Septentrio Satellite Navigation
- Development Manager
2007 - maintenantResponsable for Development ( > 30 hardware,software and test engineers)- Planning- Coordination- Efficiency increase
Septentrio Satellite Navigation
- Software Group Manager - Project Manager
2004 - 2007Group manager software team- Task assignment- Recruitment – Technical interviews- Migration Cvs-> SubversionProject manager: firmware GPS receivers - Planning-Implementation-Follow up and review of o Requirements o Milestones o Quality o BudgetRealisations- Setup of company open collaboration platform (TWiki). - Initiation of Web based ‘Order Approval and Registration’system, creating a controlled purchasing environment + means to keep an overview on budget estimates and actuals. - Set up of Web based ‘Time Registration tools’, improving drastically planning estimates by offering insight in effort needs on similar projects in the past.. - Introduction of continuous integration environment. (automated : night builds / unit and system tests)
Septentrio Satellite Navigation
- Software Quality and Test coordinator
2002 - 2004Increased general software quality trough common engineering methodologie and tools - Setup Issue Tracking (Bugzilla) - Introduction software lifecycle and stabilisation concept. - Setup of Requirements Test coverage Traceability (Doors) - Development of Test Automation (python, pytest/cutest) - Code purification (splint) - Automated Source Code Documentation (Doxygen) Coordination of the test department - test definition and executionDonut realizations - Initiated the concept of projects inside Septentrio. Started with planning – coordination of firmware development projects for (PolaRx) GPS receivers. - Initiated the concept of first organisation structure in Septentrio.
Lernout & Hauspie
- SW Engineering Architect
1998 - 2001Synchronising software engineering methods LHS (Europe & US). - Increasing general software quality. (Stability, maintainability, uniformity, configuration management) (set-up coding guidelines / release guidelines) - Increase efficiency by promoting code-re-use. (Guidelines for portability) - Technical interface: Between “engineering” (internal customer) and predevelopment. - Partial coordination and management of process improvement within the various departments of the predevelopment division. - Advisory role: moderator in technical discussions amongst different Business-Units. Detection of new needs, offering solutions. Design + guidance of implementation, follow up on QA, promotion of emerging technologies. - Team member in architect group.Speciality: speech recognition, portability of c programming language.
Lernout and Hauspie
- Embedded Software development engineer
1993 - 1998- Project based porting of speech recognition algorithms to different platforms and operating systems, mainly for Computer Telephony. - Analysis, design, hardware set-up, porting (C), optimisation (asm), Q&A, documentation, delivery, support. - C (with OO design), assembly TI (C52). - NT + SCO, OS2, VxWorks, Unixware. - Basic web interface (CGI-scripts ) to Ms-Access for ‘Unified Messaging Tool’.
