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PERSONAL DETAILS Name: First names: Address: Telephone: Web site: Date of birth: Place of birth: Marital status: Military service:




HANS C. ARENTS

Arents Hans Christian Sint-Dorotheastraat 29, B-9040 Gent, Belgium + 32 9 238 16 92 http://www.arents.be/ 27 April 1963 Gent married, father of two daughters and a son reserve officer at the 2nd Artillery Battalion (Helchteren)

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

 since January 2005 senior advisor e-government strategy & technology Co-ordination Cell Flemish E-government, dept. Administrative Affairs, Ministry of Flanders, Brussels (Belgium) • helping the e-government team to formulate appropriate strategies to achieve Flanders' ambitious e-government goals, and helping to choose appropriate ICT technologies to build & deploy complex e-government solutions aimed at businesses and citizens • responsible for the supervision of major e-government back-end infrastructure projects, both inside the Flemish government, and in co-operation with the federal government and other regional governments (e.g. deploying a service-oriented architecture for application integration and data exchange, setting up a federated identity management infrastructure based on the use of Belgium's electronic identity card, building a platform for public e-procurement, ...)  Apr. '01 - Dec. '04

chief knowledge officer / e-government strategic advisor Cell Media-Innovation, dept. Science, Innovation & Media, Ministry of Flanders, Brussels (Belgium) • charged with the collection, classification and dissemination of knowledge on information society initiatives and e-government projects, both inside and outside the Flemish administration • assisting the e-government team in conceiving innovative e-government approaches and solutions, formulating long-term e-government strategies and defining e-government architectures and standards • responsible for the supervision of e-government projects inside the department, responsible for the follow-up and evaluation of new media and interactive digital television (iDTV) pilot projects

 Oct. ’99 - Apr. ‘01

director consulting services / senior IT market analyst I.T. Works bvba, Gent (Belgium) • charged with the launch and the expansion of the ICT consulting and training services of I.T. Works, especially in the field of XML-based document management and application integration • responsible for the collection and editing of technical background information, the evaluation of new IT products and services etc., to support and improve the I.T. Works IT seminars • chief responsible for the design, the development and the daily management of the newsharvesting software behind the ITwatchdog.com site (now renamed to ITforum.be), the popular IT newstracking site of I.T. Works

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CURRICULUM VITAE  Feb. ‘97 - Oct. ‘99

HANS C. ARENTS

director projects & consultancy Flanders s.a. OFFIS n.v., Gent (Belgium)

• responsible for the initial launch and the continued success of the OFFIS activities in Flanders • charged with getting the OFFIS teleworking branch office in Gent started and fully operational • chief responsible in the OFFIS board of directors for the internal and external network management of OFFIS within Belgium (hardware procurement, software selection and human resources management)  Feb. ‘96 - Feb. ‘97

senior consultant networked information systems s.a. OFFIS n.v., Zaventem (Belgium)

• responsible for providing advice to companies, institutions and organisations during the design, implementation and management of electronic document solutions in advanced networked business environments (Internet, intranets and extranets) • charged with providing support for the pre-sales activities, the implementation and management of on-going electronic document projects, and providing follow-up for the post-sales activities • introducing recent new approaches and developments in the creation, the consultation, the distribution and the management of electronic documents inside a company  May ‘90 - Jan. ‘96

unpaid project consultant hypermedia systems METALogic - AI Technologies & Engineering n.v., Leuven (Belgium)

• responsible for providing advice on the introduction and use, in SMEs working in metallurgy and materials engineering, of advanced hypertext and hypermedia systems with materials information • charged with establishing and maintaining the necessary national and international contacts, presenting and 'selling' finished systems both to potentially interested companies and to the end-users  Nov. ‘88 - Jan. ‘96

hypermedia project co-ordinator within the Materials Information Processing Systems (MIPS) research group K.U.Leuven, Dept. Metallurgy and Materials Engineering (MTM)

