curriculum vitae Stefaan Ponnet * Personal Information Last Name : Ponnet First Name : Stefaan Nationality : Belgian Gender : Male Address : Statiestraat 94 2600 Berchem Belgium Birthdate : 22/5/1975 Marital Status : girlfriend Telephone : +32 497 458020 Email : stefaan@ponnet.com * Objective I am a committed , solutions-oriented freelance application developer and project manager. What I can offer a company besides energy and motivation is creativity, structure, programming- and technical insights and good communicational skills. Trough my various teaching courses, I learned to get people up to speed with new technologies in a very short time. * Focus My focus is on delivering software solutions and IT consultancy with a qualitative high standard, based on technologically well-founded and appropriate arguments, as well as advising managment in technological choices. Two key items in obtaining this goal are to look at different alternatives for solving problems and constantly keeping my technological knowledge up to date trough seminars, evaluating emerging technologies and self-study. * Selected Project Experience (most recent first) -Contractor work period : 01/2001 - now company : Eguila BVBA location : Antwerpen (Belgium) title : Internet consultant / software engineer function : Architecture and implementation of e-business solutions. projects : -www.febetra.be description : Internet and intranet site application design and programming. Febetra is the largest Belgian transport federation with over 2000 members accessing the internet/intranet site. technologies used : PHP ; Apache; MySQL; GNU toolkit; Agile Programming methodology -www.puzzelland.nl description : An IVR (Interactive Voice Response) dial-in system for micropayments was designed for this customer. technologies used : Linux; GNU Bayonne; custom hardware -www.kidshouse.be description : Backend application design and programming. Modular approach and Extreme Programming methodology allowed us to deliver this project on time and on budget. technologies used : PHP ; Apache; MySQL; GNU toolkit; Agile Programming methodology -www.dyns.be description : The advanced DNS community service allows users to assign a static hostname to their dynamic IP address, using a client-tool. Users can also register their own domain for this DNS application. The service enables URL forwarding (to a web page or an IP address) technologies used : DNS ; c ; perl ; remote DB syncronisation ; PHP ; Apache; GNU tools status : running since 1998 -www.yourgsm.com description : YourGSM offers services for the GSM user community. It is powered by the in-house developed product iSMS. iSMS is a complete biderectional SMS suite, able to send and receive SMS messages. It implements a complete Narrow Bandwidth Stack to enable the sending and receiving of smart messages like ringing tones, group graphics, business cards, ... technologies used : Linux ; C ; Perl ; SMS ; HTTP ;XML ; TCP/IP ; mySQL ; Serial Communication ; Interfacing to SMSCenters (novelsoft) ; NBS ; OTA ; OTABitmaps status : under development -Frontline solutions nv/sa period : 01/2001 - 07/2001 company : Frontline nv/sa location : Antwerpen (Belgium) title : Internet consultant / software engineer function : Architecture and implementation of e-business solutions. achievements : Methodology implementation for the development team. references : -www.frontline.be description : XML backend design and implementation. techologies used : VB ; ASP ; XML-DOM (MSXML) ; XSLT ; Perl -www.quintessence.be description : Architecture and implementation of the corporate website. techologies used : VB ; ASP ; MS-SQL -Evisor nv/sa period : 10/1999 until 01/2001 company : Evisor nv/sa location : Leuven (Belgium) title : Internet consultant / software engineer function : Architecture and implementation of e-business solutions. Focus on mobile internet applications achievements : co-founder of the Mobile-Competence center, where our team developed early-stage mobile technologies into working products. references : -www.electrabel.be description : development and upgrade of an intranet news feed dispatcher. techologies used : perl -GE Plastics description : Architecture and implementation of a mailing list manager as a 1-to-1 marketing tool techologies used : mySQL ; perl ; PHP ; sendmail -CHU/charleroi description : Implementation of thin client applications for a hospital's intranet technologies used : ASP ; VBscript ; MS SQL Server 7 ; Site Server -www.seagha.com description : Technology and implementation of the corporate website technologies used : DHTML ; Javascript ; Mircrosoft IIS -wap.ready.be ( mobile project ) description : Architecture and implementation of the WAP site and the AvantGO mobile channel on PDA Security architecture of the WAP applications technologies used : WAP ; WML ; WTLS ; SMS ; AvantGo -wap.goudenbingo.com ( mobile project ) description : Architecture and implementation for a dedicated website for EURO 2000. Featured a real-time e-polling system via WAP and SMS. In cooperation with Het Laatste Nieuws (local newspaper) technologies used : WAP ; WML ; SMS ; AT+GSM -ICEurop ( mobile project ) description : Online shopping in the Paris area. Architecture of the AvantGO channel that allows stock maintenance and clearing technologies