Curriculum Vitæ

Professional Profile: currently Senior Program/Project Manager

Jean-Pol’s core competences reside in the definition, the start-up, the management and the roll-out of complex projects requiring the synergy between business strategy, organizational change and IT implementation. His strengths are in his business-oriented vision, his capability of integrating organizational aspects, his broad I.T. knowledge and his charisma to obtain the adhesion of a wide variety of stakeholders. He cumulates creative vision with the capability of putting this vision in concrete form by working out with minutia implementation aspects enabling the project to deliver its expected business benefits.

Jean-Pol possesses a wealth of experience in IT program and project management, tactical and strategic planning, application design and development, system design and operation, selection and implementation of various software packages, system integration, tender production, offers evaluation, systems benchmarking, functional and technical evaluation of IT departments, outsourcing of IT operation, IT security engineering and IT audits.

On the business side he has worked for a broad spectrum of economic sectors, private and public, both pan-European and national. The telecom and energy sectors are well represented among his former customers. He has identified and implemented major improvements to business processes, managed change within and across organizations, lead strategic studies and re-engineered operational activities. He has always subordinated the scope of the IT engagements to well targeted business needs and opportunities and required technological improvements to rest on sound financial and methodological grounds. He pays particular attention to communication at all levels of an organization to ensure a broad buy-in.

His extra-professional interests lie in the fields of chaos, complexity, artificial life and artificial intelligence. He is convinced that organizational engineering as well as microeconomics and macroeconomics have a lot to gain from a better understanding of those domains and from applying their paradigms.

Career Overview: currently Free-lance Consultant (details from next page on)

· Since 06/96	Business & IT Management Consultant (Contract assignments)	IT Cortex s.a. www.it-cortex.com
· 09/94 - 06/96	Senior Manager	Unisys Belgium
· 02/92 - 08/94	Manager	Deloitte & Touche Consultants
· 09/84 - 12/91	Account System Engineer	IBM
· 08/82 - 07/84	Research Assistant – Neural Robotics	University of Maryland at College Park
· 10/81 - 07/82	Micro-processing Engineer	Securitas Group 4
· 08/80 - 09/81	Military Service	Paratroop

Studies:

· 09/75 - 07/80	Electrical and Mechanical Civil Engineer (Graduated with 86.5 %)	Université Libre de Bruxelles
· 09/82 - 07/84	Master of Sciences in Electrical Engineering (A Grade)	University of Maryland at College Park
· 09/87 - 06/88	Complementary Certificate in Management	CEPAC - SOLVAY

Project Management Institute (PMI) member.

Language Skills: Trilingual

ü French (mother tongue)

ü English (professional level writing and speaking skills)

ü Dutch (professional level writing and speaking skills)

Personal Data:

Belgian, married, one daughter

50 years old

Professional Experience (in reverse chronological order):

