Clicking Print in your browser renders a printable CV without the headers and menus.

Personal Details

born in Antwerp, Belgium on February 14th, 1974

Objectives

to work in a motivating environment with room for innovation and research

Education

Professional Bachelor ICT

from 1997 to 2000, graduate informatics
C.V.O., Materiaalstraat 67, 1070 Anderlecht

thesis : Petrarca, a knowledge database (written in Visual Foxpro 6)

University

from 1992 to 1994, Bachelor Applied Computer Sciences (studies stopped because of family reasons)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

High School

from 1986 to 1992
Sint-Niklaasinstituut, Bergensesteenweg, 1070 Anderlecht

Trainings and conferences

Computer security

TF-CSIRT / FIRST May 07 (Prague), May 08 (Oslo), Jan 09 (Riga), Sep 09 (Tallinn)
DIMVA 2007 (Luzern, July 2007)
BlackHat and DefCon 2006 (Las Vegas, August 2006)
Sans SEC503, Intrusion Detection In-Depth (Sans Institute – Amsterdam November 2005)

Computer Security Incident Handling (Terena – Paris Februari 2005)
Sans SEC504, Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling (Sans Institute – Amsterdam September 2004)
Checkpoint NG (Ubizen – (IWT internal training 17 and 18 November 2003)

Software development

UML (Guidance – Brussels March 2002)
JavaScript (Guidance – Brussels November 2001)

Java2 (Guidance – Brussels April 2001)
MS-1013 – VB 6.0 development (U2U – Zellik June 30th 2000)
MS-1303 – VB 6.0 fundamentals (Cronos – Brussels May 2000)

System- and network administration

TCP/IP and firewalls (O.F.O. – Brussels May 2006)
TCP/IP (V.D.A.B. – Wevelgem February 2001)

Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 (Cronos – Brussels Janurary 2001)
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (V.D.A.B. – November and December 2000)
Microsoft SQL-Server 7.0 (POSA – Brussels March 2000)
Microsoft NT-server 4.0 (V.D.A.B. October and November 1999)

Languages

Dutch : native language

French : fluent
English : fluent
German : basic understanding

Professional Records

Security Specialist

from July 1st 2004 until present
BELNET-CERT / CERT.be, Louizalaan 231, 1050 Brussel
Belnet is the Belgian national research network
that provides high-bandwidth Internet connection to Belgian
universities, colleges, schools, research centers, and government
departments.
CERT.be is the national Computer Emergency Response Team for Belgium.

I work for Belnet as a Security Specialist for the national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT.be)
and the CERT for the Belnet network. I’m responsable for the follow-up and coordination
of computer security incidents, I give (security) advise to customers and I do the monitoring and
auditing of computersystems and networks on the Belnet network. Part of my duties are system-
and network administration of the CERT.be servers (web, mail, file-&printsharing, firewalling,
netflow, honeypot, intrusion detection) and I’m responsable for the “web”-visibility of CERT.be.
I maintain several webservers, CMS’s (Drupal) and the contacts with social media.
I develop applications and websites in PHP/Mysql for the improvement
of CERT.be and BELNET-CERT. Within Belnet and CERT.be I’m responsable for
project management of projects for computer security (for customers) and the
improvement of the network and systems (CERT.be).

Developer / Security contact / System Engineer

from April 1st 2000 until June 30th 2004
IWT-Vlaanderen, Bischoffsheimlaan 25, 1000 Brussel
The “Instituut voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en
Technologie (IWT)” is a government agency founded in 1991 by the Flemish
Government and supports projects for technological innovation in
Flanders.
As a member of a team, I was responsible for the management of
approx. 20 servers (mixed Windows / Linux) with different services.
Additionally we managed and supported the local network with approx. 120
workstations. My primary responsibilities consisted of the management of the
different internet services (webserver,
firewall, proxy, dns) and the computer security.
I also developed webapplications in ASP
and acted as a backup for user-support.

System and User support / Developer

from July 1st 1998 until end of March 2000

TML BVBA, Bosstraat 103, 1742 Sint-Katharina-Lombeek (Ternat)
TML is a company that develops accountancy
software (written in Foxpro) and that provides computer
infrastructure for small and medium sized companies.
I was responsible for the user support and the installation of (mainly Windows) systems. Occasionally I developed small customer utilities in Foxpro.

System Engineer / Web-application developer

from January 2000 until present
cudeso.be – http://www.cudeso.be (founder and sole propietor)
I deliver services for system and network administration for SME’s (mainly Linux based services for file-&printsharing, internet-access, dns, mail and vpn). I also do the development of internal and
external webapplications (in PHP / Mysql) and the development of websites based on
WordPress, Drupal or Joomla.

Skills

Systems

Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Ubuntu and knowledge of Debian), OpenBSD and basic knowledge of Solaris
Microsoft Windows 3.1, WfW, NT 4, 2000 and XP, MS-DOS

Servers & daemons

Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Server webservers
MySQL and Microsoft SQL-Server databaseservers
mailservices like postfix, courier-imap, spamassassin, amavisd, clamav, MS Exchange Server (5.5) and Ironport appliances
other services like samba, cups, openldap, squid, dansguardian, socks,
dhcpd, ftp-servers, ssh, ntp, bind, djbdns, snort, tcpdump, nessus,
cacti
firewalls (general concepts and implementations with Linux, OpenBSD, JunOS and Checkpoint)
vpn-systems with openvpn and ipsec

Software development

php, Zend Framework, sql, asp (1.0), html, javascript, css
experience with cobol, pascal, visual basic 6, visual foxpro
knowledge of bash and basic knowledge of perl, java, lisp, fortran and C++

General

securing networks, services on Windows, OpenBSD, Linux and webapplications

vulnerability management (Qualys, Nessus)
analysis and coordination of computer security incidents, security awareness building
management and configuration of security software and hardware
management and analysis of netflow data (with nfdump)
management of honeypots, log-auditing, firewall-analysis, intrusion-detection

Internet, good working knowledge on tcp/ip, ssh, dns, ftp, http en smtp
development of webapplications (php) and e-government-applications
knowledge on WordPress, Drupal and Joomla

Other

Hobbies

Literature (primarily science fiction), music, movies, travelling and modern art
Testing and evaluating new operating systems, securitytools and software

Drivers licence

B