A short description of the ABIS team is given below.
Engineer Koen De Backer is involved at ABIS in the SAS, UNIX, DB2 UDB and WebSphere. His main interest is in configuration and managing LAN and application environments with a special emphasis on WebSphere.
Koen De Backer has the following certificates:
Filip Descheemaecker (bachelor in electronics) has been working in the telecommunications sector for 23 years, both in technical and commercial positions. Filip started at ABIS in the third quarter 2004 to strengthen the ABIS sales team. As account manager he is responsible for both the management and the further expansion of customer relationships in Belgium and Luxembourg.
Mia Helsen Mertens is responsible for the preparation of the course handouts. She is also in charge of the reception of students and catering.
Engineer Guido Indesteege has been working at ABIS as a consultant and instructor since 1984. He has specialized in MVS, CICS, VisualAge Generator and Java. He is president of the BeNeLux GSE working group on EGL/RDz.
Guido Indesteege has the following certificates:
After an education in Industrial Design at the S.H.I.V.K.V. and a course in Philosophy at the K.U.Leuven, Steven Scheldeman took his first steps towards Computer Sciences at Data Reymen Center. This gave him the opportunity to get acquainted with the System i (aka i/Series, AS/400), and provided him with the experience of commercial handling of both financial products and RPG-software. Since 2007 he is working as an instructor at ABIS, specializing in IBM mainframe technology.
Steven Scheldeman has the following certificate:
Lic. Sandy Schillebeeckx studied mathematics at the University of Leuven. She worked during 6 years at the Royal Military School of Belgium, doing research in the domain of plasma physics. Afterwards she worked as a teacher in mathematics. Now she is reinforcing the ABIS team, specializing in Java, SAS and XML.
Sandy Schillebeeckx has the following certificates:
Yvette Van den Acker is in charge of the accounting of ABIS. She is your prime contact for all questions concerning invoices.
Ludo Van den dries, Dr. Sc. (physics), has worked as an Information Engineer at ABIS since 1984. He has a lot of practical experience with networking and data communications. At ABIS he is responsible for the OO and XML curriculum. Ludo is much appreciated as seminar leader for introductory courses on IT.
Ludo Van den dries has the following certificates :
Dr. Peter Vanroose studied mathematics at the University of Leuven, where he worked as a researcher for 20 years. He gained a broad experience in UNIX, programming (C, C++, a.o.), scripting (Perl, bash) and XML. In 2004 Peter joined ABIS where he is teaching courses. He specializes in relational databases and more specifically in DB2.
Peter Vanroose has the following certificates:
Drs. Kris Van Thillo studied applied economic sciences at the University of Leuven. Since 1992 he has worked as an instructor and consultant at ABIS. His main areas of interest are Oracle and DB2. He is also active with PATROL, UNIX and Internet. Since November 2000 he is manager of the ABIS office in Holland.
Kris Van Thillo has the following certificate:
Paul Veugelen, Dr. Sc. (mathematics), is General Manager of ABIS. Since 1984 he has been responsible for the training program at ABIS. In this context he follows the IT world very closely, which makes him a very knowledgeable instructor on seminars about IT products in general and IBM products in particular.
Paul Veugelen has the following certificates:
