Born the 6 October 1943, married to Anna de Ruiter, pharmacist, 2 children Fabian (39) and Cordelia (42)

Address: Schaveyslaan 34, 1650 BEERSEL

mobile: +32 471 549 355   tel: +32 2 3804036

 

Education – First job
 

Diploma

   
1968 INGENIEUR CHIMISTE – ULB - BRUXELLES
 
1968-1971 : Chemical Industry : Engineer process & service  for PRAYON & Catalyst Chemical Europe
 

Language

English Professional
  French Mother
  Dutch Good understanding and reading
  German Understanding
IT COMPETENCES
 

System & Network

Operating system

IBM MVS(DOS)-VAX-Windows 2003-2008+Windows client, UNIX(Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, various LINUX)
Systems tools DOS, MS DOS,shell, perl, python, all standard UNIX system & utilities tools
Protocols / Sécurity https, VPN, http, ftp ssh, scp, …
Network SDLC, HDLC, OSI, udp, tcp, Ethernet
 
Dévelopment , Maintenance & Operation
Programming Language JAVA (J2EE, JDBC, JSP, Hybernate) C#, VisualBasic, C/C++, PL1, Cobol, Fortran, Assembleur, C, RPG, ADA, Javascript, VBScript, PHP 
Development framework SGML,XML et outils (Omnimark, , Ektron, , XMLSpy, Adobe), Eclipse, Zend studio+Platform, SOA, .Net(Visual Studio 2005/2008, C#)
Project management IEF, DSDM, Prince2
Team tools, versioning WinCVS, Subversion , Visual Source Safe ,Version Manage, ..r
Framework J2EE
Middleware Various
Unit test JUnit
 
Data Base
Data Model UML (Rational – IBM)
Server Livelink Collection Server,  DB2, Adabas, MS/SQL,MySQL,Tamino (XML)
 
Internet
Web development environment CGI, CORBA, ASP, JSP, AJAX
Presentation Web,CMS Tridion, Adobe suite, Cold Fusion, ASP, JSP, FileNet, Drupal, SPIP, LiveLink(LCS), Magnolia
Servers Web Netscape, IIS, Apache
Application server Tomcat , WebSphere

 

PROFESSIONNEL EXPERIENCES (IT)
2009-now Development  under  Drupal (WEB CMS LAMP environment)
  Development of various multilingual WEB content and electronic commerce sites under Drupal. Analysis & conversion of site Euractiv.com towards Drupal
Sites for distribution bio  products by local communities:

Some sites references :

Media: http://www.euractiv.com, http://jobs.euractiv.com, http://pr.euractiv.com

Sustainable development: http://everydaystories.be

Design: http://dotinfographics.eu

ONG:  http://www.adolphe-nysenholc.be

Various: http://port-a-la-duc.fr ; http://sos-mosuka.org

I have a professional support contract with acquia and I maintain and optimize operation on technical on of of various systems and drupal  under Unix & Windows environments..

Last training/development : Drupal 8 & Symphony 2, Fully responsive complex sites

 

2008-2009 Development  of the web site for Belgian Government Economic Authority  (mineco.fgov.be)
  Project: Use of Tridion + Java/JSP( Websphere)
Missions :

Implement 3 new web sites in the fgov IT environment (Fedict department) for the Belgian Economic Affairs ministery(fodeco)

Environment :

Current platform using Tridion, Websphere, Apache-Lucene

 

2008 Dbidees for Bureau Economique de la Province de Namur(BEP)
  Project: Use of ASP. Net 2.0 + XML (Tamino)
Missions :

Develop and launch the intranet and internet WEB support system for managing new enterprise project related to European funds

Environment :

Current platform using Tridion, Tamino and a ASP + .Net 1.0 and 2.0 platforms

 
 

1999 to 2008 Technical director of EurActiv.com
  Project: Use of local “CMS  Netagora of DBScape “  convert in 2004 towards an integrated XML system (TRIDION[Windows] + Apache/Tomcat /Tamino[Linux-Java]) + LAMP.
Missions :

One of the Founder of the startup company and decision maker of technical solutions and current platform

EurActiv (www.euractiv.com) is an media online trilingual (english, french, german) on European affairs

Environment :

Current platform development and operation in 2004 with a 100% XML management system composed of :

  • Editorial: Tridion system(under Windows customized tio support complex XML document)
  • Dissemination : JAVA system (Tomcat, servlet+JSP) using an XML db, Tamino from Software AG, for the publication site on LINUX

Including also LAMP systems for non CMS services (phpadserver and job site).

Platform & website use an modern architecture using  various layers and WEB 2.0 (XML, XSL, XPATH+XQUERY, CSS, Javascript, AJAX). 
 

In 2009 due to Software AG politic around Tamino all sites were convert to Drupal 6 and are now in  Drupal 7 and  Wordpress .

 

 
 

 

Year : 2007 Senior Consultant/ Bytes & Com
  Project : Thalys

Consultant , company specialized in open source portal and mobile

Missions :

Mission: Project management and coaching of development team in LAMP environment, review architecture of site & services intranet, define new strategy for services and mobile applications.

