Operations Manager

• Jan 2021 - Present

Enterprise Architecture Consultant

• Apr 2020 - Present

Expansion of the architecture service delivery at Galapagos: - Managing the architecture team responsible for architecture governance, application portfolio management and knowledge management - Implementing and adapting a new organizational structure and processes to further establish the Architecture Office within the organization - Coaching employees in their role as enterprise and solution architect - Guiding several projects in the design of their business architecture and application architecture - Elaborating, aligning, and developing a platform vision for data management within the organization

Enterprise Architecture Consultant

• Jun 2020 - May 2021

Start-up of enterprise architecture service offering at the city of Mechelen: - Coaching employees in their role as solution architect - Designing a knowledge model for describing the functioning of the city using relevant concepts in the business, application and technology domain - Developing an approach for impact analyzes to formulate policy proposals regarding the realization of innovations or the implementation of changes - Providing advice on a variety of topics based on the business, application and technology architecture domains

Enterprise Architecture Consultant

• Apr 2020 - Dec 2020

Responsibilities in various initiatives related to the services offered to customers at the Flanders Information Agency: - Devising and designing an approach and architecture to help the Flemish Government and local authorities in supporting the European regulation of the Single Digital Gateway

Architecture Manager ad interim

• Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

Responsibilities in the evolution of the existing security, application and infrastructure architecture at Essent Belgium: - Managing the architecture team responsible for the application and infrastructure architecture and managing the capacity and resource planning - Elaborate on the new organizational structure and processes for the ICT business capability - Analyzing and processing existing project portfolios for improvements in security, application and infrastructure architecture - Guide new adjustments to the NOVA platform with the elaboration of the business architecture and application architecture

Enterprise And Business Architecture Consultant

• Jun 2017 - Dec 2019

Responsibilities in different initiatives of the Antwerp City Platform at Digipolis Antwerp: - Devising and designing an approach and architecture to deal with information and citizen data in a transparent manner throughout the city, in both digital - and physical services, always using only the minimum data required to deliver the service and in accordance with privacy guidelines and legislation - Coaching new colleagues in their role as business architects - Designing a framework for capturing business processes and translating them into business-oriented microservices that can support digital and physical - business services - Guiding several projects in the design of their business architecture and application architecture - Designing the new identity management of the Antwerp City Platform based on a Self Sovereign Identity - Designing, documenting and implementing different new and existing building blocks of the Antwerp City Platform - Designing, documenting and integrating a time registration project with a case management - Documenting existing identity and access management initiatives • Designing a testing approach for functional API tests

Business Architecture Consultant

• Jun 2016 - May 2017

Responsibilities in intercompany transfer pricing and Master Data Management initiatives at Ravago: - Analyzing and documenting business scenarios to implement intercompany transfer pricing based on the OESO BEPS framework - Eliciting requirements for a master data management program - Analyzing and designing a data management business capability as well as data subject areas for key business entities - Analyzing and documenting the organizational structure - Designing ArchiMate modeling patterns to capture business models, business motivation, capabilities, strategies and resources as well as the different aspects of the business, application and technology layers - Writing documentation to capture capability maps, value chains, business function maps and process maps - Creating matrices to document and implement segregation of duties as well as matrices to associate various aspects of the organization such as group companies, business models, functions and processes

Application And Business Architecture Consultant

• Jan 2015 - May 2016

Responsibilities in the adoption of a competence framework and various new system initiatives at Cepa: - Designing and documenting new business roles based on the European e-Competence Framework - Implementing new business roles based on the European e-Competence Framework and documenting personal job profiles - Writing a Request for Proposal for and guiding of a new financial management system initiative - Guiding of several initiatives such as a new document management system, a facility management system and a new customer relationship management system - Analyzing and improving business processes

