Kimé Consult

Christophe Verschuere

Freelance BizTalk/.NET Consultant

Date of birth: 16/01/1974
Place of Birth: Gent
Married

Education

1. University level:
   

   Period: 1994 -1999
   School: Kaho Sint–Lieven Gent
   Diploma: Master of Science - Industrial Engineer in the Electricity specialized in Electronics and Information Technology
   

2. Secondary:

   Period: 1992 - 1994
   School: Sint–Lievenscollege Gent
   Eductaion: Hoger Secundair Onderwijs (Wetenschappelijke A)

Experience

1. Kimé Consult (Freelance)
   

   Period: 18/04/2013 - current
   Function: Freelance .NET/BizTalk consultant
   Projects/Clients:
   

   1. • Sibelga (1/1/2015 - current):
      Task: BizTalk/.NET Consultant
      Tasks: Design and develop BizTalk applications to integrate between the different backend systems (SalesForce, EIServer, SAP...) and the new Central Market System (Atrias)
      Tools: Visual Studio 2013, BizTalk 2013 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, SQL Server 2012, Enterprise Architect, XML Spy
      Technologies: .NET 4.x, C#, WCF, ASP.NET Web api
   2. • Bingoal Kiosk Project (2015 - current):
      Role: Design, develop and maintain a kiosk application for sports betting.
      Description: A fullscreen WPF application with browser control that communicates with several external periphirals (Barcodescanner, Bill validator, Coin Validator and Barcode ticket printer). The browsers display the webapplication served from the backend. Backend and WPF client communicate with each other via SOAP and REST through VPN
      Technologies: .NET 4.5.2, C#, WPF, ASP.NET Web API, Owin selfhosting, Windows 8.1 Embedded with Shell Launcher
   3. • Partena (01/05/2013 - 30/ 09/2014):
      Role: BizTalk/.NET Consultant
      Tasks: Design and develop BizTalk applications (10%). Develop WCF backend services for the Apollo project (90%)
      Tools: Visual Studio 2010, BizTalk 2010, SQL Server 2008, Enterprise Architect
   4. • Shopister (03/2014 – 05/2016) - discontinued::
      Tasks: Design, develop and maintain backend implementation of an online shopping platform.
      Description: Online shopping in your neighbourhood. Shopister was an online shopping platform where shops can connect their POS systems to place their stock online. Users could easily search the disired articles depending on various search criteria
      Technologies: .NET 4.5.2, C#, ASP.NET Web API, Hosted on Azure

2. i8c (Cronos)
   

   Period: 01/09/2008 - 01/05/2013
   Function: Senior Integration Architect/Consultant
   Tasks: Consultancy, design and development of Business Integration Solutions
   Projects/Clients:
   

   1. • ACV-CSC (01/09/2008 - 01/05/2013):
      Developing BizTalk applications for Horizon-messaging.
      Using BizTalk to Integrate between .NET application (Horizon) and legacy systems (Mainframe).
      Connectivity and transformation of messages between ACV and their external partners (RVA, InterUI…)
      Development of custom tools for monitoring and error handling. (C#/.NET)
      Migration of BizTalk 2006 R2 environment to BizTalk 2010
      Optimization and tweaking of the BizTalk environments to improve the overall performance
      
   2. • Arcelor Mittal Logistics (10/2011-04/2012):
      Consultancy, development and optimization of a BizTalk application used for routing and transformation of logistics documents between a backend system and the suppliers.
      
   3. • Attentia (10/2009 - 05/2010):
      BizTalk Consultancy
      Development and optimization of the BizTalk 2006 R2/WCF application that connects the social secretariat backend system with the connected clients (Telenet, Volvo…)
      Redesign of the BizTalk application to improve the overall performance.
      

3. D Soft
   

   Period: 02/12/2005 – 31/08/2008
   Function: Designer / Developer
   Tasks: Design and development of web applications with C# and SQL server.
   eID Application Development / Digital signatures (PDF and XML signing)
   e-Invoicing projects with Biztalk 2006 /Covast EDI Accelerator

4. Silicon Image
   

   Period: 01/09/2004 - 31/08/2005
   Function: Designer / Developer
   Tasks: Design and development of web applications with C# and SQL server.

5. The Reference
   

   Period: 04/10/1999 - 31/08/2004
   Function: Designer / Developer
   Tasks: Design and development of web applications.
   Projects: KBC Bank & Insurance / KBC Asset Management
   Kiosk project: selling 3rd party products on kiosks, managed through a central framework (ASP.NET + local services on kiosk for barcode generation and ticket printing written in C#)
   New .Net applications for existing websites.

Technical knowledge

1. Advanced:
   

   Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006/2009/2010/2013
   .NET 1.x / 2.0 / 3.x / 4.x
   Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 / 2005 / 2008 / 2010 / 2013 / 2015
   ASP.NET, Microsoft .NET Framework, C#, VB.NET
   Webservices, SOAP, WCF, ASP.NET MVC Web API
   Relational Database design. SQL, Stored Procedures, DTS, SSIS...
   Microsoft SQL Server 7 / 2000 / 2005 / 2008 / 2010 / 2012
   ADO, ADO.NET, Entity Framework
   LINQ
   Windows Forms, WPF
   ASP (VBScript) interacting with Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle.
   Client-side scripting: JavaScript/VBScript
   Windows NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP / 7 / 2008 / 2008R2 server / 2012 / 10 and IIS 5.5 / 6 / 7 / 8
   HTML, XHTML, XML, XSL/XSLT
   eID application development

Languages

1. Dutch: Mother Language
   French: Very Good
   English: Very Good
   Spanish: Notions
   

Personal interests

1. Spending quality time with wife and kids
   Watching Soccer (Favourite Team: KAA Gent)
   Snowboarding
   Programming (Learning new things)
   Watching Series on Netflix
   Star Wars