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    • Mikaël Janssens

    Curriculum Vitae

    HERD ACTING? NO!

    Because there are already enough pillow animals. Because I think that living outside the herd is not good, otherwise you become a paria. But once inside the herd, you need to differentiate as much as possible! Because I have enough of this colourless world, where mass consumption and brainless hypes are usually the standard. Many bleating and little wool. Because putting people inside a box destroys creativity. And just because it’s in my genes to think critically and to find a different, better way.

    CHARACTERISTICS

    This is me: autodidact…perfectionist…critical thinker…idealistic…peaceable…

    gentle – sporty – studious – go-getter – motivated – always enthusiastic – mac-minded (but very critical) – thinking differently – tech-savvy – professional – a very keen eye

    SOCIAL LIFE

    intermactivity

    InterMactivity.be

    Administrator of the Flanders biggest online Apple community with a forum, news, events, live feeds, … In 2018 this nice story came to an end, after many incredible years!

    hbh-brugge

    Hartbovenhard.be

    Volunteer for the local departement of Bruges, because in an honest (humane) world, little fish get fair chances too.

    dayofdays

    Dayofdays.be

    Founding father of a travel group for the friends. Keywords are: camping, nature, World War I and II, gastronomy. The site is their virtual home, the tent or camper their real home!

    SPORTS

    Badminton

    Amateur club Pluspunt

    Mini-soccer (recreative)

    Team MVC Napoleon MiniTrappers, since 1999.

    Mini-soccer (competition)

    Founding father (and teamplayer) of FC Comptoir des Arts, established in 2019.

    Adventure

    Hiking with boots and gps…

    HOBBIES

    music (passive) – Apple – multimedia and other technology in general – movies – topicality – sport – social life – discovering pubs and restaurants (good food and beverages) – nature and traveling – photography – Wold War I and II (history in general) – literature – camping and traveling – working on my campervan – attending D-Day Festival in Normandy each year – organising camping trips for the friends – reading – (web)design – … (can I please get some extra lives?)

    TRANSPORTATION

    bicyclepublic transportationdrivers license B

    PERSONALIA

    • nickname: kMikaZu
    • callname: Mika
    • birthplace: Tielt
    • date of birth: august 17th, 1981
    • zodiac sign: Leo
    • civil status: not married
    • nationality: Belgian

    EXPERIENCE

    2023

    Owner / Freelancer

    DYNAMIKA

    Founder of DYNAMIKA. Official launch on May 1st, 2023!

    2022

    Freelance Apple Consultant

    MIRTO VZW

    Responsible for the rollout of Jamf Pro and later on a full migration to Kandji. Rollout of 1Password Business (integration, training, Azure connection, …). Optimisation SSO-process between Apple and Azure. Writing of manuals with a strong human touch, modernising of the Mirto Helpdesk and the complete ICT department. Integration of Snipe IT and much more.

    2022

    Candidate Entrepreneur

    STARTERSLABO W-VL

    Candidate Entrepreneur at Starterslabo West-Vlaanderen.

    2021

    Support Tech Engineer

    OFFICIENT.IO
    2016

    Application Support Engineer,
    Head of Support

    TWIXL MEDIA
    • 1st Line Support
    • training: for resellers/trainers/customers (in Belgium and abroad)
    • developing manuals, (video) tutorials, …
    • workflow improvement & Beta-testing
    • developing examinations (online testing, certificates), …
    • migration to Zendesk (and everything included)
    2008

    Electronical Prepress Engineer,
    Technical Product Specialist CrossMedia

    SAGAM NV / IGEPA BELUX
    • Service Engineer ICT (consultancy, installations, support, training, demo’s, seminaries): Apple, Adobe and macOS, Tablet Publishing, …
    • strongly involved with Marketing (organising seminaries, demo’s, promo-actions, …)
    • design of the new logo of Sagam nv

    Electronical Prepress Engineer

    TRUVO (GOUDENGIDS.BE) – FCR MEDIA
    • outsourcing via SAGAM NV / IGEPA BELUX
    • management of ca. 70 macs (FileWave, mass-deployment)
    • well integrated in the local IT Support Desk
    • integration of of Apple Scripts, Automator-workflows, …
    • strongly involved in the improvement of solutions for the graphical departments, but also network-integrations (Windows domain integration, Cisco Jabber, asset management, …), …
    2004

    Data- and Workflow Management.
    Prepress Manager

    DMS GROUP
    • started as Desktop Publisher
    • Quality Control, planning
    • responsible for 30 macs, Xserve, Xserve Xraid, ApogeeX (Windows 2003 servers), digital printers (Xerox + external RIP)
    • partly responsible for the IT Management of the company (about 20 servers, more than 100 workstations), network infrastructure
    • responsible for the prepress team (training, assessment and recruitment, workflow), responsible for the creative team (technical training, workflow, …)
    2003

