Pascal Maerten

Current

• Senior Technical Leader at Callataÿ & Wouters

Past

• Product Manager at Bull
• Sales Representative Private Sector at Bull
• Account Manager Financial Services at Dimension Data Belgium

• Security Consultant at Getronics
• Account Manager at NOXS
• sales-consulant-trainer at Acterna (also know as Wavetek Wandel Goltermann)
• After Sales Engineer at Socomer

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Education

• De Nayer Instituut;
• Erasmushogeschool Brussel

Recommended

4 people have recommended Pascal

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Pascal Maerten’s Summary

My personal goal consists of giving a contribution to win-win situations for business, customers, colleagues and friends.

Professionally i would say, make it easy, not simple ;-)

Pascal Maerten’s Specialties:

ICT-solutions, ...

Pascal Maerten’s Experience

• Senior Technical Leader

  Callataÿ & Wouters

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

• Product Manager

  Bull

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

  July 2007 — January 2008 (7 months)

  Product planning & marketing of the Bull Novascale and Escala server range; Supporting sales when positioning and offering of the Escala (AIX, power5/6) & NovaScale (Windows, Linux, Xeon / Itanium) servers.

• Sales Representative Private Sector

  Bull

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

  June 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Positioning of Infrastructure Solutions within the Telecommunication and Financial market.
  Offering based on IBM “a like” (POWER 5/6, AIX), NEC (INTEL, WIN, etc,..) and Open Source solutions with a value added services as migration, integration, consulting and outsourcing.

• Account Manager Financial Services

  Dimension Data Belgium

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  Offering ICT services towards banking and assurance companies below the top 5 ranking of Belgium.
  
  Overview of ICT Services
  - Network Integration
  - Converged Communications
  - Security
  - Operating Environments & Messaging
  - Data Centre & Storage Solutions
  - Customer Interactive Solutions

• Security Consultant

  Getronics

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

  2002 — 2005 (3 years)

  • Pre & post-sales activities related to Security projects for the fortune 500 customers of Belgium
  • Projects related to
  - Design for WAN Infrastructures for Private and public network based on LL, ADSL, SDSL, ISDN,..
  - Firewalls, IDS &IPS, AAA
  - Antivirus, Anti Spam, url-filtering
  - Monitoring services of WAN, Firewalls, servers, applications,..
  - Hosting & housing applications
  - Helpdesk & SLA

• Account Manager

  NOXS

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2001 — 2002 (1 year)

  • Focused on High level network equipment:
  - Radware (Load Balancers for WAN, Firewalls and Servers)
  - Packeteer (Bandwidth management)
  - Cacheflow (Content engines)
  - Websense (URL-filtering / blocking)
  - Webtrends (Web-pages analyses)

• sales-consulant-trainer

  Acterna (also know as Wavetek Wandel Goltermann)

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

  1997 — 2001 (4 years)

  '97-'98: Airparts (Specialist in CATV products)
  • Sales and support to CATV operators (Electrabel, Telenet, Interelectra)
  • Trainings
  • Seminaries
  • Translation of manuals (English to French and Dutch)
  '98-'00 Wavetek Wandel Goltermann Benelux
  • Continuing to work as within Airparts after merge of Wavetek with Wandel & Goltermann (raising popularity/turnover)
  • Responsible for all multimedia products and systems (CATV, DVB)
  • Success: MS1400: field meter for installers of cable modems (telenet); MPEG2: monitoring system for analyzing the Transport Stream (TS) (Astra-SES); Pathtrack: Rf monitoring system for Reverse Path. (Telenet, Integan, Interelectra)
  '00-'01 Acterna Benelux (www.acterna.com)
  Account Manager
  • Focused on emerging operators (Telenet, BT, C&W,..)
  
  Remark: from '97 until '01 I followed my product range but vendor name changed due to acquisitions and merges

• After Sales Engineer

  Socomer

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year)

  1996-1997: Socomer (Department Scientific Instruments
  After-Sales Engineer
  • Calibration& repair of particule Measurements counters
  • Installation and commissioning of monitoring Systems.

Pascal Maerten’s Education

• De Nayer Instituut;

  Master , Post Academic degree in Communication Technologies , 2000 — 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Thesis: (CATV-networks)

• Erasmushogeschool Brussel

  Industrial engineer , Micro-Electronics , 1991 — 1995

Additional Information

Pascal Maerten’s Websites:

• My Company

Pascal Maerten’s Interests:

Cooking, science, new technologies, management methodologies and sports as inline-skating, sailing, snowboarding/skiing, badminton, tennis, cycling and jogging.

Pascal Maerten’s Groups:

Junior Chamber Internationl (JCI); Tennisclub Roelandsveld (TCR); Rotaract

•    Junior Chamber International - JCI
•    Rotaract
•    International Association of Software Architects
•    Banking and Finance Technologies
•    Getronics (a KPN company)
•    Belgian Information Network
•    SAP Banking
•    Brian Tracy Benelux - Management Training
•    Belgian IT Professionals
•    Unified Communications Professionals
•    Vrienden van JCI Vlaanderen

Pascal Maerten’s Honors:

1997-1998 Boertien & partners (Holland)
Training commercial conversation

1998-1999 Wavetek Wandel & Goltermann
Certificate of Digital Broadcast training Course

1999-2000 Miller Heiman (Germany)
Training Strategic selling

2001-2002 Red Cross
First help brevet

2002-2003 Belgacom
Certificate of Data partner Sales Training
Certificate of Data partner Pre-Sales Training

2004-2004 Trend Micro
Certificate of Trend Micro Sales Specialist level 1 & 2

2004-2004 Cisco
Certificate of Cisco Sales Expert
Certificate of Cisco VPN Security Sales Expert

2005-2005 Cisco
Certificate of Cisco IPCC Express for AMs

2007-2007 ITIL foundation certification

4-5/08/2008 ORACLE administration introduction given by a trainer of BMD - Bureau Michel Degueldre.

24-26/09/2008 Certification of "Persuasive speaking" at Communication Center International following the Jacobson Formaion Method.

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