Profil :
Chef de projet, Directeur informatique, Directeur de projet - né(e) en 1959
Mobilité :
Champagne-Ardenne, Ile de France, Etranger
Disponibilité :
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Profile
Strong charismatic leadership: ability to inspire and lead large international teams (business and IT) towards stretched target (typically multi-million euro programmes)
Demonstrated out-of-the-box and strategic thinking together with pragmatism and result-oriented focus
Strong communication skills (spoken and written)
High sense of ethical behaviour (respect, loyalty, transparency)
Experienced in client-provider type of organisation where IT focus on the needs of the other subsidiaries of the group as their primary clients
Experienced in relationship management with Central Banks, Regulators, Market Committees in the frame of large IT market infrastructure programmes
Experienced in large outsourcing/off shoring deals
Market standard (psychological and career) profiles
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): INTJ profile i.e. more Introversion than Extraversion, iNtuition than Sensing, Thinking than Feeling and Judging than Perceiving;
Birkman life style grid: efficient in conception, vision and strategy, motivated by communication and persuasion, and oriented towards effective delivery
Education
1982 –1983 : Catholic University of Louvain (UCL-Belgium)
Masters in Economics (great distinction)
1977-1981 : Catholic University of Louvain (UCL-Belgium)
Masters in Mathematics (greatest distinction)
Professional curriculum: main achievements
January 2010 – today : Partner in TOPIC IT Advisory & Delivery
Set-up of an IT consulting firm with 4 former colleagues
TOPIC strives for first class services, leveraging tier-1 experience
November 2010 – March 2011: mission for Clearstream Services in Luxembourg : strategic infrastructure project (quality assessment from November to December, high level business requirements from January to March)
June 2011 – September 2011: mission for Clearstream Services in Luxembourg : strategic platform consolidation project (concept paper and high level consolidation strategy)
March 2007 – October 2009: Programme Manager of the 4th and last layer of the new Euroclear Group Single Platform, viz Single Platform Settlement (SPS)
start up of a €190 millions programme
direct management of 8 Senior Project Managers (application and infrastructure) with 60 people spread over Brussels, Paris, London and Amsterdam
global planning of about 40 interrelated projects
continuous optimisation and reengineering (business and technology) of SPS to cope with world financial crisis
this exercise was managed based on extensive usage of Enterprise Architecture (Business Architecture, Application Architecture, Technical Architecture using the MEGA tool)
SPS has been downsized into a €130 millions Single Platform Modules programme with the collaboration of world class IT partners including off shoring (India)
June 2005 – February 2007: Programme Manager of the 1st layer of the new Euroclear Group Single Platform, viz Single Settlement Engine (SSE). Being (largely) an iso-functional programme, the nature of this programme was highly infrastructure related
member of the international taskforce who set up (business organisation and IT organisation) SSE as the first IT Shared Service Centre of Euroclear Group (Brussels, Paris, London)
delivery of a €100 millions programme on budget with a 3-month delay
direct management of 6 Senior Project Managers (application and infrastructure) with a peak of 150 application development and corporate technology people spread over Brussels, Paris and London on top of a large outsourcing deal
delivery of 20 interrelated projects (average 5,000 man-days/project)
relationship management with National Central Banks, Regulators and Market Committees in Brussels, Paris and London
the core of SSE is a long-running kernel (embedded in an asynchronous architecture) able to process 300 Settlement Transactions per second, including real-time replication to the hot back-up centre.
SSE has been recognized as a quantum leap in Financial Technology and is protected by an international patent
management of SSE as the first IT Shared Service Centre of Euroclear Group
January 2004 – February 2005: Portfolio Manager
management of Euroclear Bank projects portfolio (securities settlement, custody, collateral management, risk, financial, cash management)
direct management of 7 Senior Project Managers (application and infrastructure)
about 40 largely independent projects in parallel (500-2,000mdays/project)
during that year I was during 6 months a member of the international Technical Vision and Strategy task force
visit main constructors and big clients’ Technical Centers
choice of the new Euroclear group technical platform to optimize global TCO
migration plan from as-is to to-be group infrastructure
November 2003 – December 2003: Head of international task force
work out common development method and testing strategy for new Euroclear Group (Brussels, Paris, London)
March 2003 – October 2003: member of international task force
representative of Euroclear Bank
work out with Paris and London colleagues the scope of the future Single Platform
work out global architecture and the high level migration path (ball park estimation of total time, budget and risks associated with each migration option)