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Personal Information
Name: Siong Han
Birth date 17/10/1970, Rotterdam
Sex: Male
Marital status: Married, two kids
E-mail: siong_han@hotmail.com
Native language: Dutch
Current job status: Freelancer
International work experience: England, Hungary, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Germany

Education
OSG de Randijk (Netherlands)

Work Experience
10/2001 - 02/2005 Next Element BV IT specialist and 1st, 2nd, 3rd line customer support 24/7 (phone and email), repairing servers (hardware) network maintenance, upgrading core routers, peering, LIR-member (SH1150-RIPE)
 Achievements: increasing number of peerings by 800% and bringing down upstream cost by 72%
 Achievements: hand in first apprehension of Holland's biggest spammer
8/2006 - 3/2007 Lycos Europe customer support
 Achievements: writing the first technical manual for that helpdesk
10/2007 - 02/2008 Skype Customer Support department connection problems German, English and Dutch
 Achievements: being a member of #nlnog allowed me to pinpoint network problems on the Internet prior to the official channels, so we were able to help customers faster
 reason for departure: bought house, unable to work from house
12/2007 - 12/2009 Entrepreneur Translating websites and website design and development (LAMP, W3C, SEO)
 Achievements: http://www.dentalimpex.nl http://swchq.co.uk http://www.cheyas.com http://vindcreatieven.nl/ etc...
12/2009 - 08/2010 TSA at HP/Total Technical Support Agent B2B: First level support through secure connections for Win2K, WinXP, migration to Windows Vista, SAP, Cisco VPN, Lotus Notes, Outlook and a hundred other office applications
 Achievements:
Creating and improving manuals for the Dutch/Belgium Helpdesk team
Winner of May 2010 competition at Total Helpdesk: Best TSA agent
 reason for departure: pregnancy of my wife
01/2011 - 05/2011 TSA at IBM Technical Support Agent B2B: First level support by email and phone and connecting through secure connections to clusters (Window Server)and additional hardware.
Support for clusters and additional hardware that was placed with car dealers from a leading car manufacturing company in Germany
 reason for departure:
Twofolded: The helpdesk was being fased out to Rumenia and due to my skills and knowledge about Windows migrations I was asked to support another team at IBM
05/2011 - now TSA at IBM Technical Support Agent B2B: Registering and handeling incoming support requests (ITIL) by phone and email for first and second level support for a leading chemical company. We supported Windows 7 and the migration from Windows Xp to Windows 7 through secure Cisco and AT&T connections
Mainframe, SAP, Windows Office 2003 and 2007, livemeeting, applications, Windows Xp, Windows7, VAX
 reason for departure:
due to sickness of a family I had to make the decision to return home

Language Skills
Dutch Speaking: Excellent Writing: Excellent Understanding: Excellent
English Speaking: Excellent Writing: Excellent Understanding: Excellent
German Speaking: Good Writing: Average Understanding: Good
French Speaking: Average Writing: Basic Understanding: Average
Estonian Speaking: Basic Writing: Basic Understanding: Average

Computer Skills
Creating and maintaining websites (LAMP)
Lotus Notes, migration to Windows Vista, WinXp, Win2K, Micorsoft Office
repairing servers (hardware), network maintenance, mainframe, VAX

Additional Info About Future Job
Availability for starting work: Agreed upon
Availability for business trips: Yes
Willing to move (international): Finland

Date of editing CV: 01/08/2011