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Frederik Wouters
Nationality: Belgian Date of birth: 23/11/1983 Place of birth: Leuven, Belgium
Phone number: (+32) 0498535576 
Email address: woutersf@gmail.com
Home: Andre emondstraat 20, 3012 Wilsele (Belgium)
INTRODUCTION
Introduction
Frederik excels in creating momentum, inspiring action, coaching and achieving success. He has a contagious ambition and natural talent for collaboration.
With a positive, proactive and self-motivated approach, Frederik consistently achieves top performances. This while building strong relationships at all levels of an organisation.
Technical project manager for government Contact-center migration to new architecture (MS dynamics + phone infra + frontend + integrations) for AIV.
Lead for Infrastructure migration of VRT Radio (netsites) to AWS.
First-hand cloud and on-premise infrastructure and development knowledge.
Greenfield setup of full autoscaling sites and CICID for Acerta on Kubernetes (Azure).
Contributor on Open Source AI system.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Dropsolid – Ghent, Belgium
City: Ghent | Country: Belgium
Head of innovation
[ 01/02/2025 – Current ]
Lead innovation initiatives in Drupal AI, Mautic marketing automation, and enterprise architecture
Represent Dropsolid as an evangelist through international conferences and events
Drive presales by designing AI-driven proof of concepts and enterprise solutions
Align technology with business strategy to accelerate digital transformation for clients
Calibrate – Kontich, Belgium
City: Kontich | Country: Belgium
Head of A.I.
[ 01/03/2024 – 31/01/2025 ]
Evaluation and setup of AI capabilities
Retrieval-augmented Generation and Agent based (and hybrid) chatbotsb and virtual assistant (for a city, a university campus and more).
Presales
Contributions to Open Source AI orchestration system.
High level project management for chatbot and AI implementation projects
City: Ghent | Country: Belgium
[ 31/12/2020 – 29/02/2024 ]
Enterprise Architecture assignments for City of Ghent, Acerta, Boerenbond, Inagro, National Bank of Belgium, Era
Representative at Open source events.
Project management
Infrastructure project management
Analysis coordination
Coordinator of Open source and community work (and user groups).
Technical presales
Craftworkz – Heverlee, Belgium
City: Heverlee | Country: Belgium
Project Lead Linked data development (freelance)
[ 31/12/2019 – 31/12/2020 ]
Mentoring & js/java/linked data development for Acerta/UCLL/Flem. govt. Kaleidos. Agile (Scrum).
Cegeka – Haasrode, Belgium
City: Haasrode | Country: Belgium
Symfony Developer (freelance)
[ 30/04/2019 – 31/05/2020 ]
Symfony and Elasticsearch development, high available infrastructure consulting in an agile way of working.
Government of Flanders – Brussel, Belgium
City: Brussel | Country: Belgium
Project manager / Scrum Master (freelance)
[ 08/2017 – 06/2019 ]
-Active in the Artificial Intelligence program and burgerloket and webplatform projects.
technical oversight of CTI and CRM migration(Siebel / Dynamics / avaya Genesys) for various stakeholders De lijn / Vlabel / Kind en gezin / Onderwijs.
-Architectural role in Infrastructure move from on premise to AWS (vlaanderen.be).
It is not a coincidence that the chatbot at Herman Teirlinck was called Fred Kroket.
Agile way of working
European Commission – Brussel, Belgium
City: Brussel | Country: Belgium
Interim Project manager (freelance)
[ 30/06/2017 – 31/08/2017 ]
Scrum-master for Europa next Core Team.
VRT – Schaarbeek, Belgium
City: Schaarbeek | Country: Belgium
Team coach Netsites Team (freelance)
[ 31/08/2016 – 30/06/2017 ]
Team coach / proxy Agile product owner & scrum master of the netsites team managing 16 web products (Stubru, Klara, Radio1, Radio2, Warmsteweek, dagelijksekost,mia's and many more).
Moving the entire infrastructure to AWS (including HTTPS, HTTP2), support and more. Architectural role in Infrastructure move from on premise to AWS (netsites).
City: Schaarbeek | Country: Belgium
Teamlead netsites team (freelance)
[ 31/08/2014 – 31/08/2016 ]
Varnish performance/high availability tweaking for deredactie.be,
Tech lead for StudioBrussel, radio 2, canvas, de redactie, MNM, warmste week, mia's, dagelijkse kost, ...
