Tom Decouttere

Current

IT System Engineer at Cisco
IT System Engineer at Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company
Owner at Cd-WAVE (cdwave@tdc.be) (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

Application Engineer at Scientific Atlanta
Application Engineer at BarcoNet
Production Liaison at Barco

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Education

KATHO - VHTI
Sint-Jozefscollege Izegem

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Tom Decouttere’s Summary

12 years of practical electronics (high frequency) and 7 years of practical IT

Some details:
- RF measuring equipment in analog tv and FM broadcast
- Audio measuring equipment
- Technical and practical experience mainly on the manufacturing floor of cable tv headend manufacturer, bridging between production and R&D.
- First-generation instrumentation software using Apple IIe, HP9000-300 Basic 5.11 workstations
- Introducing LabVIEW as main choice of programming language for manufacturing test systems in 1995
- MSExcel4.0 software (using macro language) for controlling video measurement equipment with early-generation GPIB
- Experience with organizing calibration of professional measurement equipment, involved in obtaining first ISO9000 Certifications.
- streamlining manufacturing follow-up with intranet system, using IIS, 1st with MSAccess and now with MS SQL server.

Desktop software, advanced :
- MS Windows, all generations until XP
- MS Office, all generations until 2007
- advanced troubleshooting experience

Server software :
- general server maintenance
- IIS (from NT4 to Windows 2003)
- email : MS Exchange Server 2000, 2003, Pytheas SMTP gateway
- databases : MS MSSQL7.0, 2000, 2005
- databases : Oracle 8.1.7 and 9i
- MS Sharepoint Portal 2000
- antivirus : Symantec9 Corporate
- Cisco equipment (basic)
- Nortel Networks switches (basic)
- CheckPoint FW-1 (basic)
- web developments in Classic ASP and Asp.NET, C# language :
creating Oracle database and table design, 3-tier application, advanced use of Web Services, XML data exchange, VBscripting and javascript clientside

Web applications :
- TypePad
- OpenWikiNG
- Google Apps for Domains

Recent trainings :
- Cisco CCNA
- Legato backup software 7.x

Management :
- ITIL change mgmt

goals :
- Server and Network recovery & redundancy
- improve overall performance of IT and business processes

Latest experience : "knowing too much can make a person vulnerable".

Tom Decouttere’s Specialties:

Electronics degree,
12 years professional experience in high frequency electronics, cable tv broadcast technology and audio.
7 years practical experience in IT department of the same company, covering general application development (asp, Asp.Net), servers and networks (Windows environment), servers and network components - wired & wireless, barcode scanning environment (RFGen), Active Directory.
Special interests : radio broadcasting, Optimod audio processing, RF coverage measurements

Tom Decouttere’s Experience

IT System Engineer

Cisco

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )
IT System Engineer

Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company

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

November 2001 — Present (8 years 1 month)

IT systems and applications, general services for a 700 client environment and several remote satellite offices, developing web IT services in a .NET environment
Owner
Cd-WAVE (cdwave@tdc.be) (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Broadcast Media industry)

April 1997 — Present (12 years 8 months)

Developments of services and strategies for broadcast media and information techology applications, assistance with web developments
Application Engineer

Scientific Atlanta

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SFA; Telecommunications industry)

November 2001 — February 2006 (4 years 4 months)

IT allround for Kortrijk en several remote offices in EMEA in small team of 4 people, covering applications, network and servers, PC support
Former names of this site : Barco Commmunication Systems, BarcoNet (2000-2001)
Scientific-Atlanta Europe NV (2001-till present)
Formerly active in manufucturing as RF engineer and Production Support.
Application Engineer

BarcoNet

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

November 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Evolved from the developments on intranet solutions for displaying the production output in our manufacturing department,
and with a proven record on software solutions that stayed solid for a longer period,
I was asked to take a role in further VB development of a CRM software package (continue the custimisations previously done by another colleague)
Production Liaison

Barco

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

1989 — 2000 (11 years )

Bridging between R&D engineers and production introduction of newly designed equipment for analog and -later on- digital tv. Responsible for measurement equipment calibration of the several workbenches. Making and maintaining setup of manufacturing workbenches. Understanding and practising HF frequency electronics was a major part of this job.

Tom Decouttere’s Education

KATHO - VHTI

Bachelor , Electronics , 1986 — 1989
Sint-Jozefscollege Izegem

highschool , ASO : Wetenschappelijke A (1 jaar) - Wetenschappelijke B (2 jaar) , 1983 — 1986