Keywords
Skills
II. SUMMARY
Started as a programmer and software engineer, I quickly realized that IT is not a goal on its own, but a means. Being a professional in IT means understanding what it takes to act and co-operate with the business departments (like sales, finance, marketing, customer service, production, distribution, logistics, …), to analyze, design, architect and implement information systems in such a way that they bring value to the organization.
I’ve been able to practice these skills in the different corporate roles during my career. My objective is to continue leveraging my experience, in a team, in the field of Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence / Big Data / Corporate Performance Management. This experience ranges from project management/analysis/design/architecture to implementation/systems management/testing/release into production.
I’m thrilled by the opportunity to translate my current IT – and business knowledge into a real value proposition for a customer.
III. EDUCATION
2008-2009: Programma “Corporate Performance Management” (Ehsal Management School - Hogeschool Universiteit Brussel)
1997-1998: Postgraduaat Bedrijfsbeleid (Vlekho Brussels)
1983-1988: Industrial Engineer Electronics, specialisation VLSI (chipdesign)
KIHA Antwerpen (Don Bosco)
1977-1983: ASO, Latijn-Wetenschappen
College van het Eucharistisch Hart (Essen)
Trained in:
• IBM Big Data Fundamentals Bootcamp, leading to certificate N32 - IBM Big Data Technical Mastery Test v1 (4 days in ‘13)
• IBM PureData System for Analytics (Netezza) Bootcamp, leading to certificate M87 – IBM Netezza Technical Mastery Test v1 (not yet obtained) (4 days in ‘13)
• IBM PureData System for Analytics (Netezza) Advanced Bootcamp (4 days in ‘13)
• IT Works – Mastering the Requirements Process (’07)
• ITIL Foundation Class (’06)
• Enterprise Data Architectures – SAI workshop (’05)
• UML (’05)
• Prince2 Foundation – Kluwer Opleidingen (’04)
• Projectbeheersing en projectmatig werken – Adecon (’02)
• Business Objects Web Intelligence system administration course (’99)
• Project Management (’98)
• Data Warehouse in the Telecommunications Industry (’98)
• Architecting Highly Scalable Solutions (’97)
• Oracle Data Warehouse & OLAP solutions (’97)
• C++ (‘93)
• Software Engineering (‘90)
• UNIX & C (‘89)
Additional courses on:
• AI & Expert Systems (‘90); LAN (‘91); Oracle7 Server, i.e. DBA, PL/SQL (’95); Oracle Development Tools, i.e. Forms, Reports, Graphics, Power Objects (’95); Oracle Internet Solutions, in depth training in Oracle US on Oracle WebServer (’96); Oracle8 Server (’97); Project Management - Team Leading (\'99); WorldCom e-Business Roadmap (\'00); IT Works e-Business seminars (’00); WorldCom Management Springboard (’00); Team Leading - Performance Management (’01); Software Architectures – SAI evening conference (’05); Verizon Business e-learn courses (’06,’07), i.e. IS applications security awareness, AMP application scanning infrastructure, Prince2; Verizon Business e-learn \"skillsoft\" courses (\'08-‘09), i.e. writing and presenting a business case, cultural awareness - core - building effective intercultural relationships, cultural awareness - business focus - managing from a global viewpoint, cultural awareness - business focus - conducting business with Europeans, presenting your case; Verizon Business e-learn courses (’10-’11), i.e. EMEA VoIP technology overview, Private IP (PIP), Six Sigma, Export Control Laws Training, EVPL CPA back-office, VPLS, Secure Gateway Services, Managed Services PIP, Troubleshooting VRF and VRF Lite, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, CPNI, Global Contracting Tool - Theory and Practice.
Started as a programmer and software engineer, I quickly realized that IT is not a goal on its own, but a means. Being a professional in IT means understanding what it takes to act and co-operate with the business departments (like sales, finance, marketing, customer service, production, distribution, logistics, …), to analyze, design, architect and implement information systems in such a way that they bring value to the organization.
I’ve been able to practice these skills in the different corporate roles during my career. My objective is to continue leveraging my experience, in a team, in the field of Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence / Big Data / Corporate Performance Management. This experience ranges from project management/analysis/design/architecture to implementation/systems management/testing/release into production.
