Peter Vandenabeele

Peter Vandenabeele

Ruby on Rails developer and business analyst at VASCO Data Security

Brussels Area, Belgium

Current
Past
  • Embedded Software Manager at Essensium
  • CEO and majority owner at Mind
  • Customer Support Manager at Ubizen
  • R&D engineer at SensArray
  • R&D engineer at Alcatel
  • R&D engineer at IMEC
  • R&D engineer at AG Associates
  • researcher at IMEC
Education
  • IMEC
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Peter Vandenabeele’s Summary

Entrepreneur and ICT professional with management, sales and technical experience in start-up companies, large companies and government.

Peter Vandenabeele’s Specialties:

Web 2.0
Ruby on Rails
Android
business analysis
start-up companies
sales & marketing
open source
test driven development


Peter Vandenabeele’s Experience

  • Ruby on Rails developer and business analyst

    Vasco Data Security

    (Public Company; VDSI; Computer & Network Security industry)

    September 2008Present (1 year 3 months)

    Analysis and implementation of internal and customer facing web applications for better follow-up of existing customer installations to generate more follow-on sales and revenue. Implementation mainly in Ruby on Rails, postgresql, mysql and interfacing with ERP applications.

  • Business Development Manager

    TASS Software Professionals

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

    March 2008September 2008 (7 months)

    Helping TASS Belgium find more prospects, customers, employees and suppliers for embedded software development (part-time).

  • Founder

    http://allejobsinleuven.be

    (Internet industry)

    January 2008September 2008 (9 months)

    http://allejobsinleuven.be presented users with an easily searchable view on 700+ jobs in high-tech and ICT in Leuven. Currently, only a static list of 100+ high-tech and ICT employers is shown.

  • Expert Standards and Interoperability

    Fedict

    (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2006December 2007 (1 year 3 months)

    Supporting Federal government agencies regarding Standards and Interoperability in ICT. This includes Open Standards for document exchange such as OpenDocument Format (ODF) and others, PDF/A, IP v6, ... Assisting migration strategies towards Open Standards. Evaluating OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office 2007, and plug-in's ... as possible implementations. Interact with local and foreign public administrations and European commission about the standardization process.

  • Embedded Software Manager

    Essensium

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

    February 2006September 2006 (8 months)

    Selling and managing projects where embedded software is developed on custom systems, boards and SoC's of customers. Software is mainly based on Linux and eCos.

  • CEO and majority owner

    Mind

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    February 2000January 2006 (6 years )

    strategy, sales&marketing, technology, people management, finance. Mind is specialized in embedded software development (mainly based on embedded Linux and eCos) for high-tech companies (http://mind.be/).

  • Customer Support Manager

    Ubizen

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

    October 1998January 2000 (1 year 4 months)

    Responsible for Customer Support. I realized a high degree of customer loyalty and by this, I was growing the revenue from support contracts.

  • R&D engineer

    SensArray

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

    April 1996October 1998 (2 years 7 months)

    Precision temperature measurements of Si wafers in Rapid Thermal Processing furnaces (RTP) and other semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Using thermocouples and pyrometers, very accurate model based control systems where built that allowed to improve measurement accuracy and temperature control repeatability from 1% (10 degree C at 1,000 degree C) to 0.1% (1 degree C at 1,000 degree C)

  • R&D engineer

    Alcatel

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

    April 1994March 1996 (2 years )

    Hybrid Fiber Coax (cable modem infrastructure). Developed detailed specifications and fully executable C programmed models for optimal detection and synchronisation of QPSK and 64QAM (DVB) data packets (particularly in burst mode) on networks consisting of optical fiber and coax. This involved understanding of RF issues, modulation schemes (QPSK, 64QAM, Spread Spectrum, DSSS, ...), MAC techniques (TDMA, CDMA, ...) and DSP approaches for optimal signal filtering, packet detection and synchronization.

  • R&D engineer

    IMEC

    (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

    October 1993March 1994 (6 months)

    R&D on Ultra Clean Processing. Also, finished my PhD during that year.

  • R&D engineer

    AG Associates

    (Semiconductors industry)

    October 1992September 1993 (1 year )

    Advanced R&D on temperature measurement and control in Rapid Thermal Processing furnaces. At that time the market leader in RTP. Moved to Silicon Valley (Milpitas) with the whole family. Interesting experience!

  • researcher

    IMEC

    (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

    19871992 (5 years )

    Preparing my PhD in the field of Rapid Thermal Processing. Main results where:
    * a method for correct temperature measurement with a pyrometer, with in-situ correction for changes in emissivity and for reflected radiation from the heating elements
    * full modeling of the effect of lithographic patterns on the temperature non-uniformity of the Si wafer
    * detailed measurement of emissivity of Si wafers (with an without metallic and oxide layers)


Peter Vandenabeele’s Education

  • IMEC

    PhD , Electrical Engineering , 19871992

    Temperature measurement and control in Rapid Thermal Processing.

  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

    M.Sc. (burg. ir.) , Electrical Engineering , 19821987

    specialization in telecommunications
    obtained with great distinction ("grote onderscheiding")


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Peter Vandenabeele’s Interests:

Open Source, Open Standards, Free Software, Linux, Ruby, Rails, Android, Drupal, Web2.0, start-ups, investments, badminton, sailing, Leuven, ...

Peter Vandenabeele’s Groups:

LeuvenInc, OpenCoffee, Geekdinner, VVW Nieuwpoort

  •    Ruby on Rails
  •    Geekdinner.be
  •    FOSDEM Visitor
  •    Ubuntu Users ( 10.000+ members ) Official Group
  •    Business on Rails
  •    LeuvenValley.be
  •    Ubizen veteran
  •    VTK-Alumni
  •    Plugg
  •    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  •    Mind Alumni
  •    Google Android
  •    AntwerpenValley.be
  •    Android Developer Group (2,000+ and growing!)
  •    Android
  •    OpenCoffee Club Brussels
  •    Rubyists
  •    Living/working in Leuven
  •    The IMEC Connection
  •    Mobile development jobs
  •    Web Goes Mobile - Mobile Internet
  •    Bits&Chips
  •    Bits&Chips 2009 Hightech Systemen

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