Karim Vaes

In Short

Open Source enthusiast with a high affinity towards the whole internet culture.

Personalia

• Full Name : Karim Vaes
• Location : Mol, Belgium
• Contact : Mail form

Profile

• MBTI : ESTJ
• Belbin : Shaper, Implementer, Coordinator
• Social Network :
• My Company : LogiTouch

Character

• Effective listener/communicator
• Fast learner with an attention to detail
• Acquainted with project methodologies
• Team player with an ability to work independently
• Experienced in working in complex environments
• Flexible and service-minded
• Eager to learn new things
• Used to working in cross departmental projects

Education

• Katholieke Hogeschool der Kempen 1998 ~ 2001
  Bachelor Degree in “Toegepaste Informatica
• British Chamber of Commerce (co-operation with the KHK) 2001
  Certification in “Business English”
• Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst 2007 ~ 2009
  Post-Graduate Degree in “IT Management”
  Modules : ‘Auditing & Security’, ‘Project Management’, ‘Information Management & Strategy’, ‘Software Engineering’ & ‘Change Management’

Experience
LogiTouch [web agency] 2008 ~ Current

• Webdesign : Quality Design Work, OpenSource integrations & Custom Coding Services (PHP/MySQL)
• Marketing & Communication : Providing services in regards to mailinglists, online branding & persentation design.
• Project Management : Handling the full project lifecycle for our clients according to our standards (derived from PMBOK).

Vangenechten Group [packaging industry] 2008 ~ Current

• Resource Management : Making sure the right projects / operational tasks get the right resources allocated
• Project Management : Managing bigger / cross-domain IT projects

Personal Life [volunteer/circle-of-friends] 2000 ~ Current

• Team Building : Organizing several (yearly occurring) teambuilding activities
• Open Source : Contributing to several Open Source communities
• Blogging : Being a true believer of the 2.0 concept, especially for the aspects collaboration & open communication

Nokia Siemens Networks [telecom] 2007 ~ 2008
(on contract basis thru Elmos)

• System Integration : Integrating systems from a variety of internal products
• Integration Consultancy : Providing central expertise for several projects (in regards to HA setups)

Tuxsolutions [webhosting] 2003 ~ 2008

• System Engineering : Installation/Maintenance of a stable shared hosting service
• Customer Service : Keeping customer satisfaction up by quick & accurate answers

Vangenechten Group [packaging industry] 2001 ~ 2007

• System Engineering : Responsible for Business Critical Application & Database clusters
• Vendor Management : Following up support/license contracts
• Project Management : First steps towards managing small/internal IT projects

Skills
In-depth technical knowledge

• J2EE environments : Load Balancing Setups, Application Servers & Database Clusters
• Webdesign & Development : Quality Designs, Experienced with PHP/MySQL – Custom Coding & Using Frameworks (CodeIgniter, Drupal, Wordpress, …), eCommerce setups (with payment gateways integration)
• Mixed environments : Linux, Unix, Windows, Netware & Mac
• Software engineering : Scripting, Version Management, Packaging & Deployment
• Infrastructure : Complex Virtualization Setups with integrated Storage Systems
• Networking : Distributed/redundant LAN/WAN setups (with traffic shaping)

Administrative skill set

• Documentation :Content/Document Management Systems (Drupal, Wordpress, Alfresco,…)
• Collaboration : Wiki, Blog, Instant Messaging
• Project Management : MS Project, GanttProject
• Productivity Tools : Microsoft Suite (Outlook/Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Visio)

Languages

• Dutch : Mother tongue
• English : Very good
• French : Weak
• German : Weak

A more detailled resume on request…