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Personal information
Name Tom Cassimon
Date of birth 9 march 1983
Gender male
Nationality Belgian
Place of residence Kalmthout (Antwerp)
Education
2005 Master in Electronics option ICT - Hogeschool voor wetenschap en kunst - De Nayer Instituut, Sint-Katelijne-Waver
2001 2th & 3th grade industrial sciences - GITOK, Kalmthout
Additional trainings
multiple years Devoxx / Javapolis (5 day conference)
2011 Drupal Module development & Theming (14 – 18 Mar)
2011 Pragmatic modeling with UML (3 & 4 Mar)
2009 Struts, Spring, JPA & Hibernate (2, 3, 12, 13, 23, 24 Feb)
2006 IPICS summer course (17 – 28 Jul)
Interests & Personality

I’m eager to learn new technologies and methodologies. I’m a supporter of the SAFe & Agile methodologies and love working in team, but I can also finish assignments on my own. I’m an enabler for team coherence & spirit and like to share my experience & knowledge with the team. I’m a big believer of the self-managing team instead of defining explicit responsibilities for team members.

I like to share my opinion with the team but I will also listen to the opinion of others and try to find an agreement or compromise that best supports/benefits the team. I also like to coach/support team members to support & enhance the team spirit and to allow the team to function at its best. I’m an extravert and open person, that appreciates honesty and clarity.

Aside from the ICT projects, I’ve also modified/implemented home/corporate automation systems (KNX, Loxone, Openhab, Home assistent, ...) and I have experience working with Raspberry PI’s and Arduino’s. This world of IoT also has my interest as it is more ‘real’ to me than writing some application that interacts with a database or a datasource. In my own home I’ve also implemented a Loxone/KNX system to control various aspects of the electrical system of our house.