I’m thrilled by the opportunity to translate my current IT – and business knowledge into a real value proposition for a customer.
III. EDUCATION
2008-2009: Programma “Corporate Performance Management” (Ehsal Management School - Hogeschool Universiteit Brussel)
1997-1998: Postgraduaat Bedrijfsbeleid (Vlekho Brussels)
1983-1988: Industrial Engineer Electronics, specialisation VLSI (chipdesign)
KIHA Antwerpen (Don Bosco)
1977-1983: ASO, Latijn-Wetenschappen
College van het Eucharistisch Hart (Essen)
Trained in:
• IBM Big Data Fundamentals Bootcamp, leading to certificate N32 - IBM Big Data Technical Mastery Test v1 (4 days in ‘13)
• IBM PureData System for Analytics (Netezza) Bootcamp, leading to certificate M87 – IBM Netezza Technical Mastery Test v1 (not yet obtained) (4 days in ‘13)
• IBM PureData System for Analytics (Netezza) Advanced Bootcamp (4 days in ‘13)
• IT Works – Mastering the Requirements Process (’07)
• ITIL Foundation Class (’06)
• Enterprise Data Architectures – SAI workshop (’05)
• UML (’05)
• Prince2 Foundation – Kluwer Opleidingen (’04)
• Projectbeheersing en projectmatig werken – Adecon (’02)
• Business Objects Web Intelligence system administration course (’99)
• Project Management (’98)
• Data Warehouse in the Telecommunications Industry (’98)
• Architecting Highly Scalable Solutions (’97)
• Oracle Data Warehouse & OLAP solutions (’97)
• C++ (‘93)
• Software Engineering (‘90)
• UNIX & C (‘89)
Additional courses on:
• AI & Expert Systems (‘90); LAN (‘91); Oracle7 Server, i.e. DBA, PL/SQL (’95); Oracle Development Tools, i.e. Forms, Reports, Graphics, Power Objects (’95); Oracle Internet Solutions, in depth training in Oracle US on Oracle WebServer (’96); Oracle8 Server (’97); Project Management - Team Leading (\'99); WorldCom e-Business Roadmap (\'00); IT Works e-Business seminars (’00); WorldCom Management Springboard (’00); Team Leading - Performance Management (’01); Software Architectures – SAI evening conference (’05); Verizon Business e-learn courses (’06,’07), i.e. IS applications security awareness, AMP application scanning infrastructure, Prince2; Verizon Business e-learn \"skillsoft\" courses (\'08-‘09), i.e. writing and presenting a business case, cultural awareness - core - building effective intercultural relationships, cultural awareness - business focus - managing from a global viewpoint, cultural awareness - business focus - conducting business with Europeans, presenting your case; Verizon Business e-learn courses (’10-’11), i.e. EMEA VoIP technology overview, Private IP (PIP), Six Sigma, Export Control Laws Training, EVPL CPA back-office, VPLS, Secure Gateway Services, Managed Services PIP, Troubleshooting VRF and VRF Lite, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, CPNI, Global Contracting Tool - Theory and Practice.
