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Kouterstraat 1 / 001
3080 Vossem
Belgium
planning to move
in ? (since 2014) till 2019
L’ Ardenne bleue (BE)
hugo@lilec.be
So,
being a problem solver ; see informatics, creating a production-chain, CV! solving all,
being an applied data analyst ; see suitcase, see my gardens, see test-analysis,
being a man-environment specialist ; see environmental psychology (*), ergonomics, ... ,
being a conflict handler ; see latest successes, like PIPP, and before and suitcase.
So, in reality;
how does one relate to the others, towards him(-) or herself (psychology),
how does one use tools, operates machines etc. (ergonomics, also in informatics),
how does one act in a certain environment
(environmental psychology, architecture, city planning),
how does one relate to nature (gardens, human ecology)?
Can this be a rather unique combination?
Also I am subscribed to the (*) Journal of Environmental Psychology (Elsevier Publications),
and I read a lot of ergonomic articles (Taylor & Francis), and much more (see below).
I will be happy to assist as a conflict handler / advisor, HR consultant, in executive search.
Or B2B sales, district manager, area sales manager,
Or IT-specialism as when it relates to users / customers. There is still much to do.
Or for private firms presenting projects in the arrangement of territories, parks, gardens etc.
Or I can combine this in running a supermarket, ...
(see also my proven interest in food, hygiene, heath)
Not only as employee, also can be an expert consultant, a freelance, an expat.
Keep in mind, I am a keen observer (see also my interest in films and study therein),
and I relate everything to what it brings towards the users.
I, we, want to move to the place where this opportunity lies.
And I hope that what follows is the proof of this combination of capacities, interests :
What do I also seek?
As a master++
but no demand for high
payment. Make me an offer!
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To learn, to continue
staying creative,
mentally and
physically.
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To get enthousiastic
and having to solve
the problems that
arise.
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To teach, to manage a
vast retail space.
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To manage (as an
equal part of) a group,
that has to perform
better than the sum of
the members.
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To be a counsel in
manier fields.
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To be a negotiator
based on facts and/or
data and/or
committing writings.
How?
Salary, part-time, on call,
self-employed
Where?
Western Europe, Canada,
USA (?), Australia, ...
(see the flags beneath)
“The pioneers get the
arrows and the
settlers get the land”
ongoing
GARDENS & PARKS of Eden : innovation & excellence
(from 25m
2
up to 3200 m
2
)(good for all living creatures
starting from still young, intensified since 1992
7 projects; Belgium, the Netherlands (coaching M & A)
designing; implementing; improving
Innovation of the year : Tuinen van Appeltern 2007 (plants-pots)
designing a production line, setting it up, making it work
excellent innovation, in 2013 destroyed by 2 punishable civil servants.
ref. dendrology, geo. arboretum Tervuren (B, a beauty), top British designers, Royal Hortical Society
look at it together with my specialization in environmental psychology!
Law ruled actions & environment : excellence
2017 : 4 government agencies and government
Dutch law and jurisprudence, Belgian law ;
correcting governments and lawyers
from 2012 to (hopefully ending) 2017
this with no formal education as a lawyer, nor law, nor jurisprudence
previous
man against man : excellence
Primus Inter Paria Pares (PIPP) 2011-2013 - now
Defending the interest of hunted poor people, by firms, schools, bailiffs, other organisations.
Success rate? 36 wins in 38 with one the client refusing to attend to court (I’m no lawyer),
this in continuation of successful negotiations with bailiffs and notaries from 2008 on.
I’m a tough negotiator but friendly and very patient
high
COMPLEXITY
data-analysis
working with living things &
beings that change,
interact and evolve
according to their own rules
complex statistical degrees
of freedom
a younster still must learn
working with materials
that interact, and
change periodically due
to (mainly) external factors
f.e. wood-maconery, iron - concrete
some statistical degrees of freedom
a younster can be an apprentice
CONSTRUCTIONS contraints :
excellence in construction (2001 - )
low level courses on painting, plastering, floors, timber, electricity,
but challenging, and an eye-opener!
also practice untill today :
The plan for electricity was so popular on my website,
it’s good for Belgium and the Netherlands
and e.g. as a team leader
A continuous horzontal line in a big room (old gymnastics room), on the four walls?
My rotating laserbeam; well placed it yielded this continuous line, no start, no end.
separating the color above from beneath
how do we make it horizontal (*)? 2 extra points.
Also, it can be tilted, off center; a grand scala of possibilities.
