Belgium
Results-driven leader with 20+ years of experience in Digital Product Management, IoT, Agile Transformation, and consumer digital experiences. Proven ability to drive innovation, shape customer-centric strategies, and lead globally distributed teams across Product, Engineering, and Design. Skilled in C-level stakeholder engagement and building strategic partnerships.
Leading global IoT strategy and execution for consumer digital experiences across all company brands.
Driving strategy, roadmap and execution for all consumer facing digital products related to IoT, globally, and across all company brands.
In charge for the Internet of Things strategy and roadmap within Major Appliances EMEA.
Driving strategy and execution for mobile Apps (IoT, augmented reality, recipes, catalogs, configurators), digital animations and 3D models, across all brands and product categories within EMEA.
Management of projects and activities related to IoT, Software development, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Responsible for the creation of 2 semi-immersive Virtual Reality systems for visualizing products and environments in 1:1 scale plus a mobile stereoscopic system. Use of advanced visualization technologies to support marketing and sales in promoting new products. Approach to virtual prototyping and semi-immersive simulations in order to easily compare and evaluate different product variants and to speed-up product development, reducing number of physical prototypes and costs.
Designed and developed applications on PCs, embedded PCs and mobile devices in the fields of IoT, Networking, Home Automation, Energy Management and Multimedia. Worked with the following Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista, Windows XP Embedded, Linux Embedded, QNX and Windows Mobile 5. Known languages and technologies: C, C++, C#, Java, ActionScript, Flash, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, SVG, OpenGL, ASP.NET, Altia, OOP and UML. Programming IDEs: Borland C++ Builder, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Eclipse, NetBeans and Macromedia Studio.
Worked in ElectroMagnetic Compatibility laboratory to test electrical appliances against the European standards for disturbances' emission and susceptibility