Arnaud Coomans

Current

• Member of the datacenter team (Consultant for Axen) at KBC Bank
• IT Consultant at Axen

Past

• Deployement of the Urbizone wireless network (Consultant for Axen) at CIRB
• Analysis of the Irisnet ISP network (Consultant for Axen) at CIRB
• Web infrastructure deployment and maintenance at Géné electra

• Organiser of music Festival at Kot-é-Rythmes ASBL
• Web site developer at Euro City Hotels
• Organiser of musical events at Mystic Sound
• First-level technical support at Danone

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Education

• Université catholique de Louvain
• Technische Universität Darmstadt

Connections

84 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Commentag

Arnaud Coomans’s Summary

Civil engineer with technical knowledge in networks, security and Linux/Unix systems; but also software development, project management and training skills.

Main focus is on network and security. My goal is to become a network architect or security auditor.

My interests are in analysis and design, work on technical specs/reports and knowledge transfert (learn and teach).

Arnaud Coomans’s Specialties:

Information Technology (IT); Networks (Cisco CCNA Certified, Routing, Switching, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF); Security; Linux/UNIX; Programming (C/C++, java, perl); Databases (SQL, MySQL); Web development (PHP, HTML, CSS)

Arnaud Coomans’s Experience

• Member of the datacenter team (Consultant for Axen)

  KBC Bank

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

  June 2008 — Present (2 months)

  Working on various project to manage and upgrade the datacenter: choose a new C/DWDM standard for inter-datacenter links

• IT Consultant

  Axen

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2007 — Present (10 months)

  As a consultant I had the opportunity to do many different things: I worked on the intranet (web technologies), I gave a course on java (programming and project management), and worked on ISP and wireless networks. (see other descriptions for more details)

• Deployement of the Urbizone wireless network (Consultant for Axen)

  CIRB

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

  February 2008 — April 2008 (3 months)

  Site surveys and study of the deployment of the Urbizone wifi network. Definition and realization of performance tests over radio link (layer 2) and network (layer 3) quality. Reading technical specifications, eg: RFCs and documentation describing Meru's wireless control system (virtual cell). Issues analysis and troubleshooting follow-up. Help designing network control system redundancy (DRP). Help defining the scope statement for future deployment sites.

• Analysis of the Irisnet ISP network (Consultant for Axen)

  CIRB

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

  December 2007 — February 2008 (3 months)

  Requirement analysis and network modeling. Development follow up of a tool to manage the detailed inventory of Irisnet's infrastructure (SDH backbone, POP, CPE, SHDSL modems, VOIP). Understanding the network by studying AsBuilts, documentation and configuration files.

• Web infrastructure deployment and maintenance

  Géné electra

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Translation and Localization industry)

  2004 — 2007 (3 years)

  Deployment of a web infrastructure for a small company. The infrastructure was deployed with limited resources for multi-hosting and remote access.

• Organiser of music Festival

  Kot-é-Rythmes ASBL

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years)

  Organization of a music festival and various musical events.
  Teamwork to organize a festival with a public of more than 10.000 people. Endorse various responsibilities, exercise management and relation skills and put computer-related knowledge in practice.

• Web site developer

  Euro City Hotels

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

  Conception of a web site with a professional design, reservation forms and multilingual support.

• Organiser of musical events

  Mystic Sound

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

  Teamwork to organize various musical events in Brussels.

• First-level technical support

  Danone

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; DA; Food Production industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  Technical support at the IT Department of Danone. Working in a team to answer users requests and to handle the computers.

Arnaud Coomans’s Education

• Université catholique de Louvain

  Engineering (Computer science) 2001 — 2007

  Teamworking to organise various musical events and a music festival, DJing

  Activities and Societies:

  Mystic Sound, Kot-é-Rythmes, Cercle industriel, Eurotribal, Kot à projet

• Technische Universität Darmstadt

  Informatik 2006 — 2006

  Erasmus

Additional Information

Arnaud Coomans’s Websites:

• Commentag

Arnaud Coomans’s Interests:

Information Technology, Training, Networks, Security, Development, Electronics, Engineering, Music, Festivals, Art

Arnaud Coomans’s Groups:

Mystic Sound, Kot-é-Rythmes, Commentag, Eurotribal, Association des Glénans, Académie des beaux arts de Molenbeek

•    University of Louvain Engineering Alumni member
•    Semantic Web member

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