• responsible for the set-up and supervision of national and international research projects into advanced knowledge-based hypertext and hypermedia systems for interactive access (both off-line and on-line) to corrosion and materials information sources • introducing recent new approaches and developments in the hypertext and hypermedia field of research by giving lectures and lessons, and by organizing courses at a university level  July - Sept. 1987

temporary contract at Siemens n.v. Oostkamp (Belgium)

• responsible for the design and development of a knowledge-based jobschedulingssystem  August 1986

student contract at Honeywell A.C.E. Brussels (Belgium)

• responsible for the evaluation and review of project management software




PROFESSIONALLY RELEVANT ACTIVITIES

 Expert reviewer for the Telematics Applications Programme, an Applied Research Programme of the European Commission (DG XIII C/E) • technical evaluation of the results of European telematics research projects  Founding member and hypertext/hypermedia expert of the SGML BeLux Users' group

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• former editor-in-chief of the quarterly "SGML BeLux Newsletter" • co-organiser of SGML BeLux conferences and editor-in-chief of conference proceedings  Freelance writer for periodicals of popularizing articles about Internet technology • regular contributions about Internet technology and trends for the biweekly consumer newsletter "Tips & Advies Internet" from Uitgeverij Indicator n.v., Leuven (Belgium) and for the monthly professional e-mail newsletter "Zakelijk Internet" from Uitgeversbedrijf Tijd, Antwerp (Belgium)  Founding member of the Information Servers Workgroup of BELNET (D.W.T.C.) • original reviewer and editor of the popular Web site “A rated selection of Internet search tools”, which went on-line for the very first time in 1995




EDUCATION

 1992 - 1993

Postgraduate Business Administration field of interest: business use of electronic document management systems Leuven Graduate School of Business Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

 1985 - 1987

M.Sc. Computer Sciences specialisation: artificial intelligence (major distinction) Universiteit Gent (Belgium)

 1981 - 1985

M.Sc. Mathematics specialisation: astrophysics (distinction) Universiteit Gent (Belgium)

 1975 - 1981

Humaniora studies Latijn-Wiskunde Sint-Lievenscollege Gent (Belgium)




LANGUAGE SKILLS AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

speaking

reading

writing

Dutch

excellent

excellent

excellent

English

excellent

excellent

excellent

French

good

excellent

good

German

basic

good

basic

 Evening courses French and English intensive language courses advanced knowledge French and English September 1986 - June 1987, Provinciaal Handels- en Taalinstituut Gent, Gent (Belgium)




PROFESSIONAL IT KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

 Software experience acquired while working at I.T. Works, OFFIS and the university: • experience with XML tools: XML editors & convertors, content management systems, XML databases, ...

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CURRICULUM VITAE • • • •

HANS C. ARENTS

experience with Web tools: Web servers & browsers, HTML editors & convertors, development tools, ... knowledge of programming in: Java, JavaScript, Perl, Lucid Common Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, ... knowledge of system management in: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, ... familiar with all the usual PC software such as Word for Windows, PowerPoint, ...

 Systems administration & network management experience acquired while working at OFFIS: • daily operational management of the mixed Windows NT/Unix company network • providing user support for the internal professional use of Internet tools and technologies • performing editorial control and system administration of the company's web site and intranet




PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION FOLLOWED

 'Agile Project Management' in practice: managing ICT-projects in fast evolving environments a practical one-day course on the “agile” management of complex software projects 17 April 2013, Studiecentrum voor Automatische Informatieverwerking (SAI vzw), Brussels (Belgium)

 PRINCE2® Foundation: introduction to project management using PRINCE2® a PRINCE2® training, followed by a (successful) certification exam (certificate P2R/NLPB169715) 17-18 September 2012, Amelior, Brussels (Belgium)

 Master Class on Mobile Design a practical one-day course on the design of mobile (touch) applications 13 September 2012, Namahn, Brussels (Belgium)

