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Curriculum Vitae Andree Toonk
Personalia:
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Name
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Toonk
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First
name
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Andree
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Citizenship
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Dutch (The Netherlands)
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Date of
Birth
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01-06-1978
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Home
address:
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Burnaby, BC Canada
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Email
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Andree@Toonk.nl
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Homepage
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http://www.toonk.ca/
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Education:
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2003-2004
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University
of Amsterdam
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Master of Science (MSc) : System and Network engineering
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Graduated
in September 2004 (Cum
Laude / With Distinction)
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2000-2003
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Hogeschool
van Utrecht.
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Bachelor of Science (BSc): Communication Technology
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Graduated:
2003
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Projects:
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Active
projects I am working on
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BGPmon.net
http://bgpmon.net
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I am the
author of BGPmon.net. BGPmon is popular free tool for BGP network
administrators to monitor BGP announcements for anomalies, stability and
different kind of prefix hijacks.
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TL1 Toolkit
http://search.cpan.org/~rvdp/TL1Toolkit-0.01/
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The TL1 Toolkit is an open source Perl module to interface with TL1
capable devices*. It executes TL1 commands and returns the results in Perl
data structures. This tool is
currently in use by a number of networks running a variety of vendors such as
Nortel, Cisco, Ciena and Adva.
* TL1 is the CLI language supported by most
optical devices.
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Employment History
2007–
Current
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BCNET & University of
British Columbia
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Job
title:
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Network Architect
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Location:
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Vancouver,
Canada (http://www.bc.net)
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Description:
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BCNET
is the regional research network of British Columbia (Canada). BCNET provides
high-speed optical network capabilities to British Columbia's higher
education and research institutions.
As a network architect at BCNET my main
responsibilities are managing the optical network as well as the routed
network.
The optical network is a DWDM network with
ROADM functionality transporting SONET and OTN signals. My responsibilities vary from
troubleshooting, to design considerations as well as evaluating monitoring
tools and where necessary develop our own tools.
As a result I have implemented a set of
network management tools specifically for optical transport networks. This monitoring
system is based on the Perl TL1 toolkit, SNMP, MySQL, RRD and PHP.
My team is also responsible for upgrading the
BCNET network to a 10Gb/s capable routed and switched network. This included
the Request for Proposal (RFP), selecting vendors as well as writing design
documents and a test plans. During this period I have gained in-depth
knowledge and hands-on experience with MPLS and VPLS technologies.
At BCNET I worked with a wide range of
equipment like Cisco and Juniper as well as Nortel CPL (ROADM), OME6500 and
Passport 8600.
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2004
– 2007
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SARA
Computing and Networking Services
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Job
title:
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Senior Network
Specialist
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Location:
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Amsterdam,
The Netherlands (http://www.sara.nl)
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Description:
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As a Senior Network Specialist I was
responsible for the design & management of a number of high profile
customer networks. One of those networks was SURFnet, which is the Dutch
national research network.
The SURFnet network is an advanced national
infrastructure that connects all universities and academic hospitals and most
polytechnics and research centres in the Netherlands. This is a state of the art
network build on wide range of optical technologies such as CWDM, DWDM ROADM,
OTN & SDH/SONET.
I have gained hands-on experience with
different types of routers such as Cisco and Avici and worked with routing
protocols such as BGP, ISIS, OSPF for both IPv4 and IPv6, both unicast and
multicast.
I have gained considerable experience with Cisco routers
(primarily 12xxx(GSR), 72xx
and 6500), Avici routers, Nortel
equipment such as OM5200, Nortel OME6500, Nortel HDXc, Nortel CPL (DWDM),
Nortel 1060 (CWDM). Cisco ONS15454, Nortel Passport 8600.
Along with the daily network
management tasks I spend 75% of my time on innovation projects as a member of
the SARA Network Research Group. Subjects that I worked on were: the Perl TL1
toolkit, Lightpath monitoring, (Optical) control plane technologies, GMPLS
and on-demand network provisioning.
As part of this I visited and gave presentations
on conferences such as the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), Intenet2
joint techs, Terena and GLIF (Global Lambda Integrated Facility).
