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Brussels, Be

Brussels Area, Belgium

Smals is an IT company working for the social and health sector in Belgium.Application Development and Projects is a group of about 600 people among the 2000+ employed by the company. This includes project leaders, analysts and developers, the architecture team, methodology, support functions and testing.

Professional photographer as a secondary activitySpecialized in corporate missions, events, portrait, concerts, sportsMain editor and owner of the Photography Wiki

in charge of quality strategy and deployment, focused on development (design) using DFSS as a framework. Training and follow up of black belts/green belts activities.

In charge of all audit activities related to the Business Creation Process (all disciplines: business intelligence, marketing, technology, development, HRM, supplier management, quality,....).International responsibility: all sites involved - very active in the Far East and in Europe mainly.Other related responsabilities: benchmarking, process improvement, supplier assessment.

In charge of all technology/innovation related activities for the Philips TV organization. This includes technology roadmapping, project management, links with business lines, product management, research and development, managing the whole innovation programme.Involved technologies are: picture processing, audio, display technologies, power supplies, design/mechanics, environmental aspects, connectivity, software, architecture...

In charge of both product and process quality in an R&D environment of a large activity (TV) within the PHILIPS group. Included activities: process improvement strategy (product/business creation process) - multidisciplinary, process auditor using different models (lead auditor CMM, auditor EFQM, BCP - internal PHILIPS model, large project audits), product quality: reactive (coached complex problem solving, prioritizing activities) and proactive (robustness, FMEA, quality by design)...Function started as a black belt.

Managing a complex multisite embedded software development group. Started in the function with a team of 20 engineers, managed the growth (size, organization, process maturity) to a team of approximately 160 people split over several sites (Belgium, the Netherlands, India-Bangalore, several subcontractors: UK, US,...) with 80 direct reportees. The team included software engineers, project leaders, group leaders, software architects, test engineers, process specialists, support engineers...CMM has been used as a framework to implement process improvement. Has "upgraded" the group from CMM level 1 to CMM level 3 in four years time.All other classical managerial aspects covered: roadmapping, strategy, people management, competence management, budgetting, planning,...

General Manager of a start up business unit providing professional solutions in the following domain areas:- information security: access control, electronic signature, certification and certificate management, electronic tokens integration (digipass, floppy disk , smart cards,...), TRDs (tamper resistant devices), encryption techniques (DES, RSA etc...)- voice controlled applications, speech recognition based on specific hardware developments (DSPs) and specific algorithms on PC telephony platforms, voice mail and tailored applicationsSize 35 people, turnover 3 million EUR /year, evolved from a huge loss to a break even situation in 4 years.

Started the CD-I (compact disc interactive) commercial activities in Belgium. Set up a multimedia studio, starting from negociations with shareholders, setting up the technical aspects, to acting as a board of directors member. Managed a number of multimedia projects based on several technologies (CD, Laserdisc).

Executive Master In Management, Business Management

Ir. (Master), Electromechanics

Master of Science Major in Computer Science, Electronics

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