 Integration solutions for enterprise applications, data and processes a technical seminar giving an overview of all the different technologies available for the modernization and integration of (legacy/new) applications 29 March 2012, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 Data integration in a world of processes and services a technical seminar on the challenges of using a service-oriented architecture in government 15 March 2010, Studiecentrum voor Automatische Informatieverwerking (SAI vzw), Brussels (Belgium)

 Performance management for managers a workshop on how to motivate your subordinates to achieve better results 23 April 2008, Flemish government, dept. Administrative affairs, Brussels (Belgium)

 Coaching for managers: basic training and advanced training a four-day practical course on how to motivate and coach your subordinates 20-21 November and 17-18 December 2007, Flemish government, dept. Administrative affairs, Brussels (Belgium)

 Intelligent forms a technical seminar on the different solutions for electronic forms management 12 December 2006, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 Smart University: ID Management Issues and Prospects a one-day course on the technical and organizational challenges of electronic identity management 22 September 2005, CICA, Sophia-Antipolis (France)

 Microsoft Executive Briefing: future eID features in Windows a two-day exclusive briefing on Microsoft’s plans for future electronic identity card features in Windows 2 and 3 June 2005, Microsoft Corporate Campus, Redmond (USA)

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 Business Integratie-Oplossingen an introductory seminar on EAI and B2B solutions for the integration of business applications 24 February 2005, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 e-Government / e-Democratie / e-Administratie a two-day seminar on the governance issues and technical challenges associated with e-government 3 and 17 July 2004, Instituut voor de Overheid, Leuven (Belgium)

 Participatie van Vlaanderen in de Europese besluitvorming a workshop on the ways in which Flanders participates in the European decision making process 16 March 2004, Ministry of Flanders, dept. AZF, sect. Education, Brussels (Belgium)

 Europese structuren en besluitvormingsprocedures a workshop on the organisation of the European Union and the resulting decision making procedures 4 March 2004, Ministry of Flanders, dept. AZF, sect. Education, Brussels (Belgium)

 Studienamiddag ICT en e-Government a discussion of the results of 2 years of research into the challenges of Flemish e-government 17 February 2004, Steunpunt Bestuurlijke Organisatie Vlaanderen, Brussels (Belgium)

 E-government Project Management a two-day seminar on how to handle the specific challenges associated with e-government projects 16 - 17 December 2002, Schouten & Nelissen, Brussels (Belgium)

 Enterprise Content Management a two-day technical seminar about the challenges of Enterprise Content Management 10 - 11 April 2002, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 XML/XSL architecturen in de praktijk a two-day technical seminar on the practical use of XML and XSL in IT architectures 3 - 4 April 2002, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 Web Services: A management guide / Web Services: An implementation guide a two-day technical seminar on how to manage and build Web Services using .NET and J2EE 23 - 24 January 2002, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 E-security a two-day introductory seminar on the newest techniques to secure e-commerce sites 30 - 31 May 2001, K VIV, Antwerp (Belgium)

 Microsoft's .NET in Practice a practical seminar on how to build Web Services using Microsoft's .NET Framework 17 May 2001, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 Knowledge Management in Practice a practical seminar on organizing and optimizing the knowledge work in a company 28 November 2000, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 Bedrijfskritische COM+ Applicaties a technical seminar on building mission-critical applications using Microsoft’s COM+ technology 16 November 2000, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 B2B e-marketplaces an introductory seminar on the underlying trends and business aspects of B2B e-marketplaces 12 October 2000, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

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 XSL concepts and practical use a practical one-day course on the advanced use of XSL techniques and tools 12 June 2000, XML Europe 2000 conference, Paris (France)

 Fysiek databaseontwerp a practical two-day workshop on techniques for physical database implementation 29 - 30 September 1999, I.T. Works, Ghent (Belgium)

 Informatie analyse en logisch databaseontwerp a practical three-day workshop on information analysis for logical database design 7 - 9 September 1999, I.T. Works, Ghent (Belgium)

