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Trasys
- Principal Consultant - Operation Excellence, Big Data/Business Analytics for Industry Sector
Hoeilaart
2012 - maintenant
Trasys is a leading Belgian IT consultancy and services company headquartered in Hoeilaart (Belgium) employing more than 600 committed professionals in Belgium, GD Luxembourg, Greece, France, UK and Spain.
Trasys offers Consulting, SAP, System Integration and Operational Services throughout Europe to customers in the European Institutions, Belgian Public Sector, Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing and Financial Services. The combination of capabilities to provide strong vertical solutions and its ability to “get IT done” are Trasys’ strength.
Trasys was created in 1981 and is owned by Ackermans van Haaren and CNP/NPM and management since 2006.
As part of the Consulting team, I focus to deliver and manage projects related to Excellence Operation, Predictive Maintenance & Quality (Big Data/Business Analytics) in Manufacturing Processes including Business Processes modeling, SAP and MES.
‘We get IT done’ is our motto. It’s not just words, it’s the way we work, live and deliver at Trasys.
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Tarkett France
- Directeur Informatique
2004 - maintenant
IT Manager Business center Resilient Heterogeneous – Manager MES Competence Center (Tarkett, 9.000 employees)
Responsible for IT Business Center area Sedan (France), Clervaux & Wiltz (Luxembourg), Konz (Germany), Lenham (UK), Auchel (France), Holsbeek (Belgium) and European production plants regarding MES (Manufacturing Execution System) implementation in 15 factories.
In charge of Migration project from MOVEX to SAP ERP (SD,MM,WM,PP,PI,PM) in Sedan
Definition and deployement of IT SLA contract, SLM (service level management) committee.
Responsible for MES Competence center in charge to deploy Hydra in 15 Tarkett manufacturing plants (Interfacing between PLC and SAP PP PI)
Define global Project methodology (planning tool, UML documentation)
In charge of all Local infrastructure management & follow-up (ITIL)
Prepare and organize Steering committee
Member of management board in Sedan
Tacking part in IT Strategic board
Define and follow IT budget (4.700 k€)
Central applications :
ERP : SAP SD, MM, WM, PP, PI, PM, FI, CO modules
CRM, IT HelpDesk ticketing application : Pivotal
Business Intelligence : Cognos
MES (shop floor control) : Hydra
MPLS WAN : AT&T
Software Delivery, asset management, masterization : CA
Microsoft AD, Exchange servers
PDA : BlackBerry
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Approach Belgium
- Chief Operation Officer
2002 - 2004
Chief Operations Officer and Partner (Approach Belgium)
Approach Belgium, (systems) Integrator, is mainly present in the finance – insurance and public sector. Its 3 main activities are Business consulting, Solutions Development, Infrastructure Integration.
In charge of operations management and performance of a team of 52 collaborators:
Definition of a skills catalogue, which supported the definition of Approach’s identity and commercial strategy
Methodology of following project in « middle » and « large » account
Standardisation of the project following procedure
Internal review of project delivery to ensure that they remain on track
Internal quality audits
Active member of the Company’s Executive Committee
Business development activities (VPN solutions, Customer Service Desk, Oracle ERP e-Business suite)
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Dalkia
- International IT Director
Saint-André
1999 - 2001
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Dalkia (Véolia)
- International IT Manager
Saint-André
1990 - 2002
(Dalkia France,10.000 employees, subsidiary of Vivendi Environment)
2000 – 2002 :
Management of Outsourcing contract carried out by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Paris.
Wide-spreading project comprising 3000 users, 104 agency servers and 10 data center servers.
Migration of existing Finance and Operations packages (AS/400) towards ERP Oracle e-Business Suite 11i for the financial part and IFS (Swedish ERP) for the operational part.
International project including the roll-out in France and in England.
Responsible for ensuring the functional and technical compliance of the ERP system, organize the cultural change management and manage the contractual relationships between CGEY and Dalkia in the following areas:
Ensuring the conformance of the application to the « services agreement » established between Dalkia and CGEY, for example quality indicators.
Leading of sub-project assuring the functional link between the Dalkia team services and CGEY project managers.
Transverse architecture, concerning the infrastructure :
- 3 Tiers Architecture (Web Server – Application Server – Database Server)
- User authentication processes (Windows 2000 Server – Active Directory, mail server directory, Proxy Server, Intranet meta directory, ERP authentification, …)
- Masterisation processes of Workstations deployment
- MPLS WAN implementation (CEGETEL)
- Management of the information streams inter ERP and complementary applications (EAI).
Definition of global security policies
- Security rules definition for hosting center (Internet – Intranet – Extranet Servers).
- Global network Security Assessment.
Suppliers relationship management and Coorporate contracts negotiation
- Data Center - Servers (SUN Fire)
- Workstations (HP – Compaq - Dell)
Leasing contract negotiation (Promodata – Comdisco)
- TRO (Technology Replace Option)
Elaboration of Workstation purchasing processes, masterisation, end user deployment with asset management.
Management of Intranet project e-Dalkia in 23 countries with VPN/IP infrastructure (firewalls, encryption, filtering).
IT budget definition and follow-up.
Tacking part in Strategic board.
Organizator of the steering and project committees.
1990 – 2000 :
Responsible for development team and rollout applications in the International environment (Belgium – Spain – Portugal – Hungary – Rumania – Italy – Brazil – Holland – Lithuania).
- Financial Back-Office application (General ledger, Analytic accounting, Forecasting, Cash Management, Account receivable – Account Payable, Vehicle management, asset management)
- Operation Front-Office application (maintenance contract, Intervention following, planning , field services, ISO certification, purchasing and decentralized inventory)
- Electricity and Gas de-regulation market application in England
Management of functional teams in charge of writing the Request for Proposal, test scenario’s, quality insurance, end user training and Help desk.
Management of Infrastructure teams in charge of installation and maintenance of UNIX Servers, Windows (File servers, Exchange Server, Proxy Server, RAS Server, Print Server), workstation’s, LAN (TCP/IP) –WAN (Frame Relay, VPN/IP, ADSL).
Define and follow the global IT budget.
Roll-out in 9 countries (Belgium – Spain – Portugal – Hungary – Rumania – Italy – Brazil – Holland – Lithuania). Environment Unix – Informix On-Line – Informix 4gl.
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Montenay
- Project manager
1986 - 1989
Project Responsible for engineering department. Valorisation of multi-technical contracts concerning the maintenance and installation of heating complex equipment (Unix – Informix SE – Informix 4GL-SQL environment).
Responsible and developer of a call center application for technical and security alarms reception (Xenix – Informix - C).
