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Swindon, Wilts, GB

Swindon, Wilts, GB

- Created and maintained the new Cloud Strategy and Cloud DR Standards- General internal advise and consultancy on use of Cloud

Birkenhead, Merseyside, GB

Senior Executive and Board Member responsible for all Technology across the Group. Lead the teams responsible for:- CRM technology (SalesForce)- Development of new ERP (Odoo)- Websites (WordPress)- LMS (Moodle)- Cloud (AWS)- Server Infrastructure, End User computing, Telephony, and Physical Security across 10 sites

- AWS Strategy and Architecture for in house Omnichannel B2C Solutions- Technology Strategy and Architecture for enablers for Digital Transformation- Solution Architecture for retention-related product development in the B2C eCommerce area (5 months 50% ad interim)

Focus on solutions that help to meet and exceed non-functional requirements. Some examples:- Scaling and Resiliency: Scaling strategy and techniques to cope with peak periods- Security: full stack secure development and engineering- Stability: Multi-platform A/B testing and migration with zero customer impact

- Introduce and build up DevOps Culture and Technology- Hire, mentor and manage the local DevOps engineers (~5)- Mentor the wider DevOps / Engineering team (10+ consultants/off shore)- Infrastructure Architecture, Engineering, and DevOps Lead for datacenter migration and centralisation- Infrastructure Architecture, Engineering, and DevOps Lead for all new.

- Infrastructure Areas: Datacentres, Network, Security, Workplace, Telephony- Long term technical architecture vision- Infrastructure design for large projects- Participation in vendor negotiation- Assist during complex deployment and troubleshooting activities

- Infrastructure Areas: Datacentres, Network, Security, Workplace, Telephony- Long term technical architecture vision- Infrastructure design for large projects- Infrastructure resource and cost impact assessment for all projects- Participation in vendor negotiation- Technical coaching of engineers- Assist during complex deployment and troubleshooting.

As a Senior Engineer I entered Thomas Cook Belgium during a period of challenging change. During this period we started an entire rebuild of the IT infrastructure across all areas (networks, servers, services...)

Functional and technical analysis in 2 domains: WLAN and mCommerce- Assessment of business requirements and technical requirements- Definition of solutions, roadmaps...- Lead the project team consisting of 4 local people and upto 20 offshores- Project follow up (estimates, timing, costs...)- Vendor management (Follow up, QA, QC, benchmarking...)

On a departmental level (~100M EUR budget)- Support management during budget exercises (bottom up forecast)- Support management during actuals tracking and variance analysis- Create and update procedure and guidelines related to budget management- Lead/participate in projects related to budget management- Perform top-down budget studies- Technical coaching.

- Creation of procedures and technical guidelines; follow up market evolution; advise on product choices; … for system and network security- Product choice and installation of vulnerability assessment platform- Perform and support IT security audits- BS7799/ISO17799 compliancy: Write guidelines and procedures in order to attain certification.

Gaithersburg, MD, US

KPN combined the knowledge of several of its ISP subsidiaries in Planet Technologies. The architecture team brought together the infrastructure architects of these ISP's in order to define the future.

- Design, implement and administrate: + Unix based services for both internal and external customers + Security services such as firewalls and Intrusion Detection systems + Network solutions for load balancing and redundancy- Follow up proper operation of WAN-links and dial-in infrastructure. Communicate with the network providers on network evolution.

Beerlegem (Zwalm), BE

Ghent, BE, BE