Denis Balencourt

Current

Market Intelligence Manager at Belgacom Skynet SA
Independent consultant (Self-employed)

Past

Crossmedia Manager at Belgacom
Chief Portal Editor at Belgacom Skynet
Web Services Manager at Belgacom Skynet

Web developper at Belgacom Skynet
Language Modeling Engineer at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles
Proof Reader at Sanoma Magazines Belgium

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Education

Université Libre de Bruxelles
Université libre de Bruxelles
Athénée Emile Bockstael

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Denis Balencourt’s Summary

I'm an expert in managing electronic data from the technical ground to the concept behind the existence of such data.
I have a broad technical knowledge and understand what audience & trends are.
I have successfully managed one of the major online belgian community.

Denis Balencourt’s Specialties:

Web services architecture, scalability
Usability
Publishing process
XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
Audience, trends & data analysis

Denis Balencourt’s Experience

Market Intelligence Manager

Belgacom Skynet SA

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

October 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Conduct research & analysis on the competitors’ products, technologies, services, road maps, pricing strategies, hiring trends, and market positioning.
Independent consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

January 1998 — Present (10 years 10 months)
Crossmedia Manager

Belgacom

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

June 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Internal advisor in order to extend the type of media on which our brand portfolio is reachable
Chief Portal Editor

Belgacom Skynet

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

March 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 6 months)

Responsible for a team of 4 editors & 3 designers. Editorial management of the first belgian portal. http://www.skynet.be
Web Services Manager

Belgacom Skynet

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

June 2000 — March 2004 (3 years 10 months)

Project & Team management.
Up to 25 developpers and 3 middle managers.
Developement of several web & wap portal for major belgian palyers, Skynet, Proximus, Kidcity, Belgacom, Photohall, etc.
Web developper

Belgacom Skynet

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

January 2000 — June 2000 (6 months)

LAMP development of a web portal
Language Modeling Engineer

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Localization of the voice recognition software VoiceXpress to French.
Researcher

Université Libre de Bruxelles

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 1996 — January 1999 (2 years 5 months)

Training manager
Proof Reader

Sanoma Magazines Belgium

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Media Production industry)

1991 — 1998 (7 years)

Proof reading of several women magazines : GAEL, Femmes d'Aujorud'hui

Denis Balencourt’s Education

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Master, Information Science, September 1995 — September 1998
Université libre de Bruxelles

Licence, Philology, 1990 — 1995
Athénée Emile Bockstael

Latin, Sciences 1900 — 1990