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I am Jop

About Me

  • Available : 1st of July 2025

  • Nationality : Dutch

  • Country : Netherlands

  • Contact me : IM on Linked

  • E-Mail : Blocked

  • Website : https://itworksonline.nl

  • Hourly Rate : In consultation

I am a Microsoft Identity-, Workplace- and Security Specialist with almost twenty years of experience in IT. As an experienced consultant, I have real-world experience in optimizing your Microsoft-related environment. This helps you in getting the most out of your Microsoft workplace in a user-experience optimized and safe way! My main focus areas are Microsoft Identity, workplace and security, but am skilled in many associated technical platforms. This helps me adapt quickly and create interoperability between platforms.

My skills

Microsoft Entra
90%
Conditional Access
100%
Microsoft Defender for Identity
80%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
80%
Microsoft Defender for Office 365
90%
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
60%
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
20%
Global Secure Access
60%
PowerShell
80%


Language Skills

Dutch Fluent

English Proficient

German Intermediate

My Experience

Self-Employed

Mar 2024 - Present

In March 2024, I become self-employed as a Microsoft Speclialist, helping clients get the most out of their Microsoft 365 environment. I am mainly involved in helping a global manufacturer transition fully to the Microsoft security-stack along with internal migrations to optimize their infrastructure.

Nedscaper - Microsoft Partner

Aug 2022 - Feb 2024

As a Senior Identity- and Security-consultant I helped customers in their journey to fully implement the Microsoft Defender XDR stack in their environment. Helping them through workshops and joint implementation was my main focus.

InSpark - Microsoft Partner

Sep 2018 - Jul 2022

As a Microsoft 365 Identity- and Workplace Consultant, I was responsible for maintaining standards in this area, architecting environments and migrations as well as implementing and working a cooperating foreman during projects.

ITSN - Microsoft Partner

May 2017 - Sep 2018

As a Senior Infrastructure Consultant specialized in Microsoft 365 I set up standardized migration strategies for various M365 platforms, as well as for standardizing Azure-infrastructure. Together with customers we migrated various (M365) infrastructures, where I also took on a foreman role in the (infrastructure) project team.

Avanade - Microsoft Partner

2011 - May 2017

As an Infrastructure Consultant within this joint venture in collaboration with Microsoft, our team focussed mainly on mail migrations (as well as related O365 systems) to Office 365. Together we set up a standardized migration strategy that was universally usable and efficient.

Municipalities of Son & Breugel – Nuenen

2011

Involved in various projects such as the migration of Novell components (mail/policies) to Microsoft, replacement of core switches and primary registration software-system upgrade.

Bolsius International B.V.

2009 - 2011

Network Specialist, responsible for managing the networking-, server-/virtualisation-, SAN-, backup- and Citrix-environment. IT administration as well as projects.

Cliënt ICT Groep

2008 - 2009

Graduation internship followed by role as an engineer for SMB+ customers. Improved skills in various areas of expertise such as Microsoft-technology, Citrix, RES Powerfuse, Cisco networking, vrtualisation and remote support.

My Learnings

Certifications

Microsoft Identity Advisor Community Member

2020 - Present

Microsoft SC-300 – Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator

2021 - Present

Microsoft MS-100 & MS-101 - Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert

2019 - Present

Microsoft MCSE - Cloud Platform and Infrastructure (Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, 70-533)

2015 - 2018

Microsoft MCSA - Office 365

2015 - 2018

Citrix Certified Administrator: XenApp 6

2011

Studies

HTS Network Infrastructure Design (bachelor)

2004 - 2008

MBO Systems Administrator (level 4)

2001 - 2004

Higher Technical College - Computer Technology

2000 - 2001

My Network

Looking for more people like me?
The list of people below is a list of people I personally vouch for. They are hard-working, fun people that really know their stuff. Get in contact with them (as well) if you're looking for some real IT-consultancy aces!

  • Raymond Roethof : (Microsoft) Security-specialist and MVP, with an extensive Identity background

  • Tristan van Onselen : (Microsoft) Security-specialist with a deep and broad Defender- and Sentinel background

  • Remy Kruijer : (Microsoft) Security- and riskspecialist