Education

• H.E.M.E.S, Liège, Belgium
  Haute Ecole Mosanne d'Enseignement Supérieur, Institut Supérieur St. Laurent
  • 1996-1998
  • Grade in Computer Science and Marketing

• University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
  • 1994-1996
  • Licence in Computer Science (1st Year)

• Reynella East High School, Reynella, South Australia, Australia
  • July-December, 1993
  • Placement as an AFS Exchange Student
  • December 1993, Service Award for Work on School Magazine

• Bischöfliches St. Marien Institut, Büllingen, Belgium
  (Episcopal St. Marie's Institute - Catholic Education System)
  • 1987-1993
  • June 1993, High School Diploma. Advanced Placements:
    Science, Mathematics, Computer Science and Languages.
  • June 1993, Rotary Award for Comradship

• Primary School, Wirtzfeld, Belgium
  • 1981-1987
  • June 1987, Award for Results in German

• Kindergarten, Wirtzfeld, Belgium
  • 1978-1981

Activities / Honors / Publications / Other

• Fluent in German, English, French, Dutch
• Editor in Chief: Journalist For A Day, September 1992
• Schoolmagazines:
  • CRASH, School Magazine of BIB, Büllingen
    Activities: editor, layout, organisation, articles, advertisements
  • REHS, School Magazine of Reynella East High School, Reynella, South Australia
    Activities: layout, articles, teaching basic knowlegde of DTP
• Contests: Winning Idea of Times-Square BID (New York's New Year's Eve Party 1999 aka Times Square 2000) - Press Release
• Advertising Award presented by IP Netvertising for most visited website in May 1997
• Reviewer: various software reviews written for the monthly newsletter of Mactivity International - macclub benelux
• Journalist: weekly column about Belgium for an Australian newspaper
• Newspapers (regular reading):
  • Grenz-Echo - Local Daily
  • The European - European Weekly
  • Journal - Local Weekly
  • MacWeek - Macintosh Weekly
  • Macintouch - Daily Macintosh Information
  • Macitivity Disk - Monthly Magazine on Disk
  • MacUser UK - Macintosh Bi-monthly
  • Byte Magazine - Technology Monthly
  • Internet World - Internet Monthly
  • Quizieme Jour - University Newsletter
  • TidBITS - Weekly Macintosh eZine
  • SVM Mac - Monthly French Macintosh Magazine
  • News.com - Daily Information Technology News
• Last Hardcover Read: Being Digital - by Nicholas Negroponte
• Last Paperback Read: The 10 Secrets for Web Success: What it Takes to Do Your Site Right - by Bryan Pfaffenberger/David Wall
• System Administrator: Mactivity BBS Network, 1990-1996
• Presentations: Various speeches about Belgium and Europe during my stay in Australia
• Sports: volleyball, basketball, swiming, cycling, darts, pool billiard
• Rock'n'Roll: Member of Hot Shoes R'n'R Club (1986-1988)
• Driving:
  • Driver's Licence, 1994
  • Peugeot's High Performance Driving School, 1995
• Social worker: Member and Leader of catholic youth group (KLJ), 1981-1995
• Geographical Areas of Interest (Countries visited):
  • Belgium - That's where I live
  • The Netherlands - I got some family there
  • Luxembourg - You can get cheap petrol over there
  • Germany - Where I was born and where I like to shop
  • France - Paris is great
  • Switzerland - A great place to go on holidays
  • Austria - Very nice countryside
  • Italy - I like pasta and pizza
  • Hungary - Surprisingly beautiful
  • Greece - All old buildings are broken down ;-)
  • Denmark - Very friendly people
  • Sweden - Great country
  • Finland (Suomi) - I only know Helsinki Airport
  • Estonia - I can't understand the language
  • Spain - Great place for relaxed holidays and night-clubbing.
  • United States of America - Been there for fun and business
    • San Jose, San Francisco
    • Cuptertino, Santa Clara
    • Chicago
    • Buffalo
    • Boston
    • New York City - Manhattan
    • more airports: Dallas, Atlanta
  • Canada - A one-day trip to Niagara Falls
  • Thailand - Bangkok Airport at 5 a.m. - The only place I know
  • Singapore - 14 hours at Changi Airport + great free sight seeing tour
  • Australia - Where I also feel at home
    • Happy Valley, near Adelaide, South Australia - That's where I lived during my 6 month stay as AFS Exchange Student
    • Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and everything inbetween
    • Alice Springs, Kings Canyon, Ayers Rock

