Interview of the SCUG.BE crew at techdays 2009 in Antwerp:

Alexandre Verkinderen    (MVP, Founder of SCUG.be , SCOM Expert)

Alexandre has a strong focus on everything around the Microsoft System Center product family and an industry expert in the systems management area. He has a wealth of systems management expertise, and uses this expertise to help his customers to achieve an easier to manage ICT environment.

Alexandre is an ITIL- certified engineer and strives to deliver quality on every single assignment he has. Additionally he believes strongly in sharing knowledge amongst his peers, for this particular belief he founded the System Center User Group Belgium. SCUG shares a wealth of System Center knowledge through its online webpresence at http://www.scug.be but also through at least 4 events a year where SCUG members or international industry experts present on Systems Management topics.

As an industry expert and MVP Alexandre is a frequent speaker and ask-the-expert guest at both national and international events. In line with the continued education principle Alexandre can also be found at both national and international industry events to stay on top of what is moving in the industry, watch industry trends, and analyze how this might benefit its customers.

Kim Oppalfens (MVP, SCCM Expert)

Kim Oppalfens is an MCT that was awarded MVP begin April 2005. He was born the 22nd of may in the Year 1975.

He is an independent consultant owning his own company OSCC which stands for Oppalfens System Center Consultancy. As the company name implies the primary focus is around designing, implementing & migrating to products in the Microsoft system center family. He was awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in April 2005 and has been re-awarded every year since then. Additionally Kim has been an active Microsoft certified trainer since 2000. He likes to stress that he is happily married, and is the proud father of Lennart and a little baby daughter called Lauren which was born on the 23rd of may in 2008. To top this all of, Kim is a self-proclaimed overall nice guy with a great sense of humor.

Kenny Buntinx (SCCM Expert)

 I have been breaking and then fixing computers since I was 10, and doing it professionally for the last 12 years. Working at Computacenter is great fun. I deliver projects on a broad range of areas, but my specialties are in the IT lifecycle management area , especially SMS / System Center configuration manager , Active Directory, scripting and application packaging. I have a great wife supporting me completely in what I am doing .In my private time ( not that I have much ) I try to spend as much time with my family as possible.

Yves Janssens (Webmaster)