Professionally

At the end of 2005, after a year at Certipost, I returned to my ‘roots’ at Clear2Pay for new opportunities. Opportunities which took me to down under, Sydney, where I’m currently employed at the Clear2Pay/ FIS Australasia office.

In 2005, I was working as an ICT Architect Developer at Certipost (dep. ICT-Development and Service Support – CertiONE), after mutating from an external Clear2Pay consultant at Certipost to a full-time Certipost employee. Certipost is a Belgian market leader in solutions to facilitate and certify electronic communications, supporting DRM and IAM.

Until the end of 2004, I worked as an e-commerce developer at Element/Clear2Pay. Clear2Pay (acquired by FIS) is a European global company offering bank solutions. It has a proven track record in offering secure payment solutions to Financial Institutions.

My work experience includes:

  • FIS/Clear2Pay BPH/OPF/BVA/OVA

    (2006-current)

    • SSDLC and OSS governance
    • NPP development and production support
    • ASBSBI project
    • Operator Visibility App development
    • CBA Mercury project
    • Bank Payment Hub/Open Payment Framework/Bank Visibility App
    • Cedicam project
    • PBS project
    • Prototype/POC development
    • Product front-end web development
    • Accessability & usability watchdog
  • Certipost CertiONE

    (2005)

    • Document exchange portal development
    • CertiONE v2.0 POC
    • Customer portal development
    • Product documentation
  • ProxyPay 3/M Back Office Development

    (2003-2004)

    • Back Office for administration of POS/Gateway System and Merchants;
    • Back Office customisation for CSAS.cz;
    • Product documentation.
  • 3-D Secure ACS Back Office Development

    (2002-2004)

    • Back Office for administration of
      • ACS System and Issuers;
      • Cardholder account administration;
      • Product documentation.
  • 3-D Secure

    (2002)

    • Integration into ProxyPay POS demo;
    • Integration into shopping environment.
  • MasterCard Chip-UCAF

    (2002)

    • Development of plug-in interface for Europay International proof-of-concept;
    • Integration into shopping environment.
  • Training Element products

    (2002)

    • ProxyPay³ integration training for Printec (Greece).
  • SET installation, customization and support

    (2000-2002)

    • POS testing with Citicorp Germany/Singapore;
    • POS customizations for Banksys banxafe;
    • ServerWallet installation, customization and support for VSBi ServerWallet;
    • ServerWallet customization and support for:
      • Europay demowallet;
      • Interpay – SET pilot, VCards, ABN Amro bank;
      • Banksys banxafe wallet;
    • SET ServerWallet training for (2000)
      • Visa Assistance Center
      • VSBi Helpdesk
  • Other E-Commerce Projects:

    • Development of ProxyPay³ BackOffice User Interface (2001)
    • Integration banxafe secure payment into e-commerce sites (2001)
    • Development CPS Europe demo site: ‘Authentication with PocketID’ and ‘ServerWallet shopping flow with PocketID’ (2001)
    • Development of EuroISPA ticketing site (2001)
    • WAP-shop development for Europay (2000)
    • Development of +25 shopping sites, including Tijdshop, Ojas, Shuffle, BestOfMusic, Option, Nestore and many others (1998-2001)
  • Design of Element booths:

    • ’no worries’ e-commerce, ‘anywhere’ m-commerce, CISSP training Banner
  • Representation on international trade fairs:

    • CeBIT 2002, 2003 Hannover
    • Cartes 2001 Expo in Paris 2001
    • Europay Forum in Munich 2001
    • ProtonWorld Forum in Cairo 2001
    • Compaq Atalla meeting in Athens 2000
    • Visa meeting in London 2000
    • SET Forum in Zurich ‘99
  • Representation on job fairs (national). (2000-2002)

  • Design and development of product and company presentations and training presentations.

