Education & Skills

Education

1993-1998: Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, Belgium

MSc. Computer Science & Engineering with specializations in enterprise creation & management, ICT project management, Computing Intrusion Detection Systems, Computer Graphics and Medical Imaging.

Master Thesis Distinction: Virtual Reality representation in Medical Imagery (JAVA/C++/VRML)

Language

French mother tong

Italian mother tong

English professional

Dutch professional

Spanish comprehension

Chinese Mandarin training

Skill

Analytical problem solver with strong organizational skills

Strong strategic thinking capabilities

Proven presentation skills

Proven record in customer focus

Proven verbal communication & negotiation skills

Highly motivated, self-driven, and works well in a team environment

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Proven team leader, coaching, coordination and supervising skills

Excellent project management and time management skills under tight deadlines

Ability to work with all levels within the organization, pragmatic and stress-resistant

Resourceful and able to adapt to a constantly changing technical environment

Eager to learn, willing to invest in continuous learning

Dynamic, creative, flexible and willing to travel

Proven expertise in (International) Business Development

Technical rapporteur/writer within Standards Developing Organization (IETF, ISO, ITU-T, ETSI, BBF)

Technical writer of Request for Information/Quote/Proposal, EU project tender application, documentation.

permanent training & certification

Routing & Switching: Cisco Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND); Secure PIX Firewall Advanced (SNPA); Allied Telesys/Extreme Network/Arista/Huawei/ZTE/HP/Brocade/Juniper setup, administration & troubleshooting

Load Balancing: Cisco, Barracuda, F5, Nginx

Wireless networking: Wimax Forum RF Network Engineer Bootcamp (RF planning, design & deploy); Aerohive/Cisco/Ubiquity WiFi RF planning, design & deploy

Security devices and technologies: Firewalling & Unified Thread Management (Cisco, Sophos, Juniper, Fortinet, SonicWall, Huawei, Checkpoint, MikroTik, pfSense, linux iptable), cryptography and secure protocols

Network management & monitoring: IPv6 Sage Expert Hurricane Electric, IP, Ethernet, ATM, MPLS, RIP/BGP/Multicast, RADIUS, EAP

Cloud Technologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS): Amazon AWS EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM SoftLayer

Protocols: SIP, oneM2M, LWM2M, COAP, TR-69, SQL, ZeroConf/mDNS/DNS-SD, IPv4 & IPv6

Enterprise Networking: Microsoft Windows Server 2xxx/Linux (Centos, BSD, Debian, Redhat, Ubuntu) design & deploy, administration & troubleshooting

Enterprise Voice/Unified Communication: Microsoft Enterprise Voice & Online Services with MS Lync Server, Cisco

Virtualization: VMware/OpenStack/CloudStack/OpenFlow clustering design & deploy, administration & troubleshooting

Optical Networking: FTTx, P2P & GPON design & deployment, management & troubleshooting; Huawei, ZTE, GPONdoctor

Internet of Things (SmartCity/SmartBuinding): UNB, NB-IoT, LORA; SCADA, KNX, Zigbee, Bluetooth Low Energy, Z-Wave, EnOcean, Thread, IEEE 802.15.4, Near Field Communication, G.hn/MoCA/PLC

Cyber Security: Auditing, Penetration test; Tools (Nessus, Cain & Abel, NMAP, Metasploit, SNORT, John the Ripper); ISMS Standards/Frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR, ETSI TC CYBER)

Forensic Analysis: SYSLOG/SNMP, NAGIOS, PRTG, Splunk, Wireshark

Crypto/Security/IAM: PKI Infrastructures, PKCS standards and techniques, Blockchain, OpenID/OAuth/SAML, IPsec/OpenSSL/TLS

Software Development: Architecture, Design & Coding; Modeling (OMT, UML); Tools (Eclipse, Jetbrain IDEA, Google Android Studio); Application Servers (OSGI, Tomcat)

Embedded Hardware: RTOS, System on Chip, Embedded Software

Expertise in technology

Knowledge in a relevant process (agile, waterfall, scrum, pert, gantt) including project management, change management, configuration management and issue resolution

Proven expertise in (International) Business Development

Knowledgeable on Network Management Systems, OSS/BSS/networking concepts and related technologies

Knowledgeable on hardware and network virtualization, SDN & NFV concepts and related technologies

Strong experience on scripting and mastering (object-oriented and structured) programming languages (JAVA, C++, Python, Javascript), techniques (Websocket, SOAP, REST, JSON) including semantic/ontological technologies and version controlling systems (GIT, Maven, Subversion)

Designing, implementing and administration of Relational (Oracle, MsSQL, MySQL), noSQL (Hadoop, MongoDB) and NXD (eXist, XMLDB) Database Management System

Hands-on experience in ICT including design, build, deploy, trouble-shooting & fault-finding, etc.

Rapporteur/writer (IETF, ISO, ITU-T, ETSI, BBF) within Standards Developing Organization

Technical Writing of standard, (public) Request For Information/Proposal, EU project tender, documentation

Complementary certification

2005: TELINDUS High Tech Institute, Cisco ICND "Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices"

2005: TELINDUS High Tech Institute, Cisco SNPA "Securing Networks with PIX and ASA"

2008: Wimax Forum, RF Network Engineer Bootcamp "Wimax Radio Frequency planning, design & deploy"; WiMAX RF Network Engineer #WFRE474


expertise in Public sector

Search for ICT solutions

Feasibility studies

Technology assessments

Technological audits

Development of recommendations (do & don’t)

Development of specifications

Authoring of Request for Proposal, Request for Information, Request for Tender, Request for Proposal

Preparation of requests for national and European subsidies

Market offer analyzes

Project management

Implementation monitoring