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