VUB, Pleine Campus,
Departement of Geograhy,
Ecomama office, Building F, 8F,
Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 (0) 262 93 402,
E-mail: abmokhta@vub.ac.be


Abdellatif MOKHTAREN

Shortly, I'm from Morocco,one of the most marvellous countries on the North-West part of Africa. Born in Tétouan, one of the oldest and beautifully Moroccan cities . In this moment, I live in Brussels in Belgium.

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

  • Geographical Information Technology (GIS, Remote sensing, Cartography, Photogrammetry, Topography, Geodesy, CAD soft).
  • Ecosystem modelling.
  • Marine Ecology.
  • Environmental Data Management.
  • Web and application developement (OOP, OODB, RDMS, SQL, JDBC, HTML, XML, JAVA...etc.)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Nationale Institute of data collection (IND), Brussels, Belgium

From September 2001 to present (Freelance)

  • Investigator, collecting data for market studies.

FDM Group, a multinational company providing IT services in Europe and USA.

From June to July 2001 (Training-contract)

  • Applications developper (UNIX, ORACLE PL/SQL, SQL*plus, JAVA).

Polytechnic school– Informatic Service, Université Libre de Bruxelles, (ULB) Brussels, Belgium

From April to August 2001 (Training-thesis)

  • Participation in the MurMur project (http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/e/MurMur/), "Multi-representations and Multiple resolutions in geographic databases" In the frame of the IST Programme of the European Community. [Topic : Providing a support to multiple representation that is adequate for geographical data (GIS) on the web]

Database Laboratory, Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland

For few days during June 2001,

  • Training-thesis in the framework of the MurMur project.

Institut des filles de Marie, Secondary Education, Brussels, Belgium

From 1st to the end of December 2000 (Interim)

  • Professor of informatics: technical lectures (undergraduate and graduate levels).

European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

March 1st to July 31th 2000 DG9 Unit ADMIN01 «Information and Communication»

  • Webdesigner in Europaplus, the Intranet of the EC and journalist in Commission en Direct, the internal newspaper of the EC. (Training)

National Institute of Geography (NIG), Brussels, Belgium

1st to 30th September 1997 (Training)

  • Following-up and initiation to the all different processes and steps of production of the institute products (analytical and digital maps at various scales, Raster and vector files formats for GIS applications) and field working (GPS station, mapping completing).

« Laboratoire de surface, Université de Liège », Belgium

1st to 31th August1997 (Training)

  •  Publication of an interactive touristic map on the Web by using the AutoDesk Mapguide technology.

Wallon Ministry of the Equipment and Transport (MET) / Direction of Topography, Photogrammetry and Cartography - D.432, Brussels, Belgium

1st to 30th July 1997 (Training)

  • Participation in the ORAGE project in Wallon (ORganisation and AGEncement of space in Wallon area): Execution of a 3D digital plan on a scale 1/1000e covering all Wallon area (+/- 17.00 km²) using the new technic Digitale Stereo-photogrammetry, "MNT" & "Profil au long".

Laboratory of Remote Sensing, University Catholic of Louvain, LLN, Belgium

1st to 30th June 1997 (Training)

  • Localisation of a potential site for the installation of a discharge of household refuses in the area of Ottignies-Louvain-La-Noeuve in Belgium using a decisional GIS concept (Satellite image).

 

OTHER EXPERIENCES

Software developer:

  • Implementing a Dbase database (Stock management) using a Dbase III plus (OS: MS-DOS). The main menu contains: add, update, delete, consult articles also a periodical and a stock alert lists of articles. (1993 –1995 : evening lectures).

  • Implementing an Access Database (address book) using JDBC technology (Java 2, Swing, SDK 1.2.2 ) (OS: Windows 2000), (January to April 2001)

  • Implementing a schema editor for OODB (GIS-DATA) (MADS model) using JBuilder Foundation environment, Version 4, SDK1.3.0-C, in the framework of the MurMur project. (OS: Windows NT), (April to August 2001 ).

Web designer:

  • Participate in design and maintain many websites, as the site SOL " On Line Stagiaires " the web site of the trainees at the EC on Europa plus . (Summer period- 2000), the web site of the " Master in Ecological Marine Management " at the vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), (http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ecomama)

Ecological Marine researcher
  • Visit to "Université de Sciences et de Technologie de Lille Flandres-Artois", Wimereux, France, (1 week): Systematic, ecology and ecophysiology of the intertidal systems of the intertidal zone of Wimereux rocky shore.
  • Visit to the Spuikom Ostend, Belgium (4 days): Field exercise on quantification of carbon cycling in the pelagic ecosystem.
  • Visit to Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) Zeeland (1 day): Example of engineering works and their ecological effects on the Oosterschelde (Easter Scheldt).
  • Excursion on the research vessel 'Zeeleeuw', North sea (1 day): Demonstration and exercise on oceanographic sampling, surveying techniques and data acquisition).
  • Excursion on the research vessel 'Terstreep'' North sea (1 day), : Demonstration and exercise on geographic and seismological techniques)

 

EDUCATION

  • 2001 -2002 Nederlands language Certificate, Centre de Phonetique Appliqué de Bruxelles (CPAB), A.S.B.L, Brussel, Belgium
  • 1998 -2001 Master of Science degree in Ecological Marine Management / Environmental Data Management - Inter-academic: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Universiteit Gent (UG) and Universiteit Antwerp (UA), Belgium.
  • 1995 -1998 Specialisation in GIS, Cartography and Remote Sensing – Inter-academic: Free University of Brussels (ULB), University of Liege (Ulg) and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium.
  • 1993 -1995 School degree in informatics: Groupe Pigier France, Tetouan, Morocco.
  • 1989 -1993 Bachelor degree in sciences (Geology): Abdelmalek Essaâdi University Tetouan, Morocco.

 

HOBBIES & OTHER INFORMATION

  • Browsing Internet, travelling, photography, underwater fishing, Aquariophily, music, football …

  • Member of the "Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing" AMRS, a non-profit-making Canadian association whose members are in 30 countries.

  • STEWARD during EURO 2000, the football finalist champinship, King Boudoin stadium (Heysel) in Brussels, Belgium.

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