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Luxembourg

Luxembourg

IT Project Officer within the CMS (Case Management System) project.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Project Manager for the project InfraNET/InfraGIS within the GIS/CAD department of the ICT of Infrabel. The goal of the application is to maintain all data from rail infrastructure and display them in a geographical and a schematic viewer. Managing a team of 6 developers, 1 tester, 3 analysts and in charge to improve the Agile methodology within the company. Reporting to the Head of department.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Project Manager of AGM, in-house application developed to manage meeting for experts and their reimbursements. Applying Agile@EC methodology and SCRUM practices. Ensuring the Business Owner needs and managing stakeholders through regular User Group Meetings. Reporting to the Program manager within the sector.Responsible of a team of 5 developers, 1 tester, 1 analyst and a support team of 6 persons.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Project Manager of different projects within the department in charge for the protection, registration and transfer of classified documentation (EUCI) within all EEAS entities, Member States, other EU institutions, International Organisations and Agencies. Working on projects required to develop, maintain and operate information systems, along with the infrastructure, organisation and personnel.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Project Manager for the data migration project within the program Touring One. Migration from a proprietary legacy application to SalesForce and SAP-FSCD. Ensuring the management of the migration team (4 functional analyst and 3 developers). Coordinating all analysis and development activities. Alignment meetings between projects intra-track. Reporting weekly to program management.

Charleroi

Project Manager (contractor) for the CRM implemented at FOREM. Web application using a proprietary tool Efficy and a layer developed in .NET (C#) to manage all clients (companies and unemployed people). Team of 8 developers and 4 business analysts.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Project Manager (contractor) for the Financial line of Euroconsumers association across Europe (Belgium, Italy, Spain & Portugal). Set-up of Project Management governance and tools (change management). Leading an international team of software development professionals to higher maturity level by implementing standard processes.In charge of ensuring the planning, follow-up, requirement mgt, risk analysis, management reports and presentations.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Business Analyst and Team Leader of ErasmusLink within the Informatics Unit into DG EAC (Education and Culture).The main tasks were: collecting new requirements, test management, producing and verifying technical and business documentation, risk analysis, planning and scheduling and people management. The team was composed of 7 developers, 2 analysts and 1 second level support user. The team was applying Agile techniques in order to reduce the communication gap between the technical team and the business and to better manage continuous changes in requirements.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Management of IT projects within the LIFE unit into DG Environment.Contract management under rules of framework contract of EC (DESIS framework contract from DIGIT). Member of a selection board in order to evaluate IT proposals submitted to a call for tender for a Framework Contract within DG Environment.Close collaboration with LIFE programme selection procedure. Among the IT projects, 2 of them (BUTLER and ESAP) are managed in close collaboration with the IT unit. The main tasks related to these 2 projects are: collecting new requirements, change management, testing, user management and assistance. BUTLER is a collaborative and workflow-wise system able to maintain data and documentation related to LIFE projects. ESAP is the tool providing a collaborative environment for the selection exercise of LIFE projects. Another project – eProposal – is managed within the LIFE unit. This project is outsourced to an external company and its quality is controlled following RUP@EC methodology. The web application eProposal allows applicants to LIFE programmes to submit their proposal online. The main tasks related to this project are: coordinating external providers, collecting requirements, producing and verifying technical and business documentation, change management, testing, SLA management (service level agreement), risk analysis, planning and scheduling.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Project manager for an IT project (web application in ASP.NET 3.5, C#) for Ontex.Leading a small development team (3 people); reporting to the steering committee. Business and technical analysis.The main tasks related to this project were: creating project offers, producing business and technical analysis, analysing business and use cases, coordinating clients, collecting requirements, producing and verifying technical and business documentation, change management, testing, risk analysis, planning and scheduling.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Senior Software Engineer in ASP.NET 2.0 (C#) for a web application interacting with SAP system (Governance, Risk, Control modules), putting in place all methodologies and artefacts ensuring the quality of the project life cycle (Business Requirements, Unit and Integration Tests, Parallel Development with Team Foundation Server) and playing in first line the architectural role (three tiers application, choice of NHibernate framework).

