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Charles Lemaire
Former journalist,
IT Consultant and Trainer |
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| Summary |
After six years of work as a professional
journalist in West-Africa, Charles Lemaire moved to the computer industry where
he started as trainer to later extend his activities to many technical and
commercial domains (support, localisation, presales, implementation, project
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| Contact |
Charles LEMAIRE
Rue de Corsal, 59
1450 Cortil-Noirmont
Belgium
Tel : 32 (0)81 61 34 58
Email:
charles.lemaire@swing.be
Homepage:
http://users.swing.be/charles.lemaire |
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| Misc. |
Born in 1958 in Malmedy (Belgium)
Married, 3
children's
Hobbies: Travels (Europe, Africa), Books, Medium and Large Format
Photography, Politics |
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| Skills and Qualifications |
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| Formal qualifications |
1979-1981 |
agregation to the Higher Secondary School for the social and
political Sciences |
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1979-1981 |
degree in social communication |
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1977-1979 |
candidatures in economic, social and political Sciences |
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| Other qualifications |
Former Microsoft Certified Product Specialist
(MCSE)
Former Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCP) |
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| Language skills |
French |
Native |
| Dutch |
Good |
| English |
Good |
| Working daily in a multilingual
environment (Dutch, English, French) since 1988 |
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| Employment History |
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| Since 10/1999 |
Autonomy PLC
(Berchem, Belgium) |
Senior Technology Specialist |
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- Technical support to the sales of Autonomy products for
the Benelux territory
- Organisation of standard and non-standard technical
demonstrations
- Answers to RFPs and Call for tenders
- Expertise in massively multilingual information systems
and crosslingual operation
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Products: Autonomy Dynamic Reasoning Engine (DRE
/ SUIR), Autonomy User Agent Server / NORE, Autonomy Classification Server /
LAUNE, Autonomy IDOL Sever, IAS security, connectors, categorization, alerting,
profiling, clustering, Active services, Kenjin, Categorizer/Alerter/Profiler
(CAP), Active Windows Extensions,... |
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| 9/1999 |
ETNV - E-Wise Technologies
(Zaventem,
Belgium) |
Technical Pre-Sales |
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- Technical support to the sales of Autonomy products for
the Benelux territory
- Organisation of standard and non-standard technical
demonstrations
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| 11/1998-8/1999 |
ETNV - Excalibur Technologies
(Zaventem,
Belgium) |
Technical Pre-Sales |
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- Technical support to the sales of Excalibur (Convera)
products for the Belgian territory
- Technical support to the sales of visual products and of
all Excalibur products for the media market on the ETNV territory (Benelux,
Germany, Scandinavia, Italy)
- Organisation of standard and non-standard technical
demonstrations
- Trainer for the course"Programming with Excalibur Visual
RetrievalWare"
- Answers to RFPs and Call for tenders
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| 5/1997-10/1998 |
Unisys |
Project Manager |
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- International feasibility study of a Business to Business
application using Staffware workflow automation over the Internet
- Design and implementation of an Internet site for the
publication of CVs (input, search). The second phase of the project allowed the
information push to companies searching for specific profiles.
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| 12/1995-10/1998 |
Unisys |
Microsoft Certified System Specialist, consultant and
trainer |
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- Extension of an expert’s pole in Microsoft
Products.
- application of this knowledge to customer’s
business
- Personal contribution:
- Completed the full range of Microsoft courses and exams
to gain official Microsoft certifications.
- Installation and maintenance of test lab for internal and
external use.
- Giving official Microsoft curriculum courses of Microsoft
Windows 95, Windows NT and Microsoft Exchange Server.
- Training and coaching of new-hires that have to gain the
Microsoft Product Specialist certification
- Animation of Microsoft seminars about Microsoft Exchange
and 32bits operating systems.
- Building the pilot site (Belgium, Hong-Kong, Turkey) for
the MS Exchange implementation in a large industrial group
- Microsoft Certified Product Specialist - MCP (12/95)
- Microsoft Certified System Engineer - MCSE (4/96).
- Compaq Accredited System’s Engineer - ASE
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| 02/1989 - 12/95 |
Unisys |
Office Automation Consultant |
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- development of an expert’s pole in office
automation, workflow automation and information retrieval
- customer support
- following and leading implementation of office automation
projects,
- Unisys software’s localisation and translation under
Microsoft Windows and Unix
- taking part to the development of new solutions
- identification and qualification of market products
- trainer for specific integration modules (Word Perfect
and Lotus123 on Unix)
- Deep knowledge of several applications (Quadratron,
Fulcrum/Full-Text, Staffware, Word Perfect, Lotus 123).
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| 06/1988-02/1989 |
Unisys Belgium |
Instructor in Computer Sciences |
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- Teach all the basic courses under BTOS/CTOS.
- Update BTOS and Multiplan courses manuals
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| 05/1987-05/1988 |
Centre de Formation en Gestion et en
Informatique
(Brussels, Belgium) |
Economical Instructor |
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- Develop and test a seminar module about the changes in
the world economy (globalisation).
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| 10/1981-01/1987 |
Afrique Nouvelle
(Dakar, Senegal) |
Journalist |
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- Member of a 5 people staff to publish a weekly magazine
covering actuality about French speaking west-Africa
- Grand-reportage's in most of the countries in the
region
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| 10/1981-10/1984 |
Unir Cinéma - Revue du Cinéma
Africain
(St-Louis, Senegal) |
Journalist |
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- Build and publish six times a year a professional
publication for the information about the African film
- Covering the specialised festivals (Ouagadougou - Burkina
Faso, Mogadishu - Somalia)
- Trainer for the education to the media's (film and
press)
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