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Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Work Experience

Project-experience
Introduction of the Enterprise Project Management system Artemis Views in the Zenitel organization
Introduction of the EPM methodology and introduction of project management procedures
Successful take-over of the introduction of Enterprise Resource Management platform Exact in the Zenitel Belgium organization
Project-experience in various domains, such as R&D, Medical-electronics, Avionics and Telecommunications.
Developing strategies for implementation and development of IT-equipment in order to improve production speed and quality.
Develop strategy for transparent move of a complete NMC with five OMCs in corporation with different suppliers and different departments.
Develop strategy for integration of different OMCs with a TMN-solution based on OSI/NetExpert
Develop strategy for proper implementation of an OSS-environment.
Take part in evaluation of different RfQ’s (BSS, NSS, IN, VAS, CNI).
Take a leading role in the deployment of different OSS-equipment.
Development and maintenance of CPMS (GSM-engineering database for Configuration Management)
Development and maintenance of the engineering data warehouse

Team-building/Management
Installation of an OSS-team (15 people), consisting of various skills and nationalities, to support various areas of the different GSM-equipment.
Support with OSS knowledge to various project leaders in achieving their goals.
Conducting the three OSS groups (after the E&O re-organization) in working with common ideas
Conduct, lead and re-organize a group of individual engineers and project manager to a working, project oriented organization (24 people)

Innovative/Proactive
Integration of various OMC-platforms while respecting or renegotiating vendor-policies.
Implementation of new technologies to speed up production processes.
Implementation of EPM methodologies and tools according to the latest standards, including the earned value reporting methodology.
Paving the way to prepare the department for ‘Prince2’ certification
Developing product strategies for the coastal stations business
Development of the Zenitel intranet structure to support the communication within the organization


Career overview:

Department Manager
Manager P&E Zenitel Belgium
May 2002 – January 2004
Main tasks:
Take over the Projects and Engineering department of Zenitel Belgium
Install working procedures and clear responsibilities / accountabilities
Define interfaces with other departments
Create a spirit of project management / leadership
Clean-out the ongoing projects and define provisions / actions for liabilities from projects in the past
Standardize own developed products, such as HF-, MF-transmitters and dispatching systems and assure proper standard documentation
Standardize and formalize project progress reporting, this includes financial, progress and escalation reporting
Steer the team towards ISO and VCA certification
Deliver and manage for the P&L budgets for the P&E department within the Zenitel Belgium budget
Skills: people-, project-, product-, financial-, R&D-management, process-analysis, negotiating, reporting, ISO, VCA

Project Manager
Senior Project Manager Zenitel BU WS
November 2001 – April 2002
Main tasks:
Prepare the Zenitel Business Unit Wireless Solutions for international telecommunications projects
Take over the failing introduction of the ERP system Exact in the Zenitel Belgium organization and make it a success
Introduce the selected EPM system Artemis Views, including the according methodology and processes
Assure a proper and internationally accepted reporting strategy regarding projects in the Zenitel Business Unit Wireless Solutions
Skills: people-, project-management, process-analysis, negotiating, reporting

Project Manager Disaster Recovery Belgacom Mobile
January 2001 – October 2001
Main tasks:
Develop the E&O strategy for disaster recovery.
Manage the project to implement disaster recovery procedures.
Assure proper financial reporting as well as proper progress reporting
Assure proper communication and buy-in of disaster recovery procedures, in line with the Belgacom BERT procedures.
Skills: people-, financial and project-management, process-analysis





GSM-Computing-Career
OSS-supervisor ð OSS Maintenance Manager Belgacom Mobile
October 1998 – Jan 2001
Main tasks:
Develop strategy for integrating and securing all OSS.
Assist in IT-related projects
Manage a team of system-administrators, database-administrator and operators
Stabilize engineering database and automatic measurement collection
Assure data-availability of the engineering data-warehouse
Assure correct budget follow-up for all OSS projects and products
Prepare E&O for the potential risks of Y2K
Skills: people-, financial and project-management, process-analysis

System-administrator ð OSS-supervisor Belgacom Mobile
February 1996 – October 1998
Main tasks:
Develop strategy for server consolidation.
Develop strategy for integrating and securing all OMCRs.
Assist in IT-related projects for parameter-comparison, measurement-transfer to other departments...
Manage a team of system-administrators, database-administrator and software-developers
Stabilize engineering database and automatic measurement collection
Coordinate integration of Nokia OMC-R in the Proximus network
Enhance functionality of CPMS (Powerbuilder/Oracle-application)
Implementation of inband-signalling (X.25 over A-interface) on Alcatel, Motorola and Nokia BSCs with concentration in MSCs
Deal with major OMC-R problems of different vendors
Skills : people- and project-management, process-analysis
Hardware : Sun, Tandem, HP, PC
Software : Solaris 1 and 2, NonStop-UX, HP-UX 9 and 10, X11 Motif, Informix SQL, Oracle 7.1, Infomaker, PC-NFS, Access 2.0, Access 7.0, Excel 4.0, Excel 5.0, MS Project 4.0, OMC/BSS - Motorola, - Philips, - Alcatel, OMC-Nokia, WindowsNT 4.0, Windows 95
Comms : X.25, TCP/IP, G703-G704, Frame-relay