Project history
April 2013 - current: RSVZ-INASTI (close collaboration with Inno.com)
Function: Enterprise Architect – Data Warehousing, BI, Corporate Performance Management
Project: Define the Corporate Performance Management roadmap for the Federal Social Security Agency RSVZ-INASTI
Highlights: Understand the current AS-IS state;
Assess and document the business – and technical/architecture requirements, put forward and demo possible solutions;
Lead in the definition of the target architecture based on technology standards, company strategy, architectural principles, guidelines and best practices;
Deliver the final Corporate Performance Management roadmap document, describing the migration path from the current AS-IS state towards the desired TO-BE state
Environment: Windows: Oracle SQL Developer, QlikView, IBM Cognos Insight Personal Edition, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g, Quipu (open source data warehouse automation), Pentaho Kettle (open source ETL)
Mac: Omnigraffle Professional, FreeMind, XMind, Parallels Desktop 8, Oracle VirtualBox, Python, RStudio
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4: Oracle RDBMS 11g
Non-technical elements: Data Vault modeling, BI strategy services, metadata strategy, agile data warehouse design
April 1999 – January 2013: Verizon Belgium Luxembourg (former WorldCom BeLux/MCI Belux)
Activity: January 2008 – January 2013: International IT
Function: Lead Business Analyst, working within dedicated projects and planned releases on sales-related applications like Proposal Manager and ConceptWave (P360 project started in 2011):
• Collect and understand business requirements, and effectively communicate with internal teams and external clients to deliver functional requirements like GUI, screen and interface designs (business -, functional – and technical analysis)
• Translate high-level company strategies into IT solutions taking into account the as-is - and to-be IT architecture
• Model applications and processes using standard tools (MS Office) and techniques (sequence diagram, BPM, UML, data flow diagram, use cases, catalogs, …) to ensure IT implementation matches business requirements
• Take ownership of deliverables
• Act as the link between different project initiatives, and as the interface between business units, technology teams and support teams
• Follow-up of additional demands on the business side and of progress on development side, and coordinate between IT - and business departments
• Take initiative towards organizing and facilitating workshops, brainstorming sessions, interviews, meetings, presentations and demos
• Manage change requests to ensure correct implementation in budget and time agreed
• Design, write and execute system –, UAT - and E2E test scenario’s and scripts
• Work within and coordinate internationally dispersed - and offshore teams
• Provide effective and informative weekly progress evaluations in terms of outstanding deliverables and milestones, current status, issues, risks and dependencies
Activity: April 1999 – December 2010: Local IT
Function: IS Applications Manager
• Responsible for the implementation of the DWH/BI application (data warehouse, staging area, data marts, ETL application logic, data access tool) containing the following business areas: voice, data and internet revenue; switch traffic -, trunk - and capacity analysis; order management, customer analysis. Acting as a virtual team leader to roll out the application and to educate the different business departments (finance, sales, marketing, operations, customer service, legal and regulatory, business development, management)
• Responsible for the implementation of the different CRM modules: central customer database, customer - attraction, retention and loyalty; prospect -, opportunity -, contact – and campaign management, …
• Acting as functional and technical leader for the analysis and implementation of WorldCom International projects: SAP feeder, ARBOR Data Billing, Traffic Data Mart, CLI Domain Server, ...
• Manage and implement the functional – and technical deliverables, i.e. data dictionary, relational data model, …
• Being the driver on business -, functional - and technical level for the implementation of the local e-Business projects (web site implementation, partner extranet, wholesales extranet with CLI provisioning and traffic analysis, Carrier PreSelect provisioning application, Belgacom Directory Services provisioning, intranet web applications, …); being the Belgian e-Business champion in the WorldCom International e-Business Roadmap to define a strategy for the transformation of WorldCom into an e-Business company
• Define, plan and implement the WorldCom Belgium IS strategy in line with the company strategy
• Act as project manager for the implementation of projects across different departments, e.g. Uunet Office decommissioning, electronic billing (ETIS), …
• Manage a team of internal people (3) and external consultants
• Received the following awards: Quarterly Performance Award (2000), Employee of the Year Award (2006)
• Technology Used:
==> Oracle: Oracle RDBMS (9i, 10g, 11g), Oracle Application Server (10g, 11g), Oracle Developer & Designer, OBIEE
==> Business Objects 5 and XI: Reporter, Explorer, Designer, Supervisor, WebIntelligence
==> Internet: Apache, Java, JSP, JDeveloper, Oracle BC4J, Oracle XML Developers Kit, XML Pro, SSL with server- and client certificates (PKI), Ubizen WebGuard
October 1998 - March 1999: IB Solutions
Function: Business Intelligence Team Leader
• Consulted on the following Projects:
==> Financial Data Warehouse implementation at Volvo Cars Market Area Europe: Data Access with Business Objects, Platinum InfoBeacon, Perspectives and InfoReports
Development of DWH Expertise Modules: IB Data Manager, IB Fast Unloader, IB Warehouse Manager. In C++ and/or Java.
