Chris Vertonghen

Current

Senior Developer at Borderlinx
Founder at Dimolto
Owner at Brilliant Solutions

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Past

Product & Delivery Management at ArcelorMittal
CIO at Pajamanation
Consultant at Q-layer

Foreign language teacher English/Dutch at Nederlandse Academie
Co-founder & CTO at PearlDoc
Systems Support Analyst at Lanier Worldwide
EDP Manager at VOP Colli Service
Chief Editor and Journalist at Forte T.R.
Sales Executive at B.I.P. Computers
Teacher at C.I.O. Training Center
Helpdesk Operator at Olivetti

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Education

Open Universiteit Nederland
Open Universiteit Nederland
Universiteit Gent

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Chris Vertonghen’s Summary

Chris has been developing and managing web- and software-projects for over 20 years in a wide variety of industries including banking, insurance, copyrights, news media, internet, transport & shipping, metals & mining, networked printing, colour reprography, design, DTP, imaging and data warehousing.

As founder and/or manager of several ICT companies, he has been directly responsible for the development and implementation of large infrastructure- and software projects for internet, banking, finance, e-commerce, large-volume data-processing, reporting, records- and document management, library-, archiving and scanning, and learning- and productivity enhancement.

Chris has travelled and worked across Europe, Asia and The Americas. He lives in Belgium with his wife and two daughters.

Email: cv at dimolto dot com

Chris Vertonghen’s Specialties:

Enterprise software for Internet, banking, finance, e-commerce, large volume data-processing, reporting, records/document management, integration services, electronic identification solutions, library-, archiving- and scanning solutions, text mining, learning- and productivity enhancement software.

Chris Vertonghen’s Experience

Senior Developer

Borderlinx

(Privately Held; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

International shipping & tax solution for your USA orders.
Founder

Dimolto

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Global Electronic Document Management (EDM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provider.

Email archiving; backlog scanning; electronic document hosting; high-volume computer report indexing (ERM/COLD); reporting; automated indexing and form identification; OCR/ICR/OMR (both interactive and self-learning); document/media conversions (e.g. tape, microfilm, microfiche); systems integration via standard interfaces (SOAP, XML/RPC, Webservices); Barcode-recognition and automated print-flows; printflow capture and conversion (IPDS/AFPDS); Storage integrations (Hitachi/HDS SAN, EMC Centera, HP SAN, Plasmon/HP/Qstar WORM/DVD storage solutions) and storage migrations and conversions.

Website: http://dimolto.com
Owner

Brilliant Solutions

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1994 — Present (15 years )

Consulting, investing and actively participating in the creation of highly scalable internet-based solutions that empower their information-sharing users. We believe in software solutions that are usable, accessable and affordable, software that empowers people, businesses and organizations.
Product & Delivery Management

ArcelorMittal

(Mining & Metals industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years )

Project and Product Management; Service Catalogue Management
Managing ICT service delivery and related project portfolio (industrial solutions & midrange, networking, SAP, Windows server-solutions)
Change management on service delivery processes (ITIL)

http://www.ArcelorMittal.com
CIO

Pajamanation

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

Pajamanation is a reverse auction site connecting micropreneurs and micro-workers for microjobs.

Microjobs are small project jobs that usually take less than a week. Payment is directly invoiced by the homeworkers themselves who have subscribed to Pajamanation®. Most of our subscribers belong to the knowledge worker category.

Drove technology and architecture decisions across Pajamanation products to ensure that product directions are consistent with Pajamanation's strategy. Lead the Engineering team and was responsible for developing the new Pajamanation platform.

http://www.pajamanation.com
Consultant

Q-layer

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

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

Q-layer provides datacenter and storage virtualization software for service providers, enabling them to quickly ramp up revenues by providing more value-added services, while reducing total cost of ownership per server.

It is the only solution that allows service providers to offer their end-users a virtual private datacenter with full self-service provisioning and management.

http://www.qlayer.com

Q-layer was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2009.
Foreign language teacher English/Dutch

Nederlandse Academie

(Higher Education industry)

2005 — 2006 (1 year )

Methodology-based language-tutoring to Dutch- and French-speaking adults, individually as well as in small groups.

http://www.nedaca.be
Co-founder & CTO

PearlDoc

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2005 (6 years )

All-round development, design and architecting of workstation-based high-volume scanning software (piloting ISIS-compatible production document scanners), Web based Imaging-, Document Management-, ERM/COLD-, Records Management, and workflow- systems; creating workflow-, web services-, interface- and usability-studies and -implementations for various clients in Banking-, Insurance-, Employment- and Administration-services (HSBC, Landbouwkrediet, Eural/Record Bank, Bank of Bermuda, SABAM, etc.).

Developped the PearlDoc ERM/COLD product and the earlier versions of the Document & Records Management and Scanning & Indexing products.

http://www.pearldoc.com

PearlDoc was acquired by investi-K in 2007.
Systems Support Analyst

Lanier Worldwide

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )

Integration of proprietary document imaging software with existing (legacy) retrieval and datawarehousing systems at client-sites;

Consultancy and support on digital Multifunctional (color) copying and printing systems in both standalone and networked environments. Custom inhouse training and lecturing on multi-functional and Networked database systems for both technical (emphasis) and sales people.

http://lanierworldwide.com/

Lanier Worldwide was acquired by Ricoh in 2001.
EDP Manager

VOP Colli Service

(Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years )

All round IT management, network administration and data processing. Development of custom tools and a tracking-systems. Assisted in the porting of legacy software and integration of imaging & ICR solutions.

http://www.vop.be/

VOP (part of DHL Express) was acquired by Austrian Mail in 2007
Chief Editor and Journalist

Forte T.R.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

1993 — 1994 (1 year )

Editorial of computer-literature for Computer Magazine, CM Corporate and Networking Europe. Published various articles and columns in Computer Magazine, CM Corporate, and Networking Europe up to 1998.
Sales Executive

B.I.P. Computers

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

1992 — 1993 (1 year )

My first full-time job: In-house sales of PCss, Peripherals and desktop software. Installation and maintenance of peer-to-peer networks.
Teacher

C.I.O. Training Center

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

1988 — 1991 (3 years )

(during studies) teaching computer logic & programming during holidays and vacation-periods to children and adolescents up to 16 years of age.
Helpdesk Operator

Olivetti

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

1988 — 1991 (3 years )

(during studies) Helpdesk-support during the weekends and Wednesday-afternoons, mainly to support custom PC-privé-projects of a big Belgian Banks.

http://www.olivetti.com

In 2003 Olivetti was absorbed into the Telecom Italia group.

Chris Vertonghen’s Education

Open Universiteit Nederland

MSc , Computer Science , 2009 — 2012 (expected)
Open Universiteit Nederland

No degree , Psychology , 2005 — 2008
Universiteit Gent

No degree , Germanic Philology , 1990 — 1991

Additional Information

Chris Vertonghen’s Websites:

Chris Vertonghen’s Interests:

learning and eduction improvement and aides, information management and -sharing systems, psychological impact of new technologies, agile project management, practical/usable interface- and functionality-design, industrial design, evolutionary psychology and biology, long-term analysis and application (thelongnow/deepfuture), long-term information preservation, language documentation and preservation, cognitive psychology, theoretical neuroscience, digitial augmentation, machine learning, computer programming languages, human languages, distributed computing, cloud computing, simulators

Chris Vertonghen’s Groups:

The Long Now Foundation (longnow.org), Tau Zero Foundation (tauzero.aero), Universa Foundation (universa.org), AWS.UG (Amazon Web Services User Group; www.aws.ug)