    (1998-2003)

  • Design and development of product documentation:

    • InstantShop, ProxyPay, ProxyPayII, ProxyPay³ and ProxyPay3/M, Adprofiler, SMS Suite (‘99-2003).
    • Customization of Globeset documentation for SET products (‘98-2000).
  • Web design Element sites:

    • Element ProxyPay3/M Back Office (2003)
    • Element ACS Back Office (2003)
    • Element MPI Back Office (2002)
    • Element ServGuard Site v2 (2002)
    • Element ProxyPay3 Back Office (2001)
    • Element Product Sites: SMS-Suite.com, Adprofiler.com (2001)
    • Element site v2 (2001-2006)
    • Element ProxyPayII Back Office (2000)
    • Element Secure Payment Award site (2000-2002)
    • Backoffice Adprofiler UI (‘99-2000)
    • Element ServGuard Site v1 (‘99)
    • Back Office Commerce Suite (credit card, Proton) UI (‘98)
    • ProxyPay v1 site (‘98)
    • Element site v1 (‘98)
  • Channel Distribution Manager

    (‘98-‘99) support for Element products:

    • ProxyPay secure payment integration into customer e-commerce sites.
    • InstantShop merchants
    • SMS Suite
    • AdProfiler

Before Element, I worked part-time in a cd-store as a salesperson, had my own home-based graphic/web-design company, and in 1997 started working for Leplae Industries (which became Element in 1998).

Over these years I gathered following skills:

Skills:

  • Knowledge of Generative AI.
  • Knowledge of payment, acquiring and processing.
  • Knowledge of Payment Schemes: NPP, SEPA, Proton, SET, Bancontact/MisterCash, Maestro, 3-D Secure, SPA/UCAF
  • Knowledge of web-application security (OWASP) and network intrusion detection (Snort, Ethereal/Wireshark)
  • Development of web-applications in Vaadin/JSP/Servlets/Struts/Tiles/MyFaces/Wicket, PHP5/7, SQL, OSGi
  • Development of web-applications using HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, Bootstrap, Grunt, A-Frame, Microformats, RDF, WordPress
  • Working knowledge of macOS, Windows 10, Linux, Oracle 11 DB, IBM DB2, IBM Websphere
  • Working knowledge of Adobe products : Lightroom, Photoshop CC, Sketch, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer
  • Working knowledge of MS Office 365
  • Working knowledge of Eclipse, IntelliJ, Nova, VS Code,

Workshops / Conferences:

