Nick Van Eeckhout Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Heerlen / Rotterdam

At Fource I was involved in the larger IT tracks as an architect. Through the acquisition of CarSystems I was heavily involved in setting up the team for delivering an MVP. Since 2018 I have been the domain architect on the program to create a platform that encompasses all customer focused applications and services.• Architect on RFI/RFP for distributed order management• Kickstarting the cloud-based GMS (Garage Management Software) MVP development at CarSystems: setting up cross-functional teams, implementing agile workflow, setting up micro services architecture• Domain architect for CARA. Creating a micro services platform using AWS, Apigee, Okta, Docker, … and implementation of SAFe for distributed teams in 5 locations

Heerlen, Netherlands

At GHS Automotive I was responsible for the IT department and development team. I introduced SCRUM to the development team and set up a service desk (ITIL). The focus of that last year was on implementing required IT controls (SOx) and moving to an external hosting provider for our ERP system. • Professionalizing the IT team and their work processes, expanding the development and support team 10 persons and working on knowledge sharing, rolling out a scrum based iterative development cycle to create structure and development transparency and setting up an IT service desk based on ITIL• Creating an automated build and deploy for System-1, the custom developed ERP application• Selecting an external hosting provider for System-1 via RFI/RFP and executing the migration.• Setting up a SOx compliant DTAP environment for System-1 on Linux and Windows systems.

Heerlen, Netherlands

As a team lead I'm responsible for starting a project and getting the team up-to-speed. This means talking to customers, gathering business requirements, creating user story maps, setting up an architecture and starting up an agile team. I have done 3 large projects and some consulting:• A REST API for financial report data using asp.net web-api, sql-server, roundhouse, simple-data• An asp.net mvc web application for managing product information. Basic product information is imported from the ERP system via RabbitMQ messaging. Product information is enriched and saved to a RavenDB database and is exported to multiple Magento web shops.• A B2B web application that is comprised of an API and a client-side javascript web application. The .net 4.5 API can be build and deployed on Windows and Linux and uses Servicestack, Autofac. The client-side javascript web application is built with emberjs and jquery.

Bruges Area, Belgium

As the first person in the CTO role at IHC/Infohos my primary task was to introduce stabilization with the then used technologies (.NET, Centura, IDMS mainframe and CA Aion). This was achieved with the introduction of Application Lifecycle Management, a way to manage the lifecycle (from development to release) of our products independent of the used technology. We've standardized on a version control system, a continuous integration system, a QA system and a deploy system for all our applications. For our .NET applications we've developed several best practices on how to build qualitative applications.The last year a lot of my focus has gone to aligning the technology vision with the business vision, introducing several aspects of Enterprise Architecture, redefining our product portfolio and working towards an excellent user experience for our products, services and company.During this period I was involved in all of the architecture decisions for the applications and contributed with code, architecture and team guidance to the start of several new projects and applications.

Bruges Area, Belgium

I began working at IHC as a junior developer with no programming skills, but with some web and design skills (html, css, javascript, photoshop, ...) and a lot of motivation. I started working in a team on a web application for the emergency department of hospitals. We started out with classic ASP and VBScript, but switched to ASP.NET 1.0 and VB.NET when the .NET framework first saw daylight. For the following years I've learned a lot through continuous self-education, courses, books and good coaching and came in touch with different technologies and practices (ORM, design patterns, continuous integration, TDD, agile, scrum).When the application I was working was integrated in our central EHR application I moved more into the role of a technical architect. I continued to develop on our custom ORM framework that was inspired by Lhotka's Business Objects for VB6. Because of my interest in graphic and user interface design I also became responsible for the UI design of the application.

Spanish

As a preparation for a 1-month hiking vacation in Patagonia (Argentina, Chile) I attended a beginners course Spanish.

Master, Architecture

My architecture studies were the perfect mix of science and creativity for me. In my studies I haven't only learned about architecture.

Multimedia Design

During my architecture studies I attended evening school for multimedia design. We learned to work with Adobe After Effects, Adobe.