.NET & JavaScript development

The purpose of this project was to create an application that allowed Wonen Vlaanderen to build highly complex and dynamic forms in an easy way. Hence the name EasyForms.

EasyForms supports around 20 different types of fields (regular text, VAT-number, drop down list, check boxes, radio buttons, tabular data, phone number, email address, upload, e-ID signature, ...).

Each field can be decorated with validation rules and conditions to show/hide the field.

This application is publicly available at https://www.woninghuurprijzen.be/.

Based on the address and certain characteristics of a house, the application calculates an estimate of a standard rent for that house. The application uses a statistical model based on objective parameters to drive the calculation of the standard rent.

My absences is an application for small and mid-size enterprises that allow their employees to request all kinds of absences (holidays, sick leave, …). Afterwards managers can approve or decline those request.

When i joined the development team, the application was already being used in production for several years, but it was suffering from severe performance problems. My task was to improve the application's overall performance.

The main performance problems were caused by the complex document object model behind the application that had to be rendered on the client and lots of (unnecessary) ajax calls between the client and server. By fixing the rendering issues, eliminating some of the ajax calls and by optimizing server side processing, the performance of the application improved by a factor 5 to a factor 20 (~ 5 to 20 times as fast as it was before).

BAM is building two new prisons in Belgium from the ground up. When the prisons have been built, BAM will have to manage them for the next 25 years. This management includes the day to day maintenance of the entire prison, not only the building itself has to be maintained but also everything in it.

Therefore I created an application that helps BAM to manage the entire infrastructure of its prisons and to plan maintenance tasks on it. Those maintenance task can be both proactive (planned maintenance, schedule beforehand) and reactive (an installation breaks down unexpectedly and needs to be fixed asap).

One of Nobel Biocare's products is a software application that allows doctors to plan dental surgery by the use of 3D models. The data that's being used by the software (patients, implants, ...), the licensing of the software, ... all of this is provided through webservices. I was one of the developers on the team that created those webservices.

Gateway is an international content wholesaler and technology provider for the travel industry. Gateway’s products allow travel partners to easily compare rates and directly book hotels, flights, transfers and cars. Worldwide there are more than 5,000 travel agents, OTA’s, tour operators and airlines who use Gateway’s services daily.

I worked on one of Gateway's main application, Flights. My task was to create a communication layer between the Flights front end (written in ColdFusion) and the Flights back end (a 3rd party .NET application) which runs the search operations for available flights.

The Flights ColdFusion front end application was unable to process the large XML responses that were returned by the Flights back end. I had to put something in between the front and back end which transformed and compressed the XML responses so they could be properly read by ColdFusion on the front end.

Gateway is an international content wholesaler and technology provider for the travel industry. Gateway’s products allow travel partners to easily compare rates and directly book hotels, flights, transfers and cars. Worldwide there are more than 5,000 travel agents, OTA’s, tour operators and airlines who use Gateway’s services daily.

I worked on one of Gateway's main application, Transfers. The Transfers booking engine is a module that allows travel agents to easily compare several transfer suppliers. During reservation the customer can choose his own comfort level, the proposed transfers include cars and minibuses. If customers are price-sensitive they can choose a shared transfer, if not they can choose a private transfer.

Specifications is Bridgestone's main application to manage tire specifications. The application is used all over Europe. My tasks included providing support and developing new features for the application.

Developing an electronic tool helping the business in the process of routing material. Before the e-tool, the process was fully performed on paper.

The benefits of having this process supported by an e-tool are having a trace of all review/approval steps plus the fact that an overview of all open or expired dossiers is available at all times for the necessary stakeholders.