Emerging Technologist at Capgemini
Utrecht Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Senior Consultant at Capgemini
- Past
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- Lead Software Engineer at 4-dimensions
- Education
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- Indian School of Business
- Capgemini University Les Fontaines
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Lee Provoost’s Summary
Lee Provoost is a Senior Consultant at Capgemini Netherlands and the co-founder and -leader of Capgemini's global Java community. He joined Capgemini in 2006 after combining the position of a lead software engineer for an internet start-up and doing an MSc in compiler and programming language design at the university of Utrecht. His broad interest has led him to areas like developing COBOL and RPG applications for IBM AS/400, over small compilers in Haskell to Java applications for cell phones. Currently his focus is on trying to understand how innovative and disruptive web technologies like cloud computing, internet service bus and Web 2.0 influence our life.
Lee is an active blogger for Capgemini's Technology Blog (http://www.capgemini.com/technology-blog) and his personal "lee's garbage collection" (http://blogs.webcoder.be/lee), he loves gadgets and last but not least, Lee is a massive social networker who strongly believes that applications like Facebook and Twitter are revolutionizing the way we are collaborating with each other.
Lee loves traveling and working with people from different cultures and has been for Capgemini in Belgium, Netherlands, France, Uganda, India and UK.
Lee Provoost’s Specialties:
Distributed systems: Java, PHP, Service-Oriented Architecture
Emerging technologies: Web 2.0, cloud computing, social media strategy
Lee Provoost’s Experience
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Senior Consultant
Capgemini
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAP; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Current roles:
- Emerging technologist
- Corporate blogger
- Capgemini global Java community leader
- Java lead consultant for SAP e-commerce project at Oce (Den Bosch NL)
Past roles:
- Offshore Operations Manager (Mumbai IN)
- Board member Capgemini Dutch Java Community (Utrecht NL)
- J2EE Software Engineer at Fortis Bank (Rotterdam NL, Brussels BE)
- Technology adviser at Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (Kampala UG)
- Technology adviser at I-Network Uganda (Kampala UG)
- Lead organizer at Capgemini Java Night 2007 (Utrecht NL)
- .NET/Tridion Software Engineer at Organon Schering-Plough (Oss NL) -
Lead Software Engineer
4-dimensions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2004 — August 2006 (2 years)
Lead developer for an internet startup specialized in community websites, responsible for professionalizing the software development life cycle. (Veenendaal NL)
Lee Provoost’s Education
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Indian School of Business
2008 — 2008
Course: Capgemini RightShore for Software Engineers
Duration: 1 week
Location: Hyderabad, India -
Capgemini University Les Fontaines
2007 — 2007
Course: UML Academy (Rational Technical Design)
Duration: 1 week
Location: Paris, France -
Universiteit Utrecht
MSc, Computer Science, 2004 — 2006
Software Technology Research Group (Compilers & Programming Languages)
- Activities and Societies:
- Erasmus Student Network, A-Eskwadraat
Additional Information
Lee Provoost’s Websites:
Lee Provoost’s Interests:
social media strategy, web 2.0, SAP, gadgets, cloud computing
Lee Provoost’s Groups:
Young Expats Utrecht, Bombay Expats
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NLJUG, Dutch Java User Group -
Cloud Computing -
Howest Simon Stevin TI
Lee Provoost’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