	Duration	Technical Environment	Customer / Sector
Contract Work – (06/96 – Now) – [Next availability date: January 2009]
Project manager IAM (Identity and Access Management). · Organizational and functional design of all identity and access management processes throughout the corporate organization	01/2008 – 12/2008	Not selected yet	SNCB /NMBS Railroads Transporta-tion
Program manager for coordinating multiple IT projects related to IT security and Identity and Access Management (IAM). · Organizational re-design of all identity and access management processes throughout the corporate organization · Implementation of an RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) system linked with the IAM system to manage authorizations on multiple platforms (using AD, ADAM, edir, SAP authorizations…) through roles and role hierarchies. · Implementation of a meta-directory for managing the identity and access rights of all internal users of the Suez group and provisioning them into multiple target systems (Windows Active Directory, Exchange 2003, SAP Portal, multiple SAP R/3 systems, SAP CUA) using various protocols (LDAP, JDBC, BAPI…) (2,9 M€ project). · Development of a user management extranet to provision users and services into ORACLE Access and to enable delegated user management. This extranet also integrates SAP back-end systems (SAP-ISU, SAP CRM) with other customer extranets. · Full-blown ORACLE Access (previously OBLIX Coreid) implementation for Identity and access management of external users on multiple extranets (with user self-care and delegated care); Tight integration with back-end systems using EAI, Web Services and SAP ICF (1.4 M€ project).	01/2005 – 12/2007 Q2 2007 04/2006 - Q2 2007 01/2006 -06/2006 01/2005 -01/2006	oRBAC Novell edir Novell IDM, iMgr, Novell Access Manager J2EE development ORACLE Coreid, MS ADAM LDAP J2EE, Websphere (WSED)	Electrabel Energy
Project manager: Set-up of a common SAP blueprint for all Electrabel electricity generation plants in Europe	11/2004 – 03/2005	SAP FI, CO, MM, PM, PS	Electrabel Energy
Project Manager: Implementation assessment of SAP-CRM for the Corporate Sales and Customer Service Department.	2 months Ended 27/10/04	SAP-CRM PMI method.	Proximus Telecom (mobile)
Program/Project manager: start up and management of multiple IT projects with significant change management: · In-depth automation of administrative processes for the former ministry of Culture (now part of the Communauté française). The target application is developed from scratch and integrates a workflow system, an electronic document management system and ad hoc developments built around a relational DB, all using J2EE standards. Organization of a public RFP as well as in-depth change management. · Set up of a contact management system (public sector version of a CRM) · Set up of an OCR-based forms reading system · Set up of a pilot project for document management and workflow for the audit department · Development of a facilities database (managing more than 5.000 buildings and their equipment)	21 months Ended 10/09/04	IBM DB2, COBOL, Websphere, J2EE Doccenter (IRIS)	Commu-nauté Française Public Sector
Technical consultant: Consulting in the framework of pres-sales activities and planning of a SAP-ISU implementation for a Utility company in Luxembourg.	1 month	SAP-ISU	Siemens (SBS) IT services
Organization consultant: Definition of all job descriptions in the framework of the spin-off of the I.T. department of a regional government (»100 headcount) into an autonomous entity.	1 month Ended 20/11/02	ITIL	Commu-nauté française Public Sector
Project management and business analysis : inception phases of 2 IT projects (from start-up to tender emission) : 1. Set-up of an object oriented database managing all information related to vehicle conversions & accessories. 2. Set-up of a customer contacts management system	4 months Ended 31//8/02	1. OO DB, 2. package selection RUP method.	Toyota Automotive
IT Manager/Project Manager: Full project lifecycle of a SAP-ISU implementation in a start-up company. Set-up of all customer-related master data. Set-up of billing data and tariffs. Integration with cost accounting. Set-up of the IDE interface. Interface with invoice printing (DOC1). Migration of customer master data from the “Intercommunales”. Preliminary study for the implementation of SAP-CRM. RFP + negotiation for the outsourcing of all IT infrastructure.	4 months Ended: 15/2/02	SAP-ISU (4.62) FI, CO-PA, SD ISU-CCS, DOC1 (print)	Luminus Energy
“Crisis” Project Manager. Ensuring the smooth running of a legacy application producing invoices and managing claims. Catching up with badly delayed invoice production. Managing and harmonizing the relationship between the IT and the user community.	5 months Ended: 30/9/01	IBM MVS, CICS, COBOL, VSAM	Marsh Insurance
Program/Project Manager. Belgian implementation of the corporate IT strategy in the framework of a pan-European rollout of a wireless network (Tetra Standard). Implementation and integration of various software packages: CRM, customer care, billing, financial systems, supply chain management, network management. Pan-European coordination with other subsidiaries. Interconnect requirements and implementation with incumbent operator. Infrastructure management (WANs, LANs, NT environment, MS office applications) to support the growth of the subsidiary. Integration of the IT infrastructure with the Motorola wireless network (network provisioning and billing records collection).	20 months Ended: 19/3/01	VANTIVE GENEVA Tertio MP5 Sunsystems + NT4 + Office Applications, ORACLE CISCO ATM IP switches and routers	Dolphin Telecom Telecom (mobile)
