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

1989 – 1991 Don Bosco Haacht Belgium
Electronics

1991 – 1994 HIK Geel Belgium
Graduaat Electronica (Ba Hons) An electronic degree with special emphasis on computer hardware, incorporating programming and designing embedded micro controllers and other programmable devices.

1995 – 1996 Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK
Master in engineering (option software engineering) PGdip , MSc

2005 – 2006 Belgium University of Ghent

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

2007 - 2009 Part Time International Executive MBA in the Vlerick Management school

03/2008 SP Jain Institue Of management Mumbai, India

intensive course on doing business in India.

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

1994 – 1995 Comdiam Lier Belgium
Electronic Engineer
I was responsible for electronics in a small firm in Belgium. The firm, Comdiam, is a research and development based company designing tools and machinery for the diamond industry. It is a daughter company of the Diamond High Council in Belgium.

1996 – 1996 MAM Software, Wareham, UK
Junior Visual Basic Programmer
Visual Basic programmer in a software house in Wareham, creating database programs for the car industry.

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.

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

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 communictae 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.

2004 – 2007 Newtec Cy Belgium Sint Niklaas
Technical Product Manager
Coordinating differen Newtec Producs

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

2007 – current Newtec Cy Belgium Sint Niklaas
Tech Labs 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