Consultant at Accenture
Charleroi Area, Belgium
- Current
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- Consultant at Accenture
- Open Source developer at Apache Software Foundation
- Open Source developer at freebXML Project
- Past
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- Employee at GFI Benelux
- Architect (for GFI) at PIM consortium
- Java Architect and lead developer (for GFI) at Toyota Motors Europe
- Senior IT consultant (for GFI) at SWIFT
- IT consultant (for GFI) at LeasePlan Belgium
- IT consultant and trainer at it-optics
- FNRS research fellow at Catholic University of Louvain
- Education
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- Université catholique de Louvain
- Bischöfliche Schule St. Vith
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
Andreas Veithen’s Summary
My passion is to design and build quality Java applications.
Andreas Veithen’s Specialties:
Java, J2EE, Spring, XML & Web Services, ebXML Registry & Repository, OSGi, GWT
Andreas Veithen’s Experience
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Consultant
Accenture
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — Present (2 months)
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Open Source developer
Apache Software Foundation
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
February 2008 — Present (7 months)
Apache Synapse:
- solved numerous charset encoding issues
- contributed new transports and message builders/formatters to integrate legacy protocols
- various other bug fixes and improvements -
Open Source developer
freebXML Project
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (8 months)
- Suggested improvements and clarifications of the ebXML Registry & Repository specifications.
- Improvements to the SOAP/HTTPS support in the reference implementation (OMAR).
- Development of a GWT user interface. -
Employee
GFI Benelux
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 1 month)
GFI is an international ICT services group employing 120 persons in Belgium. I've worked as a consultant on different projects (see other positions).
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Architect (for GFI)
PIM consortium
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 7 months)
PIM is a European project under the 6th framework programme carried out by a multinational consortium. It aims to promote innovation within East European countries by delivering a knowledge management and communication platform tailored to the process innovation domain.
Being in charge of GFI’s contribution to the project, I participated in the overall specification and design of the platform, which features a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). I'm also responsible for the architecture and (together with a co-worker) for the implementation of one of the platform's components.
Technologies: Java 5, Web Services, JAX-WS 2, JAXB2, Spring, Apache Derby, ebXML Registry & Repository, Apache Synapse -
Java Architect and lead developer (for GFI)
Toyota Motors Europe
(Public Company; Automotive industry)
December 2007 — April 2008 (5 months)
Development of a Web application that serves as a collaborative planning tool. Based on the user requirements and input from the enterprise architecture team, I designed the architecture of the application. I also led a team of three developers during the implementation phase of the project.
Technologies: GWT, iBatis, Acegi, Spring, DB2, WebSphere, Spring Web Services -
Senior IT consultant (for GFI)
SWIFT
(Financial Services industry)
June 2007 — November 2007 (6 months)
Development of a platform managing financial reference data, i.e. data required to successfully route financial transactions. The first phase of the project was focused on BIC and SEPA routing information.
Technologies: Java 5, JSF, Oracle Database, WebLogic Server -
IT consultant (for GFI)
LeasePlan Belgium
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 6 months)
As a member of a team of 15 persons, I worked on the development of a workflow driven accident management platform. I participated in the development of the user interface, the XML message exchange with external partners, the design of workflow processes and the integration of the platform with MQ Workflow. I created a set of tools to identify and debug workflow related problems and improved the architecture to support distributed transactions between the workflow and the database.
Technologies: Java, Struts, Websphere Application Server, MQ Workflow, JAXB, Spring, DB2 -
IT consultant and trainer
it-optics
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2002 — June 2005 (3 years 2 months)
it-optics is a small Belgian company focusing on Open Source services.
As a software engineer I successfully designed, implemented and deployed a tailor-made CRM system for ThyssenKrupp Materials Belgium. I also participated in the development of a release management system at Dexia bank as well as various other projects based on Java and PHP.
As a network engineer I worked with different local administrations and private companies to deploy Linux based network infrastructures (centralized user management using LDAP, mail servers and gateways, Web servers and proxies, content filters, firewalls, migration of Windows based networks).
As an IT trainer, I designed and delivered training courses on topics such as Linux, networking and security, Java, XML, Servlets & JSP and PHP/MySQL. -
FNRS research fellow
Catholic University of Louvain
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
September 1999 — February 2002 (2 years 6 months)
Research in the area of neutrino oscillations and CP violation in the B sector. Teaching assistant for undergraduate level courses in theoretical physics.
Andreas Veithen’s Education
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Université catholique de Louvain
Master, Theoretical Physics, 1995 — 2000
- Activities and Societies:
- Member of the board of Eumavia (network of the German speaking students), member of Maphys
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Bischöfliche Schule St. Vith
1987 — 1995
Additional Information
Andreas Veithen’s Interests:
I'm currently interested in Eclipse plugin and OSGi development.
Andreas Veithen’s Honors:
Honourable Mention at the 26th International Physics Olympiad 1995 (Canberra)