used : AvantGo * Other Work Experiences ( most recent first ) -Teaching course internet technologies period : february-april 2002 company : UAMS (Universiteit Antwerpen Management School) duration : 12 days outline : 1 unit in a 2-year post-academic course 'Master in E-Business'. The courses included following topics: HTML, JavaScript, Internet- and HTTP security, HTML-DOM and DHTML -Teaching courses XML/XSLT period : several courses (4 day sessions) during 2002 company : VDAB duration : 4 days outline : A 4 day course covering following topics: XML / DTD / DOM / XPath / XSL / XSLT/ Quilt / XSQL / Schema / XLink / XPointer I have presented introductions to the above technologies - taught the students how work with them, and gave them the opportinity to exercise these technologies in the computer lab through worked examples. -Teaching courses XML/XSLT period : may 2001, october 2001 and november 2001 company : VDAB duration : 4 days outline : A 4 day course covering following topics: XML / DTD / DOM / XPath / XSL / XSLT/ Quilt / XSQL / Schema / XLink / XPointer I have presented introductions to the above technologies - taught the students how work with them, and gave them the opportinity to exercise these technologies in the computer lab through worked examples. -Teaching course HTML / CSS / Javascript / DHTML period : february 2001 company : UAMS (Universiteit Antwerpen Management School) duration : 1 day outline : Introduction to HTML / Cascading Style Sheets and javascript. 1 day course in a 12-day post-academic course 'Website and Intranet Software Engineering' -Teaching course WAP/WTLS period : june 2000 company : IT works duration : 1 day outline : The principles and practice of building a secure WAP infrastructure. I have presented a case study: 'wap.ready.be' as a real-life example * Education academic what : Licentiaat Informatica where : 1996-1999 when : RUCA / Universiteit Antwerpen what : Licentiaat Produktontwikkeling (Product design and development) where : 1995-1996 when : Henri Van De Velde instituut - Antwerpen what : Moderne Talen ASO - Wiskunde/wetenschappen where : <1992 when : Onze Lieve Vrouwecollege - Antwerpen other what : Technology briefing WAP, 1 day where : 1999 when : company: IT-Works - Brussels languages what : Dutch where : mother tongue when : mother tongue what : English where : fluent when : very good what : French where : good when : very good what : German where : basic when : good * Miscellaneous My hobbies include fitness, inline-skating and motorcycling. * Knowledge Matrix - Programming Languages skill : c / c++ experience : 5 years last used : currently skill : perl experience : 3 years last used : currently skill : java / javascript experience : 4 years last used : 6 months ago skill : VBscript / Visual Basic experience : 2 years last used : currently - Markup Languages skill : HTML 3.2/4.0 - XHTML experience : 5 years last used : currently skill : DHTML experience : 2 years last used : currently skill : CSS experience : 2 years last used : currently - Databases skill : mySQL / PostgreSQL experience : 4 years last used : currently skill : Microsoft SQL server 6.5/7 experience : 2 years last used : july 2001 skill : Access experience : 3 years last used : july 2001 - Wireless / Mobile skill : WAP (WML , WMLscript) experience : 1,5 years last used : januari 2001 skill : PQA webclipping experience : 6 months last used : januari 2001 skill : PalmOS 3.5 development (Codewarrior, PRC-tools) experience : 6 months last used : recently skill : CDK (Palm Conduit Development Kit) experience : 6 months last used : currently - Internet Application Frameworks skill : ASP / site server experience : 2 years last used : july 2001 skill : PHP (PHP3 / PHP4) experience : 4 years last used : currently skill : JSP/Servlets experience : 1 year last used : juli 2001 skill : mod_perl experience : 1 year last used : recently skill : Mason experience : 6 months last used : recently - XML and related technologies skill : XML experience : 3 years last used : recently skill : XSL/XSLT experience : 2 years last used : recently skill : DOM experience : 2 year last used : recently skill : XML-FO (formatting objects) experience : 6 months last used : recently skill : Perl XML modules experience : 6 months last used : recently - Machine Languages skill : MC68k (Motorola) (Amiga / PalmOS ) experience : 6 years last used : 1998 - Technology skill : TCP/IP experience : 5 years last used : currently skill : DNS experience : 4 years last used : currently skill : HTTP experience : 5 years last used : currently - Webservers skill : Apache 1.x experience : 4 years last used : currently skill : IIS4 experience : 1 year last used : currently - Tools skill : GNU tools experience : 5 years last used : currently skill : Visual Interdev experience : 1 year last used : currently skill : Allaire Homesite experience : 2 year last used : currently skill : Codewarrior experience : 6 months last used : december 2001 - Operating Systems skill : Windows 95/98/2000 experience : 6 years last used : currently skill : Linux (2.0 - 2.4) experience : 5 years last used : currently skill : openBSD experience : 1 year last used : currently skill : PalmOS experience : 2 years last used : currently skill : AmigaOS ( MK680xx) experience : 5 years last used : 1998