Program / Project Manager - Process Improvement Coach at EDS
Antwerp Area, Belgium
Program / Project Manager - Process Improvement Coach at EDS
Antwerp Area, Belgium
Senior software engineer with 20 years experience in innovative, multinational environments. Successfully implemented QA and SPI programs in a fast changing organisation and market. Strongly dedicated to improve the quality, the predictability, and the productivity of software development projects. Eager to learn, keeping pace with new software technologies, distributing knowledge inside the teams. Translating business requirements into IT solutions.
Software Process Improvement, Software Quality Assurance, CMMI, Project Management
PRINCE2 certified practitioner P2R/187339 (2006-11-10)
Software Engineering, Software Reengineering, Tool Development, Software Metrics
Software Architecture, UML modelling (business domain, analysis & design)
OO programming languages Java, Python, Ruby, C++
Sun Certified Java Programmer 1.4 (2005-07-14)
unix development
web development html, css, php, mySQL
agile software development, agile management
(Management Consulting industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Vlaamse Overheid (Flemish Government):
Project Manager Identity Management projects
Project Manager Flemish Fiscal Platform
VDAB (Flemish Public Employment Service):
Program Manager Master Data Management
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Management Consulting industry)
October 2006 — June 2007 (9 months)
Introduction of a Prince2 based project management methodology including portfolio and demand management
Introduction of Project Management tools Niku Clarity, Open Workbench
Set up a Project Management Office (PMO) for Fortis Operations Accounts, Customers & Channels
Coaching project managers, change managers and demand managers
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AXA; Banking industry)
May 2006 — September 2006 (5 months)
Within the SEPG team, participate in the Process Improvement Programme of the IT organisation (400 people), moving towards CMMI level 3.
· Create and maintain the “Process assets” of the organisation
· Promote the process improvement programme and engage other members of the organisation
· Coach project teams, the quality assurance group, and any other group that uses the organisation's processes
· Worked on following process areas: Requirements Engineering, Process Management, PI program, Software Development Lifecycle tailoring, Defect Classification, Organisational Training
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ALA; Telecommunications industry)
December 2000 — November 2005 (5 years )
Define, manage, and execute Software Process Improvement (SPI) projects
Introduce/change processes, procedures & tools
Prepare CMM assessments
Define, implement & analyse software development metrics
Examples of process areas: software project management, software estimation, defect tracking, root cause analysis, coding standards, review techniques & tools, introduction of new developers
Belgian consortium coordinator and Alcatel project leader for ITEA SERIOUS project, a European research project on Software Evolution and Refactoring
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ALA; Telecommunications industry)
March 1997 — December 2000 (3 years 10 months)
Introduce new software technologies:
- Object-oriented analysis and design, object-oriented programming (Java, C++)
- Rational Unified Process (RUP), iterative development
- use cases, requirement management
- Unified Modelling Language (UML)
- Software Architecture
RUP coaching in Alcatel projects
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ALA; Telecommunications industry)
August 1991 — March 1997 (5 years 8 months)
Development, introduction of and support for software development processes, methods and tools
- static code analyser
- development environment for SDL (Specification & Description Language) design, codegenerator from SDL to C/C++
- Unix Interactive Development Environment (IDE)
Tools integration (Alcatel + commercial tools)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ALA; Telecommunications industry)
February 1986 — August 1991 (5 years 7 months)
Development, support, and maintenance of tools: compilers, assemblers, code generators
Compiler expert of inhouse compiler, support 700 designers, port to MVS, Vax, Solaris, front- and mddle-end adaptations, development of compiler regression test suite
post-graduate , Information Technology , 1998 — 2000
master , engineering, electronics, control techniques , 1980 — 1984
1974 — 1980
European SEPG, reviewer