May 1995 – September 1998: Oracle Belgium
Activity: June 1996 - September 1998: DWH & OLAP group
Function: Senior Consultant
• Implementation of DWH Projects, from Scoping Study and Business Requirements Definition, over Data Acquisition, Data Warehouse- and Meta Data Architecture, Physical Database Design and Build, Tuning, to Data Access Tool Configuration, Training and End-User Support.
• Technology Used:
==> Hard- and Software: UNIX and Windows NT on Sun, Hp, Dell, Compaq
==> RDBMS: Oracle 7 and 8 (with parallelism options)
==> Application Logic: PL/SQL, Designer/2000, Developer/2000, C, OCI, Pro*C
==> Data Access Tools: Oracle Express, Oracle Discoverer 3.0
• Consulted on the following Projects:
==> DWH QuickStart implementation at Vandemoortele, Alcatel Cable de Charleroi and Bekaert Engineering
==> DWH implementations at OPOCE (European Commission), Exxon Chemicals and Carlson Wagonlit Travel
==> Full DWH solution at Europay International in the following functional areas: Authorizations, Clearing, Quarterly Member Report, Revenue
==> General high-level consultancy, mainly DWH Architecture, at Glaverbel, Dieteren, Avis Fleet Services, IBSY Finance Luxembourg, SWIFT, Isaserver
==> Enterprise-wide DWH Scoping Study at Bank Card Company
Activity: March 1996 - May 1996: Advanced Technologies
Function: Senior Consultant
• Short-term oriented missions at customers’ sites, i.e. Oracle7 Server Administration, Installation and Tuning; Oracle WebServer projects (with TextServer functionality and Java applets)
• Development of a driver at Hoogovens Aluminium as an application server between radio terminals and the Oracle7 RDBMS; development of communication interface between Factory Link (MRP application) and the Oracle7 RDBMS and Oracle Developer/2000. In C, PRO*C, OCI, PL/SQL.
Activity: May 1995 - February 1996: Pre-sales
Function: Sales Consultant
• Pre-sales responsibilities for the European Parliament and the Court Of Justice, including sales support, prototyping, presentations in following areas: Oracle7 Server and Development Tools, Oracle Mobile Agents, Oracle Internet Solutions
November 1989 - April 1995: Delaware Computing
Activity: January 1992 - April 1995: Software Engineering sector
Function: Software Engineer
• development C-ISAM library (according to XPG 3) for integration into a 4GL language (emulation IMAGE calls) in C on UNIX
• development OSF/Motif API for “portable user-interface programming”
• Product Manager for JOBWARE, a distributed job-scheduler on UNIX, according to the client/server model, with a GUI (OSF/Motif) and portable to different UNIX platforms (HP-UX, AIX, OSF/1, ultrix, Solaris, SCO, USL SVR4, UnixWare). In C, Lex & Yacc, nroff, sockets-, X- and Motif libraries. HP OpenView integratie via SNMP. MS/Windows user-interface with Visual Basic and connection to UNIX machines via Winsock DLL.
• Product Manager for QX, a product for the development and administration of software in a multi-architectural UNIX environment.
