Pierre ORFINGER

Last activities:
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1)1991-: Senior Consultant (concept and follow up of development) in :
• Strategic plan and organisation of IT services
• Electronic Document Management System (Knowledge Management -
Internet based).
• network of homogeneous and heterogeneous system (TCP/IP of DNA+X400,server UNIX/VMS and client PC/Mac/Workstation X,...);
good knowledge of Bull, DEC, IBM, HP, Siemens, Unisys, UNIX,W2K.
• Project references/ design and project management of the EUDOR web retrieval system for the EU Office of Publications, FORTIS, VRT & ING integrated documentation management system

2) Local (Belgium-Luxemburg) technical representative for Open Text products(BASIS, BASISplus,.)

3) 1999-: Closely participate to the start-up of EurActiv.com(www.euractiv.com) a private WEB Media Company for European Affairs:. Currently Technical Director, responsable for computer operation and development.

Career history:
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: process engeneer in chemical industry (Prayon)
: CES and then CAP-GEMINI Belgium,
Project leader(Software development) Régie des Postes, UCO, Dow Corning, ...
: MONSANTO EUROPE
• analyst and consultant for the decentralised systems
concerning business control, sales and production forecast.
• responsible of CICS and development of a new order-invoice system.
: Groupe ROSSEL :
• responsible for the development of the new order and delivery
system (newspapers).
: Intersem form the Intersys Group (currently CSC Belgium)
• choice, installation and development of documentary systems for the EEC.
• audit of systems and computer organisations
• choice, definition of products & methods in 4th generation language and RDBMS.
• technical management of conversion projects from DOS to MVS and other services on large IBM Mainframe.
Inside the IntersysGroup (merge with CIG and then CSC):
• Consultant for 4th generation language, RDBMS and Information
Retrieval Systems,
• Consultant in architecture of heterogeneous distributed systems and in paticular of office automation system for the Belgian and Luxembourg police forces.
• Consultant and project leader in the EDMS (Electronic Data Management System) area. In charge of implementations of Distributed Office Automation systems on UNIX, NT and DEC
platforms in major projects, among others:
• many projects on behalf of the Belgian Government (Prime Minister - BISTEL, National Police Dept. in Belgium, Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance)
• the initial development of the IRENE project for the European Commission (FEOGA)