The document is a curriculum vitae for Jan Houcque, a Java software engineer from Belgium. It includes his personal details, education history, and professional experience. For over 15 years, Jan has worked on various Java-based projects, from developing web applications as an intern to managing offshore development teams as a senior engineer and project manager. He has extensive skills in Java programming, databases, application servers, and software methodologies like Scrum and Prince2.

1. Curriculum Vitae
Jan Houcque
Java Software Engineer
Personal Information
Name Jan Houcque
Address Stationsstraat 34 bus B302, 9100 Sint-Niklaas
Phone number 0478 98 17 06
E-mail jan.houcque@gmail.com
Date of birth October 14, 1980
Place of birth Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Nationality Belgian
Marital status Unmarried
Sex Male
Driver licence Type B
Education
1992 – 1994 Humaniora, Broedersschool, Sint-Niklaas
1994 – 1998 Industriële Wetenschappen, Vrije Technische Scholen, Sint-Niklaas
1998 – 2002 Industrieel Ingenieur Elektronica, optie Informatie- en
Communicatie-technologie, Karel De Grote-Hogeschool, Antwerpen
Professional Experience
2001 – 2002 Internship at Info Support (Schelle)
Info Support is a software company providing, among other, Java-
development and -training services. As JEE was brand new these days,
interns were being employed to try out this new technology. My task was
to design and develop an administrative web-application with JEE and to
write my thesis about it.
2003 – 2005 Drukkerij Van Lijsebetten (Sint-Niklaas)
Being one of Belgium's bigger printing companies, Van Lijsebetten was in
need for a full fletched ERP-system. My main job was to manage the
integration of a purchased ERP-system.
2005 – present PSA (Antwerpen)
PSA is one of the largest container terminal operators in the world. The
software being developed in Antwerp and Singapore is used in many
ports all over the world. As software engineer, my principal tasks include
technical analysis and development of Java-based server-applications, as
well as supporting them. The last couple of years, I am acting as team
lead, technical lead and Scrum-product-owner. Since recently, I also play
a critical role in the management of an offshore development-team
(China), and I have taken up the role of project manager.

2. Skills
Java Basic Excellent
JSE
Hibernate, JDBC, SQL
CORBA
JMS
AspectJ
Unit testing, JMockit, Test-driven design
JEE
EJB 3.0
JPA, JTA
Spring Batch
Java-tooling Basic Excellent
Eclipse
Subversion
Maven
Jenkins, Sonar
Acceleo (code generator)
JProfiler (memory and CPU profiling)
UML
Application servers Basic Excellent
Oracle Weblogic
IBM Websphere
Operating systems and databases Basic Excellent
Windows
IBM System i
Linux
DB2
Oracle Database
Methodologies Basic Excellent
Scrum (certified product owner)
Project Management (Prince2-certified)
Languages Basic Excellent
Dutch
English
French