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London, England, Gb

Mechelen, Flemish Region, Belgium

Telenet is on an ambitious cloud transformation journey!I serve as a Scrum Master and Agile Delivery Manager for three reliability teams within the Cloud Infrastructure Cluster.These teams are adopting a version of Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and ways of working that make sense in the Telenet environment.I facilitate the adoption of agile delivery practices, and coach the teams on their journey towards high performance and reliable delivery!

London, England, United Kingdom

Relevic is a self-service web-personalisation solution that aims to wow you through fun in-page personalisations. Head on over to our website relevic.com and see how the page transforms in not-so-subtle ways to welcome new visitors.We kicked things off at Web Summit 2023 in Lisbon, and are in the process of onboarding our initial batch of customers.We are an intuitive solution, built by marketers for marketers! ❤️

London Area, United Kingdom

bp is in a historic transformation where they have set an ambitious goal to be net zero by 2050, and to become an Integrated Energy Company. In recent years, they went through a major re-organization and business agility is a key ways-of-working component via which the transformation is being delivered.As part of the bp’s global Agile CoE (Center of Excellence), I supported a sub-entity in the retail and convenience space with:- Coaching leadership and senior stakeholders- Designing and facilitating workshops for various parts of the business to support with strategy development and delivery- Facilitating a cost culture change approach using an internal ideation portal and a cost champions comms campaign. - Conducting agility training sessions for various teams and groups of colleagues across the employee base- Designing a SAFe-like quarterly planning and performance management rhythm across the Europe region- Coaching on Portfolio Kanban adoption powered by the Kanbanize- Upskilling and mentoring internal coaches

London, England Metropolitan Area

Toyota Connected Europe develops and delivers connected mobility solutions based on four key strengths: data, mobility, security and design.I helped with:- Coaching on the project to product management mindset shift- Creating high performance teams- Team restructuring to promote agility- Help create a performance and delivery culture

Western Europe

As a certified SAFe 5 Program Consultant (SPC), Scrum Master, Product Owner and frequently also as an Agile Coach, I strive to use a servant leader approach with a customer-centric perspective for various clients on IT and/or culture change projects by:- Navigating the organizational challenges of teams transitioning from traditional/waterfall PM to Agile- Facilitating the comms. inside and outside the Scrum team, and being creative in removing any impediments- Identifying requirements, helping create user stories and documenting progress throughout the sprint(s)- Working as or with the product owner in arranging the product backlog to maximize value- Facilitating the Scrum ceremonies (Daily standup, Sprint planning, review and retroactive meetings)- Effectively setting up transparency measures like burn down charts, velocity tracking and release forecasting- Coaching the team on Agile practices, change communication, self-management and cross-functionality- Look out for market trends and get feedback from stakeholders or customers- Build and maintain a relationship with the stakeholdersI help organizations collaborate and innovate like startups through:- Workshops (design thinking, lean startup, BMC, Agile & Scrum)- Coaching (pitching, sales, outsourcing, process optimization)- Interventions (Hackathons, bootcamps, team days, demo days)I also design end-to-end innovation processes for clients:- Initial vision setting with the client and assessing digital and employee-collaboration needs- Preparing marketing and communication messaging to engage the right profiles (employees and external stakeholders) for a hackathon centred intervention- Hackathon process design and event facilitation- Designing the follow-up internal incubation process & demo days- Working with the PR team such that the intended messaging goes out- Team coaching/trainings sessions to implement Agile, Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodologies

Western Europe

An active personal development journey has been an important part of my adult life. Over the years, I have combined that with learnings about creativity tools, innovation and digital disruption.As a certified SPC (SAFe Program Consultant, I am enabled to train (and coach) on the following courses in helping organizations adopt and implement the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe):- Leading SAFe- SAFe for Teams- SAFe Scrum Master- SAFe Advanced Scrum Master- SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager- Agile Product Management- Lean Portfolio Management- SAFe DevOpsAs I keep constantly learning and experiencing, I have synthesized them in the following trainings that have been delivered to corporate and entrepreneurial audiences:- Creative Selling and Objection Handling- Conversational Influence & Negotiation Skills- Building Effective Relationships- Leadership and succession planning- Startup & innovation culture: myth-busting and how to get involved- Hackahtons to fire up collaboration and value creation in your organization/team- Agile and Scrum methodologies- Lean startup methodology- Pitching and presentations skills- Goal setting and continuous focus strategies- Result oriented communication (written and oral)If I can serve you and your team, please reach out.

