Laurent Janssens

Current

Senior Programme Mgr coord, as consultant of Altran CIS at Delta Lloyd Life
Senior Lead Consultant at ALTRAN CIS

Past

Quality Assurance Consultant, contracted through Altran CIS at EUROCLEAR
IT Director at SOFICOM
Audit Mgr at Banksys

IT auditor at SNCB - NMBS

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Education

Vlerick Leuven-Gent Management School
ISACA
Universiteit Antwerpen

Faculté Polytechnique de Mons

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Laurent Janssens’s Summary

Being the bridge that establishes smart partnership between IT and Business.

What are the expectations of business for the IT department?
Does IT deliver services that are in line with the business strategy?
What is the value of IT?
Is IT a business enabler or a simple utility?
Who takes the IT decisions?

IT Governance has the objective to repsond to all those questions...
For this, IT'ers should be like chameleons, able to understand the business but ITers should be around the table when strategic decisions are taken (like M&A, new products, etc).

IT Governance is not just the "control" part (even that i have interesting experience to share on this matter, please refer to our article in the IT Cutter journal (january 2007) or Isaca Control Journal (June 2007), it is also the directing part....

Our motto: "being an independant and pragmatic partner of CIO for IT optimisation"

We regularly faciliate workshops with IT executives on those hot topics.

Laurent Janssens’s Specialties:

1) Knowledge of standards, methodologies:
- VAL IT/ISO 38500
- SOX S 404 (see our articles in the IT cutter journal, jan 2007 and Isaca Journal, June 2007)
- COBIT (providing awareness trainings)
- PMI (PMBOK, program Mgt, portfolio Mgt)
- Msp Certification (foundation + practitioner)
- Prince 2
- Cmmi implementation
2) IT governance researches
3) Workshop facilitator on sourcing strategy, strategic planning, PMO implementations, compliancy
4) Trainings on COBIT

Laurent Janssens’s Experience

Senior Programme Mgr coord, as consultant of Altran CIS

Delta Lloyd Life

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Insurance industry)

March 2008 — Present (8 months)

- Establish and maintain the yearly programme plan
- Coordination of the activities of the IT department
- Part of the IT Mgt team
- Reporting to the Corporate steering on state of the projects
- Participate in the ICT task force for the integration (M&A) with Swiss Life Belgium
- Initiate the SEPA project
Senior Lead Consultant

ALTRAN CIS

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2004 — Present (3 years 11 months)

- IT Governance Practice Leader (providing cobit and audit technics trainings, sharing knowledge on It governance (decision processes, PMo, strategic planning, sourcing strategy, etc)
- in manufacturing industry (on the stock exchange), provide advise on the right IT structure and the IT governance mechanisms, to growth appropriately qccording the strategy of this organisation
- Coordinate Sarbanes-Oxley activities in a IT department of 450 ITers
- Implement CMMi in a organization of 450 IT's
- Being Quality Manager for architecture department
- Coach Quality Assurance Coordinators in QA audit technics
Quality Assurance Consultant, contracted through Altran CIS

EUROCLEAR

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

January 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 3 months)

- Implement Review Process
- Improve Evaluation process (PPQA)
- Being the Quality representative in two strategic programmes
- Assessing projects/programmes
- Evaluating the programme governance
- making a project plan for a process improvement programme
IT Director

SOFICOM

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Civil Engineering industry)

July 2001 — November 2004 (3 years 5 months)

Group IT Director at the holding level:.
Develop and maintain the IT strategy.
Select the IT projects and ensures their follow-up
Manage the IT investments/budgets;
Manage operations issues
Audit Mgr

Banksys

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years)

As Auditor
- Plan IT/operational audits, based on COBIT/COSO;
- Report deficiencies to Senior Mgt and do their follow-up;
- Perform It audits

As Security Policy Expert:
- Define the process : "how to manage the process"
- Develop a Security Policy signed off by Board, following BS 7799 and COBIT
- Deploy the Policy in the Whole organization
- Be the representatitive of Banksys in the IBN for WG about Security
IT auditor

SNCB - NMBS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

June 1995 — June 1999 (4 years 1 month)

Laurent Janssens’s Education

Vlerick Leuven-Gent Management School

Financial Mgt 2007 — 2007

Activities and Societies:

Financial Management for non financial managers
ISACA

CISA, 1999 — 1999
Universiteit Antwerpen

M.C.A., Master In Computer Audit, 1997 — 1999

Post University course.

Activities and Societies:

IPO -> UAMS
Faculté Polytechnique de Mons

Ir, Mechanical Engineer, 1989 — 1994

- Stage at a Mobil Oil Company Ltd (Coryton)
- Option: Automatic