During his studies at the University of Ghent, he got interested in software engineering. He started working as a freelancer in 1998. At first, he was a Visual C++ developer, but the interest in ASP came very soon after that. Especially the possibility of extending application usability by adding a webbased interface increased this interest even further. After being a betatester for Lernout & Hauspie (L&H), he signed up for the Visual Studio .NET betatesting program in 2000, and came in touch with .NET. About 18 months ago Tim joined the AspFriends lists and a couple of months later he started writing articles related to web development (aspnl.com, aspalliance.com). Since 2002, he's also an active participant of the AspFriends community and a member of the AspElite team.