Jean Pierre Huart Curriculum Vitae

Education

Civil Mining Engineer

Dates Studying: oct 1982 - jun 1987
Location: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
With: Grande distinction.

Skills

Open Minded, Quick Learner, Problem Solving, Strong Work Ethic, Organized.

Python, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Julia, UML, Linux, Bash, Git, Ansible.

Bilingual in French and Italian, fluent in English.

Positions

Free Software Engineer

CRA-W Centre wallon de Recherches agronomiques

Dates Employed: Apr 2017 – Present
Location: Gembloux, Belgium

Development of an agro-meteorological platform, webservices, rest API, crop follow-up modelisation systems. Python, TypeScript, GIS tools, PostgreSQL.

Free Software Engineer

OpenJph

Dates Employed: Jan 2012 – Dec 2017
Employment Duration: 6 yrs
Location: Ottignies, Belgium

Test Driven Development mainly with Python and Django framework. Postgresql, MySql and MariaDb database design. PHP solutions using frameworks Symfony, Yii, Drupal. Jquery, Highcharts, GRASS, OpenLayers and Leaflet data visualisations. Renewable energy modelisation, agro-meteorological forecasts.

Developing partnerships with Champs-Libres coop and other entrepreneurs in Creative Wallonia Co-working spaces.

Major clients: APERe asbl, Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires asbl, Médecins Sans Frontières asbl, CRA-W, Pameseb asbl, Espaces Naturels Régionaux du Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Favourite realisation: modelization of renewable energy production and forecast (wind and solar) within the 'EnergizAIR' project for APERe asbl. The software collect data through web API and web scraping and produce reports and indicators for each administrative region of the covered countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, Hungary, Germany and Slovenia). EnergizAIR has won the EU Sustainable Energy Award 2012.

Software Engineer

REQUASUD asbl

Dates Employed: Jun 2016 – Mar 2017
Employment Duration: 10 mos
Location: Gembloux, Belgium

Analysis, development and deployment of a collaboration tool to send alerts to farmers and gather field observations to be connected to a geographic information system (GIS).

Software Engineer

Médecins Sans Frontières / Artsen Zonder Grenzen

Dates Employed: Jan 2003 – Dec 2012
Employment Duration: 10 yrs
Location: Brussels, Belgium

Development and maintenance of various applications dealing with medical data, accountancy, logistics, polls and membership management, ticket reservation... Most recent project, MINOS, concerns Medical Data collection, indicators and report generation. Project developped in PHP, XML, XSLT, Javascript, Fusebox and Dojo frameworks, BIRT reporting tool and MySQL database.

Field visits in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Brazil.

Database Manager and Standards Coordinator

Médecins Sans Frontières / Artsen Zonder Grenzen

Dates Employed: oct 1997 – Dec 2002
Employment Duration: 4 yrs 2 mos
Location: Brussels, Belgium

Database of all MSF standard emergency items and kits. Development of a software to publish catalogues of articles, quick purchase lists on paper and protected PDF files. Languages: Visual Basic for Applications, ASP, PL-SQL. Database: Oracle, MS Access.

Administrator

Medici Senza Frontiere

Dates Employed: Apr 1996 – Sep 1997
Employment Duration: 1 yr 6 mos
Location: Roma, Italia

Management of the office including human resources, logistics (supply, maintenance, assets), administrative and financial management. Relations with all sections of the Médecins Sans Frontières movement. Institutional fund raising.

Technical Expert (Logistic department)

Médecins Sans Frontières / Artsen Zonder Grenzen

Dates Employed: Oct 1993 – Mar 1996
Employment Duration: 2 yrs 6 mos Location: Brussels, Belgium

Missions in Kenya , Sierra Leone, Azerbaïdjan, Tchetchnia, Zaïre, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda.

Head of Mission

Médecins Sans Frontières / Artsen Zonder Grenzen

Dates Employed: Jun 1993 – Sep 1993
Employment Duration: 4 mos
Location: Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina

Operations covering the towns of Split, Metkovic, Dubrovnik, Zenica and Tuzla. Activities: distribution of medicines, food and hygiene products, prefabricated construction, and the establishment of structures for water supply.

Technical Expert (food logistic unit)

Médecins Sans Frontières / Artsen Zonder Grenzen

Dates Employed: Sep 1992 – Apr 1993
Employment Duration: 8 mos
Location: Brussels Area, Belgium

Food aid operations (planning, purchases, receptions, quality tests, implementation). Missions in Zaïre, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Azerbaidjan.

Field Officer (Food For Work Program)

Oxfam-Solidarité

Dates Employed: Mar 1991 – Aug 1992
Employment Duration: 1 yr 6 mos
Location: Vietnam

Follow-up of 29 agro-hydraulic infrastructure projects in 5 Vietnamese provinces (Nghe An, Ha Tinh Thanh Hoa, Hoa Binh and Ha Tai).

Technical Consultant (water and sanitation)

Ingénieurs sans frontières (IsF)

Dates Employed: Jan 1991 – Feb 1991
Employment Duration: 2 mos
Location: Cameroon

Realization of drinking water supply in the village of Song Mawen in Mom-Dibang district (southern Cameroon).

Production Engineer

Cockerill-Sambre

Dates Employed: May 1990 – Nov 1990
Employment Duration: 7 mos
Location: Marchienne-au-pont, Belgium

Monitoring, integrated design and planning of the production of the coke plant.

Field Officer (water and sanitation program)

BELACD

Dates Employed: Jan 1988 – Jan 1990
Employment Duration: 2 yrs 1 mo
Location: Mayo-Kebbi, Tchad

Water and sanitation project including construction of water wells (depth between 15 and 50 m.) and micro-dams, sills, filtering dikes using gabions.