Dries Verachtert

Current

Release manager, java developer at European Commission, DG Education and Culture
Rpm packager at Rpmforge

Past

Java consultant (for ithomi cvba) at Agence Europe
Java consultant (for ithomi cvba) at Belmedim nv
Java consultant (for ithomi cvba) at Agfa-Gevaert

Consultant (for ithomi cvba) at Agence Europe
Consultant (for ithomi cvba) at i-Merge
Consultant (for ithomi cvba) at Belmedim
Developer & System administrator at Edesign nv/sa
Developer at i-Merge nv at The Flemish government
Java Consultant (for i-Merge nv) at Belgian Post Group
Developer at i-Merge nv at UnderTheCork nv
Developer at i-Merge nv at Poppunt VZW

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Education

Centrum voor Levende Talen
Centrum voor Levende Talen
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Industry

Computer Software

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Dries Verachtert’s Summary

Java Developer & Linux system management

Dries Verachtert’s Experience

Release manager, java developer

European Commission, DG Education and Culture

(Computer Software industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)
Rpm packager

Rpmforge

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — Present (5 years )

Rpmforge is a collaboration of packagers of open source software. In total we have packages of +/- 2600 open source programs whereof +/- 1300 packages are made by me. These packages are used by system administrators and linux users worldwide and we currently have more then 7 mirrors for distributing the load of the site. The sites receive hits from more then 100 countries.
Involved knowledge: Thorough knowledge of packaging on RPM based Linux distributions. Good knowledge of a lot of languages for debugging open source programs ( C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Autoconf & automake scripts, bash scripts and windowing toolkits like KDE, Gnome, Qt, Gtk, WxWindows)
Environment: Red Hat Linux 6 till 9, Aurora Linux 1.0, 1.91 and 1.92 (sparc), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5, Fedora Core 1 to 10.
Tools: Python, Perl, bash scripting, subversion
Java consultant (for ithomi cvba)

Agence Europe

(Publishing industry)

October 2008 — March 2009 (6 months)

Agence Europe is an international press agency specialised in news about the European Union. Newsletters written in Word have to uploaded to a central server. Certain information has to be extracted and converted to other formats (for example xml). Also personalised PDF documents have to be generated and mailed to the list of subscribers. Used technologies: java, OpenOffice java bindings, GWT (Google Web Toolkit), maven, hudson, tomcat.
Java consultant (for ithomi cvba)

Belmedim nv

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)

Development of an expert system for radiologists. Used technologies: java, tomcat, ibatis and dojo.
Java consultant (for ithomi cvba)

Agfa-Gevaert

(Public Company; AGFB.br; Computer Software industry)

2005 — June 2008 (3 years )

I work as a consultant (java programming) from ithomi nv.

Project: Agfa-Gevaert - Drystar software
General: Design, implementation and maintenance of software running on medical printers made at the Healthcare/Hardcopy departement at Agfa. The Java software runs on an embedded realtime operating system called Portex on the PowerPC platform.
Involved in: Design/Implementation/Maintenance
Environment: Portex, Windows XP
Tools: Eclipse, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Rose, Ant
Consultant (for ithomi cvba)

Agence Europe

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )

Project: Agence Europe - DanteWeb
General: Development of a new web application that allows clients of Agence Europe to read & search online a per-client configurable list of daily multilingual bulletins and whereby only a limited number of simultaneous sessions are allowed for a client's IP-address or IP-range.
Involved in: Automation of the distribution of the pdf files
Involved knowledge: Automation of the distribution of the pdf files.
Environment: IBM WebSphere + Tomcat, MS Access, Windows NT server
Consultant (for ithomi cvba)

i-Merge

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

September 2004 — 2005 (1 year )

As a consultant from ithomi nv, i worked at i-Merge nv on the sites for the ‘Dienst voor de Administratieve Vereenvoudiging’.

General: The federal government department ‘Dienst voor de Administratieve Vereenvouding’ (DAV) asked for an advanced CMS built on open source software for managing the sites http://www.vereenvoudiging.be and http://www.kafka.be.
Involved in: Design & implementation Bug hunting & fixing Deployment
Involved knowledge: Linux, Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, XML, XSLT
Environment: PHP, Linux
Consultant (for ithomi cvba)

Belmedim

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

Design and implementation of a proof of concept for the Belmedim webapplication.