Network-supervisor ð System-administrator Belgacom Mobile
November 1993 - February 1996
Main Tasks :
Prepare, plan and coordinate daily maintenance works on Proximus’ GSM-network ( mainly Motorola-equipment ).
Coordinate cut over from Philips BSS to Motorola BSS. Prepare move BSS from one MSC to a bigger one.
Develop shell-scripts to perform automatic-tasks in order to monitor the GSM-network.
Develop ISQL-script to allow periodic quality-check of the Motorola BSS.
Coordinate various projects such as automatic measurements-transfer, design scope of work for TNM-system,...
Systemadministration of Motorola, Philips, Nokia and Alcatel OMCRs.
Coordinating all IT-related projects for the OMC-R and NMC.
Develop strategy for move of all OMCRs and NMC in a transparent way. ( Outage limited to a strict minimum and no data lost ).
Develop telephone-strategy for the OMCR.
Skills : people- and project-management, process-analysis
Hardware : Sun, Tandem, Siemens - Nixdorf, Motorola MPC, HP, PC
Software : Solaris 1 and 2, NonStop-UX, Sinix, HP-UX 9 and 10, X11 Motif, Informix SQL, Infomaker, PC-NFS, Access 1.0, Access 2.0, Excel 4.0, Excel 5.0, MS Project 4.0, OMC/BSS - Motorola, - Philips, - Alcatel, Nokia
Comms : X.25, TCP/IP, G703-G704

Avionics
Hard- and Software designer Normarc a/s
( Oslo Norway)
October 1992 - April 1993
Main tasks:
Develop a strategy to improve quality and increase capacity of the ILS-antenna-matrix production-line by implementation of IT.
Development of all hard- and software needed for this project. This included wiring-diagrams, PCB-layout, mechanical construction, writing software for control of measurement equipment using GPIB, controlling a switch-matrix via I/O-board,...
Develop a piggy-bag-card for the NFIS-computer. This board had to control up to four ARINC-interfaces. This was done by EPLD-technology.
Develop a remote audioswitch control panel for communication in the cockpit of an airplane.
Skills: people-, project-management, process-analysis
Hardware: PC, VME
Software: Dos, Windows, WordPerfect, Excel 4.0, MS Project 1.0, LabWindows C, C, OS9
Comms: GPIB, VME, ARINC, I/O and RS232

Medical-technology
Hardware design Siemens a/g UB Med
( Erlangen Germany )
July 1988 - August 1988, July 1989 - August 1989,
July 1990 - August 1990, July 1991 - August 1991,
July 1992 - August 1992
Main tasks:
Construction of cables according wire-diagram.
Soldering and modifying of preliminary PCBs.
Design of cable-trees and prepare these for production.
Design of wiring-schemes for high-power-circuits.


Education

Post universitair centrum KUL Post Graduaat Risk management
SBM Brugge Graduaat Management for engineers
VormingsInstituut voor KMO Graduaat Programmer-Analyst, Spanish
H.T.I. Ostend Graduaat Electronics, Microelectronics, Avionics
V.T.I. Kortrijk HTSO Electronics


Skills

Project Management · Management of change projects (introduction of ERP, EPM and other management processes and products)· Management of R&D projects· Introducing project reporting methodologies based on earned value· Working with projects under IAS rules· Good experience of software life cycle· Organization of production-lines· Building of data-centers· De-centralization of OMC’s· Implementation of NMC· Development of engineering reference database (CPMS)· Development and maintenance of engineering data-warehouse (PMT/CMT/FMT)· Development and maintenance of TNM platform (NetExpert), inclusive original scope of work· Good communication and presentation skills· Participation in RfQ-procedures

People Management · Manager of the Projects & Engineering department (all projects + R&D activities)· Manager of the OSS Maintenance group (10 direct reports)· OSS supervisor of the OSS group (development and maintenance) (15 direct reports)· OMC-supervisor (5 direct reports)

Financial Management · Cost Center manager for the complete OSS group (150 MBEF annual budget)· Commercial negotiations· Responsible for all project revenues of Zenitel Belgium

Strategic Management · Scope of work for TNM (still valid after 5 years)· Introduction of NUC for BSC-OMC communications (still used after 5 years)· Server consolidation (introduced in 1998)· Foundation of the OSS idea (1996)

Systems · RDMBS - System Administrator: Informix, Oracle, Access, Dbase IV· OS: Solaris 1 and 2, Non-stop UX (Tandem), HP-UX 9 and 10, Sinix, OS9, Windows 3.xx, Windows 95, Windows NT 4, Dos
Protocols & Interfaces · System-Administrator: Good knowledge of X.25, TCP/IP, E1· Developer / Programmer: IEEE / GPIB, RS232, VME, ARINC
Networking · System-Administrator: Design, implement end secure LAN and WAN, good knowledge of network-elements (hubs, bridges, routers, Muxs) and cabling systems
Hardware · Sun, Tandem, HP, Siemens-Nixdorf, VME-bus, PC, Ethernet
Programming Languages · Programmer: GWBasic, QuickBasic, Visual Basic, Pascal, Turbo Pascal, C, C++, Lab Windows C, ISQL, SQL, Assembler, Prolog, Cobol
Telecommunications · GSM: OMC & BSS Motorola, Philips, Alcatel and Nokia, general knowledge of NSS, VAS and IN· Manager: UMTS, PRC, GMDSS, Confined Areas, Satellite communications
Avionics · NavAids: ILS, NFIS
Others · Word, WordPerfect, Excel, MS Access, MS Project, PowerPoint, Info maker, Artemis Views, Exact, FrontPage· ISO, VCA, EFQM…


Languages

Dutch, French, English and German

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