Horeca (hotel-restaurant-café),
kitchen for brasserie,
making a plan for a good functioning inhouse hotel laundry service (1996)
studies
- school : mathematics
- film director (1y)
- master industrial
psychology
& ergonomics (4y)
- human ecology (2y),
with study of living
in Brussels =
environmental
psychology
extra courses
- special master informatics
(Modula 2,1987)
- horeca, management,
webdevelopment,
painting, plastering,
bookkeeping,
floors (1995 - 2003),
electricity, timber (2008)
assitant KUL (Louvain)
- statistics : aiding students
to obtain their master de-
gree (mainframe, Apple II)
- conflict-management,
power relations in
companies
- study of drunk driving
-10 years closely befriended
with a psychiatrist
(f.e. a case of agression)
work
ITC : evaluating candidates
ETAP : testing and evalua-
ting new personnel, analysis
of relationships between
divisions, as a coordinator
Independant software
producer
other employers
- university (1980-1984)
- D.Products (2000)
- Econocom
(2001, team leader)
- Médecins du Monde
(bénévole, 1y.)
COMMERCE commercial environments :
shop coaching (health food, in coöperation, 1996-2000)
restyling the product range and shop interior, boosting commerce
(*) look for the error, or better, the inaccuracy
websites (2001-2014, php)
Resume /
Curriculum Vitae
27-01-1957, Congo
march 4,, 2018
excellence
university; industrial psychology, master ergonomics (1975-1979)
promotor 18/20, statistician 17/20 (Fortran programming on mainframe), other one 13/20 (unfamilliar with topic,method).
Just missing being an university-assistant, would become a great professor, would still love it.
(Film, one year, 1974-1975)
still a good photographer (plants etc),
now making remarkable movies with Xperia
construct possibilities : extraordinary
approved designing my house (1987),
no education as an architect, designer
With ‘moving tops’ (3 tops shifting relatively when walking or driving past).
These days with focus on insulation and solar power, it would be grand!
What a missed opportunity to set a remakable example, hopefully trend.
excellence (-1974)
school ; mathematics ; not learning the lessons ;
Solved a proof by proving first something we had not yet seen.
Wanted to study pure mathematics at the university, everybody advised against it,
because of the lack of job opportunities afterwards! And now?
‘modern’ tools : innovation & excellence
1985-1992 (Etap NV, coordinator and as independant)
A totally open software (now the ugly ‘app’-word is used) for tablet and screen.
Allowing 90% of known psychological tests, including some graphical ones.
Real time in depth analysis given, allowing immediate feedback.
Input : also writing the drivers for tablet and clickable (touch-)screen, in color (HP, 30 years before conservative Apple),
what’s only now the standard, mouse.
Broken by a divorce ,
and unwilling competition (BE & NL) vowing to one app-one test, no real analysis, no tablet, no drivers developed, ...
ETAP was also a forerunner with the K30-system in construction (houses), and in which I also got involved.
in Pascal, Delphi, ...
logical and mathematical
but stable, dead,
the code survives unaltered
no statistical degrees of freedom
a younster can excel
INFORMATICS: innovation & excellence (2000),
developer and systems engineer
ESN Media Tervuren (ICT magazine for business, didn’t survive)
application (software) in Delphi 5 and ASP
to get the resellers inputting their ‘breaking news’,
so the program would automatically place it on their server,
and every paying webpage could show it, adblocker resistant.
6 months: The European resellers still wanted all only on paper.
Also, what a pity, we were forerunners in web-advertising,
from text to picture to video, it’s technically a small step.
The 2 Americans (bosses) and I.
So tell me, why, with this 2 experiences, should I still invest in Europe?
some things : - mastered a deep bereavement (daughter) (2003-2006)
now what deepest fear means
- being out of work gave room to set up new experiences
- 20 (sum) years and ongoing ; excellent socializing of animals
(horses, dogs, cats, rabbits, ...)
- 10 years informal care for my mother (2005-2014)
now :
What do I read ?
BBC News (my homepage)
New Scientist (subscr.)
Royal Hortical Society (subcr.)
Le Soir (subscr.)
De Standaard (?)
Journal of Environmental Psychology (subscr.)
The Economist, ...
Et j’écoute PureFM (seulement)
also subscribed to the Plantsman, the Garden (The Royal Hortical Society, also landscapes),
also already years member of a dendrologist society (trees and shrubs in landscapes,
more than 25 years at home in the ‘landscapes’ geographical arboretum of Tervuren),
and am a scientific ecologist (f.e. natura 2000 codes 6430_hf en rbbhc).
Software mostly used :
Xara Designer (this)
Photoshop
Soda PDF
PDF Sam
Goldwave
spreadsheet,
word processor
ACDsee, Editpad, …
Now must I also believe that I’m a top scientific specialist in food?
This because someone calling this herself end of september 2016, argues that trans fats
are the problem.
