Director Development and Projects at Smals
Brussels Area, Belgium
- Current
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- Director Application Development and Projects at Smals
- Photographer at Guy Van Hooveld Photography
- Past
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- Director Development Quality - Master Black Belt at Philips Consumer Lifestyle
- Director Audits at Philips Consumer Electronics
- Innovation Manager at Philips
- Development Quality Manager at Philips
- Director Software development at PHILIPS
- Sales & Marketing Manager at Philips Professional Systems
- Project Manager at Philips Consumer Products
- Education
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- Solvay Business School
- Université libre de Bruxelles
- AEB
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Guy Van Hooveld’s Summary
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life - Confucius.
Experienced director in the technology sector, software engineering/IT, change management, people management, innovation, quality and business excellence.
Languages: fluent in French, Dutch and English, reasonable knowledge of German
Guy Van Hooveld’s Specialties:
A passion for technology management, innovation, software engineering/development, people management, quality/process management, auditing (CMM, EFQM,...), general management of small companies, relations with local authorities (Subsidies), international project management, master black belt (MEDIC/DMAIC, DFSS)
Guy Van Hooveld’s Experience
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Director Application Development and Projects
Smals
(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2009 — Present (4 months)
Smals is an IT company working for the social and health sector in Belgium.
Application Development and Projects is a group of about 350 people among the 1500 employed by the company.
This includes project leaders, analysts and developers, the architecture team, methodology, support functions and testing. -
Photographer
Guy Van Hooveld Photography
(Photography industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Professional photographer as a secondary activity
Specialized in corporate missions, events, portrait, concerts, sports -
Director Development Quality - Master Black Belt
Philips Consumer Lifestyle
(Public Company; PHG; Consumer Electronics industry)
January 2008 — March 2009 (1 year 3 months)
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.
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Director Audits
Philips Consumer Electronics
(Public Company; Consumer Electronics industry)
August 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 5 months)
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. -
Innovation Manager
Philips
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
May 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 3 months)
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... -
Development Quality Manager
Philips
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
January 2002 — March 2004 (2 years 3 months)
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. -
Director Software development
PHILIPS
(Public Company; PHG; Consumer Electronics industry)
October 1997 — December 2001 (4 years 3 months)
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. The group was "upgraded" 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,... -
Sales & Marketing Manager
Philips Professional Systems
(Public Company; PHG; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1993 — 1997 (4 years )
General Manager of a small BU 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 applications
The department was about 35 people, and moved from a huge loss to a break even situation in 4 years. -
Project Manager
Philips Consumer Products
(Public Company; PHG; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1990 — 1994 (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).
Guy Van Hooveld’s Education
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Solvay Business School
Cepac Post-grad Management , Business Management , 1996 — 1997
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Université libre de Bruxelles
Ir. (Master) , Electromechanics , 1978 — 1983
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AEB
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Guy Van Hooveld’s Interests:
New technologies Traveling around the world Photography (member Fred Miranda, NikonCafe, NikonPassion, photosig) Mathematical puzzling (World Puzzle Championship)
Guy Van Hooveld’s Groups:
SPIder, NikonPassion, World Puzzle Championship
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Galilei Belgium -
Association des Ingénieurs sortis de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (AIrBr, ULB, Belgium) - Alumni -
Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, & Lean Group -
Photography Industry Professionals -
CMM - Integrated (CMMI) -
Global Lean & Six Sigma Network -
Former and current Philips employees -
Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) Performance Practitioner's Forum -
Belgian Interim-management / Freelance network members -
EFQM Experts Group -
MediaWiki Users -
Linking Nikon ® D-SLR Camera Users -
Nikon Professional -
Belgian IT Network -
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Lean Six Sigma and DFSS for IT and Software Engineering -
Lean Enterprise Benelux
Guy Van Hooveld’s Honors:
IBM award 1983 for best Thesis in computer science
International Math Olympics finalist 1977
World Puzzle Championship - mathematical puzzling (world final) 2000-2005
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