Brussels Area, Belgium

I was passionately engaged with the Innovating Ways of Working (NWoW) initiative at Solvay, inspiring & supporting Solvay citizens to get to ever higher levels of agility and customer centricity!The focus was both strategic, in setting up the broad basis for the transformation, and tactical in terms of making the needed micro nudges by:- Mapping how to best roll out and scale innovative & agile ways of working. Defining a clear 'WHY-first' vision, agile project selection criteria, storylines, internal events, comms + stakeholders management and general change strategy roll-out.- Establishing the backbone for the change program by creating a common agile practitioner and leadership training, animating communities of practice, embedding the agile ways of working in strategic and front-line projects, working with the leadership teams to instil the agile values and sharing success stories.- Tactically, being a role model myself and help specific teams work in agile ways. Here I took the role of the 'hands-on agile coach' and journeyed with the teams.

Brussels Area, Belgium

I was the Scrum Master & Agile Coach with the teams working on the multi-banking product line of the company.The regular responsibilities included:- Facilitating the Scrum ceremonies- Proactively removing impediments- Coaching the team on self-organization and Agile mindset- Coaching the Product Owner on creating stories and effective backlog prioritization- Helping the team effectively sync around dependencies via a Scrum of Scrums process- Helping raise the Agile maturity at the team and organizational level

Brussels Area, Belgium

deskOteque was the newest platform in Brussels that helped match flex workers (freelancers, startup employees, consultants & event organizers) with coworking spaces, cafes and restaurants, filtered by availability, location & rates.I was involved with creating the product prototype (in Agile mode), digital marketing and signing up spaces. With lots of learnings on customer acquisition and the go-to-market strategy, the project was abandoned due to lack of traction.

Pakistan

A passion project, I Am Tomorrow is an interactive festival for women in tech. and beyond. Our focus is to highlight female role models in local communities to encourage more female participation in business, sports, media and tech. With a team of local organizers, I put together our inaugural Pakistan edition hosted at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) campus in Lahore. I lead the efforts to:- Assemble a speakers panel of local and international thought leaders hailing from academia, media, corporate sector, public sector and even some social activists.- Onboarding strategic sponsors and partners, including Uber Pakistan as the title sponsor, Levi's as the wardrobe partner, FM 91 as the media partner and LUMS as the venue partner.- Deliver the event logistics, end-to-end; from registrations to security, to speaker management, to catering and post-event wrap up.- Liaise with the media on pre, during and post event coverage.This was the first event of its kind in Lahore, a major cultural centre in Pakistan. We had important and occasionally heated conversations about how we can co-create a more gender balanced society, in the Pakistani context.

Brussels Area, Belgium

CCI is an international provider of personal and professional transformational training and retreats. I worked with the HQ on a business model redesign and marketing + digital transformation project with the following results:- Assisted in shifting CCI’s approach from selling individual trainings to packages, and helped create the pricing plans- Reinvented their site into an online portal with engaging content and an e-learning journey: I was the Scrum Master from requirement gathering till the QA testing, managing the project till the go-live!- Assisting in overseeing international operations with the licensee network, and the coaching academy

