Jorg Floren

Senior .NET Developer at Axxes-IT

Antwerp Area, Belgium

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Education
  • Hogeschool Antwerpen
  • Koninklijk Technisch Atheneum Deurne
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Jorg Floren’s Summary

Goals: To extend my .NET development skills utilizing all the latest technologies.

Attributes:Driven, punctual and professional.

Date of Birth: 23rd August 1979
Place of Birth: Kapellen, Belgium

Jorg Floren’s Specialties:

C# .NET, SQL Server 2000/2005, Database design, Application Analysis, .NET 2.0, C++, Xml, Xslt, HTML, CSS, WSE 3.0
C# .NET 3.0, WCF, Web Services Software Factory

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist:
Microsoft Foundation with C# (70-536)
ASP .NET 2.0 with C# (70-528)
ASP .NET 3.5 with C# (70-562)

Jorg Floren’s Experience

  • .NET Developer

    Thomson Reuters

    (Public Company; TOC; Information Services industry)

    February 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

    Worked on the next release of a client specific release of the eXemius platform.

    Technologies:
    - Fixml 4.3
    - .NET 1.1
    - SqlServer 2005

    Worked on eXimius 4.6
    - Software Analysis
    - SqlServer 2005
    - C# .NET 3.5
    - In house developed tools

    Worked on a customer specific release on the base of version 4.5 of the eXimius platform. In order to succeed I worked closely together with the Project Manager, the Functional Analyst and the release management team.

    Developed WCF Services for a customer specific release of eXimus 4.6 also retrofitting this custom implementation into the eXimus 5.0 version.

    Currently working on eXimus 5.0 and 5.1 customizations.

  • Senior .NET Consultant

    Axxes

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

    I'm currently unavailable since my contract with the Thomson Corporation has been extended.

  • .NET Webservices Developer

    The Thomson Corporation

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TOC; Information Services industry)

    December 2007 — February 2008 (3 months)

    I'm working at eXimius, a subsidiary of the Thomson Corporation in Belgium, as an external contractor. I'm responsible for the development of webservices to enable dynamic reporting according to the standards set forward by Thomson.

    Used Technologies:
    - Web Services Software Factory
    - WCF
    - C# .NET 3.0
    - VB 6.0
    - SQL Server 2005

    I'm also responsible for the creation of a proof of concept for one of the clients of Thomson Financial. The proof of concept was developed on location in London, United Kingdom.

  • .NET Consultant

    Sogeti

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    July 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 4 months)

    Did three projects while working at Sogeti all as a .NET Software Developer.
    One internal project, one project at Umicore and a multi-project mission at Electrabel

  • .NET Software Developer

    Electrabel

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; SZE; Oil & Energy industry)

    March 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 7 months)

    Function held as an external contractor of Sogeti.

    Analysis, design and implementation of the AceCommon Framework used by Electrabel throughout Europe (HU, NL, BE, ES, FR, DE):
    - PI SDK (by Osisoft), PI Ace (by Osisoft), Visual Basic .NET 1.1, Xml, Xsd, Xslt

    Implementation of 25 PI-Ace modules using the AceCommon Framework

    Creation of several administrative Console Applications:
    - Visual Basic .NET 1.1, Webservices, T-SQL, Xml, Xsd, Xslt, MS Excel

    Adjustment of an intranet site:
    - ASP, Javascript, VBScript, HTML 4.01, T-SQL (MS SQLServer 2000)

    Redesign of an intranet page:
    - ASP .NET 1.1, C# .NET 1.1, Javascript, CSS 2.0, T-SQL (MS SQLServer 2000)

    WinForm application using C# .NET 2.0

    Writing of all documentation and procedures on all projects.

  • .NET Software Developer

    Umicore

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

    September 2005 — March 2006 (7 months)

    Function held as an external contractor of Sogeti.

