Curriculum Vitæ

In December 2017 I started working as a senior functional analyst for the Vlaamse Overheid. In the beginning, I worked together with 7 analysts. We drove the development and operational support of a team of 15 developers. Together, we developed services by which official data from several authentic sources was exposed in a uniform way (both by synchronous webservices and asynchronous file delivery).

In 2020, I was one of the driving forces in morphing the waterfall development process into something a lot more agile, in the adoption of more recent technologies (Token-based authorization, RESTful webservices, OpenShift). The team evolved into a team doing continuous integration.

From a project point of view, I was involved in several projects: Low Emission Zone, Groeipakket, Migration of the software to the platform of a new ICT service provider, development of the Flemish Document Services and the Covid Vaccination Letters solution. During these years, I specified several business processes using BPML.

I was the technical team lead of the backend team responsible for issuing and providing the European Covid Certificates for all Belgian citizens.

I started working as a senior functional analyst/architect for the Belgian postal services: bpost. I led the analysis team: a team of 4 analysts, that fed a team of 14 developers. Together, we developed the backbone of the Product & Pricing, Contracting and Order-To-Invoice software landscape. In this project, we developed software in an agile way in a waterfall context — a big challenge.

Together with a team of 12 developers, we created a system for optimising the processes of managing health insurance policies in an extremely short period (three months). A success! In this project, I got acquainted with the development method of extreme programming.

I started working as a functional analyst for the Flemish ICT company Certipost. In January 2013, the company was taken over by Basware. I gathered requirements and established the architecture of several ICT solutions. Next to that, I learned to work with the SCRUM development method and served as the backup of the project manager several times.

Given my technical IT background, I can support and guide companies or individuals in the majority of IT projects. Apart from guidance and advice, I am also willing to do software development. This differentiates me from many other consultants and has several benefits for the clients — it allows me to follow-up complete projects, taking responsibility from the beginning to the end.

In 2010, I managed 2 ICT projects: one small project for Belgian dieticians, and one big project for the Belgian Football Association (KBVB).

Working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Formal Techniques in Software Engineering lab, on a research project funded by the Instituut voor Wetenschappen en Technologie. In this project, we investigated how parallel software should be modelled in order to support automated scheduling that considers both costs (energy, communication, time) and resources (processors, memory slots, battery state).

Working as a full time researcher at the Programming Technology Lab. I frequently reported on the results related to this research. See the publications list for more information.

Worked full time as a consultant at Erasmushogeschool Brussel. The group researched new technologies useful in teaching. At ICTO our major concerns were e-learning, knowledge management, laptops and wireless LANs. My job consisted in implementing those new technologies in our institution and others.

I taught and/or installed software at: Erasmushogeschool Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Artevelde Hogeschool (Ghent), Koninklijke Militaire School (Brussels), Kaunas College (Lithuania), EDHEC University (Lille, France), Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven, Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende.