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Senior IT Architect - IT meets Automation | SCADA, Protocols, Virtualization, AI | 15+ years
Mons, Belgium
Worldwide
Master's degree in Information Technology - University of Mons (UMONS)About me
IT expert at the junction of IT and automation. I understand PLCs and control systems, but my job is the IT side: applications that talk to the plant, protocol and communication development, integration between control systems and IT. I look for complex missions with a real challenge. Worldwide.
C (Programming Language)Java (Programming Language)JavaScript.NET FrameworkPHPActive DirectoryC Sharp (Programming Language)Data CentersGroup PolicySupervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)Python (Programming Language)Windows Presentation FoundationMicrosoft SQL ServersWindows ServersMySQL
Senior industrial IT and software architect with 15+ years of experience in regulated and critical environments (pharma, oil & gas).
Industrial IT / OT:
- SCADA and supervision: GE Proficy iFIX (certified expert), Siemens WinCC / Simatic
- Industrial networks and communication protocols, fieldbus to TCP/IP migration
- Virtualization of industrial infrastructures (VMware), modernization with minimal production impact
- IT/OT convergence and industrial network security (OPNsense, segmentation, dual-WAN)
- Validation and documentation in regulated environments, operational runbooks, IT due diligence
- Commissioning, troubleshooting and resolution of critical incidents on production systems
- Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL / MariaDB - design, administration, performance, migrations
- Network administration: switches, VLAN, routing, firewalls, segmentation of industrial networks
- Microsoft infrastructure: Windows Server, Active Directory domain controllers, group policies (GPO), server administration
Software and AI:
- Custom industrial tools and interfaces, protocol-level development
- Languages: C#, WPF, .NET, C, Java, PHP, JavaScript, Python, SQL - any language on demand
- Web platforms, SaaS, mobile apps, browser extensions, Stripe integration
- AI / LLM integration, autonomous agents, AI-driven quantitative trading systems
Key achievements:
- Pfizer: designed an in-house tool converting all supervision addressing from Applicom cards to TCP/IP, which made the virtualization of the SCADA infrastructure possible; rolled out company-wide
- Missions for TotalEnergies, Baxter and Alten through Nayaro Industrial IT
- BattleKart: created an augmented-reality karting system from scratch (game engine, on-board electronics, projection), co-inventor of patent BE 1022274 (BE 2016, US 10,967,279 B2 2021, EP 4235628 B1 2024)
- Proprietary AI trading environment used by investment funds and family offices ($10M+)
Master's degree in IT (UMONS). Languages: French (native), English (professional, technical). Available worldwide, including offshore and remote sites: oil & gas, data centers, greenfield pharma and semiconductor plants.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2016
Languages
EnglishFluentFrenchNative speaker
Project history
Proprietary platform built with and for investment funds and family offices ($10M+). LLMs write, test, repair and evolve trading strategies with full lineage. Proprietary large-scale backtesting engine. Institutional-grade validation: walk-forward, Monte Carlo, portfolio correlation, drawdown safeguards. Architecture, development, infrastructure and security end to end.
Missions for TotalEnergies, Baxter and Alten (pharma, oil & gas, engineering). SCADA and supervision architecture, migration and troubleshooting (Proficy iFIX, Siemens). Custom industrial tools and communication interfaces, protocol-level development. Virtualization and modernization of industrial infrastructures with minimal production impact. Windows Server, Active Directory, SQL Server, network administration (switches, VLAN, firewalls). Resolution of critical incidents on production systems. Validation, documentation and runbooks in regulated environments.
Created the augmented-reality karting concept and built the original system from scratch: game engine, on-board electronics and projection system. Co-inventor of patent BE 1022274, Environment creation system (granted 2016). Extended as US patent 10,967,279 B2 (2021) and European patent EP 4235628 B1 (2024).