# cmeerbeek.eurosky.social (@cmeerbeek.eurosky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/cmeerbeek.eurosky.social

## Career

- **Product Owner Messaging & Services Infrastructure at Schiphol** (Jan 2024 - Present)
  Led end-to-end product strategy and delivery for Schiphol's critical messaging and infrastructure platforms, managing a portfolio that includes Red Hat 3scale (API Management), Confluent Kafka (Event Streaming), and Red Hat AMQ (Enterprise Messaging).
  
  Key Responsibilities:
  \- Developed comprehensive product strategy and roadmap based on stakeholder needs and business priorities
  \- Built and mentored high-performing product teams using Team Topology principles
  \- Established data-driven prioritization frameworks to maximize platform value
  \- Managed full product lifecycle from ideation to delivery and measurement  Notable Achievements:
  \- Orchestrated complete redesign and implementation of Confluent Kafka platform in just 6 months, resulting in 60% monthly cost reduction while improving usability and performance
  \- Implemented quarterly portfolio planning process that dramatically improved stakeholder alignment and delivery predictability
  \- Created systematic product pipeline scoring methodology to objectively evaluate and prioritize roadmap initiatives
  \- Developed compelling budget proposals with clear business cases that secured executive approval and funding
  \- Achieved greatly improved team performance metrics and high employee satisfaction through structured team development
- **Freelance Observability Engineer / Consultant / Architect at Blue Factory Internet** (Mar 2011 - Jan 2025)
  For most companies monitoring/observability is not their core business. It is for me. I have spent years at small and large companies so I know exactly where I need to measure and improve. With the list of solutions I am an expert in, I will create the insights to make the right decisions and grow faster!  I was hired as a:
  \1. Solution Architect (design architecture + implementation)
  \2. Consultant (advise and management)  My main focus was the Splunk product portfolio which include Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Observability (former SignalFX) and AppDynamics.
  
  Projects include:
  \- Solution Architect IT Monitoring & AIOps at ASML
  \- Solution Architect Monitoring CoronaMelder
  \- Splunk Architect / Developer at Schiphol
  \- Splunk Architect / Developer at IVO Rechtspraak
  \- AppDynamics implementation at different profit and non-profit organizations
  \- Multiple BSM/Sitescope/uCMDB implementation at different profit and non-profit organizations  Blue Factory Internet is a brand of C. Meerbeek B.V.
- **Product Owner Platform Services at Royal Schiphol Group** (Feb 2022 - Dec 2023)
  As a Product Owner Platform Services at Schiphol, I am responsible for all aspects of the products that the team builds and supports. I am also responsible for the flow of the team so that they achieve maximum results but also have a lot of fun!  The following platforms were under my responsibility:
  \* Red Hat OpenShift
  \* API Management
  \* CI/CD
  \* Confluent Kafka
  \* Red Hat AMQ  Achievements:
  \* Moved the OpenShift Container Platform in Azure from beta to production ready state
  \* Migrated API Management gateways from legacy infrastructure to Azure landing zone
  \* Increased the customer satisfaction and usage of the CI/CD platform based on Azure DevOps by streamlining the onboarding, adding new features like Mend and refactoring parts of the Terraform code bheind it
  \* Setup of 3 teams based on Team Topology principles which resulted in high-performing teams with high employee satisfaction

## Projects

- **Implementation of HP RUM for iDeal, Mobile - Internet Banking** (Nov 2012 - Sep 2013)
  Implementation of HP RUM infrastructure. Discussions with internal organization to decide which transactions to monitor. Implementation of HP RUM in BSM (views, alerting, reports).

## Skills

### Technical
- Devops
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Microsoft Azure
- Programming
- Python
- Web Development
### Business
- Agile Methodologies
- Management
- Online Marketing
- Performance Management
- Sales Management
### Security
- IT Service Management
- Splunk
### Other
- IT Operations
- ITIL
- Performance Monitoring
- Performance Tuning
- Product Manager
- Service Delivery

## Credentials

- Professional Scrum Product Owner™ II (PSPO II) — Scrum.org (Nov 2023) https://www.credly.com/badges/338b81d1-d6c9-4d18-ae9f-556ab5762fc9/linked_in_profile
- Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I) — Scrum.org (Jun 2023) https://www.credly.com/badges/5da40ca9-11a7-49f3-a2ea-42681bda1451/linked_in_profile
- LFS250: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Essentials — The Linux Foundation (May 2022) https://www.credly.com/badges/498602e7-2c68-40d0-8b64-c8701711aa26?source=linked_in_profile
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals — Microsoft (Apr 2021) https://www.credly.com/badges/a68f000d-1250-453f-893b-0c31176f1908?source=linked_in_profile
- Splunk Certified Architect V7+ — Splunk (Oct 2019)
- Splunk Certified Consultant II — Splunk (Feb 2016)
- Splunk Certified Consultant I — Splunk (Jan 2016)
- Splunk Certified Sales Engineer I — Splunk (Jan 2016)
- Splunk Certified Sales Engineer II — Splunk (Jan 2016)
- Splunk Certified Sales Rep I — Splunk (Jan 2016)
- AppDynamics Certified Expert — AppDynamics (Jul 2015)
- AppDynamics Accredited Engineer — AppDynamics (May 2015)
- Splunk Certified Architect V6 — Splunk (Oct 2014)

## Education

- **Hogeschool van Utrecht** — Bachelor of ICT (2001 - 2006)
  This course was divided in two parts of two years. The first two years are for general ICT knowledge. The second period is much more technical.
  
  Some projects I executed:
  \- Technical Design bankingapplication (UML)
  \- Development of a J2EE bankapplication. (EJB's, WebServices, JBoss)
  \- Development of a webbased mall (PHP, MySQL, internationalization)

## Languages

- Dutch (native)
- English (professional working)
- German (limited working)