Brussels Area, Belgium

Project manager of ARS/PRS (an application and database containing all Parties, i.e. customers having commercial relations with the Post, and all Agreements) leading a team of 5 people and coordinating communication with 20 other applications (using web services of ARS/PRS) and following the PMF (Project Management Framework) concepts and the Software Development Methodology (standard at Post-ICT).Managing the interaction with applications of “Banque de la Poste” and related business concepts in order to ensure invoicing and customer management and reflect IBAN changes in ARS/PRS.Main tasks were: managing the planning of every release, people (resources) management, managing the business requirements and the relationship with the business department, improving the relationship with the other project managers, managing the project scope, taking care that all the planned deliverables were completed on time.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Project management of RAPID. Analyst-programmer for new workflow developments using Java and .NET framework technologies and Oracle database.Main tasks were: coordinating the development team, reporting to the head of unit on the project status, managing the business requirements, being the interface between all the stakeholders and the development team.DG COMM works under the authority of the European Commission’s President with the following mission:• to inform the media and citizens about the activities of the Commission• to communicate the objectives and goals of its policies and actions• to inform the Commission about the evolution of opinion in the Member StatesIn order to accomplish its mission, DG COMM runs successfully a number of information dissemination services. One of these services, related with the collecting, processing and publishing of Press Releases is RAPID service.The RAPID database contains all the Press Releases of the Commission since 1985, the great majority of them in at least two languages. It also contains Press Releases of some of the other European institutions, particularly the Council of the Union. Press releases of the Commission are available in at least English and French (the working languages of the Commission Press Room), while many of the Press Releases are available in all EC languages.The main goal of RAPID service is to provide users with the most flexible way of searching and retrieving the documents in different formats.

Florence Area, Italy

Maintenance and development of new parts of the Millewin (software application processing medical and health care records) developed in Power Builder: development of an objects’ class in order to manage data export to Millepocket programme.Two modules OCX developed in Visual Basic (using class MsMapi ) to do automatic sending (or with confirmation) of e-mails from Millewin.DLL developed in Visual C++ for crypt data to be attached to emails that are sent to the C-Care server.Full library OCX developed in Delphi to manage (create, modify) XML documents.Delphi program to make Autorun of installation CD: the application runs at CD insertion and by means of a browser allows displaying news, offers and the buttons allow upgrade or installation of the new Millewin version.Delphi application to manage an Access DB (access to DB made by ADO technology). DB developed to manage medical/scientific terms used by Millewin and to create a flexible exchange data interface (XML).Development and management of Millepocket (application Pocket PC interfacing with MilleWin) in Visual Basic .NET and a SQL Server CE database. Management of a team of 2 persons for software maintenance, management of the project’s timing and collaboration with the sales department in order to launch the service onto the market. Planning of a test team and managing test list (complete tests list, new tests list, non regression tests list).Project responsible for the C-CARE European project: this was a project for creation of one server managing security reception and transmission of health and hospital case sheets. Use of XML for information exchange and DTD for data similarity.

Milan Area, Italy

Creation of an application managing data brought by the sales representatives working for the Debora Cosmetics company.It is developed in Visual Basic under Windows 2000 and SQL Server DB.Translation of functional specifications into technical specifications. Managing of a developing team of 3 persons.

Milan Area, Italy

Analyst-programmer in Delphi 5 and J-Builder 3: analysis and development of remote banking application software.Development and management of the programme SeceCBI in Delphi and creation of a web client in Java.

Milan Area, Italy

Customer service manager in Network Management: computer system managing and controlling optical fibre telecommunication networks.Computer system of performance, measure and alarm for the telecommunications network system: operating system Unix, database Oracle, programming language C++. Experience in full installation of the system and client assistance.

Florence Area, Italy

Analyst-programmer: programming language: CVMac belonging to Computer Vision which is specific for the automation of CAD design.

Florence Area, Italy

Computer expert with the specific role to digitalise territorial maps out from raster maps (manual digitalisation) and transformation of vectored maps into maps with altitude information (matrix altitude maps). Creation of applications with algorithms in Fortran (under operating system VAX-VMS) to automation of digitalisation.

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Education record

Master (Bac+5), Engineering

Electronic engineering - Specialisation in telecommunication

Education record