Christophe Herreman

Current

Flex/Java Developer at Traficon (Project)
Senior Consultant at BoulevArt nv
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Past

Technical Reviewer at Friends of ED / Apress
Application Architect at Indie Group
Development Team Lead at Indie Group

Application Developer at Indie Group
Lecturer at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, dept. PIH
Teacher at Mentor

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Education

Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool
Koninklijk Atheneum Kortrijk

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Christophe Herreman’s Summary

Christophe has been analyzing and developing medium to large e-learning applications for several years, ranging from standalone to intranet to Rich Internet applications.

His main interest and expertise lies in the field of Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Programming. He loves programming in ActionScript, .Net, PHP and Java.

As a passionate teacher, he has lectured on multimedia tools and general IT topics and is still giving talks at national academies and user groups in his free time.

He is also a strong believer in open source software and is the lead developer of the Prana Framework. He has also been involved in a number of open source projects like AMFPHP - a Flash Remoting gateway, AS2lib - a ActionScript 2.0 framework and ARP - a patterns based micro architecture for Flash applications.

He enjoys mentoring and coaching, working with the team, taking on challenging projects and is always in for a good laugh.

Christophe Herreman’s Specialties:

Environments, Tools and Frameworks
- Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio .Net, MsSQL, MySQL, Access, ASP, ASP.Net, Visio, Project, Sharepoint, Office, Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Adobe Flex, Photoshop, Eclipse, xUnit, Ant, Arp, Cairngorm, Spring, SVN, CVS & VSS

Programming, Scripting and Markup
- C#, PHP, Java, ActionScript (1, 2 & 3), JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS, SQL

Other
- Design Patterns, XP, Scrum

Christophe Herreman’s Experience

Flex/Java Developer

Traficon (Project)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2008 — Present (2 months)

Development of the next-gen Traficon Management System. A Flex client is connected to a Java backend through BlazeDS, using Remote Objects and Messaging. The backend consist of various Java technologies such as JMS, Spring, ActiveMQ, JBossCache, GridGain, Tomcat, ...
Senior Consultant

BoulevArt nv

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 2008 — Present (5 months)

Working out the technical design and implementation of large scale Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and AIR.
Owner

Christophe Herreman

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2002 — Present (6 years 2 months)

Guest lecturer on programming and general IT topics such as Flex, Flash, PHP, Remoting, AOP and IoC at several academies. Speaker at multimedia events and usergroups. General IT consulting and services.

Prana
- 2008.01.26: Adobe Usergroup Belgium, Gent
- 2008.06.13: Adobe Flex Usergroup Netherlands, Apeldoorn

Flash Remoting with AMFPHP
- 2005.09.29: MMUG.BE - Multimediacollege, Gent
- 2006.02.23: Artevelde Hogeschool, Mariakerke
- 2006.03.23: MCTKring, Kortrijk

ActionScript 3.0, Flex 2, Flash Player 8.5 - 9
- 2006.01.13: Flash Thriller Night, Studioskoop, Gent
- 2007.02.22: MCTKring, Kortrijk

Edumatic & AS2lib: Framework, Unit Testing, AOP and IoC
- 2006.06.29: Multi-Mania, Schouwburg Kortrijk

Flex & Edumatic, next generation e-learning
- 2007.12.12: 5th FeWeb congress, Edegem
Technical Reviewer

Friends of ED / Apress

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

November 2007 — July 2008 (9 months)

Technical Reviewer for books on the Flash Platform. Reviewed titles are:
- Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR
- The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development
Application Architect

Indie Group

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2007 — June 2008 (10 months)

Application Architect for the Products Department at Indie Group.
Development Team Lead

Indie Group

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Development Team Lead for the Products Department at Indie Group.

Responsible for coordinating the development team, analysing customer and business requirements, following up development progress and reporting to project management.
Application Developer

Indie Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2003 — September 2006 (3 years)

Application developer/analyst at Indie Education, a business unit of Indie Group.

Responsible for analysing and developing a series of educational projects for clients such as Selor (Vocajur), Belgian Post (Online Learning, E-Mass, EBPI), K.U.Leuven (Franel, Linguaflex, Jurimatic, ...) and many more.

The projects consisted of building and deploying e-learning and assessment environments on both the client's infrastructure and on the internal infrastructure for delevering e-learning services.
Lecturer

Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, dept. PIH

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Lecturer on Multimedia tools such as Flash, Premiere, After Effects and general Studio Techniques like sound and video recording and photography
Teacher

Mentor

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)

August 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 2 months)

Internet course for DTP students, includes HTML, CSS, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, ImageReady, PHP, Client/Server

Christophe Herreman’s Education

Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool

Bachelor, Multimedia & Communication Technology, 1999 — 2002

Thesis: "Flash Beyond Basics" - Using Flash as a tool for building Rich Internet Applications in multiuser environments. Communication between layers is based on XML Sockets running on a Java server.

Result: Passed with distinction.
Koninklijk Atheneum Kortrijk

1994 — 1998