2009 to date

Marsh
Marsh is the largest international broker (38.000 employees). Marsh Technology EMEA section Brussels develops and maintains the backoffice fiduciary software for the European, African and Eastern Europe subsidiaries. There are 25 countries and 8000 users.

2011 to date

Project Manager for the Eurosys MF back-office application
In charge of project management, third level support, Train the Trainer in all supported countries, testing, communication between business and IT, reporting to top management.
Non-exhaustive list of projects implemented.
• 2019 : Intergration of several offices in several countries, due to the bougth of JLT by Marsh
• 2018 : Migration of Bulgaria, Zambia and Uganda on the common back office MF application.
• 2018 : Implementation of link with the Electronic invoicing platform PEPPOL.
• 2017 : GDPR for all countries
• 2016 : Implementation of link with front-end platform WIMS for Nordic countries.
• 2015 : Implementing the SEPA electronic internal module in Italy
• 2014 : Migration of South Africa on the common back office MF application.
• 2014 : Migration of the electronic bank payment and direct debits to the SEPA world
• 2013 : Follow-up of the windows 7 migration for the Belgium office (370 staff member) Developping of a PHP website to give support to users.

2011-2012

Project Manager & Team Leader
Marsh has bought an application to manage the policies of consumer and affinity insurances. The application allows also building and maintaining web sites for direct selling.
My role is to manage the team and projects related to this application.
It has been rolled out in Belgium, France and UK.
Annual budget around 2.000.000€
• Application: Cleva
• Language: Java and PHP
• Database: Oracle

2009-2011

Project Manager for the Eurosys MF back-office application
2009-2010: Migration of several countries on the common back office MF application.
• Croatia
• Serbia
• Roumania

Tools

System: IBM Mainframe Z13; CICS; STICS, STI
Database: VSAM
Programming Languages: COBOL, FOCUS
Office Software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Ms Project, Lotus notes, Visio

2005-2009

Geie Cetelem (BNP Paribas Personal Finance)
Cetelem is active in consumer credit. It is present in more then 20 countries. In Belgium, Cetelem has established joint ventures with FIMASER (Carrefour) and Pinto (KBC) to sell credit products. Cetelem Geie includes all services, including IT, which are shared between 3 companies. The Belgian IT department gives support to several groups of users.

2009

Head of IT Development Back-Office & Front-Office
The Front-Office team of 6 people is managing the application to sell consumer credit in the shops. Main project of 2009 for both teams: Cetelem bought in 2008 the company Fidexis. 2009 was devoted largely to the migration of the Fidexis IT system to the Cetelem IT system. The migration is scheduled for September 2009. The cost of the project is estimated to 160 man-month of work.

2005-2009

Head of IT Development Back-Office
Managing a team of ten people in charge of the Back-Office application for consumer credit in Belgium. In charge of planning, estimates, monitoring expenses, recruiting new staff for the team. Project Manager for large IT projects. Involved in the analysis of IT solutions. Non-exhaustive list of projects implemented.
• 2005-2006: Putting in place the management of credit cards transactions of VISA and MasterCard cards in link with the MF application.
• 2005-2006: Starting up the new credit card brand ‘AURORA’ for in-house credit cards
• 2006-2007: Starting up the new credit card "VISA DE CARREFOUR" with several types of payment options at the check-out.
• 2008: On line consultation of the BNB (from the Mainframe using MQseries.
• 2008: Link between Front-Office and Back-Office systems via CTG. (CICS transaction gateway)

Tools

Environment: IBM Mainframe CICS, Principia software, MQSeries
Data Base: DB2
Programming languages: COBOL
Office Software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, Lotus Notes, Visio

2005

Outsourced by Marsh to Capgemini
Marsh has decided to outsource its IT at Capgemini. All the staff followed the Belgian mainframe at Capgemini. My main task was to transfer knowledge to the Capgemini staff.

1993-2005

Marsh Technology EMEA
Marsh is the largest international broker (38.000 employees). Marsh Technology EMEA section Brussels develops and maintains the software for the European, African and Eastern Europe subsidiaries. There are 25 countries and 8000 users.

2002-2005

Application design Authority: Analyse with users and developers different projects and change requests.
Biggest project: Feasibility study to improve the MF applications
-Change database from VSAM to dB2
-Access to the applications via web-browser
-Make application more component based

2000-2002

Project Manager: To follow-up of the development and deployment of a new system to manage premiums and claims for credit insurances. XML link with the mainframe accounting system. Cost 2.000.000 €
Systems: NT, Silverstream, and Actuate
Database: Oracle
Programming language: JAVA

1997-2000

MF application Team Leader: Team in charge of the budget application and the accounting applications (GL and fiduciary)
-Business and design authority. User contact and support.
-Manager of a team of 5 persons: day-to-day running of the team (planning and budget)

1994-1997

MF application Team Leader: Team in charge of the budget application and the GL accounting applications
-Business and design analyst: development of EDI with banks, development of the vendor application and development of EDI for the corporate reporting.
-Coaching of one developer

1993-1994

MF application Analyst for the budget application
-Design analyst and developer of the corporate and revenue budget.

1993

MF application Developer

Tools

System: IBM Mainframe 390, R36; CICS; STICS, STI
Database: VSAM
Programming Languages: COBOL, FOCUS
Office Software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Ms Project, Lotus notes, Visio

1991-1992

Officer in the Air Force: Telecommunication and Electronics Section (SCRT/TE), Design of a Database.

1988-1991

Electrical Civil Engineer, Université Catholique de Louvain.
Section microelectronics.
Thesis: Systolic Architectures,
Design of a microprocessor to calculate a division and its communication protocol.
Degree: distinction

1984-1988

Kandidaat der Toegepaste Wetenschappen aan de Katolieke Universiteit Leuven.

1981-1984

Scientifique A (Onze Lieve Vrouw College Antwerpen)

1978-1981

Latin-Math (Onze Lieve Vrouw College Antwerpen)

1987-1988

Complementary Master in Information Technology

2018

Certified Scrummaster

2009

Time management

2007

Project management

2006

PENTA : people management

French, Dutch

Bilingual

English

working language up to 80%

German

School knowledge

Social

-12 years in Scouting (including 2 as a scout leader)
-Active in scouting
-During 5 years responsible of the renting of a party room

IT non professional knowledge

-PHP, HTML, JAVA, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, forth, assembler

Hobbies

-Reading, swimming, jogging, cycling, gardening, woodworking and do-it-yourself.