Project Manager. Start-up of a new telecom operator in Germany in “service telephony”. International coordination of the functional and technical design of a web-based application: 1. to collect multiple call information from various network elements (Switch, IN, IP) and to display it onto the Web (via the billing records) 2. to define the call flow logic and to provision the network elements accordingly. Selection of a Telco billing package (EHPT).	7.5 months Ended: 15/5/99	Netscape (application server & web server) ORACLE, NT SUN & HP UNIX IP and X25 connectivity	Lucent Technolo-gies Telecom (service telephony)
Project Manager. Post-implementation of various SAP modules (FI, CO, Purchase, MM and Warehouse Management). Implementation and operation assessment. Supply chain harmonization (IT and organization) requiring the set-up of a workflow between all roles involved along the supply chain.	4 months	SAP FI, CO, MM, PM, PS, NT ORACLE	Distrigaz Energy
Business Consultant: Detailed Design of an IT application aimed at controlling the integrity of the vouchers flows (i.e. achieving coherence between physical, accounting and financial flows). Production of a tender document. Definition and Management of the test and data migration procedures from the legacy system to the new application. Design of a mathematical model correcting a large discrepancy between the physical, accounting and financial flow (involving more than one hundred million Belgian francs).	13 months	Power Builder (as lower case tool), PL/SQL, System Engineer (as upper case tool),	Le Chèque Repas Finance
Senior Manager – Unisys (09/94 - 06/96)
“Crisis” Project Manager: Take-over of a full development lifecycle project of a large turnkey application (more than 120 integrated relational tables) aimed at automating the company’s two main business processes: the emission and the collection of [meal] vouchers. The application was replacing several isolated legacy systems. Preliminary business process reengineering of those two main business processes in order to streamline the development effort. Definition of the tasks, roles, responsibilities and procedures in collaboration with key users. Tight integration of all organizational aspects with all planned IT developments.	14 months	Power Builder, PL/SQL, System Engineer, ORACLE, UNIX (Sequent)	Le Chèque Repas Finance
“Crisis” Project Manager. Re-orientation of a bogged-down project aimed at producing an IT Strategic Plan the main purpose of which being to integrate various document management applications into a coherent workflow.	2 months	ORACLE, Various legacy applications	European Parliament Public Sector
Project Manager. Reengineering the underwriting business process in the framework of a downsizing (representing 40 % of the 200 professionals working in the underwriting department). Evaluation and design of IT requirements to support the new organization and to meet business objectives. Functional and technical design of a workflow-based document management system.	4 months	UNISYS COBOL Misc. Appl.	Les Assurances Crédit de Namur Insurance
Manager – Deloitte & Touche Consultants (02/92 - 08/94)
Project Manager. Redesign of the procurement business process encompassing both IT (legacy system) and organizational aspects. Production of control reports to enable the accounting cut-off procedure (transition between two fiscal years).	2.5 months	IDMS COBOL	Belgacom Telecom
Project Manager. IS strategic study to integrate various applications used along the assessment process of a vaccine. Emphasis on setting up standardized and auditable procedures.	3 months	VAX – VMS ORACLE	SmithKline Beecham Pharma
Implementation and organization of an IT Steering Committee. In-depth evaluation of all IT department resources (human, equipment, software and applications) and operations. Security audit to evaluate trade secrets protection (production formulas).	2.5 months	VAX – VMS Tolas	Puratos Food Industry
In-depth evaluation of the IT department. Technical and organizational consulting on application design and report production.	1.5 months	HP 9000 MFGPRO	Artic Food Industry
Audit of the destruction of proprietary information in the framework of the sale of an R&D center between two pharmaceutical companies.	2 weeks	VAX – VMS Misc. appl.	Searle Eli Lilly Pharma
Internal fraud protection and audit of access controls to the inter-bank SWIFT network.	2 weeks	BULL DPS7 COBOL PC Lan	BNP Banking
Detailed IT audit. Consulting for PC and C/S architecture implementation	1.5 months	COBOL (legacy syst.)	Argenta Banking
Project Management, at Belgian level, of an international IS strategic plan.	1 month	UNIX Informix C Applications	HEXCEL Manufact. Industry
Consulting and management of the relationship between an automobile producer and distributor and its main IT supplier.	3 weeks	COBOL (legacy syst.)	General Motors / EDS Automotive
Management of the relationship with a third party for the implementation of a finance and distribution software package.	3 weeks	AS/400 JD Edwards	Euro Safety Glass Automotive
Requirements definition and selection of various system management packages. Production and implementation of a “Standards and Procedures” Manual for the IT department covering system management, operation and application development. I.S. strategic plan and 5 year budget plan.	6 months	VSE CICS ADABAS NATURAL

