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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

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

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

2005 – 2006 Belgium University of Ghent

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

2007 - ... Part Time International MBA Vlerick Ghent

Results Vlerick Admission test 2007

Results MBa 2007 2008

03/2008 SP Jain Institue Of management Mumbai, India

• intensive course on doing business in India.

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.

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

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.

Other Skills and interests

Fluent spoken and written English and Dutch, perfect understanding of German and good knowledge of French.

I also have a very good knowledge of:
Linux, embed Linux, Linux device drivers, GNU development chain, matlab, perl, bash, UNIX, Windows, Microsoft Visual C++, Borland C++, Visual Basic, Java, Lotus, Microsoft Office, Corel Draw,autocad, HTML and Web design
Modulation techniques, Satellite communication, spectrum analysers, U-Boot, Information and coding theory.
And a good knowledge of:
MS Access, Delphi

Good knowledge of SDL, ASN.1,TTCN, XML, QPSK,APSK, MPEG, ASI, DVB, UML

Links

• http://www.linuxuniversity.be Here I try to help other people with embedded Linux.
• http://www.elinux.be community based embedded Linux wiki
• http://www.turbocoding.be My source for all to do with coding theory (not only turbo)
• http://www.geilenkotten.com My personal weppage with some points of interest.
• Kristof had a little talk at Fosdem (Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting)
• My open blog

Previous link

Old Website