Lahcen Afif
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Job/career Open to opportunities
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Poised to contribute unique blend of business development, project-management, and exemplary customer-support skills, along with commitment to excellence, to your firm’s value by ensuring that projects support strategic mission and objectives within scope, budget, and schedule.• Results-driven IT project-manager with Master-level education. Methodology certification (Prince2 and Scrum), and proven track record in increasing productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Creative thinker and analytical problem-solver with demonstrated ability to manage projects from planning through execution/completion under timing and budget constraints.
• Efficient interpersonal communicator who effectively interacts with clients and all levels of management.
• Decisive, energetic, focused team leader/player who leads high-performing teams through implementing change and improvements.
Skills
Areas of expertise
- • IT Project management
- • Development lifecycle
- • Sales & Business development
- • Business proposals, RFI, RFP negotiation and winning contracts
- • Business process analysis, reengineering, change & improvement
- • Business needs, scope & requirements definition
- • Performance management
- • Technology integration
- • Cross-functional team building and leadership
- • Abroad & Offshore experience
- • Training/Coaching/Mentoring
- • Technology watch: mobile, cloud & social computing
CERTIFICATIONS
- • PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner (APMG-International Licenses: P2R/NLPB129423 and P2R/NLPB132999)
- • ScrumMaster (Scrum Alliance License: 000159142)
Computer skills
- • Cost and Schedule Estimation: IFPUG, COCOMO, Use Case Points, User Stories, …
- • Business Modelling techniques: UML , Role Activity diagrams
- • MS-Office, MS-Project, MS-Visio, activeCollab, DotProject, ValleySpeak, …
- • Relational databases analysis & architecture: very good knowledge.
- • Experience of CRM and ERP applications
- • Mobile: iOS, Android, BlackBerry…
- • More than 20 years expertise in Apple related products: Macintosh, iPhone, iPad, xServe,…
- • Cross-platform integration (MacOS, Windows, Linux)
- • Services: DNS, mail, FTP, Antispam, IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems)
- • Content Management Systems & Frameworks: Typo3, Plone, Django, WordPress, …
- • Web: Search Engine Optimization, Google Analytics, Adsense, Web Master Tools
- • Anysurfer: Quality label for accessible websites (www.anysurfer.be)
- • Streaming: ShoutCast, IceCast, QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server
- • Switches, routers (Cisco, Netopia), firewalls (Astaro, Kerio, WatchGuard), WAN implementation
Education
Master’s degree in Computer Sciences
• Université Libre de Bruxelles (September 1984 - September 1989)
Professional experience
Senior Project Manager
CIRB (Centre Informatique pour la Région Bruxelloise) - Brussels - Belgium(Permanent contract - Since June 2009)
- - Setup the mobile center of expertise in our company including strategy, business opportunity, framework and best practices developing mobile apps.
- - Creation of 2 Web Portals (with GIS integration) about mobility using SCRUM methodology (Client: Ministry of the Brussels-Capital Region).
Project Manager
Business Pollination s.a. - Luxembourg - Luxembourg(Consultant - November 2006 - December 2008)
- - Video portal and workspace project for European audiovisual communication professionals in the areas of science and scientific information (Client: European Commission, Research Directorate-General)
- - Web Intranet project for management of CVs of experts in the banking sector (Client: European Savings Bank Group)
Managing Director of my company
Anamer Offshore s.a. Luxembourg/Morocco - Luxembourg - Luxembourg(Freelancer - September 2001 - October 2006)
- - Project Manager and Responsible for the day-to day running of the business with a particular emphasis on sales and business development.
- - Offshore unit development: company creation, offices installation, financial and legal aspects, recruitment, people management, set-up, adjustment and implementation of an efficient organization scheme.
- - Web portal project for the organisation of the first edition of the European Development Days in Brussels. Project delivered within 3 months instead of 6 and successfully audited by EU inspector (Client: European Commission, Directorate-General for Development)
- - Web intranet project to manage huge car orders (11.000) for all Renault dealerships. Cash back and sales process improvement (Client: Renault Belgium Luxembourg)
- - Web portal project in 23 languages (Latin and non-Latin) for the organisation of 60 conferences in 30 countries (Implications of Basel II on the banking environment for SMEs) (Client: European Savings Bank Groups / Lloyds TSB Bank / European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise)
Managing Director of my company / Account & Sales Manager
InsideTech s.a. - Brussels - Belgium(Freelancer - November 1995 - August 2001)
- - Making sure that the business continues to grow by way of developing new clients whilst maintaining its existing customer base.
- - Defining IT needs (hardware and software), sourcing, request for quotation and negotiation with suppliers. Responding to RFP, writing technical and financial proposals, contract negotiation. (Clients: Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgian Air Force, …)
Analyst - Developer
SCSI sprl - Brussels - Belgium(Permanent contract - August 1992 - October 1995)
- - Providing cost effective solutions to the clients for systems networking, business applications and other related services.
- - Customer’s need analysis, hardware & software integration in SMEs.
- - Ensuring second level technical application support (Macintosh & Windows).
- - Analysing and solving client technical problems and system conflicts
Analyst - Developer
Mouse Power s.a. - Brussels - Belgium(Permanent contract - November 1989 - July 1992)
- - CRM & accounting application development. Technical support for international customers, including system diagnostics and technical problem resolution. (Clients: International Brussels Film Festival, World Confederation of Labour, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Algeria, Ministry of Agriculture of Algeria, …)
