Way of working improvement expert
Brussels Area, Belgium
- Current
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- Estimation and Subject Matter Expert at Atos Origin
- Benelux Partner at Ivar Jacobson Consulting
- Technical Director at Metachannel SA
- Owner at High Octane SPRL (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Software Process Trainer, coach and mentor at AXA
- Enterprise Architect Trainer at Valtech
- Process and Product Quality Assurance and Improvement Expert at Brussels Airlines
- Software Design Trainer at STERIA Benelux
- UML Trainer at Steria
- Methodology Coach at Steria Benelux Sa/Nv
- ICD author for VIS project at Consultant for STERIA
- All the positons... at Various (Sole Proprietorship)
- Architect & Trainer at Expert-IT
- Technical Project Manager at Icon Medialab
- Technical Project Manager at IconMedialab
- Call Center Team Infrastructure Expert / Team Leader at Belgacom
- Technico-Commercial Manager at vasco data security
- Technical Project Manager at Digiline SA
- Education
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- Faculté Polytechnique de Mons
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Philippe Back’s Summary
Pragmatic consultant, effective teacher, proven IT expert and catalyst for change.
Key value proposition: help clients improve their way of working and associated performance, leveraging technology to greatly curtain delivery time.
Can architect, design, implement and roll-out production grade systems in several languages and platforms. This fact alone provides rapid credibility with developer teams that have most of the time become cynical about new approaches.
Attracted clients such as Steria, Atos Origin, Computer Sciences Corporation, Trionis, IconMedialab, the European Commission, Electrabel, Orsys, Valtech, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Netika, Touring, Ivar Jacobson International and over 20 other leading organizations.
Trained hundreds of persons in envisioning, shaping, designing, implementing and rolling out workable information systems leveraging a healthy mix of proven and leading edge technologies.
Convinced that today, technology is not an issue anymore and that the main hurdle is people-centric, namely moving away from compliance and toward commitment, Philippe helps clients improve their performance in that domain.
Understanding and practicing both the business side and the technical side of the equation, he is uniquely positioned to help in improving the way of working of his clients. Typical results are:
* bridged the gap between business and IT successfully
* established environments conductive to performance
* transferred organizational, analytical & technical skills fit for the target environment of the client’s organization
* catalyzed change & made things happen
* got complex specifications structured, agreed upon & accepted
* moved system analysts to the next level
* leveraged leading edge technologies for new business initiatives with success
* stabilized e-platforms in production
* envisioned and delivered no-nonsense system architectures that delivered on the added value
Philippe Back’s Specialties:
Specification authoring, Methodologies, Coding, Hacking, Business Definition, Open Source Expertise, Java Ecosystem Subject Matter Expert. Unified Process, Practices, Software QA, Interactive Marketing, Web Analytics, Podcasting, Audio & Video Advertising.
Philippe Back’s Experience
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Estimation and Subject Matter Expert
Atos Origin
(Public Company; ATO; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2009 — Present (8 months)
Helping improving estimation approaches
Contributing as a SME to a large deal
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Benelux Partner
Ivar Jacobson Consulting
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Evangelizing EssUP (Essential Unified Process), the new practice-based process to the Benelux. This is really something that I do believe in.
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Technical Director
Metachannel SA
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
Dealing with the technical aspects and making everything work together.
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Owner
High Octane SPRL (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2000 — Present (9 years 9 months)
We are a software engineering consultancy.
The purpose of software engineering is to assure the fully integrated development and realisation of software products which meet stakeholders’ expectations within cost, schedule, functionality and risk constraints.
We have an interdisciplinary approach to requirements, analysis & design, implementation, testing, documentation and management of the project effort.
We include most of best practice elements now found in methods such as RUP along with good advice to be found in the "agile" methods.
We focus on the translation of requirements into real, integrated solutions.
To attain the vision, we :
* train people in software engineering concepts and techniques (courses)
* facilitate your workshops and mentor your people (services)
* provide outstanding tools to support such efforts (tools)
We do specialize in helping you win large deals, typically in the EUR 5+ Million range. -
Software Process Trainer, coach and mentor
AXA
(Public Company; AXA; Insurance industry)
September 2008 — April 2009 (8 months)
Review of methodology content and approach.
