Begeleiding van beginnende volwassenen op het ijs. Basis schaatsen en duiding ijsdans.Teamlid Kristalcup Ghent, internationale adult en ijsdans competitie.

Infrastructure and Support for EMEADevelopment and support of the WAN and IT integrations of the sites in the Blagden Packaging Group before it integrated within Greif Inc.

Having trained for almost 25 years, I also taught this martial art in 2 locations, first as Shidoshi-Hô then as Shidoshi (licensed instructor). Reached the level of Hachi-dan. Mentioned here for the sake of keeping in touch with the large network of people I have had the privilege to build over this quarter of a century.

The Blagden Packaging Group provided industrial packaging products, both new and reconditioned. Formed through a management buy-out, the group quickly acquired a consistent network of factories across Europe and Asia, giving it a competitive edge.A considerable growth was supported by various venture capitalists.As a part of the core IT-team, reporting to the Group IT manager, I worked on- bringing stability and performance to existing systems- introducing new technologies, server based computing- standardization of installations for servers and workstations across various plants- redesign of the WAN, migration to new network provider- project management for migration of the entire server infrastructure to a shared data center- disaster recovery design, planning and testingThe Blagden Packaging Group new drums division was sold to Greif Inc, the reconditioning division went on to form the Pack2Pack Group.Recommendation received via e-mail from Edward Kosatka, Computer Development Manager at Blagden Packaging NV:Ilona, I am glad to give you hereby my recommendation: I know Ilona already for several years.When the JD Edwards Oneworld ERP software had to be implemented and rolled-out internationally at Blagden Packaging, she was the driving force behind most IT innovations in the company.Since then, I am convinced that Ilona is capable to lead and implement succesfully any IT project. Edward Kosatka, former Computer development manager at Blagden Packaging and AS400 specialist at Greif. Kind regards, Edward KosatkaAmmanswallestraat 18670 Koksijde+32 496 872917

HRgatekeeper, a leader in Human Resources intelligence and services, provided comprehensive and reliable Human Resources and Career Management application services. The company combined HR-expertise and Internet Technology to web-enable HR-services through ASP/SaaS models. Merged into HR-Technologies NV.As a Systems Administrator I managed the IT infrastructure that allowed our development team to tele-work in the coding-environment as well as the customer-platforms.

Planet Internet was one of the largest ISP for the consumer market in Belgium. Founded as a joint-venture of KPN International and Gevaert Holding, the company quickly moved up the charts while pioneering as a content and media provider on the Internet. Merged into Scarlet.My track record within Planet Internet gave me the opportunity to take on a broad range of challenges; amongst these:- Customer care contact center setup and management- Systems Administration - Project management for expansion infrastructure- Budget control for IT department

ISP pioneer, opening up the Internet consumer market in Belgium.A project based on the idea that there was a huge market potential for Internet-usage by consumers.As initiator I brought together the team, planned the setup and direction the initiative should take.Hookon was successful in bringing Internet to the masses and proved to be a trend setter in pricing for early Internet-access.Its team members moved on to successful careers as the market-evolutions gave birth to the larger Internet providers of today.Merged into XS4ALL Belgium nv currently EVONET Belgium nv.