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I specialise in creating digital platforms where content can be co-created with organisations and their audiences through storytelling techniques. Most projects have a focus on education, co-creation, inclusive content and media broadcast as I'm working at the Belgian public broadcaster VRT.Besides being an experienced online developer, I'm a project manager for research projects, working with multidisciplinary teams from different organisations across Europe.Some past projects--------------------- Project coordinator of European research project CityStory- Project Owner of research project MOS2S- Co-creator of the WallOfMoments application/service, which was the basis for the interaction hub in VRT's mobile radio apps- I developed a highly modular content management application, used by small and big websites, in use and evolved since more than 12 years.- Developed an international, multilingual online survey application- Technical lead for the creation of the European Jewellers Directory, an application to bring high profile international buyers to jewellery creators. and vice versa.- Technical consultancy for the Supreme Administrative Court of Belgium on their project refLex, a global search application to 7 legislation databases (http://reflex.raadvst-consetat.be/reflex/). The app is intensely used each day.- For the Association of the Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union I transformed their Filemaker based database Dec.Nat to an easy to use web application (http://www.juradmin.eu/en/jurisprudence/jurisprudence_en.lasso).- For the well known Belgian newspaper De Morgen, I was involved in creating the very first version of their website.- For the "De Belgische Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers" (UK-version: House of Commons / DE-version: Bundestag / NL-version: Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal) I was responsible for the technical development of a legislation portal.- I co-developed a platform for the automation of hotel reservations.- for Sanoma Media Belgium I was involved in a lot of web, mobile app, API and content management related projects.

Listed skills include Web Development, Xhtml, Css, Php, and 37 others.

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  Project Manager For Innovation Projects

  Vrt

  Dec 2022 - Present - Brussels

  - Driving force and team player in exploring new innovative media solutions- Ability to inspire and empower team members to build outstanding solutions- Working with iterative development and innovation processes- Able to run several projects in parallelI am currently leading the following innovation projects:- Relaunch project Automatic Subtitling for Flemish video content (partners: DPG Media, Play Media, VRT) - https://www.automatischeondertiteling.eu/- Solid4Media: personal data vaults based on solid technology, applied in secure and transparent digital media experiences (partners: Datavillage, imec IDLab, imec MICT, Medianet Vlaanderen, Athumi, VRT) - https://www.solid4media.eu/- Exploring and leading new project proposals (Flemish and European based funding)