My name is Bastiaan Kabboord, and i am a freelance IT specialist from the Netherlands. I am an experienced IT Specialist with in-depth technical knowledge, analytical skills and i am a real team player. I am a go-getter, confident and I like challenges. Through my extensive international experience i have highly developed my communication and interpersonal skills. I quickly adapt to any situation to perform effectively. My strengths are mainly my technical knowledge and experience combined with my communication skills so that I can translate problems into technical solutions effortlessly. My specialties are virtualization (VMware vSphere (ESXi), Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop), storage SAN/NAS (EMC CLARiiON, VNX, Atmos, Dell Equallogic, Dell DX, IBM XIV, Hitachi HDS, NetApp Filer, Metro Cluster, Ippany ICE Drive & ICC. Protocols: FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS.), Back-up and Recovery solutions (EMC Networker, EMC Avamar, EMC Data Domain, Veeam Backup & Replication, Symantec Backup Exec.), and Microsoft server solutions (Windows Server 2008/2012, Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010, Microsoft SCOM, SCCM, DPM, Microsoft ISA, Forefront TMG). I have process management (ITIL) and project management skills (Prince2).