Environment :
  • LAMP
  • JAVA : eclipse + mobile platform
 

 

 

2001 Independent consultant/ Getronics
  Project : development of DMS(Document Mgt.System) for UCB  integrated with Filenet
Missions :

Installed a new file management system for the drug registration files based on :

  • Livelink Collection Server (called previously BASIS+)  for content management with a multilingual thesaurus (taxonomy) system
  • Filenet for storage and retrieval of image documents

Convert & import of existing document from the old in house system

Environment : 

First VMS then migrate towards HP-UX + Windows client.

 
 

1995 to 1997 Independent consultant/ Infotechnique.
  Project : EUDOR , client OPOCE(Office de Publication de la CE), and subcontractor of  Infotechnic in Luxembourg
Missions :

Online consultation and order of official EEC documents.

Order system developed in 1995-1996

Internet portal allowing end 1995 lonline order in 9 languages including Greek (for documents and interface) of all CEE publications.

IN 1996 this system has allowed to extend this service initially limited to subscribers by implementation of online payment facilities.

Environment :

SUN Solaris with Livelink Collection Server(LCS) + Oracle.

The database followed the SGML technology with indexing following the EUROPA-3 standards(Latin languages + Greek).

The image documents were stored on optical disk and indexed in an Oracle databases.

 
 

1991- 2014 senior consultant for Open Text / Collection Server (Basis) Belgium/Luxembourg
  Project : Local Support Belgium - Luxemburg of Livelink Collection Server system(previously called BASISplus)  for the Open Text company.
Missions : 

First line Support for clients : Bistel (Service du Premier Ministre), Ministère des Finances, CCF, Vlaamse Gewest, VRT, Agfa Gevaert, SMALS, UCB, CCE, BNP.

Participation (Project manager & consultant) of  various projects.

Environment :

On all existing environment , from mainframe (VM/CMS & CICS), VMS, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX) and various platforms : terminal (VT), client-server (client windows with middleware en VB + protocol RPC) and 3 tiers (HTML with «  Web server Gateway  » + RPC protocol followed by an J2EE/JSP environment with a middleware “Webtop” using a  jdbc driver).

 
 

1986-1988  Intersys/ CIG/CSC
  Project : Project manager of mainframe conversion IBM (DOS => MVS), some clients : PS, Winterthur, Euroclear, Bloemenveiling Alsmeer, Petrofina Italia
Missions :

Switch of a site in one week-end from IBM/DOS to MVS with a complete new automated operational environment.

Average time frame of a project was 6 month with a multidisciplinary team (OS/operational including myself , Assembler specialist, COBOL, PL1, RPG, …)

Environment :

Specific tools developed by French company SLIGOS for analysing current system, and defining conversion path with automation of production environment.

 

1986 - 1991 Intersys/ CIG/CSC
  Project : Project director of the Data/Document Management department
Missions : 

In charge of all project related to database and document management

Environment :

VMS, Mainframe IBM, first PC

 
 
 

1983-1985  Project  manager/ Intersys
  Project : BISTEL project starting officially in 1984 but first operations of «  belgadoc  » in 1983
Missions :

Project manager of Bistel for the Belgian Prime minister , the main services were :

  • Belgadoc : management of dissemination of Belga newswire.
  • Interministerial office and document management for the files and agenda follow-up related to the weekly government council.
 
 
 
Environment :

VAX/VMS + Teletext + PC clients

 

1983-1985  Project manager/ Intersys
  Project : Iréne project for the European Commission– FEOGA : Management  of files related to fraud related to PAC (Politique Agricole Communautaire).
Missions :

Form analysis of needs to development and production of the system.  
 

Environment :

Document Management System  BASIS K and  Amdahl platforms (VM/CMS).

 
 

1982 ROSSEL : Project Manager 
  Project : development of a subscription system and taking back of there management from the post office
Missions :

In charge of the project 
 
 

Environment :

IBM/DOS, PL1, CICS

 
 

years : 1975-1982 MONSANTO

support operating company, system operation, project manager

.

  Responsibilities : IT manager & senior consultant
Missions :

1975-1980 : in charge of all IT development for the Chemical and Petrochemical company partially done by the IT department , some develop internally (marketing and knowledge management).

1981-1982 : senior consultant in the IT department responsible of marketing and knowledge management systems.

Environment : OS/VS1 and then first MVS site in Belgium + CICS,VSAM,SQL/DB

1972-1975  Project manager / CAP-GEMINI Belgium.
  Project : Development management and financial system for the Post Office , system of HR management for UCO(Gent), development of stock management (DOW Chemicals)
Missions :

Project manager of analyst and programmer team from 5 to 25 persons

Environment :

Siemens BS 1000/2000 , IBM DOS

 

1969-1972 Process engeneer in chemical industry
  Prayon : process engeneer - start new plant worlwide

Catalyst chemical Europe :

1) process engeneer - use of computer to design and quote new installations

2) Manufacturing director