Activity: November 1989 - December 1991: Manufacturing sector
Function: Software Engineer
• CAD product development with EAGLE (graphical development language) and Informix
• CAD project concerning automatic ship-layout with EAGLE & Informix
• CAD support and installation; system administration of Sun (Solaris) & HP (HP-UX) workstations
November 1988 - October 1989: Digipolis – then known as ICA (Informatica Centrum Antwerpen)
Function: Analyst-Programmer
• Analysis and implementation of tax-oriented applications on IBM mainframe 3090. In PL/1, IMS/DB, IMS/DC, CICS
• Implementation of law-oriented applications on Texas Instruments UNIX system
Function: Enterprise Architect – Data Warehousing, BI, Corporate Performance Management
Project: Define the Corporate Performance Management roadmap for the Federal Social Security Agency RSVZ-INASTI
Highlights: Understand the current AS-IS state;
Assess and document the business – and technical/architecture requirements, put forward and demo possible solutions;
Lead in the definition of the target architecture based on technology standards, company strategy, architectural principles, guidelines and best practices;
Deliver the final Corporate Performance Management roadmap document, describing the migration path from the current AS-IS state towards the desired TO-BE state
Environment: Windows: Oracle SQL Developer, QlikView, IBM Cognos Insight Personal Edition, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g, Quipu (open source data warehouse automation), Pentaho Kettle (open source ETL)
Mac: Omnigraffle Professional, FreeMind, XMind, Parallels Desktop 8, Oracle VirtualBox, Python, RStudio
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4: Oracle RDBMS 11g
Non-technical elements: Data Vault modeling, BI strategy services, metadata strategy, agile data warehouse design
April 1999 – January 2013: Verizon Belgium Luxembourg (former WorldCom BeLux/MCI Belux)
Activity: January 2008 – January 2013: International IT
Function: Lead Business Analyst, working within dedicated projects and planned releases on sales-related applications like Proposal Manager and ConceptWave (P360 project started in 2011):
• Collect and understand business requirements, and effectively communicate with internal teams and external clients to deliver functional requirements like GUI, screen and interface designs (business -, functional – and technical analysis)
• Translate high-level company strategies into IT solutions taking into account the as-is - and to-be IT architecture
• Model applications and processes using standard tools (MS Office) and techniques (sequence diagram, BPM, UML, data flow diagram, use cases, catalogs, …) to ensure IT implementation matches business requirements
• Take ownership of deliverables
• Act as the link between different project initiatives, and as the interface between business units, technology teams and support teams
• Follow-up of additional demands on the business side and of progress on development side, and coordinate between IT - and business departments
• Take initiative towards organizing and facilitating workshops, brainstorming sessions, interviews, meetings, presentations and demos
• Manage change requests to ensure correct implementation in budget and time agreed
• Design, write and execute system –, UAT - and E2E test scenario’s and scripts
• Work within and coordinate internationally dispersed - and offshore teams
• Provide effective and informative weekly progress evaluations in terms of outstanding deliverables and milestones, current status, issues, risks and dependencies
Activity: April 1999 – December 2010: Local IT
Function: IS Applications Manager
• Responsible for the implementation of the DWH/BI application (data warehouse, staging area, data marts, ETL application logic, data access tool) containing the following business areas: voice, data and internet revenue; switch traffic -, trunk - and capacity analysis; order management, customer analysis. Acting as a virtual team leader to roll out the application and to educate the different business departments (finance, sales, marketing, operations, customer service, legal and regulatory, business development, management)
• Responsible for the implementation of the different CRM modules: central customer database, customer - attraction, retention and loyalty; prospect -, opportunity -, contact – and campaign management, …
• Acting as functional and technical leader for the analysis and implementation of WorldCom International projects: SAP feeder, ARBOR Data Billing, Traffic Data Mart, CLI Domain Server, ...
• Manage and implement the functional – and technical deliverables, i.e. data dictionary, relational data model, …
• Being the driver on business -, functional - and technical level for the implementation of the local e-Business projects (web site implementation, partner extranet, wholesales extranet with CLI provisioning and traffic analysis, Carrier PreSelect provisioning application, Belgacom Directory Services provisioning, intranet web applications, …); being the Belgian e-Business champion in the WorldCom International e-Business Roadmap to define a strategy for the transformation of WorldCom into an e-Business company
• Define, plan and implement the WorldCom Belgium IS strategy in line with the company strategy
• Act as project manager for the implementation of projects across different departments, e.g. Uunet Office decommissioning, electronic billing (ETIS), …
• Manage a team of internal people (3) and external consultants
• Received the following awards: Quarterly Performance Award (2000), Employee of the Year Award (2006)
• Technology Used:
==> Oracle: Oracle RDBMS (9i, 10g, 11g), Oracle Application Server (10g, 11g), Oracle Developer & Designer, OBIEE
==> Business Objects 5 and XI: Reporter, Explorer, Designer, Supervisor, WebIntelligence
==> Internet: Apache, Java, JSP, JDeveloper, Oracle BC4J, Oracle XML Developers Kit, XML Pro, SSL with server- and client certificates (PKI), Ubizen WebGuard
October 1998 - March 1999: IB Solutions
Function: Business Intelligence Team Leader
• Consulted on the following Projects:
==> Financial Data Warehouse implementation at Volvo Cars Market Area Europe: Data Access with Business Objects, Platinum InfoBeacon, Perspectives and InfoReports
Development of DWH Expertise Modules: IB Data Manager, IB Fast Unloader, IB Warehouse Manager. In C++ and/or Java.