General: After some discussions about the requirements of the site, a proof of concept has been made. The site permits easy searching for diseases and has the possibility to do an export to xml or pdf of all the information in the database.
Involved in: Design & implementation Bug hunting & fixing Staging deployment
Involved knowledge: Linux, Apache, CVS, Java, PostgreSQL, XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, FOP
Environment: Java, Linux
Tools: Eclipse
Developer & System administrator

Edesign nv/sa

(Computer Software industry)

May 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 5 months)

Programming on eDocPort
General: Edesign (http://www.edesign.be) creates products for maintaining electronic forms and documents. The primary product is eDocPort. My work consisted of: the integration with Tamino XML Server, integration with Jway forms, automatic tests with Apache JMeter, standardisation of the installation with Ant, development and design of a lot of new features and bugfixing.
Involved in: deployment, J2EE connectivity (SOAP, EJB), database handlers for PostgreSQL and Tamino XML
Involved knowledge: Linux, Apache, CVS, Java, PostgreSQL, Oracle 9i, Tamino XML Server, Apache Jmeter, SOAP, EJB
Environment: Java, Linux
Tools: Eclipse, JBuilder

System administration
General: Administration of the Linux servers at Edesign: configuration and maintenance of HTTP servers, database servers, CVS servers, DNS servers and the firewall.
Involved knowledge: Linux, iptables, snort, Oracle 9i, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache, Tomcat, bind, Resin, shell scripting (bash), perl, CVS
Developer at i-Merge nv

The Flemish government

(Computer Software industry)

2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

Project: The Flemish government - kleurrijk Vlaanderen site
General: The site consists of a CMS and a lot of forums for moderated discussions.
Involved in: Design & implementation of certain parts (forums) Testing
Involved knowledge: IIS, ASP, MS SQL Server
Environment: IIS, Windows 2000 Server

Project: The Flemish government - 10 ministeriële sites
General: The ’10 ministeriële sites’ consists of a CMS with separate subsites for every minister of the Flemish government. Every department is able to change the pages of it’s own subsite.
Involved in: Design & implementation Testing & bug hunting
Involved knowledge: IIS, ASP, MS SQL Server
Environment: IIS, Windows 2000 Server
Java Consultant (for i-Merge nv)

Belgian Post Group

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

Project: Belgian Post Group - PostBox / Certipost Web application
General: The PostBox (http://www.postbox.be) is a project of the Belgian Post Group (BPG). Every Belgian can get a free, secured and identified PostBox account. Currently, the customer can use this account to send and receive mails and fill-in e-forms. In the future, the customer will be able to send registered mails (CertiPost).
Involved in: Design & implementation of certain parts Testing & bug hunting Staging & production deployment
Involved knowledge: Solaris, Apache, Tomcat, iPlanet, JSP, Servlets, XSLT, JMS, log4j, Struts, JDBC, PVCS Tracker, CVS, HighDeal (payment system), Syntegra (LDAP and mail), Oracle 9i, Shell programming (bash & tcsh), perl.
Environment: Apache + Tomcat, Oracle, Solaris
Tools: CVS, PVCS Tracker
Developer at i-Merge nv

UnderTheCork nv

(Computer Software industry)

July 2001 — 2001 (less than a year)

Project: UnderTheCork NV - UnderTheCork site
General: For UnderTheCork (http://www.underthecork.com), I-Merge did the analysis, design, implementation and deployment of a full scale e-commerce site for selling wine. New modules such as stock management have been added after the launch of the website.
Involved in: Design & implementation Production deployment
Involved knowledge: Apache, Linux, PHP, Oracle 8i, HTML, JavaScript
Environment: Apache + Oracle 8i, Linux
Tools: Oracle Enterprise manager
Developer at i-Merge nv

Poppunt VZW

(Computer Software industry)

2001 — 2001 (less than a year)

Project: Poppunt VZW - Poppunt site
General: The Poppunt site (http://www.poppunt.be) consists of an online database of musicians, groups, concerts, bargains etc.
Involved in: Design & implementation
Involved knowledge: Apache, JRun, Enhydra, Resin, Tomcat, JSP, XSLT, JavaMail, JDBC, PostgreSQL, CVS, MySQL, Linux, perl
Environment: Apache + Resin, PostgreSQL, Linux
Tools: CVS

Dries Verachtert’s Education

Centrum voor Levende Talen

Japanese 2007 — 2010 (expected)
Centrum voor Levende Talen

Italian 2004 — 2007
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

licentiaat , Informatica (informatics) , 1996 — 2001

Activities during studies:

ULYSSIS (Unix Lovers Yield Student Services & Internet Support, http://www.ulyssis.org) is a student organisation which maintains some HTTP, DNS, shell, IRC, CVS, socks5, FTP, email and database servers for students and organisations at the K.U.Leuven. ULYSSIS also does the following
* Organise activities like html competitions, lectures and lanparties.
* Cooperate in the organisation of large activities like the 24Urenloop.
* Help people with computer problems by mail, news, IRC and webpages. I've been chairman of this organisation during two years. I've been responsible for the contacts with for example sponsors and also for maintaining a lot of the machines.

KotNet is the network of the K.U.Leuven students (ca. 10000 computers). Together with other students, I was responsible for the DNS and mail administration of the kotnet.org domain.

Activities and Societies:

ULYSSIS,KotNet