    Sales

    PHOTO HALL

    sales in retail stores (Knokke and Bruges)

    2001

    Layout / Desktop Publishing

    PAS COMMUNICATIEBUREAU

    desktop publishing, IT management

    2000

    Mentor at BLOSO sport camps

    BLOSO / WESTINFORM

    internet training for youngsters (6-14y)

    1999

    OTHERS

    interim worker in factories, warehouses, …

    EDUCATION

    2013

    Twixl  Certified Trainer

    TWIXL PUBLISHER

    certified trainer | creative partner for the Twixl platform

     

    2000

    VDAB Training Omnimedia DTP

    MENTOR VZW, KORTRIJK
    1999

    Graduate “Grafische Bedrijven”

    EGON, MARIAKERKE (GHENT)

    Digital Design & Layout

    1993

    High School

    SINT LODEWIJKSCOLLEGE, BRUGES

    Latin-Modern Languages

    …

    introduction Flash

    VORMGEVINGSINSTITUUT BRUGES

    Flash actionscripting

    VORMGEVINGSINSTITUUT BRUGES

    Drivers license

    Drivers license B, doesn’t own a car

    MOST IMPORTANT GRAPHICAL SKILLS

    PHOTOSHOP

    ILLUSTRATOR

    INDESIGN

    TWIXL PUBLISHER

    WORDPRESS

    EXTENSIS

    MOST IMPORTANT IT-SKILLS

    MACOS

    WINDOWS

    MASS DEPLOYMENT MAC (KANDJI, JAMF, FILEWAVE)

    1PASSWORD

    MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT

    ZENDESK

    IT-SUPPORT

    KNOWLEDGE BASE DEVELOPMENT

    LOVE FOR SOFTWARE

    TRAINING

    REFERENCES

    LUK DHONDT

    LUK DHONDT TWIXL MEDIA

    Having had Mika as a support engineer on our team for fouryears, I can vouch for his very structured approach to problemsolving. He is very motivated in his continuous search forworkflow improvement, and has been a joy to work with, both ona professional and a personal level.

    TOM KLAASEN

    TOM KLAASEN TWIXL MEDIA

    Ik leerde Mika kennen als een hardwerkende medewerker dieleeft voor zijn job. Vooral in softwaredocumentatie kon ie zichhelemaal laten gaan. Aanbevolen als je klanten naar meerdocumentatie vragen !

    KURT LEYBAERT

    KURT LEYBAERT SAGAM NV / IGEPA BELUX

    Mika is a reliable person, outstanding support engineer and who lives for the job. It was great working with him.

    SCOTT CITRON

    SCOTT CITRON TWIXL MEDIA

    I spent two days with Mikaël and found him to be an excellent teacher and communicator. Highly recommended!

    RON DI TORRO

    RON DI TORRO TWIXL MEDIA

    Mika is an outstanding Application Support Engineer, regarding his intelligence, deep technical expertise, commitment to customer/partner success, and his unsurpassed work ethic. He’s a superb, highly organized trainer, whose enthusiasm for our platform has been highly motivational for our partners. Mika consistently provides value well beyond his role, understanding the larger market, and suggesting strategies for success, both product and market-based. He’s truly a critical member of our team here at Twixl media.

    EDDY DE RYBEL

    EDDY DE RYBEL GOUDENGIDS.BE / FCR MEDIA

    Mika is een hardwerkende, intelligente kerel altijd bereid to go the extra mile. Vakkennis en voldoende fantasie maakt dat Mika er steeds in slaagt een oplossing te vinden voor een probleem. Complex of eenvoudig, Mika staat altijd klaar, ook als hiervoor out of the box gedacht moet worden. Het was een verlies voor mijn team toen Mika een andere uitdaging had gevonden. Het ga je goed Mika, hoop dat onze wegen nog eens kruisen!

    PETER REMANS

    PETER REMANS DMS GROUP

    Mikaël is a good colleague, sincere, hard working. A person who knows his way around servers, mac and pc. Someone who knows his software inside out and who lives for the job. It was very nice working with him!

    FREDERIK DE PAUW

    FREDERIK DE PAUW INTERMACTIVITY.BE

    I’ve always appreciated Mikaël’s drive, his profound skills and his will to improve things for the online community we built.
    It would not have grown and thrived the way it did without him.

    DIRK BLOMME

    DIRK BLOMME DMS GROUP

    Mikaël, very short, great skills

    SKILLS GRAPHICAL SOFTWARE

    Adobe CC (PhotoShop, Illustrator, Indesign, Acrobat Pro) – QuarkXPress – ApogeeX server and client (implementation and system management/maintenance, creating hot tickets and jobs) – cPDF creation (PitStop Server, ApogeeX, actionlists, GWG and MedibelPlus-standards, overprint-setup) – font-management (Extensis Suitcase, Linotype FontXplorer, FontReserve,…) – Zevrix BatchOutput, InPreflight – Tablet Publishing (Adobe DPS, Twixl Publisher) – Universal Type Server… and lots more.