Duration

Technical Environment

Customer / Sector

Contract Work – (06/96 – Now) – [Next availability date: January 2009]

Project manager IAM (Identity and Access Management).

· Organizational and functional design of all identity and access management processes throughout the corporate organization

01/2008 – 12/2008

Not selected yet

SNCB

/NMBS

Railroads

Transporta-tion

Program manager for coordinating multiple IT projects related to IT security and Identity and Access Management (IAM).

· Organizational re-design of all identity and access management processes throughout the corporate organization

· Implementation of an RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) system linked with the IAM system to manage authorizations on multiple platforms (using AD, ADAM, edir, SAP authorizations…) through roles and role hierarchies.

· Implementation of a meta-directory for managing the identity and access rights of all internal users of the Suez group and provisioning them into multiple target systems (Windows Active Directory, Exchange 2003, SAP Portal, multiple SAP R/3 systems, SAP CUA) using various protocols (LDAP, JDBC, BAPI…) (2,9 M€ project).

· Development of a user management extranet to provision users and services into ORACLE Access and to enable delegated user management. This extranet also integrates SAP back-end systems (SAP-ISU, SAP CRM) with other customer extranets.

· Full-blown ORACLE Access (previously OBLIX Coreid) implementation for Identity and access management of external users on multiple extranets (with user self-care and delegated care); Tight integration with back-end systems using EAI, Web Services and SAP ICF (1.4 M€ project).

01/2005 – 12/2007

Q2 2007

04/2006 -

Q2 2007

01/2006 -06/2006

01/2005 -01/2006

oRBAC

Novell edir

Novell IDM, iMgr, Novell Access Manager

J2EE development

ORACLE Coreid, MS ADAM LDAP

J2EE, Websphere (WSED)

Electrabel

Energy

Project manager: Set-up of a common SAP blueprint for all Electrabel electricity generation plants in Europe

11/2004 – 03/2005

SAP FI, CO, MM, PM, PS

Electrabel

Energy

Project Manager: Implementation assessment of SAP-CRM for the Corporate Sales and Customer Service Department.

2 months Ended

27/10/04

SAP-CRM

PMI method.

Proximus

Telecom (mobile)

Program/Project manager: start up and management of multiple IT projects with significant change management:

· In-depth automation of administrative processes for the former ministry of Culture (now part of the Communauté française). The target application is developed from scratch and integrates a workflow system, an electronic document management system and ad hoc developments built around a relational DB, all using J2EE standards. Organization of a public RFP as well as in-depth change management.

· Set up of a contact management system (public sector version of a CRM)

· Set up of an OCR-based forms reading system

· Set up of a pilot project for document management and workflow for the audit department

· Development of a facilities database (managing more than 5.000 buildings and their equipment)

21 months

Ended 10/09/04

IBM DB2, COBOL,

Websphere,

J2EE

Doccenter (IRIS)

Commu-nauté Française

Public Sector

Technical consultant: Consulting in the framework of pres-sales activities and planning of a SAP-ISU implementation for a Utility company in Luxembourg.

1 month

SAP-ISU

Siemens (SBS)

IT services

Organization consultant: Definition of all job descriptions in the framework of the spin-off of the I.T. department of a regional government (»100 headcount) into an autonomous entity.

1 month

Ended 20/11/02

ITIL

Commu-nauté française

Public Sector

Project management and business analysis : inception phases of 2 IT projects (from start-up to tender emission) :

1. Set-up of an object oriented database managing all information related to vehicle conversions & accessories.

2. Set-up of a customer contacts management system

4 months

Ended 31//8/02

1. OO DB,

2. package selection

RUP method.

Toyota

Automotive

IT Manager/Project Manager: Full project lifecycle of a SAP-ISU implementation in a start-up company. Set-up of all customer-related master data. Set-up of billing data and tariffs. Integration with cost accounting. Set-up of the IDE interface. Interface with invoice printing (DOC1). Migration of customer master data from the “Intercommunales”. Preliminary study for the implementation of SAP-CRM. RFP + negotiation for the outsourcing of all IT infrastructure.

4 months

Ended:

15/2/02

SAP-ISU

(4.62) FI, CO-PA, SD ISU-CCS,

DOC1 (print)

Luminus

Energy

“Crisis” Project Manager. Ensuring the smooth running of a legacy application producing invoices and managing claims. Catching up with badly delayed invoice production. Managing and harmonizing the relationship between the IT and the user community.

5 months

Ended:

30/9/01

IBM

MVS, CICS,

COBOL, VSAM

Marsh

Insurance

Program/Project Manager. Belgian implementation of the corporate IT strategy in the framework of a pan-European rollout of a wireless network (Tetra Standard). Implementation and integration of various software packages: CRM, customer care, billing, financial systems, supply chain management, network management. Pan-European coordination with other subsidiaries. Interconnect requirements and implementation with incumbent operator. Infrastructure management (WANs, LANs, NT environment, MS office applications) to support the growth of the subsidiary. Integration of the IT infrastructure with the Motorola wireless network (network provisioning and billing records collection).

20 months

Ended:

19/3/01

VANTIVE

GENEVA

Tertio

MP5

Sunsystems +

NT4 + Office Applications,

ORACLE

CISCO ATM IP switches and routers

Dolphin Telecom

Telecom

(mobile)

Project Manager. Start-up of a new telecom operator in Germany in “service telephony”. International coordination of the functional and technical design of a web-based application:

1. to collect multiple call information from various network elements (Switch, IN, IP) and to display it onto the Web (via the billing records)

2. to define the call flow logic and to provision the network elements accordingly.