Application Architecture Consultant

• Nov 2013 - Dec 2014

Responsibilities in legacy application modernization and mobile initiatives at RBFA: - Analyzing the existing infrastructure architecture - Documenting the existing applications and data flows - Designing data models for existing and newly created applications as well as documenting a data dictionary - Designing a back-end application service for mobile applications - Introduction of service-orientation as a style for application architecture - Starting-up a competence center to build application services - Designing, documenting and governing a technical service blueprint - Reviewing cloud deployment possibilities for application services - Designing and documenting application service contracts - Governing the development of an application service inventory

Application Architecture Consultant

• Jul 2013 - Oct 2013

Responsibilities in an intake and adoption of an e-Procurement platform at Fedict: - Reviewing an existing analysis and eliciting requirements - Designing and writing test plans and test reports - Writing onboarding bundles for suppliers and customers - Creating a technical test tool suite - Analyzing and reviewing the integration testing approach

Integration Architecture Consultant

• Nov 2012 - Jun 2013

Responsibilities in a transformation of a core business domain at LCM: - Analyzing, reviewing and adapting existing application service contract and design standards - Creating templates for application service specifications and contracts - Designing technical templates for application service contracts - Designing a technical common message model - Creating business rules to validate technical message contracts against design standards - Documenting newly developed application services in service contracts - Documenting an approach for application service versioning

Integration And Application Architecture Consultant

• May 2012 - Oct 2012

Responsibilities in Enterprise Service Bus and Electronic Surveillance initiatives at FPS Justice: - Analyzing the existing infrastructure architecture - Writing a Request for Proposal for an Enterprise Service Bus infrastructure - Presenting an introduction to service-oriented application architecture to IT staff management - Designing and documenting an integration architecture - Redesigning and rewriting an initial solution proposal due to an enlarged scope - Performing gap analysis between the baseline and future state infrastructure architecture

Integration Architecture Consultant

• Mar 2012 - Apr 2012

Responsibilities in an architecture and integration competence center start up at Itineris: - Defining an integration competence center business function - Creating stencils and documentation templates to standardize all deliverables on - Designing and populating a central architecture repository - Defining and writing a first edition of the reference integration architecture documentation - Designing and documenting a high-level monitoring strategy and implementation approach - Reviewing and documenting existing and newly built interfaces as well as formalizing a consistent release approach

Infrastructure And Application Architecture Consultant

• Jan 2012 - Feb 2012

Responsibilities in a EU INSPIRE directive RFP documentation initiative at NGI: - Analyzing and evaluating a EU directive feasibility study - Documenting baseline infrastructure and application architectures - Designing future state infrastructure and application architectures - Writing a Request for Proposal to implement the future state infrastructure and application architecture

Infrastructure, Integration And Application Architecture Consultant

• Jun 2007 - Dec 2011

Responsibilities in various HRM and payroll implementations in the public sector at EDS/HP: - Analyzing, designing and implementing a proof of concept to position a business rule engine to manage subsidy allocation - Analyzing and reviewing security requirements to protect privacy sensitive information - Analyzing and documenting existing systems for problems and improvement opportunities - Designing and documenting infrastructure, application and integration architectures - Designing and managing infrastructure and application architecture transformations - Identifying project overlaps, inconsistencies and non-alignment with sold contracts - Performing gap analysis between the baseline and future state application and infrastructure architectures - Project management - Analyzing and answering Requests for Proposals - Facilitating workshops

Technical Consultant

• Sep 2004 - May 2007

Responsibilities in various Oracle implementations in the private and public sector at Cereus: - Analyzing, designing and maintaining customer projects in various Oracle technologies - Teaching Oracle Portal and SQL - Developing applications in SQL and PL/SQL - Developing Enterprise Portals using Oracle Portal - Designing and building data warehouses and BI reports Responsibilities in various Oracle implementations in the private and public sector at Cereus: - Analyzing, designing and maintaining customer projects in various Oracle technologies - Teaching Oracle Portal and SQL - Developing applications in SQL and PL/SQL - Developing Enterprise Portals using Oracle Portal - Designing and building data warehouses and BI reports