
Agile Coach at iLean: the software development company that will help you boost your business!
Gent Area, Belgium

Agile Coach at iLean: the software development company that will help you boost your business!
Gent Area, Belgium
I help software development teams and projects to deliver more valuable solutions week after week.
He therefore rely on a broad basis of knowledge and expertise in project methodologies, mainly inspired by lean management principles and successfully proven agile software development practices.
I focuses on the link with core business activities: integrating software development into business strategies, program management, communication, project management, product management.
I love facilitating group discussions about values, vision, focus, effectivity and efficiency.
Certified Scrum Master + Certified Scrum Practitioner
Prince2 certified
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Agile Coach at iLean: the software development company that will help you boost your business!
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
One of my most beautiful projects so far.
Coaching one of the FORESEE Technologies teams (CRONOS group) to realise a software development project for ARTILIUM, a notarious software vendor in the Telecom sector. Using Scrum, it is the objective to improve project organisation and to enable expansion (multiple scrums).
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Freelance PROJECT COACH:
> project management
> Prince2 & Agile/Scrum expertise
> Initiating & improving project techniques
> project office setup & program management
> interim IT management
(Public Company; Sports industry)
November 2008 — March 2009 (5 months)
Bringing together the development team & their customer to maximise chances for a succesfull start of a full refactoring of an existing training database: business analysis, identifying needs & values, backlog management, facilitating prioritisations, lots of communication & exchanging views.
(Privately Held; Human Resources industry)
June 2008 — November 2008 (6 months)
Analysing the Scrum implementation at SD Worx, and helping to improve the team. Interim Scrum Master
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TA-AS; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 3 months)
> Program manager process improvements: budget responsibility, project initiation & progress monitoring & reporting to higher management, project coaching, project evaluation & closure
> Departmental coordinator “new content program”
> Project manager: “points of interest” process development & other small projects
> Department management member
> Agile / Scrum project methodology as well as waterfall techniques
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 10 months)
> Development aid project, sector: public education
> Final, management & operational responsibilities
> Important people management with different ethnical and cultural backgrounds
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Banking industry)
October 2001 — January 2004 (2 years 4 months)
PROJECT : WINDOWS 2000 MIGRATION FOR DEALING ROOM
> Highly critical environment
> Scope: 200 clients, 5 servers & 20 applications
> This also involved team organization changes & department integration
PROJECT: MERGE & INTEGRATE THE ASSET MANAGEMENT IT ENVIRONMENT
> Responsibilities:
> ICT infrastructure merge coordinator
> Project team member of a European network rollout
> Day-by-day help desk & IT organisation
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1999 — September 2001 (2 years 5 months)
> My own business providing network solutions, specialized on legal professions
> Developed a helicopter view: day to day management, commercial & technical activities
> First experiences with people management
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1998 — February 2001 (2 years 11 months)
PROJECTS @ KPMG, AGFA GEVAERT, EASDAQ, REYNAERS ALUMINIUM, SEE HOLLAND, ELSEVIER/IP GLOBALNET
> CRM application consultancy, including help desk workflow and software development process management – occasionally also development of other functionalities like risk management or specific work flows
> Responsibilities taken care of during this period: pre-sales technical support, sales, project management, functional analysis, design & application development, data modeling, training
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1997 — April 1998 (6 months)
> Internal sales & marketing for a network solutions provider
> Including developing a small quotes & sales management system
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TA-AS; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1996 — November 1997 (1 year )
> Operational activity, also involving a logistics workflow development
> Ms Access development
> SAP key-user
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Food & Beverages industry)
February 1996 — October 1997 (1 year 9 months)
> MIS development: stock management, price calculations, service team organization, customer management
> Central role for CRM
> Ms Access development
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Accounting industry)
1987 — 1996 (9 years )
Internship: Euraccounts/Eurostandard Accountancy Services
Several Part Time & Holiday Jobs in administration, bookkeeping, gardening & in chain production
Bachelor , Applied Economics , 1993 — 1996
Bachelor , Bookkeeping & Accountancy , 1990 — 1993
Secondary , Latin & Greek , 1984 — 1990