Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium
25 years of IT leadership experience with consistent track record of driving increased levels of productivity, profits and internal /external customer satisfaction. Leader in transformation management implementing solutions that reduce TCO, deliver a strong ROI, and improve the quality and the performance. Learning agility having worked in various fields with international footprint. • IT roadmap management. • Finance management (P&L, cost reduction), performance management. • IT Risk and Compliance management. • IT security management (cybersecurity, ISMS) • KYC (KnowYourClient), KYT(KnowYourTransaction) • Vendor management (sourcing strategy with outsourcing, Onshore/Offshore model, contract negociation). • Process Improvement & best practices: Lean, 6-Sigma, Activity Based Costing and Management (ABC/ABM), BPM, ITIL, CMMi, Cobit. • Structured & agile methodologies: Prince2, TOGAF, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban,... • Portfolio/Program/Project Management. • Large scale deployments, digital transformation management • Certifications: Prince 2 (certified practitioner), CFA foundation
Consulting in: ✓ Portfolio / Program (/roadmap) management. ✓ Transformation, restructuring & reorganization with a key emphasis on IT. ✓ Compliance, risk and security management. ✓ Sourcing strategy. ✓ IT Contract negotiation. eg: - Program management : data management transformation with migration to Azure Cloud and AI / ML enablement. - Transformation : Provided support for the introduction of Agile in IT, offering coaching to EPIC Delivery Owners / Project Managers (Technology & Business Application department). - Program management: Governance for the application roadmap representing the technology department in key initiatives such as Asset Modernisation and the Central Bank Money Program. - Compliance, risk and security management: Led the implementation of an automated operational process for IT asset security hardening, overseeing the end-to-end service encompassing people, process, and technology required to operate the security configuration control with compliance check automation and implemented a reporting dashboard (KPI/KRI). - Program management: Improvement of transversal production practices. - Manage LxP transformation with RFI /RFP.
✓ Managed the transformation and the digitalization of the core banking systems with introduction of Azure Cloud and SaaS. ✓ Managed the transformation of the risk management platform revising modeling and profiling approach (KYC). ✓ New Front-End development for branches based on low code management platform. ✓ Reviewed the resourcing strategy. Agile Management of teams with major reorganizations (250+ FTEs). ✓ Lead the contract negotiations (Core Banking and Risk Management Platform).
✓ Managed Risk and Compliance IT Services. ✓ Managed a new client profiling approach (KYC -Know Your Clients), new AML platform (KYT - Know Your Transactions) with risk management approach (profiling and modeling).
Team Manager in a banking company mainly providing retail and private banking services. ✓ Plan and manage IT Roadmap controlling the spending and being responsible for high efficient and effective delivery agreed with different business units. ✓ Manage rationalisation, consolidation and modernisation of banking infrastructures and applications. Transformation, digitalisation and security initiatives. Core Banking Renewal. ✓ Implementation of an agile delivery organization based on SAFe dedicated to application developments. ✓ Improved the testing strategy using adequate tooling and methodology resulting in a strong decrease of client complaints by 40% in one year. ✓ Improved the portfolio management, developed metrics for executive management team to gain foresight into project trends, providing capabilities to better govern the portfolio. ✓ New digital marketing & channel strategy (KYC).
Program Manager (Senior Consultant) at ENGIE (Belgium & France) leading complex IT transformations, involving digital technology and other business disciplines in an international environment. ✓ Orchestrated the implementation of enterprise-wide systems on 6 Data Centers supporting around 100+ thousand users, leading successful ICT consolidation and transformation (servers and desktop virtualization reducing operational costs by more than 30%). ✓ Managed multiple application migrations. ✓ Lead of contract negotiations related to global storage solutions with introduction of Storage-as-a-Service (SaaS) resulting in an achievement of multi-M€ gains (worldwide contract).