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General/Development/Project Manager

Work Experience

09/1985-04/1997 : Technology Manager Philips
05/1997-02/1999 : Project and Program Manager Cable Print
03/1999-12/2001 : Development, HR and Operational Manager ACUNIA
01/2002-02/2004 : Development and HR Manager

Jan. 2002 – February 2004 : Sofico nv. , Merelbeke
(Development of custom made Software products for niche markets)

Hired as Development Manager and member of the Management team. Responsible for all development teams, purchasing, ICT and HR. Responsible to grow the organisation in order to reach a revenue of 12 500 000 Euro by the end of 2003 with a profit margin of 15%. In order to reach these targets, the non-profitable products have been run down and new activities have started. A new product, Miles, has been launched with the purpose to become world leader within the leasing market. New distribution channels have been put in place, an ASP service model has been established and most of the personel has been trained in the new technology.


March 1999 – Dec 2001 : ACUNIA nv. , Leuven (formerly named SmartMove nv.)
(Development of a third generation telematics platform)

Asked by the CEO in January 1999 to take up the responsibility to manage the R&D organisation of this start-up company during 3 years. Responsible for project and resource management, the technical guidance of the people, recruitment and training, setting up of subsidized projects with the Belgian IWT and the European subsidizing organisations and setting up of multiple customer telematics projects. I’ve reorganised the R&D division into three separate divisions (Hardware division, Software division and Professional Services) and started the HR department, the internal ITC division and the purchase group.
I was promoted Operations Manager beginning 2000, responsible for all internal projects and processes, subsidized projects and major customer projects with activities in all divisions, assisting in the account management and suppliers contacts. Other parts of my responsibility lie in managing the internal ITC department, the Administration group and the logistics and purchase group. In two and a half year the company has grown to about 110 employees based in Leuven and in Boston USA, having 70 technical engineers in the global structured HW, SW and PS divisions. The revenue has increased to 5 million Euro in 2001. Today a lot of work is being put in the improvement of the productivity and process flow by introducing the PACE ( Product and Cycle time Excellence ) methodology and in the setting up of the Quality and Test department.

May 1997 – February 1999 : Cable Print nv. , Erpe Mere
( Design, production and sales of ATM’s for the bank and financial institutions )

Started in the Business Development and Presales group within the Sales department and moving very fast via Project Manager ( responsible for the larger customer projects : Servitel, Cumulus II and Primo ) to Program Manager. Having this function I was responsible for the complete chain going from initial presales contacts to project definition, development, production, delivery and service. Besides the responsibility for these three project teams ( of 8 to 25 people each ) and the customer accounts during the projects, I managed the internal ITC department from end 1998 onwards.


Sept 1985 – April 1997 : NV. PHILIPS Industrial Activities, factories in Brugge
( Production centre for consumer electronics ( televisions ))

After two years of research in Eindhoven, I’ve switched towards the product development of power supplies for the high end television market. Growing to become power supply specialist, I also builded the knowledge to become the picture tube specialist of Brugge. From 1995 onwards, I was appointed Technology Manager Displays and was responsible for the choice of technology, architecture and realisation of different development projects of picture tubes for all consumer electronics factories in Europe. I managed a group of 14 people located in 4 different facilities in Europe.

Education

Master in Electronic Engineering
Master in Industrial Business Administration
Several Management courses at Management Centre Europe

Skills

Development Management in SW and HW development; Project and Program Management; HR Management; IT Management; Operational Management; General Management
Besides technical knowledge also a lot of managerial and people skills

Languages

Dutch, English, French, German

Other

- Further courses and training :

Technical Courses and individual study : • Television Technology
• Power Supplies
• Picture Tube Technology
• Digital Signal processing
• EMC measuring and standards
• Communication media: satcom, GSM, DAB, ERMES, RDS-TMC, ...
• Win 95/98/NT/2000 and Linux OS
• Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, MS Project, StarOffice, ...
• Various programming languages : Fortran, Pascal, Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, HTML
• Project Risk Management
• Quality models for software development

General and management courses :

• Meeting techniques
• Presentation techniques
• Sales techniques
• Time Management
• People Management
• Guidance and Management
• Dealing with collegues
• General Quality models
• Several trainings at the Vlerick Leuven Gent School of Management
• The fundamentals of strategy : MCE (Management Centre Europe)
• Putting strategy into action : MCE (Management Centre Europe )
• Developing executive leadership : MCE (Management Centre Europe)

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