NodeJS / angular 1/ drupal 7 / drupal 8 / amqp / socket.io / varnish / Agile
Medialaan (Q-music & Joe) – Vilvoorde, Belgium
City: Vilvoorde | Country: Belgium
Development lead (freelance)
[ 31/05/2012 – 31/08/2014 ]
Development lead for new radio sites (q-music.be, q-music.nl, joefm.be). Support for high traffic (peaks up to 21 000 pageviews per hour).
Drupal 7 / JQuery / Varnish (ESI) / Apache solr / socket.io / html5 / Capistrano
Amplexor – Leuven, Belgium
City: Leuven | Country: Belgium
Drupal Developer
[ 31/08/2010 – 31/05/2012 ]
Webdevelopment on high traffic projects persweb.be, vtm.be, infrabel.be, kinepolis.be/fr/es/ch, capacity for dev (EC)..
Server configuration on Redhat, Ubuntu of the services Apache, Varnish and Solr
KBC – Leuven, Belgium
City: Leuven | Country: Belgium
Mainframe System engineer
[ 31/01/2007 – 31/08/2010 ]
Internal pricing system for all loans and puts. COBOL / JCL / VAG/ DB2
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Master in enterprise architecture
Address: Heiststesteenweg 131, 2580 Putte (Belgium) | Website: https://icinstitute.be
Bachelor in applied informatics
Address: geldenaaksebaan 335, 3001 leuven (Belgium) | Website: https://www.ucll.be
Certified UML Certified in TOGAF
Certified agile Scrummaster & Product Owner
Certified PRINCE 2 Foundation
CISCO CCNA1 CCNA2 CCNA3
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Mother tongue(s): Dutch
Other language(s):
French
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German
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English
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Spanish
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Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user; B1 and B2: Independent user; C1 and C2: Proficient user
SKILLS
Microsoft Office / Outlook / Google Docs / Zoom / Microsoft Excel / Web Programming: HTML, CSS, Javascript (front-end), Java (back-end) / Teaching and coaching / Microservice architecture, REST API / Enterprise modelling (BPMN, UML, Archimate, etc.) / business architecture: BEPL, BPML / Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF / Linux, user level; / COBOL / Ensamblaje y construcción de drones. / Drone Assembly / UAV Building / RPAS Pilot
DRIVING LICENCE
Driving Licence: AM Driving Licence: A1 Driving Licence: A2 Driving Licence: A Driving Licence: B1 Driving Licence: B
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
[ 2011 – 2023 ] Brussels, Londen, Barcelona, Prague, Portland, Paris, Madrid, Ghent, ...
Speaker, organiser, attendee at many Open source conferences Frederik is eager to learn and network (and attends conferences for this) and also gladly shares his knowledge. He has more than 10 years of public speaking experience on multiple continents.
Audiences vary from very business focussed (eg. Beltug) to very technical (eg. drupalcamps). He can introduce or give keynotes and technically dive deep.He has presented at and helped organising webinars, user groups and conferences in multiple companies and open source ecosystems.
Check the presentations he did via the sessionize link.
Link: https://sessionize.com/wouters_f/
VOLUNTEERING
[ 2004 – 2020 ] Leuven
Certified Trainer B - Gymnastics coach at multiple top sportclubs
Trainer B (Gymfed) @ Turn around Bierbeek
Personally coached multiple gymnasts on multiple international tournaments (first 20 at world championships and WAGC) and cirque du soleil.
[ 2004 – 2012 ] Leuven
Animator & Head animator for Youth movement
Animator (VDS)
Hoofd Animator (VDS)
[ 2012 – 2014 ]
Drone pilot (& builder)
Member of the Belgian Unmanned Aircraft Systems Association
Frame: DJI flamewheel
VARIA
[ 01/01/2012 ]
Captains license
Sailing school of the Belgian navy - Defensie
[ 01/05/2005 ]
Captains license (sailing)
PCV
[ 05/2015 ]
Parachutist (accelerated free fall)
Training center voor parachutisten (commando) - Defensie
[ 01/04/1999 ]
Junior Parachutist (static line)
Belgian commandos - Defensie
[ 08/1998 ]
Junior Commando