Bart De Gruyter

Current

• Software Consultancy at The Talentbox
• Owner at Link42 BVBA

Past

• Manager, software engineering at EMC2
• Manager Software Engineering at EMC
• Software consultancy at Link42 bvba (Self-employed)

• Systems Architect at Cast4All NV
• Senior Software Engineer at S.W.I.F.T.
• Software Engineer at Leuven Measurement & Systems (LMS)
• Thesis & Internship at Free University Of Brussels (VUB)

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Education

• Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• KAOI Oostende
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Computer Software

Bart De Gruyter’s Summary

Creating a positive atmosphere where cross functional teams can commit, and deliver quality products in time.

Bart De Gruyter’s Specialties:

Creating productive software development teams that apply lean and agile principles.

Bart De Gruyter’s Experience

• Software Consultancy

  The Talentbox

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Human Resources industry)

  January 2008 — Present (2 years )

  The Talentbox helps companies to (re)-engineer HR processes and the optimization of Human Capital. We develop the tools and services and use proven concepts from CRM, marketing, finance and process automation. The Talentbox stands for a unique combination of ‘leading edge’ technology and business process know-how.
  I am contributing to the Talentbox by expanding the services and by bringing the software product and coaching the development team to the next level of maturity.

• Owner

  Link42 BVBA

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — Present (10 years )

  Limited company... for fun projects.

• Manager, software engineering

  EMC2

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 9 months)

  Creating cross-ocean cross-functional teams that deliver impressive product quality on time and having fun at doing so.

• Manager Software Engineering

  EMC

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2003 — December 2007 (4 years )

• Software consultancy

  Link42 bvba (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — May 2003 (3 years 5 months)

  Eruca Global Services: open source EJB container (Evidian Jonas), open source relational database (PostgreSQL < Ingres), open source networking & security. Financial and sales information distribution; automated reporting tools through the Internet (email). PDF reporting via XSL formatting objects, transforming relational database SQL JDBC queries into XML into PDF. Design and deployment of relational database schema for PostgreSQL.
  
  Federauto: architecture design, database schema s for relational database of financial data distribution automation via the internet. Deployment on PostgreSQL, automated report generation into Excel via XML interface. Web interface for reporting information from relational database. Automated email push of the same information.

• Systems Architect

  Cast4All NV

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2000 — April 2003 (3 years 4 months)

  Analysis, design & implementation of a role based portal for provisioning satellite IPmulticast communications, network architectures, security architectures. Assisted in the project plan, definition & completion of two European Space Agency (ESA) funded projects of 1,000,000.- euro in total, over 2 years. Startup joined from the very beginning.

• Senior Software Engineer

  S.W.I.F.T.

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Banking industry)

  January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  InterAct: interactive messaging through middleware abstraction. SwiftNetLink: Java: middleware and network interface abstraction, client side CORBA communications. C++: Corba-Tuxedo bridge, server side communications. Scaleability, security. Entrust-toolkit, public key infrastructure. XML abstraction, DOM-integration. FileAct: secure file transfer using Entrust-file profiles for SSL communication. Analysis and Design of the Java framework (multiple threads and pipes for handling security layers). Project plan, assist in the implementation and testing.

• Software Engineer

  Leuven Measurement & Systems (LMS)

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 1996 — January 1999 (2 years 7 months)

  Analyses, design, implementation, testing, support, and maintenance of C++ software components as part of a legacy system in the domain of Mechanical Computer Aided Engineering (MCAE). (1996-1999) Applications: 2D graphical visualisation of bulk data including data reduction algorithms. Data Editing Display: a proprietary version of a spreadsheet similar to Excel. Both projects were implemented on different platforms using C++: HP UNIX (60%), Silicon Graphics (10%), Windows NT (30%). Other responsibilities: handling the communication with internal customers (business units). Helping the business units with their Information Technology (IT) questions, more in particular: being part of a knowledge domain expert group. Expertise: object oriented software development life cycle. (OMT, UML, C++). Research projects + guiding an internship and thesis student detached from the VUB to the IT-department.

• Thesis & Internship

  Free University Of Brussels (VUB)

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

  August 1995 — June 1996 (11 months)

  Lab for System And Software Engineering (LaSSE) VUB. Subject: how to improve roundtrip engineering methods applied to software development for large scale, interactive, real-time telco and chip designs. Greatest Distinction. Promotor: Prof. Dr. Viviane Jonckers.

Bart De Gruyter’s Education

• Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  Master in computer science, greatest distinction , Computer Science , 1991 — 1996

• KAOI Oostende

• publication (continued)

  Activities and Societies:

  Goeman, K., De Gruyter, B., Mannaert, H., & De Vos, E. (2003) Exploring New Boundaries for E-Learning: Multicasting via Satellite , Conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Telecommunications (IEEE ICT 2003), February 23rd - March 1st, Papeete, Tahiti, pp. 1741-1745
  Mannaert, H. , De Gruyter, B. & Adriaenssens, P. (2003) Web Portal for Multicast Delivery Management , Emerald Journal on Internet Research, Volume 13, Issue 2