Gunther Van den Bosch
Azure cloud/.Net/SQL engineer
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Bonheiden, Belgium
Profile
Highly skilled and experienced IT specialist with 25+ years of experience in building and integrating systems for various enterprise customers and specializing in Azure cloud infrastructure, .Net and SQL based systems. Has experience in all phases of project delivery starting from pre-sales activities, RFP’s and customer interaction while gathering the initial requirements, all the way through the project lifecycle, until production deployment and operations.
Core topics
Languages
Dutch:
English:
French:
Soft skills
problem solving – active listening – coordination – mentoring – attention to detail
Certifications
Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
Recently used tools and technologies
.Net Core – ASP.Net Core MVC – WinUI3 – WPF – C# - VB.Net – .Net Framework – ASP.Net – WCF – WinForms – WebForms
MSSQL – Always Encrypted – CT – CDC – T-SQL – bcp – stored procedures
Azure (Key vault - Storage - SQL - AAD - AADDS - VM - WAF - SDN - DNS - Application Insights - Monitor - Web Apps - Functions - DevOps - Kusto) - Terraform
Dapper ORM – OpenID Connect – OpenApi – IIS – WSUS
Windows server – Redhat Linux – Ubuntu Linux – Oracle VirtualBox – Hyper-V
Git/gitflow – Visual Studio – VS Code – SSMS – SoapUI – PowerShell – cUrl – openSSL – Gimp – putty – Wireshark – WinSCP
Experience
VADEBO consulting | Emworx ltd:
10/2024 – 11/2024
Rework a legacy application to become operational again using the newer Amazon APIs.
Improve monitoring and follow-up through a system-wide log management system.
Roles: .Net engineer, system engineer, application development
VADEBO consulting:
06/2024 – 09/2024
Short consultancy assignments
Education/certification
VADEBO consulting | Denver University (education/research):
03/2024 – 05/2024
Implementation of short-term improvements to improve application stability and operations.
Identified design and implementation issues.
Roles: solution architect, application development
VADEBO consulting | Denver University (education/research):
02/2024 – 03/2024
Defined the short and long-term strategy for the forecasting application.
Identified design and implementation issues.
Roles: solution architect.
Unisys Belgium | ITLB (public sector - mobility):
06/2022 – 02/2024
Migrated an existing .Net back-office application from a multi data center setup to a redundant Azure cloud setup.
Designed the required cloud infrastructure to facilitate the application and the added (security related) requirements.
Identified and implemented all required application modification to support the new infrastructure.
Roles: cloud infra architect, solution architect, application designer
Unisys Belgium | ITLB (public sector - mobility):
01/2022 – 09/2022
Redesigned the legacy WinForms based .Net desktop application to a WinUI3 application to accommodate the required technology refresh.
Created a proof-of-concept setup to show the effects of the technology changes.
Customized the Twain scanning module to match the third-party OCR module.
Roles: Application designer, POC developer.
Unisys Belgium | ITLB (public sector - mobility):
01/2021 – 12/2021
Evolutive & corrective maintenance of the .Net applications in Azure and in dedicated data centers.
Roles: Solution architect, development, technical coordination.
Unisys Belgium | ITLB (public sector - mobility):
10/2018 – 12/2020
Added a completely new online ordering channel to increase the automation of the ordering and payment process for the customer.
Successfully passed the required third-party security audit for the internet facing application.
Designed the application and cloud infrastructure, integrated with an online payment provider, eID based authentication, an accounting, supplier and government interface.
Roles: Solution design & implementation, Azure infra design & implementation.
Unisys Belgium | ITLB (public sector - mobility):
01/2017 – 05/2018
Opened the current back-office system towards the Tachonet 3 platform of the European Commission to facilitate inter-country data exchange between the European member states.
Ensuring smooth transition towards the integrated platform through specification reviews and coordination with the European Commission partners.
Designed and implemented the Soap web service based integration.
Roles: Technical coordination with EU, design and implementation.
Unisys Belgium | ING (finance):
09/2016 – 12/2018
Improved the user experience of an internal legacy web application through a complete redesign and modernization.
Decreased the complexity by reworking the underlying interfacing layers.
Roles: solution architecture, design, technical coordination & development.
Unisys Belgium | ITLB (public sector – mobility):
11/2015 – 10/2016
Assured business continuity of an existing back-office application in a migration towards two new redundant data centers.
Achieved a smooth migration through architecture, design and coordination with all involved third-party stakeholders.
