Peter Mesotten

Technical Pod Lead

In 2015, ACA IT-Solutions became a podular organization. Existing teams were housed in pods: business units with a unique focus in the market. As an ECM product expert I was assigned the technical pod leader role for the COIN pod. COIN stands for "Content and Information solutions" and focuses on delivering ECM based solutions based on Liferay, Alfresco and Adobe Experience Manager.

My responsibilities in this role are:

• Safeguarding the technical quality of the projects.
• Defining and challenging the technical strategy for the pod.
• Bootstrapping the architecture of new projects.
• Being the sounding board for the technical project leads.
• Leading functional workshops with the customer for an optimal mapping of project requirements to product features.
• Evangelizing our product portfolio and speaking at product conferences.

AEM Developer

As the technical pod lead for the COIN business unit, I was assigned with the task to take steps to add Adobe Experience Manager to our ECM/CMS portfolio. I've performed the following steps in that area:

• Follow online training material.
• Gather relevant information for evangelizing the product inside the business unit in the form of special interest groups.
• Follow an official 5-day Adobe training.
• Certify as AEM 6 Expert.

Liferay Product Expert

I gained my first experience in Liferay projects for customers like:

• Belgacom: partner portal, 2009-2010 (Liferay 5.2, Maven, JSF, ICEfaces, Adobe Livecyle)
• Ewals Cargo Care: customer portal, 2011 (Liferay 5.2, Maven, JSF, ICEfaces)
• Bank Degroof: intranet, 2012 (Liferay 6.0, Maven, JSF, ICEfaces, PrimeFaces, Spring, JPA)
• UH Brussels: intranet, 2013 (Liferay 6.1, Maven, JSF, PrimeFaces, Spring)

In 2013, I successfully certified in Liferay at the first try with a 93% score.

Additional projects were (amongst others) for:

• P&V Insurances: intranet + website, 2013 (Liferay 6.1, Maven, JSF, PrimeFaces, Spring)
• Springer Nature: migration from SharePoint, 2014-2015 (Liferay 6.2, Maven, JSF, PrimeFaces, Spring)
• Securex: customer portal, 2016-2017 (Liferay 6.2, Maven, JSF, PrimeFaces, Spring)

I also assisted in several Liferay upgrades between all major Liferay versions from versions 5.1 to DXP 7.1, such as:

• Flemisch Government: Liferay 6.1 to 6.2, 2014
• Springer Nature: Liferay 6.2 to DXP, 2018
• Flemisch Government: Liferay 6.2 to DXP, 2018
• Securex: Liferay 6.2 to DXP, 2018-2019
• UH Leuven: Liferay DXP to DXP 7.1, 2018-2019

In 2018, the project Woningpas went live: a website where civilians can consult energy, insulation and soil related information about their home. The project is built with Liferay DXP with a team of 6 developers over 2 years (and counting). The project uses a new technology stack, in which Angular based portlets retrieve information from a microservices layer based on Spring Boot.

Java Solution Engineer

In the first half year of my career I gained experience in a large multinational project for BMW. Project E4N provided reliable stock management, status followup and sales of used BMWs and MINIs.

The implementation had a J2EE architecture with EJB session beans in the service layer, Hibernate for the persistence layer and Struts as MVC framework.