Liège Area, Belgium
- Current
- Past
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- Senior Software Developer / Consultant for Ordina at i-merge
- Software Engineer at Ordina
- Software Engineer for Ordina at Johnson & Johnson
- Software Engineer at Ubi-X
- Software Engineer at Sydney-Tristar
- Education
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- Universiteit Hasselt
- Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I)
- Virga Jesse College Hasselt
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Alain Hufkens’s Summary
I started my professional life as a developer started writing Powerbuilder applications in the late nineties. After that I entered the world of Object Oriented programming of Java and .NET. Currently I am working as a RIA developer at Nascom. My team creates RIA applications mainly using Adobe Flash and Flex, but we are also closely following up on Microsoft Silverlight.
In a nutshell you can say that I am a flexible developer with broad interests in new emerging technologies.
Alain Hufkens’s Specialties:
Programming languages: ActionScript 3.0, C#, Java
RIA Technologies: Flash, Flex, AIR, Silverlight
Alain Hufkens’s Experience
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Team Lead
Nascom
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
As a Team Lead I manage a group of developers specialized in RIA technologies like Flash, Flex, AIR and Silverlight.
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Senior Developer
Nascom
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Nascom is specialized in creating Rich Internet Applications and Websites. As a developer I am part of a development team that creates applications using different technologies like Adobe Flash/Flex, .NET and JAVA.
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Senior Software Developer / Consultant for Ordina
i-merge
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2006 — August 2006 (6 months)
As a external consultant I was responsible for the development of several ASP.NET sites and web services. Most projects were developed in Flash with an in ASP.NET backend. I was also hired to coach and guide the junior programmers.
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Software Engineer
Ordina
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 7 months)
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Software Engineer for Ordina
Johnson & Johnson
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
March 2003 — February 2006 (3 years)
In the course of 3 years I did several projects using Microsoft technologies. The first project was a custom build LIMS system that was used by the R&D scientists. This system was developed using Visual Basic and Oracle. The first .NET project I worked on at JNJ was a system used to archive and restore big amounts of generated data files. The application was developed using C# and Oracle. Besides the projects mentioned above we realized with a team of 4-5 developers several other successful projects programmed in C#.
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Software Engineer
Ubi-X
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2002 — December 2002 (9 months)
As a developer working for Ubi-X, I worked on Microsoft related projects in Visual Basic and C#. We did a Proof Of Concept for Afga about the interoperablility between Java, COM and .NET using webservices, bridges, and other possible solutions.
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Software Engineer
Sydney-Tristar
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1998 — April 2002 (3 years 9 months)
I started my professional carrier working as a PowerBuilder developer at an insurance company for Sydney-Tristar. After experimenting with Java I decided to specialize myself in Microsoft technologies. I worked on a big Microsoft project at the Bank Van Breda using Visuall Basic, SQL Server and MTS.
Alain Hufkens’s Education
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Universiteit Hasselt
Master , Commercial Engineer in Computer Science , 1992 — 1998
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Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I)
Economics 1994 — 1994
ERASMUS : Study program for exchange students
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Virga Jesse College Hasselt
1987 — 1991
Additional Information
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Alain Hufkens’s Interests:
mountain biking, snowboarding, traveling
