{"id":2,"date":"2007-04-09T20:35:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T19:35:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-02-21T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T16:26:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARC GREGOIRE\u2002is a software project manager \/ software architect from Belgium. He graduated from the University of Leuven, Belgium, with a degree in &#8220;Burgerlijk ingenieur in de computer wetenschappen&#8221; (equivalent to master of science in engineering: computer science). The year after, he received an advanced master&#8217;s degree in artificial intelligence, cum laude, at the same university. After his studies, Marc started working for a software consultancy company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordina.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ordina<\/a> Belgium. As a consultant, he worked for Siemens and Nokia Siemens Networks on critical 2G and 3G software running on Solaris for telecom operators. This required working with international teams stretching from South America and the United States to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Now, Marc is a software project manager \/ software architect at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonmetrology.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikon Metrology<\/a>,\u00a0a division of Nikon and a leading provider of precision optical instruments, X-ray machines, and metrology solutions for X-ray, CT, and 3D geometric inspection.<\/p>\n<p>His main expertise is in C\/C++, and specifically Microsoft VC++ and the MFC framework. He has experience in developing C++ programs running 24\/7 on Windows and Linux platforms: for example, KNX\/EIB home automation software. In addition to C\/C++, Marc also likes C#.<\/p>\n<p>Marc is the founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becpp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Belgian C++ Users Group<\/a>, author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/Professional+C%2B%2B%2C+5th+Edition-p-9781119695400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professional C++<\/a>&#8221; published by Wiley\/Wrox, co-author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apress.com\/gp\/book\/9781484249222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">C++ Standard Library Quick Reference<\/a>&#8221; published by Apress, technical editor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/books-i-worked-on\/\">numerous books<\/a> for several publishers, regular speaker at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cppcon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CppCon<\/a> C++ conference, and a member on the CodeGuru forum (as Marc G). He maintains a blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/\">www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/<\/a>, and is passionate about traveling and gastronomic restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>A list of recordings of public talks he gave can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLkriR54YvvOwpQN4oruPp1VEnE1KW1iBe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since April 2007, he has received the annual Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for his Visual C++ expertise.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mvp.microsoft.com\/en-us\/mvp\/Marc%20Gregoire-38280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 181px; height: 74px;\" title=\"MS MVP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/images\/MVP_Horizontal_FullColor_New.png\" alt=\"MS MVP\" width=\"181\" height=\"74\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also find him on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/marc-gregoire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #ffffdb; border: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: #fcba03; padding: 8px;\"><em><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> The posts on this site are my own and do not necessarily represent the position, strategy, or opinions of my employer and its brands.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARC GREGOIRE\u2002is a software project manager \/ software architect from Belgium. He graduated from the University of Leuven, Belgium, with a degree in &#8220;Burgerlijk ingenieur in de computer wetenschappen&#8221; (equivalent to master of science in engineering: computer science). The year after, he received an advanced master&#8217;s degree in artificial intelligence, cum laude, at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}