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**Geert Van Pamel**
	Belgian engineer and wikimedian
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Audio recording of the subject's spoken voice	Dutchⓘ
Date of birth	25 March 1959; Aalst; Geert Isidoor Van Pamel
Country of citizenship	Belgium;
Residence	Asse;
Educated at	Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Ghent (1977–1982); Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1982–1983); Sint Maarten Institute, Aalst (1968–1977); Ghent University (Master of Science, 1977–1982);
Doctoral advisor	J.P.A. Christiaens;
Occupation	engineer; computer scientist; database administrator; software developer; Wikipedian;
Employer	Digital Equipment Corporation (1986–1997); Proximus (1997–2024); Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1985–1986); Volvo Cars (1983–1984); Boerenbond (1982–1982);
Member of	Wikimedia Belgium (2014–); Wikimedia Nederland (2013–); ie-net (1982–); HackYourFuture Belgium (2019–); Koninklijke Vlaamse Ingenieursvereniging; KSA (1967–1985);
Position held	chairperson (2016–); chief officer (2014–);
Field of work	Linux; open-source software (Asterisk, MediaWiki, Internet, Pywikibot); open data (Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, Wikimedia Commons); server software (Java, AdvFS, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX); Wikimedia movement (Wikimedia Belgium, Wikimedia Nederland); MediaWiki (software development, computer configuration); geographic information (QGIS, PostGIS, Teradata Geospatial, OpenStreetMap); image processing (single-photon emission computed tomography); Internet protocol suite (firewall, proxy server, application software, computer security software, routing, gateway, multicast); database (Oracle Database, MySQL, Teradata Database); web server (Apache HTTP Server, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, Java); computer hardware (computer configuration, AlphaServer, Raspberry Pi); OpenVMS; Tru64 UNIX; Raspberry Pi OS; telecommunications (interactive voice response, Voice over IP, network topology, Very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line 2, cellular network); DECnet;
Native language	Dutch; Flemish Dutch;
Father	Nestor Van Pamel;
Mother	Denise Ottoy;
Child	Pieter Van Pamel; Katrien Van Pamel;
Work location	Brussels-Capital Region;
Notable work	Scintigrafie van de grijze hersenstof; A new thresholding method for volume determination by SPECT.; Multidetector SPECT brain imaging with Tc-99m HM-PAO in Alzheimer's Disease; Implementing a home proxy server with Squid; Asterisk (Session Initiation Protocol, 2014);
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	Q22668172; ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5535-3952; GitHub account: geertivp
	Reasonator; Scholia; Wikidocumentaries; KML file; Search depicted;

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Name: Geert Van Pamel

Functions

Board member of Wikimedia Belgium
Member of Wikimedia Nederland
Open source developer, and Linux pasionada
ex BI Project Manager at Proximus
ex Chairman for HP-Interex Belux
ex Member of the workgroup Bagaya-Kapelle, a rural development project in Bagaya, a village in the Casamance, in the South of Senegal

Education

Engineer in Agriculture and Applied Biological Sciences (Bio-Ingenieur)
Postgraduate in Computer Science
ITIL Foundation

Skills

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