Personal Information:

 

Dries Verachtert

Domicile
Kapittelbossen 50
2200 Herentals
Belgium
Residence
Flat 305
Parkstraat 137-139
3000 Leuven
Belgium

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Born the 28th February 1978 at Herentals (Belgium)
Not married
Belgian
0486/807662
dries@ulyssis.org

Education:

  University K.U.Leuven: Licentiaat Informatics
thesis: Design and implementation of an extendible emulator (C++). Testcases: emulation of the m6502 and z80 processors.
  High school Sint-Jozefscollege at Herentals

Job experience at I-Merge:

  Description of I-Merge I-Merge (http://www.i-merge.net) designs websites and creates different forms of publicity for companies like Alcatel, Globalsign, Insites, Rabobank and Fiat.
  Project: UnderTheCork 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.
Customer: UnderTheCork NV/SA
Used technologies: Apache, Linux, PHP, Oracle 8i
  Project: Poppunt The Poppunt site (http://www.poppunt.be) consists of an online database of musicians, groups, concerts, bargains etc.
Customer: Poppunt VZW
Used technologies: Apache, JRun, Enhydra, Resin, Tomcat, JSP, XSLT, JavaMail, JDBC, PostgreSQL, CVS, MySQL, Linux, perl
  Project: PostBox 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). I work as a consultant until the end of December 2002 at the Belgian Post Group.
Customer: Belgian Post Group
Used technologies: Solaris, Apache, Tomcat, iPlanet, JSP, Servlets, XSLT, JMS, log4j, Struts, JDBC, PVCS Tracker, CVS, HighDeal (betalingsysteem), Syntegra (LDAP & mail), Oracle 9i, Shell programming (bash & tcsh), perl.
  Project: Kleurrijk Vlaanderen Maintenance of the website of Kleurrijk Vlaanderen.
Customer: the Flemish government
Used technologies: Linux, Apache, PHP4, MySQL
  System administration at I-Merge Administration of the Linux servers at I-Merge: configuration and maintenance of HTTP servers, database servers, CVS servers, DNS servers and firewalls.
Used technologies: Linux, ipchains, iptables, snort, Oracle 8i, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache, Tomcat, PPTP, vtund, bind, Resin, shell programming (bash), perl, CVS

Experience during studies:

  ULYSSIS Ulyssis (Unix Lovers Yield Student Services & Internet Support, http://www.ulyssis.org) is a studentorganisation 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 on 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 certain machines.
  KotNet 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.
  I-Merge I worked during the holidays (August 2000) for I-Merge. My work consisted of configuring oracle 8i databases, apache webservers and firewall and also programming backsites in PHP 4 and Perl.
  Umicore My work during the holidays consisted of extending an access database with additional forms and also with visual basic code to automatically fill-in Excel sheets.

General skills:

  Languages Dutch: mother tongue
English: good knowledge
French: limited knowledge
German: notions
  Driver's license B

IT Knowledge:

  Analyse & Design UML, Rational Rose, TogetherJ, AspectJ
  Programming languages Java, Perl, C, C++, PHP, Shell (bash & tcsh), Assembler(x86), javascript
  Markup languages and standards HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XSLT, CSS, FOP, XML
  Application servers Tomcat, Resin, JRun, Enhydra, iPlanet
  Java packages JSP, JMS (Exolab OpenJMS), Servlets, log4j, Struts, Xerces, Xalan, Jdom, Java Mail, Soap, JNDI, RMI, JDBC
  C, C++ Mpatrol, Boehm-Weiser garbage collector, GNU Compilers (gcc), Cygwin
  Databases Oracle 9i EE & 8i EE, Postgress, MySQL
  Change management CVS, PVCS Tracker, Alexandria (jakarta)
  System administration System administration on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and also a bit on Windows 2000 and MacOS 9.
Web servers: Apache, PHP, Tomcat, mod_perl, mod_jk, warp, Jrun, Enhydra, iPlanet
Mail servers: qmail, sendmail
Name servers: bind
File sharing: NFS en samba
Networking: firewalls, ipchains, iptables, forwarding, masquerading, VPNs, socks5, PPTP, IP-Sec, snort
Other: ssh, ftp (wu-ftpd & proftpd),ntpd, squid, CVS, Alexandria, sudo

Personality:

    Personality: open for new experiences, always wanting to learn, good at learning new skills
Hobbies: maintenance of servers, movies, reading, ice skating