Bart Du Bois

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

September 2009 – May 2011 (1 year 9 months)

I was active as an Enterprise Architecture consultant, with a focus on the customization of Enterprise Architecture frameworks.

I prepared and guided courses in software engineering and architecture, among which Enterprise Architecture, development methodologies and SOA:
1. SOA Course @aSteelProducer, Florange, France
2. BPM and workflow seminar
3. Service design and modeling in an SOA @IT Works, Diegem
4. Agile IT platform @De Wendbare Organisatie, Antwerpen
5. The Enterprise Architecture Discovery Workshop, Brussels
6. BPMS at the Government, Brussels
7. EA in practice I - Capabilities as the foundation of organizational change and IT transformation, Brussels
8. EA in practice II: Enterprise modeling – organization, tools, best practices,…
9. 3-day course "Foundations of Enterprise Architecture" @federalGovernmentDepartment
10. EA in practice III: Organize EA governance with limited impact on your organization

My assignments concerned:
a) the creation of an EA vision and the development of an EA metamodel and discipline @elektricityNetworkOperator;
b) preparations for an EA project @social-accounting secretariat;
c) preparing the foundations of an EA practice @governmentAgency;
d) the development of an architecture blueprint @wasteWaterTreatmentOrganization;
e) guiding a pilot EA project @governmentAgency;
f) the development of an architecture blueprint and realization roadmap @fireDepartmentZone;
g) the functional analysis of a reporting tool @batteryRecyclingOrganization;
h) the documentation of the As-Is architecture @domesticWasteManagementOrganization.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CAP.PA; Information Technology and Services industry

September 2008 – September 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Application Architect in the Finances branch of the Application Services department.

Some highlights:
Performed a migration prestudy at a large bank, investigating the potential reduction of the effort needed to move clients to a newer release of a framework that was no longer backwards compatible (relying on automated transformations to a code generator).

Participated in the preparation of an architecture course for another large bank.

Led the start-up of the Service-Oriented Architecture solution, and was responsible for presales in this area.

Contributed to various bids, as subject matter expert as well as editor. My last assignment wa a (succesful) bid on the outsourcing of a large .NET application portfolio, for which I participated in the intake analysis, among others through interviews.

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry

October 2006 – August 2008 (1 year 11 months)

I am participating in the Software Evolution, Refactoring, Improvement of Operational & Usable Systems (SERIOUS) project. SERIOUS is organized in the context of the Information Technology for European Advancement (ITEA) programme. The ITEA programme is today the leading transnational European co-operative R&D programme in software-intensive systems.

The focus of this position is on the knowledge-transfer and the application of existing know-how in an industrial setting.

I am coordinating the contributions of our research group (the Lab On Reengineering, LORE) with regard to the workpackage on Quality-Driven Evolution. More specifically, I am investigating the relationship between internal and external metrics together with national and international industrial partners, and am studying the way refactorings can be used to improve quality.

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry

October 2002 – October 2006 (4 years 1 month)

In my PhD, I have addressed the question of how refactoring affects internal and external program quality attributes. On the one hand, I have performed empirical research on comprehension improvements through the use of refactorings that disentangle the structure of a software system. On the other hand, I have exploited a formalized description of refactorings and software metrics to enable (i) the prediction of the impact of a given refactoring candidate on a number of coupling and cohesion metrics; and (ii) the identification of those refactoring candidates that will improve coupling and cohesion.