Europe

Startup Weekend is a global community centred around weekend events where attendees go from pitching an idea on Friday eve to developing a woking business model by Sunday - startup creation on steroids!With over 4,000 events in 900 cities, empowering 300,000+ attendees, Startup Weekend is truly global!As an organizer (in Belgium) and facilitator (across Western Europe and the UK), I have lead cross-cultural project teams, including thematic ones like FinTech, FashTech, EduTech, Makers/IoT and FoodTech.Organizing a typical event involves the following steps:- Establishing a vision for the project and bringing together a motivated core team (5-6 people)- Designing and executing a marcomm campaign including media relations (if applicable)- Engaging management staff, subject matter experts and C-level executives from sponsors/partners as coaches, mentors, speakers and jury members for the event- Managing social media pages and creating stories for internal communications- Post-event debriefing and communicating the results and next steps to all stakeholders

Brussels Area, Belgium

At Co-Create, we provided end-to-end consulting for innovation processes for corporate clients. Here's a typical process I helped design and deliver: - Initial vision setting with the client and assessing digital needs- Preparing marketing and communication messaging to engage the right profiles (employees and external stakeholders) for a hackathon centred intervention- Hackathon process design and event facilitation- Designing the follow-up internal incubation process & demo days- Working with the PR team such that the intended messaging goes out

Brussels Area, Belgium

I support the strategic communications process to enhance, manage and protect the reputation of UPS Europe, its members, and its services.My major tasks are:- Ensuring execution of PR plans, handling media relations, supervising our agency network, and producing content- Co-ordinating small and large-scale media activities and events across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa- Compiling PR reports, building and maintain a coverage and materials archive- Coordinating media monitoring activities and assembling coverage reports- Providing budget management support- Updating and maintaining press kit materials- Coordinate and review translations of country-specific media materials- Assists with planning and execution of smaller-scale PR projects- Answering media inquiries, writing press releases, statements, speeches, briefing documents and backgrounders- Acting as the day-to-day liaison with UPS country communications representatives and supporting activities of our network of public relations agencies and outside vendors

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Assist in building the Revenue Management Plan including KPI’s for countries - Create reports on a weekly and monthly basis on the KPI’s from the RM Plan- Manipulate data into a user-friendly format to facilitate understanding.- Draw conclusions from analysis and propose action steps- Based on UPS’s and competitor’s pricing components (pricing strategies, tactics, incentive levels, strategic focus, etc.) determines the optimal incentive to be offered to customers

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Redesign value stream, automate manual activities & create excellence centre for billing processProject team objectives: - Create MS Access queries (automate manual activities) - Redesign costing/billing processes together with Centre of Excellence members & Quality Mgr - Create work instructions ensuring ISO 9001 compliance - Implement changesScoping: - Apply Six Sigma DMAIC methodology & Lean principles - ISO 9001 compliance, operations lead logistic provider model in service logistics - Conduct workshops to train billing & costing analysts to adopt new process

Bonn Area, Germany

Part of sourcing team for a European Truck Tender:- 25 different vehicle types with +/- 250 Mio spend- Demand analysis, research supplier information & prepare supplier bidding sheets- Model & evaluate RFP process, analyze quotations & prepare for face-to-face negotiations- Set up business case for feasibility 'Avoid left turns' policy for DP-DHL's ground fleet- Investigate business opportunities with new suppliers from emerging markets (e.g. China, India, Russia) with established network in Europe - vehicles & spare parts- Train on DP-DHL's online tools & applications

Pakistan

I earned consecutive appointments with the Accounting & Finance department of my university for 2 academic terms. These were based on instructors' recommendations and on account of effective communication skills and command over course content.Duties: assisting instructor with lecture prep., guiding students with course assignments, projects and conducting tutorials.

Masters, Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: Erasmus Student network (ESN) AIESEC VUBThe program has prepared me for successfully managing inward investment.

Practitioner Certification, Psychology, A

B.Sc. (Hons), Accounting & Finance

Activities and Societies: AIESEC LUMS Entrepreneurial Society (LES) LUMS Finance & Accounting Society (LFAS) SHaring Analysis on Regional.