I am also co-author of multiple articles about
management software for optical networks and describing networks in XML/RDF,
see: http://www.toonk.nl/articles.php
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2003
-2004
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Hoge
school van Utrecht (HvU)
(Polytechnic school)
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Location:
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Utrecht,
The Netherlands (http://www.hvu.nl)
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Job
title:
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Part-time
teacher and network administrator
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Description:
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During my study I worked as a part-time
teacher in CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) & CCNP.
My responsibilities were: preparing the
lessons, answering questions of students as well as assessing the lab exams.
Besides the Cisco curriculum I was also
responsible for the design, implementation of the Computer & science
department network.
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2003
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Amsterdam
Internet Exchange (AMS-IX)
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Location:
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Amsterdam,
The Netherlands (http://www.ams-ix.net)
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Job
title:
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Graduate
student
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Description:
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As part
of my Bachelors degree program I did a six-month project at the Amsterdam
Internet Exchange. AMS-IX is the largest Internet Exchange in Europe.
During this project it was my responsibility
to make the network and the services running on the network IPv6 compatible.
I did
research on multihoming issues in IPv6, as well locater and identifier
separation initiatives.
I have
gained significant experience with IPv6 and several associated protocols.
During this period I learnt a great deal about the architecture of the (inter
domain) Internet, Internet Exchanges and related protocols such as BGP.
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2000
– 2004
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ZXFactory
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Location:
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Ede, The
Netherlands (http://www.zx.nl)
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Job
title:
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(Unix) Solution engineer
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Description:
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ZXFactory is specialized in the maintenance
and facilitation of complex ICT environments.
My team was responsible for the management,
administration and troubleshooting of the large server farms of several major
Dutch Internet service providers.
I Primarily worked on Mail, Web, LDAP
and DNS systems. During this period I gained experience with open source
products as well as several Operating Systems such as Sun Solaris and Linux. As a network administrator
setting up an 802.1X capable wireless network as well as designing and
managing several other networks.
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Relevant certification
2008 OTDR and Optical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA).
2006 Nortel
OME6500
2006 Nortel
OM5200
2006 Nortel
CPL (COMMON PHOTONIC LAYER / DWDM)
2004 CCNP
(Cisco Certified Network Professional).
2002 CCNA
(Cisco Certified Network Associate).
Languages:
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Native language:
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Dutch
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Other languages:
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English: Excellent
knowledge (fluent)
German: basic knowledge
French: very basic knowledge
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Programming languages
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- Perl
- PHP
- Java
- MySQL
- Bash scripting
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Articles and presentations
I have given a number of talks and am the co-author of
several articles. Subjects vary from managing optical networks, to IPv6 and BGP
security. For a complete list please see the URLs below.
http://www.toonk.nl/presentations.php
http://www.toonk.nl/articles.php
Relevant conferences
* Speaker
Nanog45 *
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January 2009,
Santo Domingo, Dominican republic
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Canheit 2008
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June 2008,
Calgary, Canada
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Cisco Live,
Networkers
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June 2008,
Orlando, USA
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BCNET conference
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April, 2008;
Vancouver, Canada
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Terena Networking
Conference 2007 *
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May, 2007;
Denmark, Copenhagen
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Internet2 Joint
techs
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January, 2008;
Honolulu Hawaii, USA
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Internet2 Joint
techs
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February, 2007;
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Internet2 Joint
techs
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February, 2006; Albuquerque,
New Mexico, USA
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IETF 68
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March, 2007;
Prague, Czech Republic;
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IETF 67
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November, 2006;
San Diego, CA, USA;
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IETF 65
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March, 2006;
Dallas, TX, USA;
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IETF 64
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November, 2005; Vancouver, BC, Canada;
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GLIF Working
Group Meeting
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January, 2008;
Honolulu Hawaii, USA
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GLIF Working
Group Meeting
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February, 2007;
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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GLIF Working
Group Meeting *
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February, 2006;
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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GLIF 6th Annual
Global LambdaGrid Workshop *
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September; 2006
Tokyo, Japan
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Several vendor
visits
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Cisco (Amsterdam
& Brussels).
(2005,
2006, 2007) Nortel (Ottawa, Canada)
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