    Lots of experience!

    SKILLS SYSTEM ENGINEERING

    macOS – Apple Remote Desktop – Terminal-user – Windows Server 2003+ – Windows XP up to 10 (installation and support) – Open and Active Directory – LDAP servers – Munki – DeployStudio – FileWave – integration macOS in windows-domain – remote control (MSTSC, console of Terminal , VNC) – VPN – patching (routers, switches, patch-panels, making and testing of UTP-cables) – backup-strategy (RetroSpect, Tri-Backup, PressStore) – RAIDs (SoftRAID, Drobo, Promise, Lacie, Synology) – font-management – KVM-switches – hardware (installation, maintenance, repairs), …

    Advanced knowledge in bold, others basic or good knowledge.

    OTHER SOFTWARE SKILLS

    Microsoft Office:mac (2004 – 2016) – Windows Office 2003-2007 – 2011 – Transmit – Cyberduck – basic knowledge (troubleshooting) PHP en MySQL different opensource-engines (strongly interested in software: WordPress, vBulletin, MailChimp, …) – DreamWeaver – Muse – iLife, …

    Passion for software and an excellent trainer!

    LANGUAGES

    DUTCH – native language

    FRENCH

    ENGLISH

    GERMAN

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    CURRICULUM VITAE

    MY PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA

    MY WORKS

    InterMactivity.be Desktop Backgrounds

    InterMactivity.be Desktop Backgrounds

    For the Flemish online Apple Community, I developed fancy desktop backgrounds for our users.

    Brochure about Normandy

    Brochure about Normandy

    Brochure about Normandy (studies friend)

    Birthday-party “baby-borrel”

    Birthday-party “baby-borrel”

    Special Birthday-invitation ("baby-borrel" for a 30th anniversary).

    Tram 3 Birthday

    Tram 3 Birthday

    Birthdaycard with "street-art". Names has been blurred out for privacy-reasons.

    Valentine Schlagerfestival

    Valentine Schlagerfestival

    Poster, flyer and tickets for a Valentine Schlagerfestival (not my cup of tea, but orders are orders ;-) )

    InterMactivity.be

    InterMactivity.be

    Belgiums biggest Dutch mac-community (ended somewhere in 2018 because of lack of time).

    Announcement-Teaser “De Grote Parade Fuif”

    Announcement-Teaser “De Grote Parade Fuif”

    Advertisement (announcement-teaser) for a party.

    De Vancoppenollekes

    De Vancoppenollekes

    This was once the virtual home of my family. Terminated because of lack of time and interest.

    Born in the Eigthies

    Born in the Eigthies

    Site for a birthday-party.

    Day of Days

    Day of Days

    This site is the virtual home of my travel club (camping).

    PERSONALIA

    Mikaël Janssens

    Mikaël Janssens

    jobrelated@kmikazu.be

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    region Antwerp, details on request

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    Commitment is an act, not a word.DYNAMIKA

    Since 2023 I run my own business to deliver services based on my competences. Interested in working together?

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    This is a message for all the recruiters out here. Somebody needs to say it.
    I understand you all need to do your job and I don’t want to put each recruiter on the same level here, but I think there is really a problem with the way some recruiters are working…

    • Don’t telephone candidates unasked for (even if they accidentally let their number active on the site of the VDAB, the official Belgian recruitment office). It’s impolite and it doesn’t help. A sad record: I received about 20 phone calls in one morning. Would you appreciate this? If it was you? It’s annoying and it smells like spam. This is way too pushy…
    • Please do an effort to read and take through a Curriculum Vitae. IT is not one job, it’s a sector and we all have our skills and talents and there are a lot of specialities and domains. It has no use to simply send through all IT-related job openings that sound similar. It’s like sending a job opening for a truck driver to a guy with a normal driver license: it might look the same, but it ain’t.
    • Stop wasting people’s time with sending messages like “Hi, I have a job opening, are you interested?” without even including a basic job description. Nobody wants to have a look at a possible good car, without even knowing if it’s a jeep or a family car and how much it consumes. It’s like going to a garage, sitting in front of a sales guy or girl and getting the question “Are you interested in a car?” Duh…

    The “hard-selling” style some recruiters are using, is pretty annoying. It’s contra-productive and its totally not about matching skills with the proper job. A minimum amount of empathy is also needed here! It would be beneficial for all parties! Please try to understand that people who are looking for a job have lives too. They have a family, they might be studying or following a new training and people are simply not available all the time.

    Thanks a lot!

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