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My professional career started off at Alcatel building embedded software for (first generation) Video On Demand systems streaming mpeg from scsi disks to ATM networks (in '93). Later I got involved in more system engineering work around a broadband service directory for large telco's.That work got me into the "Internets" and seeing its potential for service delivery I left the telco (then non IP) oriented view on things in search for web based service delivery. This brought me into the first wave of the Belgian Web Developer scene ('96), building up experience on building web applications.After the nineties web bubble burst, I founded Outerthought together with former colleague and friend Steven Noels. Outerthought took a technical focus (and a cluetrain stand) in delivering competence support for development teams venturing into Open Source Java & XML. Our journey brought us to the core of the Apache.org working as well as a fine selection of international customers for the services around our own open source software portfolio focused on Web Content Management.In 2011 the compelling call of the "Open Data Government" theme drove me to Westtoer, the organization responsible for the promotion of Tourism in the province West Flanders. Through collaboration with AIV (Flemisch Information Agency) and the semantic knowledge researchers of IMEC/UGent we were able to introduce a semantic / linked data approach to feeding the various web-presences managed by ourselves and or partner organizations. During the same period we also introduced a solid business intelligence pipeline and various big-data collaborations to enhance the service offering on the "policy supporting" statics and data-analysis departement.Since 2020 I work as the Open Science Team lead in the Flanders Marine Data Centre (VMDC) at VLIZ.be. Our team strives to translate the open collaborative DNA the organization has had since its conception (2000) into technical adoptions of Linked Data and Knowledge Graph technologies that deliver on the high ambitions of Open Science (often narrowed to the infamous 'FAIR principles')Specialties: System Design, Analysis, Component and Interface Specifications, Open Source and Linked Open Data, Content Management, Website Development. (Sem)Web Technology, ReSTful Web Services, Web architectures, Big Data Analysis.Technical Mentoring, Team Organization, Development Optimization, Build and Test Automation.

Listed skills include Xml, Open Source, Rest, Software Development, and 54 others.

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  Open Science Team Lead

  Vliz - Vlaams Instituut Voor De Zee

  Mar 2020 - Present - Oostende, Belgium