.Nicolas Van Caster

CIO at Facq

Brussels Region, Belgium

About

Passionate manager and management consultant, combining an engineering background with a passion for the human part of transformations. Result driven and keeping balance between conceptual thinking and hands-on facilitation on the field.

Experience

  • Facq (Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium)
    • Chief Information Officer
      Dec 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    • Quality Manager
      Sep 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

      As Quality Manager I am responsible for the Continuous Improvement & Management System of Facq. With a deep focus on people, processes and customer centricity, the ISO 9001 certification is a consequence rather than a goal.

  • Independent Consultant at -
    Jul 2020 - Present · 6 yrs

    With my past experiences with Agile or Lean methodologies, the design and facilitation of workshops remains one of my favorite things to do.

  • EFESO (2 yrs 9 mos)
    • Manager
      Jan 2020 - Sep 2020 · 9 mos

    • Senior Consultant
      Jan 2018 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      EFESO is a top management consultancy firm with a reputation for providing our clients with a permanent competitive edge. We help our clients realise a seamless connection between strategic thinking and operational excellence: •Strategy development: Do the right things. A holistic perspective built on deep understanding, vision, quality of thought and perspective •Operational excellence: Do the things right. Structured approach and effectiveness •Change management: Engage, accelerate & sustain. Create the climate and evolve the organisational capability to bring permanent innovation EFESO is an international consultancy firm with global reach and local culture. Over 400 consultants with real-world hands-on experience, operating from over 25 offices across the globe, designing and implementing clients strategies and action plans. For more information visit www.efeso.com Empact decided to be part of the international EFESO network enhancing its ability to better service its existing clients, and broadening the possibility to serve new clients. For more information visit www.empact.be

  • Proximus (Brussels)
    • Agile Transformation Manager
      Sep 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

      What begun as organizing some training sessions to create awareness around agile ended up as a full time job. Activities include: - Training of +250 people on the Agile Values & cultural aspects - Facilitating big room planning workshops with +50 participants - Co-creating Agile teams with the employees - Extensive coaching - Maintaining a transformation roadmap - Scrum Master

    • Manager New Services
      Sep 2015 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Coordinating the department’s most innovative projects with: - >€1M budget - >30 people project team’s - executive management sponsorship Staff function - coordinating and evangelizing change - giving soft skill and cultural change trainings - stimulating a positive and out of the box mindset

    • Innovation and project manager in the Applications & Service Platform Department
      May 2014 - Aug 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Part of a management traineeship - organizing benchmarks with other operators for senior management - roadmap definition - project manager of TV Replay - part-time reporting to Customer Centricity Director for strategic projects