Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Walloon Region, Belgium
A technical mind-set with a strong functional focus aiming to deliver products meeting customer's expectations. 39 years' experience in development of IT solutions, across different industries. The last 15 years in financial messaging. Capable of handling all dimensions of product management and development: - Creative, analytical: understand customer requirements and identify product features - Commercial mind-set: maximize customer's value proposition against budget - Lead: drive the various stakeholders to monitor development and deliver the solution - Communicator: synthetic presentations, white papers, events/seminars speaker - Result oriented: goto market activity, customer feedback analysis Many commercial successes achieved (see experience section).
Mix of Product Manager and Analyst roles for Alliance Messaging Hub, SWIFT interface product used by high-end customers to connect their back-end systems to multiple networks (SWIFT, SIX, ...). Involved in the functional evolution of the interface, mainly related to the adoption of ISO 20022 messaging standards for the different market infrastructures connected to SWIFT network. With a particular focus for SWIFT CBPR+ migration to ISO 20022, but also other market infrastructure migrating to ISO20022.
Main product manager for SWIFT Alliance Access/Entry, SWIFT flagship interface product, used by 2500 customers worldwide to connect their back-office systems to SWIFT network. Numerous interactions with SWIFT customers to understand how to evolve the product (surveys, discussion papers, user group meetings). Definition of many functional enhancements on the product, managing their delivery through releases 6.2, 6.3 and 7.0. Supporting sales to promote customer's adoption of these enhancements (author of white papers published on SWIFT.com, sales presentations). Some key commercial successes: - Database Recovery (ensuring business continuity and no message loss in case of major incident) - Connector for T2S (component facilitating the connectivity of TARGET2 for Securities actors (CSDs, NCBs, large FIs) over SWIFT network)
Product Manager of Alliance Messenger, SWIFT initial browser based GUI delivery for Alliance Access product. Managed the product evolution to become the complete functional replacement of 15+ years old Windows based GUI of Alliance Access. Branded as Alliance WebPlatform nowadays.
Head of product development at SIDE, a startup company created to develop SWIFT add-ons. Lead the design and development of a new portfolio of SWIFT Alliance add-ons (Reporting, AML Filtering, Duplicate Detection, ...) Sold to 300+ SWIFT customers worldwide.