Pascal Vuylsteker

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In charge of the full information systems: from the back office (ERM/SIS, extranet), to the website (CMS Drupal) or the deployment of new platforms (SaaS): Project Management, Job Board, CV database, Alumni Association Management...
This job implies interactions with the Alliance various stakeholders (regular international travels to meet with programme managers, communication directors, academics, students and alumni representatives).
The latest projects are about exploring Blended Learning and SPOC solution and Competency Based Evaluation.
For the first years, I was in charge of the Social Network strategy.
On the production side, management of two developers and coordination with various providers.
Provision of IT systems (computer) to every team members.

Expertise:
NewMedia (Web2.0, Ajax, Prototype ...), Video archives management, MacOSX/Cocoa programming, panoramic imagery and media geolocation.
Technical research.
Proposition of a reasoned shortlist of web-based solutions for the B2B and B2C video delivery platform of the French Broadcasting Institute (INA).
Selection of an open source ECM (Enterprise Content Management) platform for INA's intranet.
Project Manager and Ajax developer for Orao : a QuickTime-based web video player that fully emulate a professional video tape recorder user interface (jog shuttle, frame by frame...).

Academic at the Australian National University (ANU) in the eScience group at the Department of Computer Science (in charge of the first Department's Masters).
Creation, management and teaching of courses : "NewMedia" (Web2.0), "Computer Graphics" and "Networked Virtual Reality".
Management of Masters student's projects.
Research interests : panoramic imagery and media geolocation (GIS : Geographic Information System).

Technical team leader for the portal "MediaPort" and INA's web site (supervised a staff of 4 technicians).
Launched the Internet and web activity within INA from the very first web site in 94 to the intranet.
Participated actively in organizing international conferences (Imagina, Monaco).
Designed and implemented large website production tools.
Strong vision in the selection of technologies used and developed by the team (Apache, Perl, MySQL, QuickTime...).
Teaching Internet&Web training programme for French broadcasters.
Lobbyng to develop the Internet in France.
Technological survey on Virtual Reality.

Project management

A mix of Agile, Extreme Programming (XP) and Lean
Lecturing/Teaching

Lecturer at Master level at the Australian National University for 5 years
Information Systems

CMS, ERM, CRM, SIS, SaaS
Research

Virtual Reality (VR)
Panoramic imagery and media geolocation (GIS : Geographic Information System)
Consulting

Video on the net, Media Asset Management platforms

Web, Internet

I sent my first email in 1990 and produced my first website in 1994
Higher Education
Panoramic Images
Virtual Reality (VR, AR)

French (Mother tongue)
English (Full professional proficiency)
Double nationality (French/Australian)