C.V.

personal

I’m Wouter Paesen, born April 12th, 1981. I currently live in Overpelt, Belgium and intend to stay there for a long time. In 2005 I got married to my loving and supporting wife Ilse.

Recently we bought our own house, and live there with our four cats (pele, tibo, skitty and nemo) and our dog (lady) who we adopted from the previous owner of the house.

professional

Currently I have two jobs :

education

  • 1999-2003 : Industrial engineering, specialisted in information and communication technology.
    Catholic High School Limburg, Diepenbeek, Belgium
    Thesis : “Ontwerp van een database voor de analyse van videobeelden van appels”. pdf here (dutch only).
    Nominated for the BARCO 2003 and the Paul Donners 2003
  • 1997-2000 : Applied Informatics
    Technical Institute Sint-Jozef, social promotion, Overpelt, Belgium
  • 1997-1999 : Electronics
    Technical Institute Sint-Jozef, Overpelt, Belgium

interests

  • I’m basically interested in everything that has electronics involved. But currently my scope is limited to digital electronics and computers, especially free software.
  • Books : I have an ever growing collection of books. Most of them are second hand bought at markets. Maybe i’ll index it sometime and put the list online.
  • Music: Life is music !
  • Sports: walking the dog, working on the house :-)

skills

  • programming: C, (C++), Java, Javascript, Turbo Pascal, Assembly (mainly PIC16F84), SQL, VHDL, VBA, Bash, Perl, PHP, IEC 61131-3
  • Typesetting: LaTeX, HTML, XSLT, SVG, DocBook
  • Languages: Dutch, English, French (basics), German (basics)
  • Networking: good knowledge of basic networking protocols and administration of network services (a.o. apache, bind, sendmail, postfix, dhcp, ldap, netfilter). Solid knowledge about profibus.
  • Automation: solid knowlegde of general automation practices. Practical experience with programming and troubleshooting Beckhoff TwinCAT, BBH Movisafe, SEW Movidrive, Siemens S7 (with profisafe)
  • IDE: Emacs, Borland Developer Studio, Beckhoff Twincat

A more detailed and printable resume can be found here.