Yves Dandoy
Senior Disaster Recovery & Continuity Consultant
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Bruxelles, Belgique
Freelance, ouvert au CDI
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Introduction
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity specialist with 15+ years managing critical IT operations for major financial institutions and tech companies. Led DRP implementations at BNP Paribas Fortis, ING, and Worldline, organizing disaster simulations and ensuring audit compliance. Expert in infrastructure resilience, change management, and crisis coordination—ready to safeguard your business operations.
Expérience de travail
DRP Officer
Worldline
août 2022 - mai 2023
10 mois
Bruxelles, Belgique
Service Continuity Manager
Smals
janv. 2017 - déc. 2021
5 ans
Brussels Area, Belgium
Infrastructure Releases management DRP exercises organsation
DRP project manager
SMALS via Xquisit
sept. 2016 - déc. 2016
4 mois
Brussels Area, Belgium
Managing a DRP project for SMALS
Technical coordinator/DRP consultant
BNP Paribas Fortis via Xquisit
juil. 2011 - août 2016
5 ans 2 mois
Brussels Area, Belgium
Same job description as previous one @Ing and @Belgacom Mobile
DRP consultant
ING Bank Belgium
sept. 2010 - déc. 2010
4 mois
Review Disaster Recovery and Business continuity procedures to bring it to required level of conformity to auditors imposed rules. Organize disasters simulations to verify documentation and fix it if necessary.
System Engineer
Atos Worldline Financial Markets
janv. 2007 - déc. 2008
2 ans
OpenVMS System Engineer, responsible of day to day production management and performance tuning and monitoring, support to developers and DRP maintenance and simulations realizations, SAN maintenance, setup and management. DRP documentation maintenance and writing, disasters simulations . Organization, planning and observation of simulations of disasters with operation management and field network and system engineers in order to perform servers failover between 2 data centers in 2 separated locations and back to normal operations afterwards. Maintenance and update of the DRP documentation with feedback from the exercises. Maintenance or modification of the DRP topology and/or procedure with feedback from exercises and/or modification of the workflows, infrastructure topology and business priorities
Network engineer
Getronics
août 2008 - oct. 2008
3 mois
Security support engineer / consultant, remote infrastructure management, 3rd line telephone support in 3 languages for all matters security, VPN, network sniffing, advices, traffic encryption issues and debugging
Consultant
Devoteam Belgium
janv. 2007 - mai 2007
5 mois
Become specialist of HP Select Identity Consultant on security/networking/system integration/disaster recovery-business continuity projects
Application Engineer (IT DRP)
Belgacom Mobile
avr. 2004 - déc. 2004
9 mois
Responsible for the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity technical specifications writing, verification of actual process and project managers advising during projects development and testing phases. Workgroups organization with field engineers in order to collect feedback and make common decisions concerning the strategy to follow during the next days, as well as on a longer time frame, pinpoint running and emerging ones. Write a condensed version in a weekly document directed to the operations management Perform recurrent studies and audits and write reports on specific points on operations management request. Prepare, organize, follow disasters simulations exercises with the help of the workgroups in order to draw conclusions on what had been observed and potential solutions to encountered problems and write it and present it in documents directed to the operations management
Approach Belgium
mai 2001 - mai 2004
3 ans 1 mois
Consultant
mai 2001 - mai 2004
3 ans 1 mois
Project Euratom: security assessment and deployment, Encryption of IP traffic going through public lines between buildings using Netscreen firewalls as cryptoboxes. operating systems hardening(Windows workstation, server and HP/UX hardening against intrusions and in general data protection setup) workflow analysis to secure it by setting up VPN's where necessary complete LAN redesign by insertion of intrusion detection systems (Real Secure) and firewalls (Nokia and Netscreens) where applicable writing and presentation of “procedures of conduct” to be made mandatory to every member of the institution to insure an acceptable level of security with regard to the extreme sensitivity of the data. Writing documentaion, best practices, user's manuals and executive report Project Kone: worldwide WAN security assessment (12000 workstations and 1500 servers from a central point in Brussels with a software evaluated and chosen for it's capacity to perform reliably, in batch mode at predefined moments with the possibility to fine tune it's methodology to minimize its impact on the normal traffic and capacity to generate easily readable reports with versions fine tuned to different categories of people ranging from the CEO to field engineers) penetration testings, writing and presentation of security procedures. Interim security officer (during 6 MONTHS) responsible for all the day-to-day tasks regarding security: meetings, virus outbreak reactions, documentation, prepare deployment of assessment tools
Consultant
mai 2001 - mai 2004
3 ans 1 mois
Project Goca: network deployment proposition as an answer to Goca direction to replace it's original WAN topology based on leased lines by a newly designed one based on less expensive ADSL lines in order to reduce operation costs drastically (feasibility study of the « tree topology» setup in lab of IPSEC traffic encryption with creation of VPN's and automatic call-in and hang-up on DB requests network physical deployment and IPSEC encryption setup ands validation in Goca's sites across Belgium with quality control of the newly installed solution (based on Cisco routers/crypto boxes and firewalls) Internal IT management: daily maintenance of Windows/Linux/Mac OS X servers evolution planning. Project EEC DG INFSO (archiving services): design of a disaster recovery plan for the servers room, on site study of LAN hardware and software configuration, study of the buildings topologies in order to discover potential physical causes of disasters and propose solutions to suppress it, discovery of single points of failure in the general IT topology propositions of solutions to resolve them writing a full report of discoveries with guidelines to solve problems. Project EEC DG SDT (translations services): design of a disaster recovery plan for the servers room, on site study of LAN hardware and software configuration, study of the buildings topologies in order to discover potential physical causes of disasters propose solutions to suppress it, discovery of single points of failure in the general IT topology Writing and propositions of solutions to resolve them
Network engineer
Compaq
janv. 1998 - mai 2001
3 ans 5 mois
Technical Support Engineer: 2nd line support engineer (telephone then on-site if no possibility to resolve the problem remotely for all supported hardware and software networking products from Digital and then Compaq as well (in 3 languages – products were Digital then Compac hardware and software, Cisco hardware and software, IP based protocols, DECNet based protocols and all protocols running on OpenVMS and True64 Unix platforms) On-site Networking Consultant: total re-organization, probing and daily maintenance of the LAN & WAN at Fortis Corporate Center in order to ensure proper daily data exchange between databases located in remote sites worldwide for group financial consolidation
Formation
Formation interne
ITIL Foundation certification
2017 - 2017
1 an
Haute Ecole de Bruxelles (HEB) - Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique (ESI)
Bachelier
1988 - 1990
3 ans