Johan Vandijck

Current

Project Procurement Manager - West Africa at Nokia Siemens Networks

Past

TAC RSS at Siemens Communications
Infrastructure engineer at Siemens
Site Surveyor at Siemens ATEA

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Education

Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg
Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg
Nokia Siemens Networks

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Industry

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Johan Vandijck’s Summary

A lot of international experience, especially in Africa.

Johan Vandijck’s Specialties:

Strong points:
- Fast learning
- Flexible
- Organized

Computer program knowledge:
• MS Office, Frontpage, CoffeeCup Html, …
• MS Project, Visio, Coreldraw, Photoshop, …
• AutoCAD, Pro Engineer
• Languages: Perl, C, C++, SQL, dBase, Cobol
• Unix, Linux, Sun Solaris

International Drivers License

Languages:
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German

Johan Vandijck’s Experience

Project Procurement Manager - West Africa

Nokia Siemens Networks

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Responsibility in the projects in West Africa cluster for the Procurement of all services and local materials from external suppliers to provide the needed services within the framework of the Project Management Plan and the Service Procurement strategy in North-West-East Africa Sub-Region.
Manage Supplier Base: Build and manage a competitive service supplier base in the Project by means of:
- Qualifying, building up and maintaining the service supplier base from among the suppliers qualified by SP Category Management or from the local market.
- Evaluating Service Supplier capabilities
- Maintaining the global databases for supplier information, contracts etc. (NOSS)
- Managing phase-out activities
- Coordinating with other Nokia Siemens Networks procurement and purchasing functions and especially with the NWEA Service Procurement and Standardization team.
TAC RSS

Siemens Communications

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

August 2004 — May 2008 (3 years 10 months)

- Gabon (08/04): Upgrade network
- Belgium (10/04): OTS (Core, CM+, FM+, TrM)
- Senegal (12/04): Installation RC + OMT : BR 7.0
- Algeria (02-05/05): Network optimization
- Benin (06/05): SQI + Upgrade
- Luxemburg (08-09/05): GSM extension + UMTS monitoring
- Kenya (10/05): Upgrade RC/BSC & NanoBSS integration
- St-Maarten (11/05): BSC upgrade/optimization
- Niger (01/06): SQI + Upgrade RC/BSC’s
- Senegal (02/06): Network extension
- Mali (03-04/06): PM O&M: RSS & SDH backbone
- Malawi + Burkina Faso: Network Audit
- Burkina Faso (10-11/06): PM RSS upgrade
- Madagascar (12/06): Network SW Upgrade
- Zambia (01-07/07): PM Siemens RSS support
- Congo (08/07): Siemens RSS Upgrade
- Ethiopia (11/07): Nokia Rehoming project
- Belgie (02-03/08): Nokia Flexi Project
Infrastructure engineer

Siemens

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 5 months)

Site survey experience:
- D2/Vodafone - Germany: Munich
- Malitel – Mali (11-12/03): Bamako + Kayes region
- Onatel - Burkina Faso (01-02/04): Ouagadougou + roads
- Malitel – Mali (04/06) : SDH Backbone Bamako – Sévaré
Some general project related experience:
- Offer for different African GSM Mobile and EWSD projects
- Offer for infrastructure (site implementation) part of GSM-R
Project Management :
- Audit and follow-up of subcontractor for the BASE SDH-upgrade
- Design guide & Earthing and Lightning guide for GSM-R
- Compilation of technical requirements for telecom installations: Design works, Civil works, Structural works, Tower & Pole works, Antenna installation and rigging, Housing, Lightning & grounding, Electricity, Transmission
Site Surveyor

Siemens ATEA

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

August 1999 — April 2002 (2 years 9 months)

- Site survey: SAIT - Congo DRC: Kinshasa (3x)
- Complete infrastructure material part for SAIT Congo: Site survey, site design, materialization, installation audit
- Materialisation of several GSM projects: Antenna, Feeder cable, Connectors, Batteries, Shelters, Generators, ...
- Technical support of GSM projects (site design, project follow-up, pre-sales support, ...)

Johan Vandijck’s Education

Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg

Master , Electromechanics Engineer , 1995 — 1999

This study gave me the overall knowledge I wanted to be able to go and do any kind of technical job I wanted after my studies.

Activities and Societies:

Class president and organiser of last years class trip.
Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg

Bachelor , Informatics , 1992 — 1995

This education was my teenagers dream and it turned out to be what I expected of it. This only was not difficult enough to really challenge me. So I decided to continue studying afterwards.
Nokia Siemens Networks

Telecommunication

Official Siemens Certificates:
- SCCA Mobile Radio Maintenance Engineer : BR 7
- SCCA Mobile Radio Maintenance Engineer : BR 8

Training courses:
- Commercial attitude (Erosem)
- Intensive PM training (Vibam)
- Introduction to datacom
- Standardization courses
- Turnkey Process Manual
- Siemens Base Station: RSS & TAC (BR5...BR9)
- OTS (Operation & Maintenance Toolset)
- Wimax (Wireless Broadband Access)
- NanoGSM: Installation, O&M
- SDH (SRA & Netviewer) overview
- Nokia BSS boot camp (BSS essent, troublesh, comm/integr)
- NSN procurement training week