Curriculum Vitae

Objectives

Work on the cutting edge of technology, invent new concepts, design and set up working systems.

Employment

Screenvision Belgium

2006 – now: Technical Director

• Digital distribution and projection in cinemas
• Digital cinema technology: DCI, HD, encoding, conversion

forret.com bvba

2000 – now: owner/independent

• Consultancy, training, speaker
• Web 2.0, SEO, social software, blogs, podcasts
• Digital media, audio/video/cinema
• Web caching, content distribution
• Network operations, monitoring
• PKI and security
• Product management

Hypertrust

2000 – 2005: co-founder and CTO

• Technical operations, research and development
• (Co-) Design of registered mail application, web attestation application, secure storage application (Send2Store), digital image management application (Pixagogo)
• Set-up of opt-in mass-mailing daily newsletter (Staatsbladclip) based on open-source components
• Managing a mixed architecture of Windows/Linux web/application/database servers

GlobalSign

1998 – 2000: Product Mgr/VP Managed PKI Services

• Construction and management of secure data centre
• Participation in Belgian and European projects
• Project management Webtrust certification
• Conception and development of ‘GlobalSign Ready‘ program
• Edition of white-papers, product documentation

Keyware Technologies

1997 – 1998: Business Development

• Product management for biometric software (white-papers, conferences, …)
• Account manager for ISPs and technology providers
• Trade fairs

Sopres

1993 – 1997: DB/Technical Account Manager

• Pre-sales consultant for database management
• Account manager for large customers
• Management of large databases in Sybase SQL Server
• Data processing and manipulation on Solaris Unix

Presentations/teaching

• IT Works
  Search Engine Optimisation (Brussels, 2005)
  Organic SEO: background and recommendations
• L-SEC
  Introduction on spam (Leuven, 2004)
  Presentation on why spam (unsollicited commercial email) exists, how it is generated, products and technologies for fighting it (white/black-list, Bayesian filtering, SPF, hash-cash, …)
• RSA Conference
  Digital receipts: PKIX and Timestamping in practice (San Francisco, 2002)
• ISSE
  Digital receipts (Paris, 2002)
  Presentation on how HyperTrust implemented digital receipts for integrity and non-repudiation of Internet transactions by using the PKIX (IETF) recommendations.
• K.U.Leuven DocArch
  XML & Security (Leuven, 2002)
  Teaching 3 lectures for post-grad students in an XML course on how security (authentication, integrity, confidentiality) is implemented in XML: XML-DSIG, XML-encryption, PKIX, XKMS, …
• RSA Conference
  Managed PKI Services (Munich, 2000)
  Presentation of GlobalSign’s outsourced RA/CA products
  Whitepaper on biometric technology
  Layered Biometric verification (Brussels, 1997)
  Explanation on the statistical background behind using a combination of multiple biometric technologies to reduce false acceptance/false rejection, and an adapted strategy for model ‘learning’.

Skills

• Internet: html, XML, SEO,I18N, monitoring
• Protocols: http, https, ftp, smtp, SOAP, BitTorrent
• Security: Biometrics, DCI, PKI, TLS, XML-DSIG
• Platforms: Win2K Pro/Server, WinXP, .Net, RedHat Linux
• Software: Squid, WordPress, MediaWiki, Twiki, MRTG
• Languages: VBScript, ASP, Python, PHP, Bash
• Music software: ACID Pro, Reason, AudioMulch
• Music: guitar, bass guitar, drums

Projects

• 2009: Tango Paparazzo – tango photography
• 2009: Trend Visualizor – time-based graphs
• 2007 – now: Milonga.be – tango portal for Belgium
• 2006 – 2008: Barcamp Brussels – 4 unconferences for entrepreneurs and geeks
• 2005 – now: Brusselblogt – city blog for Brussels (NL)
• 2002 – now: web.forret.com – online web-based tools for geeks

Education

• Postgraduaat Bedrijfskunde: 1995 – 1996: K.U.Leuven
• Civil Engineer in Computer Science (M.Sc.): 1987 – 1992: K.U.Leuven
• Latijn-Wiskunde: 1981 – 1987: Klein Seminarie, Roeselare

Personal details

• Born in 1969
• Belgian citizen
• Living in Brussels, Belgium
• Myers-Briggs type: ENFP
• Languages: Dutch, English, French (fluent); Spanish (elementary)

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