Jan 2025 – Apr 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos · Brussels · Hybrid

• Leading development of an intelligent, next-generation platform for stationary battery management — advancing the energy transition through smart software and data-driven optimization.

Feb 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium · Hybrid

• Directed global teams across Asia, Europe, and North America building Agilent’s Alissa cloud-based genomic analysis platform. Championed SaaS modernization, microservice architecture, and DevOps transformation across the Alissa suite.

Sep 2018 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Antwerp Area, Belgium

• Disrupting the last mile! A small team of deeply experienced business and service designers and entrepreneurs search out new opportunities, business models, innovations and disruptions. Hands-on experiments and a fail-fast agile process get us to answers quickly. Reporting directly to the CEO we aim to have maximum impact in the minimum time. Focus on robotics, AI, and machine vision as transformative technologies shaping the future of logistics.

Mar 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Antwerp Area, Belgium

• Founded with a partner an innovative analytics SaaS startup that enabled enterprises to measure the user experience of apps. Full spectrum participation from business modeling, funding, business development, customer engagement, engineering management, system architecture and software development.
• AngularJS/HTML5/Python/No-SQL/NodeJS/WebRTC/ Android/iOS
• www.uxpro.be @uxprobe

Jan 2013 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• CloudBand Networking
• Created and lead a team which created the networking as a service (NaaS) elements of the CloudBand system (IaaS, PaaS) as part of a larger company scoped initiative (NFV Network Function Virtualization). The system provides many network services to the cloud such as SDN Software Defined Networking, dynamic VPN/VPLS, load balancing, elastic IP, network performance, bandwidth control, QoS, etc. Java/Tomcat/NoSQL/Layer 2 and layer 3 network control

Mar 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Immersive Communications
• Created and lead a new team (dev/test/operations/35 members) which built and operated an innovative (science fiction practically) video conferencing service. Responsible for all engineering hiring and the establishment of all engineering process including outsourcing and management of design agencies. Java/Tomcat/MySQL/C++/GPGPU

Sep 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

• AppGlide
• Created and lead a new team (dev/test/operations/25 members) which built and operated a highly scalable and highly available (telco quality) P2P traffic shaping system (service). Included a rich analytics reporting portal deployed on EC2. Responsible for all engineering hiring and the establishment of all engineering process. Java/Tomcat/NoSQL

Feb 2005 – Sep 2008 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Lead a small team that created a highly efficient hybrid peer to peer content delivery network (CDN). This network powers media delivery for top tier media companies (i.e. NBC) and also powers a consumer file sending service. A cross platform (Windows/Mac/Linux) client was created in C/C++. A highly scalable and cost efficient control infrastructure was created with Java/Tomcat/Apache/MySQL. Significant hands on coding in addition to team management and customer engagement.

Nov 2004 – Mar 2005 · 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Programmed Opalis Robot objects in C++ to automate the sending, receiving and processing of e-mail with Exchange (MAPI). Opalis Robot is a data-center automation client and server application that runs on multiple platforms (Win32, Sun, Linux). Environment is Visual C++ .NET and STL. This is a telecommute contract.

Aug 2003 – Nov 2004 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Lead a team of technical project managers in delivering customers print assets to the web as online catalogs. Managed the integration of an ASP web service into customers' existing web sites. Worked extensively on improving management and development processes including defect tracking, document management, source code control, inter-team communications, and the creation of an intra-net portal to tie and manage processes and projects.

Sep 2001 – Oct 2002 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

• Excel
• Initiated a new business direction for the Excel business unit. Created, promoted and managed the long term business and development plan of Excel in a small team of Program Managers.
• Designed, managed and participated in the implementation of a series of Business Intelligence features (OLAP data analysis and visualization) for Microsoft Office 2003.

Mar 2001 – Sep 2001 · 6 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Data Analyzer
• Participated in the acquisition of Maximal Corp of Israel and managed the subsequent re-release of Data Analyzer as a Microsoft product.

Aug 1998 – Mar 2001 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Office Web Components
• Designed, managed and participated in the implementation of charting, deployment and associated business intelligence features of the Office Web Components. Developed charting user-interface elements in C++ with ATL. Spoke at conferences, visited customers, wrote white papers and created demos and prototypes.

Jan 1996 – Aug 1998 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Led a team that designed and developed SeeIt (iViz), the companies' first end user visualization program. With the same team, designed and implemented a set of framework applications that extends the companies core product (In3D) to 90% solutions (includes data connectivity, data modeling, run-time data binding, and generalized visualizations).
• Developed a next generation business data visualization C++ library (In3D) as a member of a team using C++ on several platforms (Windows NT/95, SGI Irix, Sun Solaris). Designed and developed several demonstration applications using Visual C++ on Windows NT.
• Ported a large application framework from Unix/Motif to Windows NT using
• Microsoft Foundation Classes, Open Inventor and Visual C++. The framework consisted of a complete application development environment, including a custom language interpreter, an abstract graphical user interface library, and a large collection of C++ classes for 3-D visualization.

Aug 1993 – Jan 1996 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Designed and programmed commercial Windows applications for estimation in electrical contracting, using Microsoft Foundation Classes and Visual C++ in a Windows NT environment as a member of small team.
• Established and maintained a Windows NT-based network, including TCP/IP networking and a full-time connection to the Internet.