Affiliations / Memberships

• Macclub benelux - Largest Macintosh User Group in Europe (16,800+ members)
• Mactivity Development Team - Development of Electronic Magazines
• Euregio.Net Consultancy Team - Internet Consultancy Services
• Catholic Youth of the Countryside - Leader
• Carnival Society of Wirtzfeld - Treasurer
• Paludia - Association of German-speaking students in Liège
• AFS-Returnee - former Exchange Student to Australia
• HTML Writers Guild

Computer Experience

Hardware and Software: (# - yrs. of experience, s - system admin. experience)

• Net Tools: WWW-s, FTP-s, Gopher, Telnet, WAIS,...
• Languages: HyperTalk-13, AppleScript-6, Pascal-5, HTML-4, BASIC, AT modem commands-8
• Systems: Macintosh-16, IBM RS/6000-3, Vax/DecStations-3, IBM PC-6
• Telecom: Cisco-5, Netblazer-2, Modems-10, ISDN-6
• OS/Windows: Mac OS-s, Unix-5 (BSD, A/IX, Ultrix), X Window-5, MS/Windows-8
• BBS: FirstClass-s
• Office Automation: too many

Work Experience

• Radio Contact Eupen (1998-1999)
  • Host of a bi-monthly radio show about the Internet. All the latest news and sites about the Internet and the IT industry.

• Euregio.Net AG (1995- )
  • Euregio.Net AG is an Internet Access and Presence Provider for the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
  • Evaluation of the needs to become an Internet Access and Presence Provider (before Euregio.Net was founded). (Software/hardware solutions)
  • Mactivity Conference (Macintosh Connectivity Conference) in San Jose (1994 and 1996) and in Boston (1995) to get indepth knowlegde of the Internet.
  • @d:tech Conferences about online marketing and advertising in San Francisco (May 1999), Amsterdam (May 1999 & October 2000), New York City (November 1999 & November 2000)
  • Featured member at SmartAge.com's 1 Million Member Party, San Francisco February 2000
  • Systems Administrator for the telecom and TCP/IP installation at euregio.net.
  • Development of CGI's
  • Maintenance of Web-site (hardware and software level, large network of content sites)
  • Online marketing (banner, e-mail, customized solutions)
  • Guest speaker at various conferences
  • Customer Support and Presentations
  • Creation of artwork and corporate logo
  • Office work

• UNIX/Cisco training by Perceval S.A. (1995)

• Two-day AppleScript workshop (1995)

• Mactivity International - macclub benelux (1986-1996)
  • BBS Administrator/Moderator for:
    • Second Sight (1990-91)
    • FirstClass Systems (1991-)
  • Maintenance of gateways to other BBS Systems and the Internet
  • Maintenance of server hardware and software as well as modem pool
  • Custom utilities for maintenance of the BBSes
  • Technical support for Mactivity members
  • Desktop Publishing Guru
    • Advertisements
    • CD-ROM covers
    • Flyers
    • Font Catalogues
    • T-Shirts
  • Custom Software
  • Evaluation of software and hardware needs
  • Installation of ISDN in Belgium and Holland (1994)
  • Writing reviews and utilities for the monthly newsletter
  • Member of the development team for the electronic magazine
  • International contacts to software and hardware manufaturers
  • Tradeshows and Expositions
  • Bulk mailings
  • Covering Press Conferences
  • Office work

• Random Access Pty. Ltd., Adelaide, Australia (September 1993)
  • 1 Week work experience week (part of school programme)
  • Repair and configuration of Macintosh Computers
  • Repair of hard disks
  • Managment of stock
  • Office work (photocopying ;-))

• JMS Communications (1987- )
  formerly know as Joe's Games
  • Founder of this service label
  • Programmer of games, educational software, utilities and vertical solutions
  • Technical support
  • Electronic Publishing (Desktop and Webtop)
  • Consultancy services for all kind of computer technology
  • Online surveys, marketing and promotion

• EUREGIO.NET Inc. (1999 - )
  Div: Easyscopes Entertainment Network
  • Technical Director of Euregio.net Inc