Nico Smet

Current

ICT Manager at ORAC

Past

ICT coördinator at ORAC
R&D Engineer at ORAC
Production Control Engineer at Daikin Europe NV

CNC milling machine operator at WATEEUW

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Education

SYNTRA West
RealDolmen
Savaco

Savaco
Rand
Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent
Simon Stevin - Brugge
OLV Ter Duinen

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Industry

Plastics

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Nico Smet’s Summary

Project co-ordinator in a wide variety of business applications, related to information and communication technology.

Nico Smet’s Specialties:

Project management

Nico Smet’s Experience

ICT Manager

ORAC

(Privately Held; Plastics industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

Responsible for ICT policy
ICT business strategy (Multi-site)
Technical SAP key-user
Helpdesk employees
Organization of in-house training
Responsible for all Information and Communication Projects
One of the future projects is to invest in storage to support the amount of data and future application like ECM, PDM, E-archiving, etc. A DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) is also on my agenda.

Installed and/or used applications and technologies:

Microsoft:
Server 2003, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Linux Ubuntu, SQL, Office 2007, Sharepoint Services, WSUS
Open Source:
IPtables, Postfix, Dovecot, BIND, MySQL, Apache, Drupal
Others:
McAfee Groupshield (Anti-spam), McAfee Total Protection (Anti-virus), Symantec BackupExec, SAP R/3 (ERP system), BlackBerry Enterprise server, Citrix Access Gateway (SSL VPN), VLAN, VoIP, Ultimo (maintenance software), Pro/Engineer (CAD system), Certo (time registration and access control).
ICT coördinator

ORAC

(Privately Held; Plastics industry)

September 2004 — December 2008 (4 years 4 months)

I was working as R&D engineer when I started with the basic network administration of our company. We worked in a terminal server environment with 2 servers and ± 25 clients. We had to change our infrastructure as we were (and still are) a growing company, had problems with the restrictions of our terminal server environment and started with other sites/plants in Slovakia and UK.

2006 was a year full of challenges. I started the migration process to a new infrastructure where I had to handle different aspects. We changed from our old custom made “ERP” system to SAP R/3 (running on SQL) that had to be available in the different plants. In a second stage we moved to our brand new offices where we had to install a new (VoIP ready) telephone exchange with ACD (Automatic Call Distribution). In the same time we invested in a Time registration and Access Control system.

In the past two years we invested in Business related software applications. We extended our SAP application with BI, installed Ultimo maintenance software for management of production machines and buildings (running on SQL), gave our different sales representatives over Europe access by SSL VPN and foresee them with a mobile office (BlackBerry included) to improve our customer satisfaction.

The installation of a complete network monitoring tool (running on SQLite) including fixed assets, helpdesk, reporting tool,.. is a big success. Reporting to the CFO and CEO became a piece of cake. All our assets (servers, desktops, printers, mobiles are registered and monitored. It also improved the End-users satisfaction and reduced downtime.

I also spent time on some smaller projects, like shopfloor and distribution automation, green IT, End-user training, etc.
R&D Engineer

ORAC

(Privately Held; Plastics industry)

September 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 1 month)

Transfer of moulds to new technology.
Drawing moulds for the plastic industrie.
Production Control Engineer

Daikin Europe NV

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

June 2000 — September 2003 (3 years 4 months)

Making workinstructions for production.
Process control and information management in SAP.
Organisation of audits and Line control in Production.

Key between the Design department and Production
CNC milling machine operator

WATEEUW

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

September 1999 — June 2000 (10 months)

Nico Smet’s Education

SYNTRA West

Network Management 2007 — 2010 (expected)
RealDolmen

- , ITIL foundation v.3 , 2009 — 2009

ITIL Foundation workshop
Savaco

Certificate , Freeform Surface Modeling , 2005 — 2005

Freeform Surface Modeling with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0
Savaco

Certificate , Update to Pro/E Wildfire 2.0 , 2005 — 2005

Update training from Wildfire 1.0 to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2.0
Rand

Certificate , Introduction to Solid Modeling I&II , 2003 — 2003

starter training for Pro Engineer
Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent

None , Graduate training , 1998 — 1999
Simon Stevin - Brugge

None , Architect assistant , 1997 — 1998
OLV Ter Duinen

A2 , Electro-Mechanica , 1995 — 1997