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Kristof Geilenkotten

Kristof Geilenkotten

Personal Information

• Personal Information
  
  Address: Broekstraat 22
  9220 Hamme
  Belgium
  Tel: + 32 476 63 58 76
  Nationality: Belgian
  Born: 10 09 1972
  Place of Birth: Kinshasa, Republique Du Congo (Zaire)
  
  E-Mail : Kristof@geilenkotten.com

Education

2007 - 2009 MBA in the Vlerick Management school, graduated with Great Distinction

• Final thesis: "stimulation of innovation in high growth companies"
• Results Vlerick Admission test 2007
• Transcript and Diploma
• My open blog with regards to my vlerick MBA

03/2008 SP Jain Institute Of management Mumbai, India

• intensive course on doing business in India.

2005 – 2006 Belgium University of Ghent

Coding theory, Prof Storme and Prof Thas, Master in Mathematics

1996 Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK
Master in engineering (option software engineering) PGdip , MSc

1991 – ... UK, Belgium, Germany
Additional Part-time Courses
Computer language C, Computer language C++, Visual Basic, TTCN , Introduction to V5, ISDN and SS7 (ISUP), Italian for beginners, rational Rose, purchasing techniques, basic accountancy, Cisco,java essentials, Course on DVB-H and SFN networks, balanced scorecards, DVB-SH, Merger and Acquisition seminar (Vlerick)

Professional Experience

2010 – current Newtec Cy Belgium Sint Niklaas
Director innovation

2007 – 2010 Newtec Cy Belgium Sint Niklaas
Technology Lab Project Director
Project Director for the R&D department of Newtec

• Coordination and design of the satflow project : Satflow is a technology to cheaply distribute DVB-T and H to remote towers. It also includes a management plain to control the towers from a centralised location via a secure 2way sat connection

2004 – 2007 Newtec Cy Belgium Sint Niklaas
Technical Product Manager
Coordinating different Newtec Products

• Technical Product Manager IP demodulator
• Product manager of the Air Mac Processor. A semi real time device responsible for scheduling the DVB-RCS return link.
• Technical Product Manager for Mobile solutions

2002 – 2004 Newtec Cy Belgium Sint Niklaas
Embedded software engineer (Linux):
Developing software (mainly embedded Linux on PPC and ARM) for different products:

• DVB-RCS Burstdemodulator: This device is able to demodulate and decode up to 8Mbit off DVB-RCS return channel (QPSK/GMSK, TURBO decoding, MFTDMA)
• Generic MonCon module: all Newtec devices use this MonCon module witch enables the user to communicate with the device over different technologies, SNMP, RMCP, FrontPannel, HTTP, Java-applet.

Ported Linux and U-boot to 4 different Hardware Platforms, from A Simple Monitor and Control board to A real time 7 VP30 FPGAS, 8 DSP board.

Participated in the system design and integration of the DVB-RCS hub.

1999 – 2002 Alcatel Belgium Antwerp
External Consultant, Adsl Access Network:
Providing Telecoms and Software consultancy for the Alcatel ADSL Access network. Help with the conversion from C to C++.

1996 – 2000 Solinet , Stuttgart, Germany
Senior Design Engineer
Responsible for the design, maintenance and customer contact for the following products:

• Advanced Network Adapter : This is a gateway for several different stacks, including ISDN and SS7.
• Emulators: Created a V5 access network emulator, a V5 local exchange emulator and a GSM – RIL3 CC reference object.
• Embedded controller: Ported our existing ISDN stack to a 68302 micro controller.

1996 – 1996 MAM Software, Wareham, UK
Junior Visual Basic Programmer

1994 – 1995 Comdiam Lier Belgium
Electronic Engineer

Detailed personal information

• MBTI: ENFP (E=65, N=49, F=11, P=49)
• creativity is what makes me tick, my creativity score according to the Torrance Test is: 124 Creativity index, this is the 84 National percentile Click here for detailed test result
• cognitive style

• Interaction style