Helping out ING's Risk Management team around Sophis (Stock Derivatives) to successfully respect their delivery deadlines on the various regulatory projects, like FRTB, EBA Stress testing and SIMM. My extensive VaR (Value-at-Risk) knowledge and mathematical background highly contribute in understanding the needs, preparing the various setups and effectively executing the runs. On a daily basis I'm interacting intensively with the systems (hardware, Windows O/S and software) and Oracle database, given the stress that is applied on them.

In close relationship with the rest of the Sophis (derivatives) team and Market Risk Management, my primary task is providing high-level VaR and MI support to ING's branches all over the world (Belgium, Amsterdam, New York, Singapore, London). Besides supporting, I am working on the continuous (further) improvement and stabilization of the environment, which involves my development, scripting, database administering and system engineering skills.

Being promoted into a leading role, as coordinator I am responsible for the well-functioning of our Service Desk (a team of 4) and ensuring the 'liaison' between all involved stakeholders (customers, management,...). I try to actively participate in all discussions where our Service Desk is involved (rollouts, architectural decisions,...), to streamline the Service Desk in order to achieve a good level of customer satisfaction and to develop/install/maintain the necessary monitoring + scripts to tackle incidents before they happen or have an impact. As much as possible I participate in the daily Service Desk 'life' to maintain my technical skills and to know what happens 'on the floor'.

Ensuring the day-to-day activities in a multilingual (EN/FR/NL) bank environment (HeadOffice = dealingroom + supporting departments). In our support team, we ensure that the Sophis bank application, MicroStrategy reporting software, QRM risk management framework and many other tools are available for our users (server side). I also support the users (Win XP and 7) with any problems they encounter in their daily activities. Part of this job is also server maintenance itself (Server 2003 and 2008 R2), troubleshooting performance issues (network, VMware, Oracle DB) and assisting management in security, architectural and good-practice IT maintenance decisions.

· FinTech and IT consultancy

· WWWeb.be webservices

· Different projects under development

· Small scale retail of IT materials + support

· Online retail of IT, home-entertainment and telecom materials

· PC repair and support services

Magna cum laude

· Advanced studies in management

· Marketing and supply chain management

· Capita Selecta [blockchain]

· Graduation research: Blockchain usability within supply chains

Cum laude

· Specialism information- and communication technology

· Minor specialism business administration

· Performance measuring + improvement advise for a "Bucket Brigade" production line with parallel workstations @ Van Hoecke, Halux line, Sint-Niklaas

· Insight + advise derived from a self-written Java simulation program

· An explorarion and critical analysis of blockchains and their application within the field of supply chains

· Thorough knowledge and troubleshooting experience in Windows server/workstation environments (Windows XP - Win 11, Server 2003 - 2016)

· Active Fedora linux user on home workstations and self-maintained servers (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, since 9.04 LTS)

· Skilled Java (console programs, JSP/Servlets), PHP, Powershell, Android developer

· Advanced Oracle and MySQL database administration - database/query tuning specialist

· Thorough understanding of blockchain and neural networks

· Broad interest in various other IT domains: IT security, micro-electronics (#RightToRepair), AI

· Scrum Alliance: Certified ScrumMaster

· Exin: ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

· Coursera: Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems

· Coursera: Critical Perspectives on Management

· Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Windows Server 2008

· Windows Server 2008 Server Administrator (70-646)

· Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (70-642)

· Windows Server 2008 Active Directory (70-640)

· Windows 7, Configuring (70-680)

· Managing and maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 environment (70-290)

· MicroStrategy 9: Administration

· Linux LPI LPIC-1 and LPIC-2

· Residence: Prague, Czech Republic

· Birthplace, date: Jette (B), 30th May 1983

· Citizenship: Belgian

· Marital status: Single

· Hobbies: Sports (running, cycling, indoor rowing, inline skating, winter sports), woodworking, photography, angling, cooking, city trips

· Driving license: B, BE