Jan Boen
Afgevaardigd Bestuurder at Kiwanis International
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolJan Boen is a seasoned executive and senior consultant with 30+ years leading international programs, operations and business transformation across aviation, telecom and services. As current Afgevaardigd Bestuurder for Kiwanis Europe and former General Manager Europe at SYSTRA Aviation, he combines P&L responsibility with hands-on solution design and digital strategy leadership. He built and scaled professional services practices, won multi‑million-dollar bids, and led cross-functional teams to deliver complex ORAT, IoT/AutoID and airport systems programs. Known for an entrepreneurial, no‑nonsense approach, Jan thrives on turning technical innovations into pragmatic, deployable services. Outside work he applies the same meticulous, tinkering mindset to model railroading as president of his local club, revealing a practical love of systems and detail.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at SISO/PMSc, MSc at Hogeschool AntwerpenDefence College Brussels
Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
railway10
java9
content-type7
wordpress-plugin7
wordpress6
custom-fields6
php5
pods5
frontend4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
janboen/CANMIOfirmware
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
Firmware for the CANMIO with Configurable IO
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
configurablefirmwaredevice-managementtasmotasoftware-update
janboen/JMRI
Jun 2016 - Dec 2021
JMRI model railroad digital command & control software
Contributions:13 PRs, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
jmri-model-railroadjmridigital-command-controlmodel-railroadjava
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