Max Hillaert

Current

• Associate at Morgan Stanley
• Owner at Magna Software Ltd

Past

• Senior Software Developer at IntelliQ
• Senior Software Developer at Last Minute.Com
• Consultant at Johnson & Johnson

• Consultant at Real Software
• Temp Software Developer at SDT INFORMATICS
• Student Intern at Cronos

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Education

• 'Karel de Grote' Hogeschool Antwerpen

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Industry

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Max Hillaert’s Summary

I am a good C# Developer with 5 years of professional experience developing Winforms applications in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to finance. I'm currently focusing on developing my career in the Foreign Exchange and Derivatives business in the financial services industry.

Max Hillaert’s Specialties:

Domain-Driven Design , Continious Integration, Winforms, C# , FX , Vanilla -and Exotic Options

Max Hillaert’s Experience

• Associate

  Morgan Stanley

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MS; Financial Services industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Working as part of the FX Options Front Office Development Team

• Owner

  Magna Software Ltd

  (Computer Software industry)

  December 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  (London , UK)
  
  Consultancy and Software Development for private businesses and government institutions.
  Project recently realized:
  • iPhone Cocoa Touch Native Application
  • SMS Server Application for a Mobile content provider
  • Dotnetnuke CMS based Website for a government social service
  • Dotnetnuke CMS based Website for a government pension home

• Senior Software Developer

  IntelliQ

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  (Canary Wharf, London , UK)
  
  • Development of leading Data Mining and Data Visualization Loss Prevention Software Suite for the Retail Industry.
  • Granted lead of a crucial Greenfield project: a Data Warehouse Designer in C# (Winforms). The quality of the product suite depended on well designed and correctly deployed data warehouses. It did this in a DB agnostic way across multiple DBMS like Oracle 9i/10g, SQL 2005 Server and Red Brick.
  • Introduced automated deployment testing part of our build process that tested all our client’s Data Warehouses by deploying and loading data into them.
  • Our customers include H&M , Argos , BHS , John Lewis

• Senior Software Developer

  Last Minute.Com

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; LMIN; Online Media industry)

  February 2006 — May 2006 (4 months)

  (London , UK)
  
  • Worked on C# ASP.NET 2.0 project using VS 2005 Team System.
  • Extreme Programming environment , 100% Test Driven
  • The highly transactional travel booking system’s architecture I’ve developed on was Service-Oriented (SOA), XML schema centric and interestingly did not rely on a thick ASP.NET layer for presentation. It relied for a substantial part on lightweight XSLT.
  • Developed SOAP Web services that were XML schema centric.
  • Developed REST Web service and thus used URL Rewriting and custom HTTP Handlers extensively
  • Developed Security component to secure the web services and consumer websites. Used WSE 3.0 for SOAP and custom DIGEST authentication for REST
  • Mentored ASP/ VB 6.0 developers to C# and conducted interviews of outsourcing staff

• Consultant

  Johnson & Johnson

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

  December 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Placed by Real Software NV at the Janssen Phamaceutica JNJ Site
  (Beerse , Belgium)
  
  • Developed cutting-edge Winforms multithreaded client/server application for Drug Discovery division with a .NET Remoting, SOAP and TCP socket interface. Backends used were MS SQL Server 2000 / 2005, Oracle 9i and MySql.
  • Refactored client component resulting in 40% code reduction and optimised the server component’s performance by 300% by discovering flaw in ADO.NET Dataset serialization.
  • Granted lead of a Greenfield Winforms data visualisation project. Used Feature Driven (FDD) Agile methodology. This novel 2D compound visualisation tool for Drug Discovery scientists; which has been widely accepted by Johnson & Johnson scientists across the globe has also evoked the interest of external buyers including Spotfire. Google VlaaiVis.

• Consultant

  Real Software

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; REA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  (Antwerp ,Belgium)
  
  IT Consultancy Company that placed me at Johnson & Johnson.
  See parallel Johnson & Johnson experience entry

• Temp Software Developer

  SDT INFORMATICS

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

  August 2004 — December 2004 (5 months)

  (Antwerp, Belgium)
  
  • Worked on .NET Compact framework projects for Pocket PC PDA’s and Scanners
  • Company’s core business is Food Traceability and Supply Chain / Logistics
  • Hired to assist the company’s transition from Visual Basic 6.0 and C++ to C# .NET CF
  • Persuaded senior co-workers to abolish cut-and-paste “techniques”
  • Granted lead of a Wireless Warehouse management project and Wireless Point-Of-Sale project.

• Student Intern

  Cronos

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2004 — May 2004 (3 months)

  (Antwerp, Belgium)
  
  • 3 month mandatory internship with one of Belgium’s largest IT companies to get Bachelor degree
  • Used RUP methodology to design and develop a .NET Compact Framework application in C# for salesmen on the road which used a remote Navision Server as back-end. Data was synchronized to Navision by calling a SOAP webservice using GPRS.

Max Hillaert’s Education

• 'Karel de Grote' Hogeschool Antwerpen

  Bachelor , Applied Computer Science , 2000 — 2004

  Combined 2 last years with full time employment

Additional Information

Max Hillaert’s Interests:

Politics , Investing , Real Estate , Evolutionary Biology , Popular Science, Reading ,Running , Swimming and Exercising , Windsurfing

Max Hillaert’s Groups:

•    INFOOS vzw, Alumni ICT Karel de Grote-Hogeschool (earlier H.I. St Lodewijk)

Max Hillaert’s Contact Settings

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