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Mechelen

Manage full lifecycle of ICT programmes of projects and all related activities using Agile (TIIES) and Waterfall (PRINCE2) methodologies. Setup and monitoring the programme governance, strategy, policy, framework, reporting procedures and decision processes. Track & report programme progress with respect to time, budget and demonstrated results to clients.

Zaventem, Belgium

Directing a team of approximately 10 - 15 Architects, TAM’s, Consultants, SW and HW Engineers in the Managed Services department of Econocom. The teams are involved in the Build and the Run phase of Econocom’s major national and international customer’s projects (Fabricom, ISS, Base, Daikin, EconoCloud, Goodyear, VMM, Magotteaux…). Technologies covered by.

Zaventem, Belgium

• Manage large new and ongoing IT infrastructure projects for national and international customers. Ownership of Econocom’s PMO department and perform ambassador role as SPOC. Monitor the scope of assigned projects based.
• Supervising a team of 3 – 5 (internal and external) project managers who are engaged in various projects
• Manage a team of engineers executing assigned projects
• Monitor and control program / projects performance against plans
• Track & report program progress with respect to time, budget and demonstrated results
• Identify, develop and recommend process improvements

Benelux And Nordics

• Directed Professional Services teams within BeNeLux, and the Nordics. Managed 10-15 internal staff and external consultants in design creation, configuration, data migration, testing, and system-wide audits. Evaluated.
• Collaborated with Enterprise Sales District Managers, as well as facilitated all-hands meetings and organized weekly one-on-ones with team members to evaluate services, progress, customer satisfaction, and QBRs.
• Defined SOPs and internal processes, including HR guidelines for personnel, as well as partnered with other departments to align processes and coordinate planning.
• Facilitated training for staff, determined skills gaps, and designed individual development plans.
• Partnered with leadership teams and System Engineers to evaluate new technology and select goals for organization, including training and planning objectives.
• Balanced performance ratings among teams across NEMEA personnel, as well as provided ongoing feedback to team members through STAR/AR.

Benelux

• Collaborated with Enterprise Account Managers to drive positioning of NetApp Professional Services to major accounts throughout Benelux. Designed brand positioning strategy for corporate packages to enterprise clients.
• Provided coaching for Project Managers and Professional Services teams during rollouts.
• Generated between 380K € and 670K € annually in Professional Services revenue.
• Served within NetApp Global EM/PM community as EMEA Geo Lead.
• Major clients included KPN Getronics, KBC Bank, Belgacom, TomTom, Mobistar, De Post, UZ Gent, FeDict, European institutions, and UCB.
• Promoted in April 2010 to take on greater region and more clients due to exceptional performance.

Belux

• Managed status reporting for critical cases within BeLux region, including communicating daily with Sales Representatives and management teams. Analyzed professional context of escalations and concerns, evaluating.
• Served as liaison between enterprise customers and support centers, ensuring satisfaction.

Various Locations

• Oversaw management and delivery of CentraStar releases and service packs for Centera division. Collaborated with senior management teams in Belgium and the United States. Spearheaded management and operations for two.
• Acted as liaison among Architecture, Development, and QA teams across multiple locations, including Belgium, India, and the US.
• Led coordination of CentraStar ‘D’ release, along with two related service packs, over the course of ten months, managing project within budgetary parameters.
• Introduced MS Project Server platform to organization, improving planning and collaboration within teams and follow-up reporting for development and QA functions.
• Defined IWT funding standards for ‘H’ release.
• Named Chairman of Change Control Board, as well as served on HW Allocation Board.

Belgium

• Managed the implementation of a companywide PM methodology using PMI / PRINCE2 ‘best practices’ and coached, trained and directed 3 MSP project managers. Responsible for scoping, planning and budgeting of customer.
• ABX Logistics – Setup and installation of 2 IBM iSeries servers and a tape robot including services and High Availability software (Mimix). Total project budget was over 2.7 million €.
• Alken Maes – Infrastructure rollout project including Navision, W2K, Horeca home platform (Citrix based), AS400 upgrade, BU strategy (BRMS) and monitoring strategy (co Tasking). Project budget was about 1000pd and the.

Belgium

• Spearheaded the implementation of a companywide PM methodology and the coaching, training and follow up of project managers. Budgeting, scoping and staffing of IT projects in the range of 100.000 – 1.000.000 €..
• Key projects managed within budgetary parameters include KBC Bank - DBO/2 Dragers- & Bestandsopvolging, BLOSO – W2K migration, Toyota – Extra Care Application, Kluwer – Intranet Site CED Samsom, Xircom N.V. - MIS.

Various Locations

Managed the definition of the software releases (Pack 5, Pack 6 and Pack 7) for Belgacom’s S12 public telephone switches and controlled the scope until handover to the customer. Defined and implemented SOPs to handle new requirements during project lifecycle. Operated in a multinational / multicultural environment.

Various Locations

Managed the analysis, design, coding and testing of land specific requests of international GSM operators and the base development of EWSD public mobile telephone switches. Responsible for the technical coordination of a team of 2 - 5 software designers. Oversaw the land specific requests of international GSM operators (China, Kuwait, Malaysia) starting.

Peutie / Hoogboom

Mandatory military service. After a training of 5 months as KRO on the RITA (Reseau Integré de Transmission Automatique) systems in Peutie (TTr), I became platoon commander in the 6th Linie Bataljon in Hoogboom. Here I was responsible for the Military Introduction Training of new recruits.

Html 5 / Css 3, 20/20

Webdevelopment 1

HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Git, Github, Python, Flask, Jinja, SQLite

Msc (Eng), Ing., Industrial Engineer, Electronics (Hw Engineering), Electronics, Met Onderscheiding

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