May 1995 – September 1998: Oracle Belgium
Activity: June 1996 - September 1998: DWH & OLAP group
Function: Senior Consultant
• Implementation of DWH Projects, from Scoping Study and Business Requirements Definition, over Data Acquisition, Data Warehouse- and Meta Data Architecture, Physical Database Design and Build, Tuning, to Data Access Tool Configuration, Training and End-User Support.
• Technology Used:
==> Hard- and Software: UNIX and Windows NT on Sun, Hp, Dell, Compaq
==> RDBMS: Oracle 7 and 8 (with parallelism options)
==> Application Logic: PL/SQL, Designer/2000, Developer/2000, C, OCI, Pro*C
==> Data Access Tools: Oracle Express, Oracle Discoverer 3.0
• Consulted on the following Projects:
==> DWH QuickStart implementation at Vandemoortele, Alcatel Cable de Charleroi and Bekaert Engineering
==> DWH implementations at OPOCE (European Commission), Exxon Chemicals and Carlson Wagonlit Travel
==> Full DWH solution at Europay International in the following functional areas: Authorizations, Clearing, Quarterly Member Report, Revenue
==> General high-level consultancy, mainly DWH Architecture, at Glaverbel, Dieteren, Avis Fleet Services, IBSY Finance Luxembourg, SWIFT, Isaserver
==> Enterprise-wide DWH Scoping Study at Bank Card Company
Activity: March 1996 - May 1996: Advanced Technologies
Function: Senior Consultant
• Short-term oriented missions at customers’ sites, i.e. Oracle7 Server Administration, Installation and Tuning; Oracle WebServer projects (with TextServer functionality and Java applets)
• Development of a driver at Hoogovens Aluminium as an application server between radio terminals and the Oracle7 RDBMS; development of communication interface between Factory Link (MRP application) and the Oracle7 RDBMS and Oracle Developer/2000. In C, PRO*C, OCI, PL/SQL.
Activity: May 1995 - February 1996: Pre-sales
Function: Sales Consultant
• Pre-sales responsibilities for the European Parliament and the Court Of Justice, including sales support, prototyping, presentations in following areas: Oracle7 Server and Development Tools, Oracle Mobile Agents, Oracle Internet Solutions
November 1989 - April 1995: Delaware Computing
Activity: January 1992 - April 1995: Software Engineering sector
Function: Software Engineer
• development C-ISAM library (according to XPG 3) for integration into a 4GL language (emulation IMAGE calls) in C on UNIX
• development OSF/Motif API for “portable user-interface programming”
• Product Manager for JOBWARE, a distributed job-scheduler on UNIX, according to the client/server model, with a GUI (OSF/Motif) and portable to different UNIX platforms (HP-UX, AIX, OSF/1, ultrix, Solaris, SCO, USL SVR4, UnixWare). In C, Lex & Yacc, nroff, sockets-, X- and Motif libraries. HP OpenView integratie via SNMP. MS/Windows user-interface with Visual Basic and connection to UNIX machines via Winsock DLL.
• Product Manager for QX, a product for the development and administration of software in a multi-architectural UNIX environment.
Activity: November 1989 - December 1991: Manufacturing sector
Function: Software Engineer
• CAD product development with EAGLE (graphical development language) and Informix
• CAD project concerning automatic ship-layout with EAGLE & Informix
• CAD support and installation; system administration of Sun (Solaris) & HP (HP-UX) workstations
November 1988 - October 1989: Digipolis – then known as ICA (Informatica Centrum Antwerpen)
Function: Analyst-Programmer
• Analysis and implementation of tax-oriented applications on IBM mainframe 3090. In PL/1, IMS/DB, IMS/DC, CICS
• Implementation of law-oriented applications on Texas Instruments UNIX system
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