    - Takeover the project development.
    - Setup planning and course of action.
    - Study and alter existing data analysis to comply to the new system requirements.
    - Development of the data model in Oracle 9i
    - Development of a VB .NET polling service, which connects to two different Oracle databases. The polling service (windows service) supports Windows Event logging.
    - Using object oriented design and analysis to design and develop the business logic layer and data access layer for maximum code re-usability.
    - Development of a VB .NET front-end for the semi-automatically process of measurements.
    - Development of custom user-controls to support the front-end.
    - Set up a test environment and plan system integration tests.
    - Preparation of meetings.
    - Write system documentation and user manuals. Prepare courses for the end user to study.

    Used platform (customers request): Visual Basic .NET 1.1, Oracle 9.2

  • .NET Software Developer

    Sogeti

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2005 — September 2005 (3 months)

    - Design and development of necessary views, stored procedures and functions to generate the business report.
    - Changing and extending functionality of existing T-SQL stored procedures in order to enhance their performance
    - General DBA tasks (backups, version merging, etc.)
    - Optimizing database tables for better query performance
    - C# en ASP.NET development for the client-side user interface
    - Code merging, cleaning and version management
    - Setting up a test environment and execution of tests in order to validate the latest system functionalities.
    - Preparation of classes to train the end users.

    Environment: Visual Studio .NET 2003, MS SQL Server 2000
    Used technology: C#.NET 1.1, ASP .NET 1.1 and T-SQL

  • Game Programmer

    Reakktor Media GmbH

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

    July 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 7 months)

    Prototype X
    - Editing and reprogramming of the main menu subsystem
    - Wrote, rewrote and redesigned several main menu controls.
    - Programmed a customizable tunnel effect, whose shape could be defined at run-time.

    Neocron
    - Scripted several in game opponents, changed weather effects and other game balancing.
    - Did several minor bug fixings.

    Neocron 2: Beyond Dome of York
    - Reprogrammed the H.U.D. system, keeping the old structure but updating several functions and mainly the window layout.
    - Added several new features to enable the user to customize the looks of the H.U.D.
    - Reprogramming the game launcher program using MFC.
    - Reprogrammed the main menu using the previously redesigned controls.
    - Had my first experience with animating actors in a 3D game environment.
    - Implemented several new mobs.
    - Implemented several new weapon shot and hit effects.
    - Implemented a new drone interface.
    - Updated the HUD system to accommodate up to three totally different layouts.

  • Content Developer

    Reakktor Media GmbH

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

    July 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 7 months)

    Neocron
    - As chief editor of the Neocronicle Magazine, I published the first and to date only monthly magazine for a Massive Multiplayer Online Game. I have published a total of 12 magazines. Due to the development on our sequel the magazine was cancelled in order to concentrate our efforts on the development itself.
    - Revamped the inner city sectors, which was greatly approved by the player base.

    Neocron 2: Beyond Dome of York
    - Written base design document for the "Hacknet"
    - Partially visual design of the H.U.D.
    - Game Balancing

  • Internal IT

    Antwerp Business Center

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2001 — February 2002 (6 months)

    Job held while still studying.

    - End user support
    - Development of software for internal use

Jorg Floren’s Education

  • Hogeschool Antwerpen

    Bachelor , Computer Science , 1999 — 2002

    Trainee at XT-i
    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
    February 2002 – June 2002 ( 5 months)

    I did my internship with XT-i where I implemented an ebXML Message Service Handler in Java. I also wrote the accompanying API. Next to the API and the ebXML MSH I expanded an internally developed demo using an open banking standard(IFX) to use the MSH for communications. This demo was showed at the XML-Europe convention in Barcelona in 2002. The demo got an award from Sun.

    Activities and Societies:
    Class representative, project leader, student council

  • Koninklijk Technisch Atheneum Deurne

    Applied Informatics 1997 — 1999

    Trainee at Alcatel Bell
    (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
    March 1999 – March 1999 (1 month)

    This was a short trainee ship. My task was to write an interface to process video conferencing logs. All logs were parsed into an Access 97 database which had a separate front end. It was a tenacious task because of the great variety of data that came with the logs.

    Activities and Societies:
    Class representative

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Jorg Floren’s Interests:

new technology, football (soccer), fitness, running, swimming, biking, playing the piano, computer games, console gaming, board games and much more

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