MatData
Mathias Vanden Auweele
Data consultant
About
MatData specializes in data consulting services for railway companies, focusing on strategic planning, modeling, and architecture. We also handle development, data engineering, and DevOps challenges. Our expertise is rooted in a deep understanding of the railway system, an extensive industry network, and proficiency in standardization techniques like Linked Data.
We offer courses and workshops to enhance your team's knowledge of railway and data topics. With over 15 years of experience in railway infrastructure data strategy, GIS data science, and the design and development of measurement systems, we have tackled a wide range of data problems.
MatData actively participates in international initiatives such as railML, Openrail, and ERA ontology, ensuring we stay at the forefront of industry standards and innovations.
Data consultant
- Birthyear: 1985
- Website: www.matdata.eu
- Phone: +32 491 16 16 88
- City: Between Brussels and Leuven, Belgium
- Age: 39
- Degree: Master in engineering
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- Freelance: Available
Years of experience
Feat. projects
Ideas
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Resume
Below you can find a summary of my resume. A more detailed resume is available on my expertise graph, my my LinkedIn profile or as pdf file.Summary
Mathias Vanden Auweele
Innovative data freelancer with over 15 years of experience developing user-centered and data-centric IT systems. Starting from business idea and going all the way a solution in production and even beyond.
Education
Master in engineering, energy
2007 - 2009
KULeuven, Belgium
Completed magna cum laude.
Master in industrial engineering, electromechanics
2003 - 2007
GroepT Leuven, Belgium
Completed magna cum laude.
Professional Experience
Teamlead data centricity
2022 - 2025
Infrabel, Brussels, Belgium
- Lead the migration toward a data centric software landscape
- Be the data single point of contact for a department of 9000+ employees
- Steer the application landscape and implement the digital strategy
- Manage and improve the data quality
- Portfolio manager for data projects
Project lead digitalisation
2020 - 2022
Infrabel, Brussels, Belgium
- Design and produce innovative digital solutions to improve the different activities of Infrabel Operations (maintenance, construction, operation, logistics, ...)
Project lead strategic project reporting
2017 - 2020
Infrabel, Brussels, Belgium
- Align the innovation projects with the internal strategic vision
- Project prioritisation and portfolio management
- Implement a strategic project/program reporting system
- Setup a PMO office
Engineer catenary data cell
2009 - 2017
Infrabel, Brussels, Belgium
- Responsible for OCL measurement systems & all related IT
- Responsible for work management system of catenary
- Expand the technical inventory and develop supporting tools
- Participation in CEN/CENELEC and EIM/ERA working groups
- Uniformisation of the catenary design principles
My expertise
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