Selection of a Telco billing package (EHPT).

7.5 months

Ended:

15/5/99

Netscape (application server & web server)

ORACLE, NT SUN & HP

UNIX

IP and X25 connectivity

Lucent Technolo-gies

Telecom

(service telephony)

Project Manager. Post-implementation of various SAP modules (FI, CO, Purchase, MM and Warehouse Management). Implementation and operation assessment. Supply chain harmonization (IT and organization) requiring the set-up of a workflow between all roles involved along the supply chain.

4 months

SAP FI, CO, MM, PM, PS,

ORACLE

Distrigaz

Energy

Business Consultant: Detailed Design of an IT application aimed at controlling the integrity of the vouchers flows (i.e. achieving coherence between physical, accounting and financial flows). Production of a tender document.

Definition and Management of the test and data migration procedures from the legacy system to the new application.

Design of a mathematical model correcting a large discrepancy between the physical, accounting and financial flow (involving more than one hundred million Belgian francs).

13 months

Power Builder (as lower case tool),

PL/SQL,

System Engineer (as upper case tool),

Le Chèque Repas

Finance

Senior Manager – Unisys (09/94 - 06/96)

“Crisis” Project Manager: Take-over of a full development lifecycle project of a large turnkey application (more than 120 integrated relational tables) aimed at automating the company’s two main business processes: the emission and the collection of [meal] vouchers. The application was replacing several isolated legacy systems.

Preliminary business process reengineering of those two main business processes in order to streamline the development effort. Definition of the tasks, roles, responsibilities and procedures in collaboration with key users. Tight integration of all organizational aspects with all planned IT developments.

14 months

Power Builder,

PL/SQL,

System Engineer,

ORACLE,

UNIX (Sequent)

Le Chèque Repas

Finance

“Crisis” Project Manager. Re-orientation of a bogged-down project aimed at producing an IT Strategic Plan the main purpose of which being to integrate various document management applications into a coherent workflow.

2 months

ORACLE,

Various legacy applications

European Parliament

Public Sector

Project Manager. Reengineering the underwriting business process in the framework of a downsizing (representing 40 % of the 200 professionals working in the underwriting department). Evaluation and design of IT requirements to support the new organization and to meet business objectives. Functional and technical design of a workflow-based document management system.

4 months

UNISYS

COBOL

Misc. Appl.

Les Assurances Crédit de Namur

Insurance

Manager – Deloitte & Touche Consultants (02/92 - 08/94)

Project Manager. Redesign of the procurement business process encompassing both IT (legacy system) and organizational aspects. Production of control reports to enable the accounting cut-off procedure (transition between two fiscal years).

2.5 months

IDMS

COBOL

Belgacom

Telecom

Project Manager. IS strategic study to integrate various applications used along the assessment process of a vaccine. Emphasis on setting up standardized and auditable procedures.

3 months

VAX – VMS

ORACLE

SmithKline Beecham

Pharma

Implementation and organization of an IT Steering Committee.

In-depth evaluation of all IT department resources (human, equipment, software and applications) and operations.

Security audit to evaluate trade secrets protection (production formulas).

2.5 months

VAX – VMS

Tolas

Puratos

Food Industry

In-depth evaluation of the IT department. Technical and organizational consulting on application design and report production.

1.5 months

HP 9000

MFGPRO

Artic

Food Industry

Audit of the destruction of proprietary information in the framework of the sale of an R&D center between two pharmaceutical companies.

2 weeks

VAX – VMS

Misc. appl.

Searle

Eli Lilly

Pharma

Internal fraud protection and audit of access controls to the inter-bank SWIFT network.

2 weeks

BULL DPS7

COBOL

PC Lan

BNP

Banking

Detailed IT audit.

Consulting for PC and C/S architecture implementation

1.5 months

COBOL

(legacy syst.)

Argenta

Banking

Project Management, at Belgian level, of an international IS strategic plan.

1 month

UNIX

Informix

C Applications

HEXCEL

Manufact.

Industry

Consulting and management of the relationship between an automobile producer and distributor and its main IT supplier.

3 weeks

COBOL

(legacy syst.)

General Motors / EDS

Automotive

Management of the relationship with a third party for the implementation of a finance and distribution software package.

3 weeks

AS/400

JD Edwards

Euro Safety Glass

Automotive

Requirements definition and selection of various system management packages.

Production and implementation of a “Standards and Procedures” Manual for the IT department covering system management, operation and application development.

I.S. strategic plan and 5 year budget plan.

6 months

VSE

CICS

ADABAS

NATURAL