ShutterFreak!

Name

• Olivier Biot

Born

• 1975

Nationality

• Belgian

Languages

• Dutch: mother tongue
• French: mother tongue
• English: excellent
• Portuguese: very good
• German: Good (speaking)
• Spanish: Good (speaking)

Studies

• 1993-1999: Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium): Engineering degree in telecommunications (M.Sc.)
• 1988-1993: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege (Antwerp, Belgium)
• 1986-1988: Lycée Molière (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• 1983-1986: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege (Antwerp, Belgium)

Work experience

September 2004 - Now: SIRRIS (formerly known as WTCM-CRIF)

• I work as a technology advisor for software engineering.

December 1999 - August 2004: Siemens

• I have been working for Siemens where I performed the translation of market requirements into technical product requirements for software development in the Mobile Internet domain.
• I became an expert in the WAP technology, and have been a delegate to the WAP Forum standardization body (whose work continues in the Open Mobile Alliance).
• Next to the definition of projects I also performed some research in the presence domain.
• I am very grateful to Ethereal (now WireShark) since it helped me (and many others) in finding protocol and other errors in record time. As a counterpart I have contributed patches and dissectors, mainly in the WAP area.
• In fact, there are too many things to list here :)

Hobbies

• Interest in nature and landscapes hence: hiking, biking, mountains, nature photography and filming, astronomy, many sciences.
• Video editing, reading, and lots of music.
• Programming:
  • Former contributor to the Ethereal protocol analyzer (mainly WAP and HTTP, occasional other protocol families).
  • See my Ohloh profile:
    
  • Occasional contributor to the JAlbum web album generator, more precisely for enhancements on the ExhibitPlus skin used on my online photo album.
  • Occasional contributor to Drupal, a very popular open source content management server and community platform.
• Cooking, wining & dining.