C.V.

Gent (Belgium) January 28, 1975 - Uppsala (Sweden) February 12, 2012

Education

• Glorieux Instituut Oostakker (1984 - 1992)

  Wetenschappelijke A

• Universiteit Gent (1992 - 1997)

  Lic., Informatica (Applied Computer Science)

  As part of the Erasmus programme, he studied his final year at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London (Now QMUL)

  Activities and Societies: member of WINA

• Queen Mary, University of London (1997- 1998)

  MSc, Advanced Methods in Computer Science (Distributed Systems)

  Activities and Societies: Music Society

• The Open University (2009)

  Supply Chain Management

Experience

• Research Assistant Queen Mary and Westfield College

  August 1998 - July 2001 (3 years)

  Development of the User Interface component for the CustomTV project. CustomTV was an EU funded proof of concept which integrated MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and the then under development new MPEG standard for content description.

  The UI was developed with Java.

• Software Architect Coms.com & Parable Telecommunication

  July 2000 - August 2001 (1 year 2 months)

  Coms.com, for a few months also known as Parable Telecommunications offered a unified messaging platform to its customers. My role was to develop the telecommunications part as well as designing the data model. The core application was written in C (multithreaded) and dealt with handling phone calls: call forwarding depending on a particular schedule, storing voicemails and faxes.

• Vice President Morgan Stanley

  Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ms; Financial Services industry July 2001 - Februari 12, 2012 (10 years 9 months)

  Senior Database Administrator. Mainly Sybase ASE, Replication Server, also DB2/UDB, MSSQL Server and Informix. Operational support and infrastructure development.

  Database administrator for the last 7 years with the main focus on Sybase ASE (from version 11.9 onwards) and Sybase Replication Server (version 12 onwards).

  Main tasks involve production support, troubleshooting and performance and tuning.

  Working knowledge of Informix, MSSQL Server and IBM UDB.

  Worked on Infrastructure development to support ASE15.

  His goals were: automation, maintaining good customer relationships, infrastructure development.

  Specialties: automation, scripting, performance and tuning

Additional Information

• Interests: power kiting, playing Go and board games (Settlers of Catan, La Citta, etc).