Consultant and Mentor on Requirements Analysis and Functional Design Disciplines.
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Enterprise Architect Trainer
Valtech
(Public Company; FR0004155885; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Trainer for Sparx Enterprise Architect product line.
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Process and Product Quality Assurance and Improvement Expert
Brussels Airlines
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
October 2007 — June 2008 (9 months)
Enhance integration between systems, enhance process productivity
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Software Design Trainer
STERIA Benelux
(Public Company; NOT DISCLOSED; Information Technology and Services industry)
2004 — 2008 (4 years )
Training analysts in how to perform efficient systems modeling
Training software developers on design principles, the UML
Training consultants on how to perform requirements engineering
Training on the usage of Enterprise Architect
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UML Trainer
Steria
(Public Company; NOT DISCLOSED; Information Technology and Services industry)
2003 — 2008 (5 years )
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Methodology Coach
Steria Benelux Sa/Nv
(Public Company; NOT DISCLOSED; Information Technology and Services industry)
2003 — 2008 (5 years )
Designing and implementing a custom software process based on the Unified Process.
Creation of configuration management plan, software development plan.
Coaching on specification writing and systems modeling
Coaching on design patterns in a pragmatic way
Coaching on how to assign work to software engineers
Implementation of automated build using Maven 2
Implementation of Software Quality Assurance Plan and tools measuring key metrics on the code base along with custom color coding indicators based on tree maps representations.
Restructuring of an existing codebase in modules with proper dependencies (about 400K SLOC total) to be used by Maven.
Interim technical lead putting back on track a key component based using Spring 2, Spring WS, JMS, JTA, Weblogic 9.2, JAXB2, Log4j, XSD, XML
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ICD author for VIS project
Consultant for STERIA
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
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All the positons...
Various (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1992 — February 2007 (14 years 6 months)
August 2000 - Now - High Octane SPRL
Projects, trainings,Software Engineering Products Reseller
STERIA SA - Advisor
IconMedialab Belgium SA - Technical Project Manager
Trainer for Orsys SA, trainings given in Paris, Lyon, Brussels and Luxembourg on:
Trainer for Loop Factory (Belgium)
COM components developer in Visual C++
Aug 1999 - Aug 2000 - Octopus International SA
Consultant within Axa-Royale Belge SA
May 1999 - August 1999 - Space Connection SA - Technical Manager (VB, VC++)
April 1997 - May 1999 - Belgacom SA, Information Services Division
Internet Competence Center/Call Center Hub Competence Center - Team Manager/Call Center Infrastructure Team - Call Center Infrastructure Expert (Unix, Tuxedo)
1996 - VASCO Data Security NV/SA - Technico-commercial manager
1996 - Digipass SA - Technical support for the integration of the Digipass (C, C++, Assembly)
1993 - Digiline SA - Team manager and engineer
1992 - GIPROTA sprl - Computer Shop Manager in Brussels -
Architect & Trainer
Expert-IT
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2006 (6 years )
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Technical Project Manager
Icon Medialab
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year )
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Technical Project Manager
IconMedialab
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year )
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Call Center Team Infrastructure Expert / Team Leader
Belgacom
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
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Technico-Commercial Manager
vasco data security
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year )
Explaining the principles of cryptography and the benefits of using Digipass technology to partners and customers. Integration of libraries into customer solutions. Spent a while in the USA.
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Technical Project Manager
Digiline SA
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1993 — 1996 (3 years )
Philippe Back’s Education
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Faculté Polytechnique de Mons
Civil Engineer , Mechanics, CIM , 1987 — 1992
Spent half of my time studying and the other half selling computers and writing code for paying for the first one. This taught me tech on one side and sales, marketing & business on the other in a rather straightforward fashion.
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Philippe Back’s Interests:
improving the way of working of people and the associated performance, leveraging technology. This means being very heavy on open source usage and pragmatic non-nonsense approaches to achieving goals.
Philippe Back’s Contact Settings
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