Recent information is that it probably are the fats that have a low boiling point, where
most of the unsaturated fats are found. These are worse than full fat. The advice is;
don’t warm them too much, that’s why a southern diet (latin) is better, more full fat in the
(raw) cheeses.
Ah, the things I heard in a former centuary, while helping in a health shop! I questionned
each supplier, only one was acceptable, the rest didn’t know what they were selling.
Very recently; I gave the information about a small park (3300m
2
) I designed and helped
to develop, to a renound ecologist (Ecologica). Later on he went to inventorize all
protected plants, misses quite a bit, although good recognizable (e.g. Veronica
longifolia), and misnamed others. All “I don’t know” he misnamed are towards the most
complex name e.g. “Dryopteris affinis” is written as “Dryopteris Lindheimeri”. Incredible.
I wouldn’t begin such a thing or ask the designer to assist me.
Ergonomics, a failed profession?
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Take Fairebel, with its much improved milk pack, the ease in handling, pouring,
good balance, ….
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Take car seats like those that were in the Renault Kangoo, excellent support for
your back : You climb in physically exhausted, you drive, you’re fit at the end.
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In construction, please make living easy, it’s the detail that make life comfortable
(hight of toilets and counters, good chairs, ease of cleaning, …), and really,
together with a harmonious living, one gets ‘rested’.
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In software, so unreadable to others, take care of what you do, follow some
ergonomic rules! And people must work with it, that’s imperative.
•
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) : Today (end 2016).
I am stunned to see how companies just work in disarray, with old information,
not internally synchronised, but contradicting each other.
Please rethink, and make it so ergonomical, easy that errors can be avoided!
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Ergonomics, that also encompasses well reusable containers, eg the prepared
salades from Colruyt, Carrefour(B). A success, also with our friends. Delhaize
(Ahold) loses.
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Etc.
It’s a commercial boost!
Statistics (e.g. probability), so strange to the world?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) finally boosts thanks to it.
Professional
comments
I don’t strive for being the greatest, it’s together that we
accomplish more.
It is the shared goal that matters, not the “me!”
Letter
(*) Journal of Environmental Psychology
Research Areas Include:
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Perception and evaluation of buildings and natural landscapes
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Cognitive mapping, spatial cognition and wayfinding
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Ecological consequences of human actions
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Evaluation of building and natural landscapes
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Design of, and experiences related to, the physical aspects of workplaces,
schools, residences, public buildings and public spaces
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Leisure and tourism behavior in relation to their physical settings
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Meaning of built forms
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Psychological and behavioral aspects of people and nature
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Theories of place, place attachment, and place identity
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Psychological aspects of resource management and crises
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Environmental risks and hazards: perception, behavior, and management
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Stress related to physical settings
•
Social use of space: crowding, privacy, territoriality, personal space
(for all free to check :
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494416300998)
Others,
society
Tools
ergonomics,
informatocs
Nature
environment
GARDENS,
landscapes
The ME!
Looking for a
tantalizing opportunity
martial arts legend Bruce Lee :
"Be like water making its way
through cracks.
Do not be assertive,
but adjust to the object,
and you shall find
a way around or through
it"it’s my reasoning in all,
and the constant behind all I’ve done.
Be flexible in your approach.
Loosen yourself of wat you see,
what it does, its purpose, look unhibited.
Regardless it’s a problem, an idea,
or an object, a person or animal.
Do it.
Latest !
ERP doctor, intense
psychological counsel,
5 to 6 hunters checkmate,
damaging suitcases!
NEGOTIATOR : CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
about gardens & parks ;
(the last one is the best one, so should it also be,
but waiting for money to buy a GoPro-camera,
however the Xperia Z5 is good)
indeed; https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22930660-100-evolution-learn-natural-selection/
a hebbian algorithm (like Google’s DeepMind)
TRAINING : some remarks
MAN
environment
buildings
towns, streets,
house, shops
Food
health
also based on ± 2 years university assistant conflict management
medium
COMPLEXITY
data-analysis
low
COMPLEXITY
data-analysis
AU - NZ, DE, BE, FR, IE, IT, LU, PT, ES, CH - CA, GB - US
Hugo Merckx
Hugo Merckx
Excuse me that the following must seem incredible.
However, 60y and a life of theoretical and practical
interest, and learning, and a broad interest, and a
discomfort with only ‘routine’ must yield something
like this.
Now that the advance in A.I. is beginning, it will
show that this resume/CV isn’t even extraordinary.
Update 9/10/2017 : exploring Behavioral Economics
(pro marketing versus economists,
also see Environmental Psychology)
Member of the LinkedIn
behavioral economics group
Last update : 4/3/2018
New : creating promotional movies
© CongoLatino, Graphic designer
New : creating promotional films
Environment :
Economy,
behavioral
economics