People

Valérie Goedert

Valérie is my beloved wife. We get to know each other at the University of Namur. She studied Economics, with Computer Science at first. She failed her second candidature and that's were we get to know. She later on succeeded and got her Master in Economics. She is now working at Fortis, as Corporate Credit Assistant for large businesses.

The "Blobs"

A group of friends from University, dear to my heart. They are (in no particular order) : Pascale Dechamps, Valérie Goedert, Benoit Marchal, Laurence Parmentier, Sébastien Stormacq, Pascal Platteeuw, Michel Carpentier, Stéphane Vincent, Valérie Goedert joined by their partners, i.e. Nathalie Dujardin, Véronique Henrotte and Nancy.

The name "Blobs" comes from a story I told jokingly to Valérie. Valérie came one day, very afraid of having computer virus on her PC. I told her to beware of possible short circuits (named "Blobs") on her CPU because of this virus. Most of the people mentioned above listened to this b*shit but none said a word; they just smiled. Well, she believed it... At the end of the day, when she looked worried about her PC and was about to go home, I told her about the joke... and Valérie was quite mad at me... Later on, the group of friends became the "Blobs" in remeberance of this little prank.

Benoît Marchal

Benoît Marchal is a dear friend from University time. Independant at heart, he set up - with his partner Pascale Dechamps - Pineapplesoft after a few years working as an employee. His skills are numerous but are now more geared towards the use of XML in enterprise applications. He also is the author of books on XML and a large number of articles on related subjects.

TCC & Proton Team

While working at FICS Group (acquired by S1 in 1999) (from September  1995 to November 1999) , I had the nice opportunities to work with bright and friendly people. I first worked in the Telecommunication Competence Center (TCC), as software engineer and technical leader, developping communication modules for PC banking application. Later on, I joined the Proton Team, working under contract from Banksys on applications related to the Proton e-purse. Those were the days, those were the nice people.

TCC : Philippe van de Putte, Albert Smets, Paul Masquelier, Vincent Reidemester, Philippe Lombaerts, Stephan Vernieuw, Jean-Luc Sonnet, Alain Caplier

Proton : Alain Gérard, Jean-Francois, Jean-Luc Sonnet, Bruno Vandezande, Philippe Ripak, Jacques Vinandré, Georges Marlair, Daniel d'Ambrose, Jean-Louis Sacré, Francois Boudaillé, Gilles Dubois, Michel Valentin (Banksys), Mireille Lambinon, Helen Mangelschots, ... and some more whose names have faded away in my aging memories.

BioTeam

I started working for Keyware in November 1999. I joined a nice team of people there and get to know more people from the Ieper team along the years. I worked on a biometric authentication server and framework, that has been sold to Identix in October 2002. Some of the team members are Christian Halet, Frederik Noe, Tim Dobbelaere, Filip Claeys, Joris Van den Broeck and André Oeyen, our dedicated sales' guy. We can be called the survivors, overlasting a bunch of colleagues, too numerous to mention but not forgotten.

In memoriam

Eugène D'Haeyere, dit Géno (1/1/1944 - 17/7/2002)

My dad died on July, 17th 2002 from what people call a long lasting disease, i.e. a lung cancer, most probably caused by smoking from the age of 16. I'm missing him all and every day of my life. He will always be a model to me.