Roles: solution architecture, design, technical coordination, development, technical interaction with external parties.
Unisys Belgium | ING (finance):
10/2014 – 12/2018
Ensured the operational activities of internal middleware and supporting web applications.
Improved the user experience through evolutive maintenance.
Roles: solution architecture, design, technical coordination, development.
Unisys Belgium | ITLB (public sector – mobility):
11/2014 – 11/2015
Improved the supportability of an existing back-office application through a major technology refresh.
Roles: architecture, design, technical coordination, development, technical interaction with external parties.
Unisys Belgium | ING (finance):
01/2014 – 09/2014
Brought a solution to the complex management of all configuration items of an internal distributed middleware application through the design and implementation of a web-based management application.
Roles: solution architecture, design, development.
Unisys Belgium | ING (finance):
09/2012 – 12/2013
Improved security and supportability of an intranet web application through a major technology refresh.
Roles: solution architecture, design, migration development
Unisys Belgium | ING (finance):
11/2011 – 09/2012
Assisted in a smooth migration of BDS repositories through the design and creation of a toolkit for execution and follow-up of all migration steps.
Roles: solution architecture, design, migration tool development.
Unisys Belgium | CHR (healthcare):
10/2011 – 11/2011
Resource and infrastructure optimization through migration of a Linux based application server to the Unisys MCP mainframe JProcessor.
Roles: java & JBoss support, Application development and methodology guidance.
Unisys Belgium | Mobistar (telco):
10/2011 – 11/2011
Improve the user friendliness of the application with changes in the context of evolutive maintenance.
Roles: use-case definition, functional analysis, implementation.
Unisys Belgium | ACV/CSC (union):
04/2011 – 10/2011
Created a complete business process description using use cases and prototyping for the Statutory premium and decorations functional module of the union.
Roles: use-case definition, functional analysis, development.
Unisys Belgium | internal:
06/2010 – 12/2010
Design & implementation of a repeatable and reusable development infrastructure for internal use.
Roles: system architecture, system design, implementation, operational follow-up.
Unisys Belgium | Mobistar (telco):
01/2010 – 06/2010
Created additional business support through the design and implementation of a web service based email campaign database.
Roles: system architecture, system design, implementation, operational follow-up, pre-sales.
Unisys Belgium | Mobistar (telco):
01/2008 – 12/2009
Facilitated the integration of different backend systems via the design and implementation of JCA connectors and web services to disclose prepaid backend systems to the customer contact applications.
Roles: system architecture, system design, implementation.
Unisys Belgium | Mobistar (telco):
01/2004 – 12/2007
Development of portlets and web services to support the customers and partners on the public web.
Roles: system architecture, system design, implementation.
Unisys Belgium | Mobistar (telco):
10/2001 – 12/2009
Design, development and maintenance of an application platform to manage the prepaid customer promotions.
Roles: system design, implementation.
Unisys Belgium | Mobistar (telco):
06/2001 – 09/2001
Corrective and adaptive maintenance of existing call center applications.
Roles: application analysis & design, requirements analysis, 3rd level support.
Unisys Belgium | Belgacom (telco):
04/2001 – 05/2001
Process and business analysis and system architecture within the HR domain.
Roles: project planning & follow-up, process analysis, system architecture.
Unisys Belgium | Belgacom (telco):
12/1998 – 03/2001
Call center user interface application which enforces a workflow and connects to the legacy backend systems.
Roles: development team leader, technical & functional application design.
Datapoint Belgium | Belgacom (telco):
04/1997 – 12/1998
Call center user interface application which enforces a workflow and connects to the legacy backend systems
Roles: development team leader, technical & functional application design.
Computer Specialists Services | Belgacom (telco):
09/1996 – 03/1997
Call center user interface application which enforces a workflow and connects to the legacy backend systems
Roles: development.
Tools and technologies used in the past
Oracle RDBMS – PL/SQL – Advanced Queuing – Java Stored Procedures – SQL*Loader – External Tables – IOT/hash cluster – performance tuning
SQLDeveloper – SQL Data Modeler – SQL*Plus
java/j2ee – servlet – jsp – ejb3 – jms – jca – javamail – jmx – jax-rs – jax-ws
ksh – awk – perl – php
Weblogic – JBoss – Tomcat – maven – ant – Hudson/Jenkins – Sonar – Archiva
apache httpd – ldap
Redhat linux – SunOS – HPux
Eclipse – Hg – SVN – Fortify
