As an entrepreneur and computer scientist, my drive is to offer real tangible solutions for problems to end users. Within my company @mire, I am motivated to enhance visibility for the research work of scientists towards both to their superiors and peers.

Committer @ Contributing to the Open Source development of the DSpace repository platform. Activities include improving documentation, bugfixes, advocacy and assisting on the mailing lists where possible. From February 2013 to Present (2 years 10 months) Co-Founder @ Responsible for the management of the complete sales and marketing cycle. This includes the followup of lead generation, to evaluating proposals and closing them. From October 2006 to Present (9 years 2 months) Owner @ Fundamento was created to seize opportunities behind the tremendous success of poker (both online and offline) in Belgium. Activities include consulting, distribution and sales of poker equipment, organizing and hosting poker oriented events and lectures//informational sessions, tv commentary and online radio. Poker for money is illegal in Belgium outside of the 9 established casino's. Accordingly, Fundamento does not organize or is not associated with poker events where players need to contribute money in order to participate. From August 2006 to December 2012 (6 years 5 months) Master of Ceremony and Sponsorship Manager @ E-Events is a non-profit organisation, who organizes the largest lan party gaming events in Belgium, frag-o-matic. From July 2005 to February 2011 (5 years 8 months) e-Learning Scientist @ Key Account Manager for the collaboration between Ariadne, foundation for the European Knowledge Pool and the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). From September 2005 to October 2006 (1 year 2 months) Archive Architect @ Summer job as a student During a three week operation, I was responsible for the restructuring of the classified main archive at Ford Motor Company Benelux Headquarters. From August 2005 to September 2005 (2 months) RFID Consultant @ Summer job as a student Conducting an independant consulting mission on new global information technologies. Outcomes of this research were presented to senior management. From July 2004 to September 2004 (3 months) Allround IT Manager @ Summer job as a student During the summer of 2002 and 2003, I was the allround IT manager for the systems at the Crans Ambassador Hotel & Spa. Day to day computerproblems alternated with software and network specific issues. Working directly for the general manager. From July 2002 to August 2003 (1 year 2 months) Assistant Account Manager @ Summer job as a student As an assistant account manager, I took part in the document reform project after Schwanen Effekten was taken over by AMAS bank. From July 2001 to September 2001 (3 months)

Summerschool @ From 2008 to 2008 Master, Computer Science @ KU Leuven From 2001 to 2005 lic., Informatica @ University of Leuven From 1990 to 2005 Master, Computer Science @ From 2003 to 2004 Berkenboom humaniora From 1995 to 2001 Bram Luyten is skilled in: Dublin Core, Metadata Standards, Open Access, Linked Data, Voice Over, SEO, Drupal, DSpace, Public Speaking, Requirements Analysis, Sales, B2B Marketing, dSPACE, Entrepreneurship, HTML