Brussels Metropolitan Area
Manager of the European Market Integration team, Program Manager of the EU Market Integration Program and Product Lead of the « FLOW » Product Line. Manage or collaborate to several implementation projects related to European Electricity Markets, Interconnexions, Short Term (Day-ahead, Intraday) and Long Term Capacity Allocation & Congestion Management: Elia representative in SDAC/SIDC Market Coupling Steering Committee (MCSC) Former member of the MSCS TSO leader team, former convenor of SIDC QARM, SIDC IDA TG and CWE MNA TF. Past: IT Project Leader (2013- 04/2016) : ----------------------------------------------- IT Project Manager / IT Application Leader at Elia (Belgian TSO) SAP CRM, .NET projects in Netcalc, Transparency, Reporting and Ancillary Services Past: Developer Solution Product Manager / IT Project Manager at Acapela (2000-2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + Product Manager: Managing the Acapela's Text-to-Speech (TTS) SDK's for developers (Windows, Windows Server, Windows ME, Linux Embedded and server, Mac OS X, IOs, Android, Symbian, Voice as a Service ...) + Internal Project (2 years): Idea Management System (IMS) implementation into Acapela in order to promote internal innovation. + Project Manager - Multimedia Products (Text to speech) on Apple Mac OS X Platform (incl. Infovox iVox) + Development Engineer in Speech Technologies: Multi platforms development (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) of TTS SDK and products. + Telecommunication development (multimodal phone server (ASR, TTS, DTMF) ,VoiceXML) on windows platforms.
Manager of the European Market Integration Team, part of the Market - Grid and Offshore Concepts Department (MGO). The team is in charge of the local, regional or pan-european implementation of the market coupling and electricity market integration initiatives, more particularly in Day-ahead (Single Day-ahead Coupling - SDAC) and in Intraday (Single Intraday Coupling - SIDC). The team is also in charge of the management of the European Market Integration Program within Elia, the explicit allocation on Belgian-Great Britain border (Nemolink) and the long term allocation on Belgian borders. And last but not least, the management and governance of the data related to capacity allocation and calculation in Belgium and in Europe is also one of the responsibility of the team.
Program Manager & Senior Product Manager - EU Market Integration (EU Markets & Offshore department) Manage or collaborate in several implementation projects related to European Electricity Market and Interconnexions. - Capacity Allocation Product owner - CORE CCR: - Program Manager CORE Local Implementation Program: Steer and coordinate several projects linked to local implementation of the transition from CWE to Core Region within Elia tools and processes: all timeframes from long term to intraday capacity calculation and allocation, incl. budget and resource management. - Elia representative in Core Joint Steering Commitee - Convener Core Joint Intraday Auctions Working Group and Core IDA RIP Spoc towards SIDC - Intraday: - Single Intraday Coupling (SIDC - XBID project): - 11/2022 TSO Co-convener SIDC QARM (Quality and Release Management working group) and IDATG (Intraday Auctions Testing Group) - Contributor in Flow-Based implementation in SIDC continuous Trading - Elia representative in SIDC MSD and IDA SG - Project Coordinator for Elia activities in SIDC - ID Auctions implementation - Transition to 15’ resolution on Belgian Borders - HVDC new interconnections (Nemo Link & ALEGrO): 2016-2020: Nomination and Scheduling Stream Leader - Channel Region: 2017-2020 member of the Market Expert Working Group
TSO co-convener of the QARM WG (Quality Assurance and Release Management working group) and IDA TG (Intraday Auctions Testing Group) of SIDC (Single Intraday Coupling). Together with the NEMO co-convener, I lead and manage QARM activities linked to the release management, contact with providers and testing of the future versions of the pan-European intraday platforms used by TSOs, NEMOs and Market Parties to trade electricity across Europe in the intraday timeframe. SIDC systems consists in the continuous trading platform (XBID) and the future Intraday Auctions Platform. Testing groups report to QARM, while SIDC QARM reports to the MCSC (Master coupling Steering Committee) which manages intraday and Day-ahead European single markets activities in Europe. In addition, I was member of the MCSC TSO leader team, helping MCSC TSO chair on management and coordination of MCSC TSO's vision and projects.
Bénévolat Secrétaire et co-fondateur de la locale Binchoise du GRACQ (Groupe de Recherche et d'Action des Cyclistes Quodidiens ASBL). Nouveau nom depuis 2025: Avello !
* Certificateur PEB: Agréé Région Wallonne (CERTIF-P2-00584) pour la Certification énergétique des Bâtiments (Certificats PEB)
Product Manager for Developer Solutions in Speech Technologies (Text-To-Speech) + TTS SDK for Telecom/IVR: Acapela TTS for Windows Server/Linux Server (including MRCPv1 and MRCPv2 add-ons) + TTS SDK OEM Engine for Desktop applications: Acapela TTS for Windows and for Mac OS X + TTS SDK for Mobile Devices: Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad (iOS), for Windows Mobile, for Linux Embedded, for Android, for Symbian, for Samsung Bada + Product: Acapela TTS Voices for Android (release date: Q2 2012 on Google Play App Market) + Cloud based TTS SDK (SaaS): Acapela Voice as a Service (Vaas) + Speech Unit v2 (Hardware unit with TTS for SCADA market) + Interface between Sales and Technical teams (product/R&D) + Responsible of http://www.acapela-for-iphone.com / http://www.acapela-for-android.com dedicated website + Responsible of the Idea Management System (IMS) implementation into Acapela, in order to promote internal innovation (using Humanperf IDHall SC software)
Internal Auditor of Acapela Group processes (in the field of ISO 9001 certification)
Technical Project Manager Multimedia Products (Text to Speech - Mac OS X platform: Infovox iVox (for end user) and Acapela Multimedia Mac OS X (for developer)) Working also as Speech Technology Development Engineer: Generic TTS SDK for PC and Telecom Products (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)
Independent on a complementary basis. Training (Internet, Microsoft Office, Windows usage) Consulting (home networking, SOHO, PC repairs ...) Web development ( xHTML/CSS2 + PHP/MySQL) See my website for more information: http://www.jmrinformatique.be