 How to build better object models a practical two-day workshop on object modelling for enterprise applications 24 - 25 November 1998, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 Virtual Private Networks: what, why and how? an introductory seminar about the design and management of a VPN (Virtual Private Network) 2 July 1998, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 XLL quickstart an introductory one-day course on the hyperlinking and addressing concepts behind XLL 18 May 1998, SGML/XML’98 conference, Paris (France)

 Designing DTDs in the real world a practical one-day course on the user-centered design of SGML and XML DTDs 17 May 1998, SGML/XML’98 conference, Paris (France)

 Electronic style sheets a practical two-day course on the stylesheet technology behind CSS, XSL and DSSSL 26 - 27 November 1997, Technology Appraisals, London (United Kingdom)

 XML: Ready for prime time? / The XML technology bootstrap a practical two-day course on the SGML technology behind XML and XLL 22 - 23 April 1997, Technology Appraisals, London (United Kingdom)

 Windows NT 4.0 Internet Information Server 2.0 / 3.0 administration a practical one-day course on system administration of the MS Internet Information Server 14 December 1996, Guidance, Brussels (Belgium)

 Installing and configuring Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 a practical one-day course on the installation and management of MS Windows NT Server 3 December 1996, Guidance, Brussels (Belgium)

 Using HyTime a practical three-day course on using HyTime and Topic Navigation Maps 22 - 24 October 1996, dept. Electrotechnics K.U.Leuven, Leuven (Belgium)

 OmniMark Programming a practical four-day course on developing document conversion and filter programs 9 - 12 July 1996, OmniMark Technologies, Paris (France)

 Intranets: Opportunities and challenges a practical seminar about the design and management of a corporate intranet 13 June 1996, I.T. Works, Keerbergen (Belgium)

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 Basic Java programming / Advanced Java Programming a three-day and a two-day course on object-oriented programming in Java 12 - 16 February 1996, Sun Educational Services, Brussels (Belgium)

 Interactive Web services: An introduction to CGI’s and Java a practical seminar about developing programs for interactive Web sites 25 January 1996, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 Which standards should I use for Open Information Interchange and why? a practical two-day course on the open interchange of electronic documents 30 - 31 October 1995, DG XIII OII Initiative and EWOS, Brussels (Belgium)

 Setting up an Internet Information service a practical seminar about the design and management of a Web information service 16 May 1995, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 Internet security and firewalls a practical seminar about Internet security and the protection of company data 4 May 1995, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 A beginner’s guide to the Internet / An advanced guide to the Internet an introductory and an advanced seminar about the business use of the Internet 20 and 27 October 1994, I.T. Works, Keerbergen (Belgium)

 An introduction to HyTime an introductory seminar about the basic concepts and the technical possibilities of HyTime 20 September 1994, ECHT’94 conference, Edinburgh (Scotland)

 Network publishing: Business issues / Network publishing: Technical perspectives an introductory one-day course on electronic publishing on the World-Wide Web 19 September 1994, ECHT’94 conference, Edinburgh (Scotland)

 Practical SGML a practical two-day course in document engineering using SGML 18 - 19 January 1994, OFFIS, Brussels (Belgium)

 Electronic Document Management an introductory seminar about the effective management of electronic documents 14 December 1993, I.T. Works, Brussels (Belgium)

 The client/server model for databases in the Unix environment a theoretical and practical review of the client/server model for databases 25 March and 1 April 1992, Centraal Digitaal Rekencentrum Universiteit Gent, Gent (Belgium)

 Mediatraining a four-day course on how to write popularizing scientific articles 13, 20, 27 February and 6 March 1991, COVONU, Brussels (Belgium)

 Object-Oriented Languages and Systems: Theory and Practice a five-day introductory course on object-oriented software-development 26 February - 1 March 1990, Universiteit Twente, Enschede (The Netherlands)

 User Interface Design a practical hands-on course on the design of user interfaces 19 - 20 February 1990, Media centre K.U.Leuven & Integration by Design, Leuven (Belgium)

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