  • Web Directions AI (2023)
  • Generative AI: Implications and Opportunitites for Business (RMIT - FutureLearn 2023)
  • Identify guiding principles for Responsible AI (Microsoft Learn 2023)
  • Responsible AI (TAFE NSW - Institute of Applied Technology 2023)
  • Designing MS Azure Infrastructure Solutions AZ-305 (2022)
  • AWS Architecture Accelerator (2022)
  • Cybersecurity for Green Technology, EC-Council (2022)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2022)
  • Sustainability and Climate Change: An Introduction to Low Carbon Road Transport, Cenex (2021)
  • How to Measure, Reduce, and Offset your Company’s Carbon Footprint, MSQ/BIMA (2021)
  • ISC2 CSSLP Training (2020)
  • Angular Workshop (2020)
  • Web Directions Summit Sydney (2019)
  • Web Directions Summit Sydney (2018)
  • Web Directions AI/Culture Sydney (2018)
  • Web Directions Summit Sydney (2017)
  • Google DevFest Sydney (2016)
  • Web Directions South 2016 (2016)
  • Generate Conference Sydney (2016)
  • AISA National Security Conference (2016)
  • SANS Sydney Community meetups (2016)
  • WordCamp Sydney (2016)
  • Service Design Bootcamp GA (2016)
  • DDD Sydney (2016)
  • Connecting Conversation IXDA Workshop (2016)
  • Vivid Ideas (2015)
  • SANS Sydney Community meetups (2015)
  • AWS Summit Sydney (2015)
  • Advanced Vaadin / Extending Vaadin, Brussels (2014)
  • AWS Summit Sydney (2014)
  • KPI Brand Accelerator (2014)
  • Vivid Ideas (2014)
  • OWASP Sydney community meetups (2014)
  • YOW Nights Sydney (2014)
  • SANS Sydney Community meetups (2014)
  • Architecting your API Management Strategy (2014)
  • How to Run a Workshop Workshop, Sydney (2013)
  • Vivid Ideas (2013)
  • AISA National Conference, Sydney (2012)
  • ISC2 National Conference, Sydney (2012)
  • Wordcamp, Sydney (2012)
  • Broadband Innovation – Apps Development Day, Sydney (2012)
  • AISA National Conference, Sydney (2011)
  • Google Dev Day, Sydney (2011)
  • Social Innovation Barcamp, Sydney (2011)
  • HP Connect, Sydney (2011)
  • Real World Accessibility, Sydney (2011)
  • Secure Sydney, ISC2 National Conference, Sydney (2011)
  • AWS Tour, Sydney (2011)
  • AR Dev Camp, Sydney (2011)
  • Vivid Creative Sydney, Sydney (2011)
  • Art Of Prototyping, Powerhouse, Sydney (2011)
  • Web Directions South, Sydney (2010)
  • Google DevFest, Sydney (2010)
  • Apps4NSW Hackfest, Sydney (2010)
  • Forum Nokia Developer Conference, Sydney (2010)
  • OpenAustralia Hackfest, Sydney (2009)
  • Web Directions South, Sydney (2009)
  • Oz-IA Information architecture conference, Sydney (2009)
  • CloudCamp, Google Sydney (2009)
  • PayPal Developer Day, PayPal Sydney (2009)
  • Google Wave Developer Day, Google, Sydney (2009)
  • Pragmatic, accessible JavaScript in a web services world – Christian Heilmann, Web Directions South workshop, Sydney (2009)
  • iGoogle OpenSocial Hackathon, Google Sydney (2008)
  • Wordcamp, Sydney (2008)
  • iPhone Tech Talk, Apple Sydney (2008)
  • Web Application Penetration Testing In-Depth, SANS Sydney (2008)
  • Web Directions South, Sydney (2008)
  • Real World Accessibility – Derek Featherstone, Web Directions South workshop, Sydney (2008)
  • Javascript: The Good Parts – Douglas Crockford, Web Directions South workshop, Sydney (2008)
  • Oz-IA Information architecture conference, Sydney (2008)
  • Google Developer Day, Sydney (2008)
  • Adobe AIR Camp, Sydney (2008)
  • Adobe Actionscript with Colin Mook, Sydney (2008)
  • Sun Developer Day, Sydney (2007)
  • Web Directions South 2007 Conference, Sydney (2007)
  • Mobile Web design and development, Web Directions South workshop, Sydney (2007)
  • Beginning Ruby On Rails, Web Directions South workshop, Sydney (2007)
  • Oz-IA Information architecture conference, Sydney (2007)
  • Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling, SANS Sydney (2007)
  • Google Developer Day, Sydney (2007)
  • Online Banking 2.0, Deloitte-AIMIA Sydney (2007)
  • World Usability Day conference, Sydney (2006)
  • Oz-IA Information architecture conference, Sydney (2006)
  • UML 2.0, Cevora/Beta Edegem (2005)
  • C#, VTI Brugge (2005)
  • Semantic Web tutorial, W3C/ISOC Antwerpen (2005)
  • VB.net, VTI Brugge (2004)
  • Java & EJBs, Cevora Kortrijk (2004)
  • SANS Hands-On Intrusion Detection, SANS Denver USA (2002)
  • CISSP security training, Element (2002)
  • C++ programming, Vizo Ieper (2001-02)
  • Efficient teaching, Cevora Gent (2001)
  • User documentation, Cevora Gent (2001)
  • Presentation Skills in English, Cevora Antwerpen (2000)
  • Presentation Skills, Cevora Gent (2000)
  • Globeset SET Support training, Element (2000)
  • Windows NT 4 Server, Vizo Brugge (‘99)
  • Graphical User Interface, Vizo Brugge (‘99)
  • MultiMedia Development, Vizo Brugge (‘99)
  • Macromedia Director 7, Graphical Institute Gent (‘99)

Certification

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2022)
  • CISSP, ISC² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (2002) – in good standing

My formal eduction includes:

  • Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security, Charles Sturt University, Australia (2022)
  • Further Education: 3 years Photo Arts at the Academy of Hoboken, Belgium (‘95-‘97)
  • Some Higher Education: 1e Kan Chemistry RUCA Antwerp, 1e Imaging-Sound RITS Brussels, Belgium
  • Grammar school: ScienceB, Sint-Jan Berchmans College Antwerp, Belgium

Some vital statistics are:

  • Halans Jean-Jacques,
  • Born somewhere, sometime in October, Seventies
  • Currently living in Bruges (Brugge), Belgium Sydney, Australia