+ Responsible for product families: wired, wireless, and mobile nurse call communication systems; healthcare wearables; and home care personal alarm systems with video communication and sensoringSpecifications and design: business plan, functional requirements, hardware and software components, mechanical design, bill of material, user experience design, interface validation, regulatory requirementsLife cycle management: from product conception to end of life managementPrice policy & settingProduct documentation and disseminationSupport of R&D team during development of new productsSupport of sales team towards product launch+ Definition of Product and Technology roadmap+ Market and trends analysis+ (Online) marketing+ Event & exhibit organization+ Responsible for cooperation with international partners, distributors and customers+ (Online) marketing, event & exhibit organization+ Improvement of operational processes

+ Responsible for short and long term planning of R&D software team+ Start-up and lead of R&D team in Televic Bulgaria+ Management of internal research projects and external national and international iMinds/IWT/European research projects+ Definition of architecture of new product family+ Technology evaluations+ Improvement of operational processes, tool chains and quality management

+ Research topics: Dynamic and distributed content adaptation, Processing of multimedia content, Mobile and embedded multimedia applications, Transparent transfer of multimedia sessions, Interoperable MPEG-21 architectures, and Heterogeneous and context-aware multimedia environments+ Management of and participation inEuropean (EU FP6 IST STREP and NoE) projectsiMinds projectsMicrosoft Research Project for Embedded Systems on MPEG-21 Sssion Mobility, 2003-2004: Resulted in the Microsoft Research Innovation Excellence Awards for Embedded Systems and several press releases+ Active participation in ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) meetings with over 40 contributionsServed as Head of Delegation of the Belgian National BodyEditorship of 5 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) standardsPress releases on MPEG-215 Certificates of Appreciation for outstanding contributions to International Standardization, 2006-2008, Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)+ Attendance of ITU-T Joint Video Team (JVT) meetings and dissemination of the activities to the MuMe Multimedia Community, IMEC+ Scientific publications: Journal Publications and Publications in International Conferences+ Teaching: ‘Internet Applications’, ‘Design of Multimedia Applications’, and ‘Multimedia Techniques’, Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering+ Co-supervised master's dissertations and Ph.D. students

+ Research topics: Dynamic and distributed content adaptation, Processing of multimedia content, Mobile and embedded multimedia applications, Transparent transfer of multimedia sessions, Interoperable MPEG-21 architectures, and Heterogeneous and context-aware multimedia environments+ Management of and participation inEuropean (EU FP6 IST STREP and NoE) projectsiMinds projectsMicrosoft Research Project for Embedded Systems on MPEG-21 Sssion Mobility, 2003-2004: Resulted in the Microsoft Research Innovation Excellence Awards for Embedded Systems and several press releases+ Active participation in ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) meetings with over 40 contributionsServed as Head of Delegation of the Belgian National BodyEditorship of 5 ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) standardsPress releases on MPEG-215 Certificates of Appreciation for outstanding contributions to International Standardization, 2006-2008, Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)+ Attendance of ITU-T Joint Video Team (JVT) meetings and dissemination of the activities to the MuMe Multimedia Community, IMEC+ Scientific publications: Journal Publications and Publications in International Conferences+ Teaching: ‘Internet Applications’, ‘Design of Multimedia Applications’, and ‘Multimedia Techniques’, Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering+ Co-supervised master's dissertations and Ph.D. students

+ Research topics: Survival analysis in medical trials, Statistical analysis in a study of the World Health Organization on sexually transmitted diseases, and Statistical analysis in a study of the University Hospital Ghent on cancer treatments+ Teaching: ‘Logistic Regression’ course, Ghent University, Faculty of Science, Centre for Statistics and Institute for Continuing Education (ICES)