started my freelance career I worked at VMware as a Staff Consulting Architect within the NEMEA region.

Building virtual infrastructures and contributing to IT solutions is what I love doing most. I developed myself well on different technical areas such as private cloud, public cloud and cloud migrations focused on security and connectivity. Throughout the years I gained a lot of experience with implementations, migrations and creating rock solid IT Architectures. I am VMware vExpert for six (6) years in a row and a VMware Certified Design Expert on Network Virtualization (VCDX-NV) (number 290). VCDXes are part of an elite group holding the highest level of VMware certification. A VCDX has validated its enterprise-class skills as an Architect in VMware solution design in front of a panel of veteran VCDX panel.

I also have a proven track record outside the VMware industry, with certifications as Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) I can guide and help customers throughout the complete infrastructure stack.

My working method can be characterized as thorough, passionate, and explorative. Finding the most appropriate solution is my drive. I am able to work successfully individually and in teams. My added value within a team are my communication skills. A challenge gives me energy!
Experience
  • Altocumulus Cloud Services
    Freelance IT Architect
    DIGITAL & IT
    April 2023 - Today (2 years and 2 months)
    Dirksland, Netherlands
    IT Architecture and Multi-Cloud Consultancy Services

    https://index.wesleygeelhoed.nl/resume voor een actueel inzicht in mijn werkervaring en functies gedurende mijn carriere.
  • VMware
    Staff Consulting Architect
    DIGITAL & IT
    October 2021 - Today (3 years and 8 months)
    Palo Alto, United States
    As a Staff Consulting Architect within the EMEA region I am working on multidisciplinary projects, which means I am responsible for the successful delivery of a wide variety of VMware Solution products. I currently focus on Networking, Security and Cloud Mobility. As a VCDX within VMware I am recognized as someone who is skilled on both technical and soft-skill level and with the ability to learn new technologies very quickly I am able to adapt very quickly into new roles and projects.

    Responsibilities
    - Taking ownership of business outcomes of projects, lead the technical project teams and take accountability for all deliverables within the project.
    - Strategically plan with sales, pre-sales and the customer to build out a roadmap.
    - Vision new services and requirements and be a trusted advisor to technical decision makers and key stakeholders on projects.
    - Defining and presenting transformational journey to customers.
    - Working on project budget with Project Managers.
    - Ensures the solution being deliverd in a fit for purpose manner.
    - Developing VMware consulting service offerings internally with creating best-practices guides and reference designs.
    - I am gathering use-cases and requirements to create high-quality architecture design based on the VCDX design methodology.

    FInd below the type of Projects I was involved with:

    Lead Architect on Migration Project

    Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ( UK ) -
    This was a VCF3 to VCF4 migration/transition project. I made high-level plans and estimations in terms of effort, hours, and different roles required within the project.

    This project was funded internally and had therefore no margin and contingency, therefore we needed to plan very strictly and far ahead and needed to stay on top of the customer in terms of planning.

    This resulted in a very successful project where we migrated a VCF3 to a VCF4 platform within 5 months. Those 5 months are including the following phases: design, deployment, verification, migration planning, migration, project closure.

    Project Overview:
    Workload Migration (HCX)
    Network Migration (HCX + NSX-T)
    Firewall Migration (NSX-v and NSX-T)
    Operations & Monitoring Migration (Aria Suite)
    Migration Planning & Execution

    #Lead Architect for Service Provider Business
    Kongsberg Gruppen ASA ( NOR ) -
    The main driver for this project was all about Tanzu and application modernization. I was accountable for everything that we deliver from a VMware Professional Services perspective.

    We were working on a multi-product solution with NSX, VMware Cloud Director, NSX Advanced Load Balancer, and VMware Tanzu.

    I made a high-level plan and estimation in terms of effort, hours, and different roles required within the project.

    Project Overview:
    VMware Cloud Director Assessment | Migration Readiness
    Design for NSX-T, NSX Advanced Load Balancer and VMware Tanzu
    Deployment for NSX-T NSX Advanced Load Balancer and VMware Tanzu.
    Migration Strategy Documentation
    Knowledge Transfer Sessions

    #Architect on Multi-Cloud Business Projects
    Gemeente Utrecht ( NL ) -
    Within this project, I was assigned as an Architect to work out a strategy for the customer to migrate a part of their on-premises estate to the cloud in Azure. They were utilizing Azure VMware Solution and needed a fully hybrid cloud model.

    Besides utilizing VMware software in the Azure Cloud, they also wanted to start developing Cloud Native applications within AWS. A landing zone including connectivity needed to be designed.

    Project Overview:
    Multi-Cloud Strategy Design
    Migration Plan
    Azure Connectivity Design
    AWS Connectivity Design
  • ITQ
    SDDC Architect
    DIGITAL & IT
    January 2021 - September 2021 (9 months)
    Beverwijk, Netherlands
    During my time as a SDDC Architect at ITQ I was responsible for multiple projects as Architect.

    All projects I participated in can be find below.

    - Migration Architect on a UK based migration project, which was covering 4 physical datacenter locations accross Europe with a Workload estate of 15000 workloads and 400 different networks.
    - Network Architect for a dutch hospital to create routing designs for their new Software-Defined Networking solution and create implementation and migration planning.
    - SDDC Architect for a dutch Service Providerd to design and build a new private cloud platform to offer services to their internal business. This incorporated the complete infrastructure; servers, storage, networking, migration tooling and tooling to provide services centrally to the business.
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  • Computer Science & Information Technology - IT Operations
    Radius College Breda
    2010
  • Computer Science & Information Technology - IT Support
    Albeda College Rotterdam
    2008
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