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Technical IT Project Manager - Software Architect

Community Manager

OpenERP - Namur Area - Belgium(Permanent contract - Since February 2010)

• OpenERP is a leading Open Source Business Application Suite vendor. With a community of more than 300 active members, having contributed more than 500 modules, a network of certified partners established in 26 countries, and more than a thousand downloads a day, OpenERP is one of the most frequently installed business suite worldwide. The company raised 3 million Euros in February 2010.

• http://www.openerp.com

Official instructor and R&D Engineer

OpenERP - Namur Area - Belgium(Permanent contract - October 2009 - February 2010)

• OpenERP is a leading Open Source Business Application Suite vendor. With a community of more than 300 active members, having contributed more than 500 modules, a network of certified partners established in 26 countries, and more than a thousand downloads a day, OpenERP is one of the most frequently installed business suite worldwide. The company raised 3 million Euros in February 2010.

• http://www.openerp.com

Operations & QA Manager (1.5+ years)

Denali Consulting S.A. - Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium(Permanent contract - Since February 2008)

• Technical Production Management (Supervise project managers, manage projects, run expertise network, drive open source contributions, validate/review code, provide technical expertise internally: architecture, security, performance, ... )
• Quality Assurance (Establish testing best practices and tools, improve and monitor deliverable quality, accelerate Go Live cycles), perform stress-testing and optimization
• Helpdesk and Maintenance supervision (ITIL-like helpdesk supervision, maintenance contracts implementation, support for legacy customers)
• Infrastructure management (Provide services and ensure business continuity for customers and personnel - physical & virtual systems, business applications, ...)
• See 'learn more' for more details on these roles...

• Technical Production Management (Supporting the COO)
  * Supervise and guide junior Project Managers to ensure all projects deliver quality results in a timely and cost-effective manner
  * Oversee mixed teams of 6-7 developers working on multiple projects
  * Drive and review open source contributions and feedback
  * Manage internal knowledge and expertise network: day-to-day problems resolution and usage of appropriate knowledge management tools
  * Provide technical expertise to developers and projects: architecture/design, security concerns, performance and optimization, technical issues, etc.
  * Misc: pre-sales support, estimations, planning, contracts and proposals writing
• Quality Assurance
  * Introduce tools and best practices to ensure quality software from the start
  * Unit Testing: encourage unit testing with coverage tools, continuous integration of unit test and reviewing (test first approach)
  * Functional Testing: introduce and improve modern scenario-based functional test recorder and automator
  * Load Testing: convince developers of load tests' usefulness, develop integrated load test tools and apply them for stress-testing
  * Test Repurposing: repurpose scenario-based functional tests as load-tests and real-time monitoring tools
  * Profiling and optimization of critical services
  * Introduce strict dependency management (Maven) in in-house Java frameworks to prevent cross-projects side-effects
• Helpdesk and Maintenance supervision
  * Ensure quick and customer-oriented ITIL-based customer support
  * Handle maintenance contracts fulfillment and reporting
  * Ensure profitable maintenance services, with appropriate tools and procedures
• Infrastructure Management
  * Ensure services and business continuity by providing robust network and systems 24/7 for both personnel and customers: Virtual Machines, Cross-location incremental backups, 24/7 monitoring systems with escalation and automatic recovery actions, plans for disaster recovery, all on mixed environments: Windows, Linux, MacOSX, VMWare
  * Implemented VMWare-based virtualization systems for vastly improved hardware ROI, easier deployment and management of machines, etc.
  * Provide integrated build environments for developers: continuous integration systems with automated testing, staging and reporting
• Examples of Technical Production Management missions:
  - FlexoBPMServer platform (SaaS server): architecture of a scalable and flexible high-availability system for providing multi-tenant services. Technological keywords: Java EE, BPM, Web 2.0, PostgreSQL, load-balancing, fail-over, VMWare
  - Cullen International (Regulatory information portal for Telecom): corrective project management & coaching of development team to improve customer satisfaction and deliverable quality, including testing and optimization – enforcement of support and maintenance contract, improvement of relationship with external hosting company. Technological keywords: Java EE, SOA, .NET WS + Office2007, Web 2.0, MySQL, WebObjects
  - ING OMTools (Online time tracking system): team coaching for effective unit testing, functional testing and load testing with subsequent optimizations, leading to improved quality and performance. Technological keywords: Java EE, Google Web Toolkit, WebObjects, PostgreSQL, BIRT
  - Partena Evalia (Quality Assurance Workflow): maintenance contract enforcement, load-testing, corrections and optimizations for improved BI reporting performance. Technological keywords: Java EE, WebObjects, PostgreSQL, BIRT
  - MCL/Zetes (Mobile devices management application): corrective project management for improved customer satisfaction, technical team coaching, critical development help, improved functional and unit testing
  Technological keywords: Java EE, H2 embedded database, licensing protection scheme
  - Synthetron (Belgian start-up): architecture and design of Web 2.0 collaborative decision platform scaling to hundreds of people in the same discussion without suffering from cacophony.
  Technological keywords: Java EE, Google Web Toolkit, XMPP/Jabber, Javascript, WebServices, JBoss, VMWare

• Denali, a small company founded in 2001, offers software development and BPM consulting services, centered on its in-house FlexoBPM software suite and methodology.

• www.flexobpm.com

Software Engineer (3.5 years)

Denali Consulting S.A. - Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium(Permanent contract - June 2004 - January 2008)

• Business Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing and Support of numerous IT projects (Java EE and Web 2.0 Technologies). Almost all projects involved initial Business Process modeling with the in-house process modeling tool: FlexoBPM (www.flexobpm.com)
• Technical reference in the internal expertise network for other employees, and all kinds of technical challenges (programming, optimization, hardware, networks, security, ...).
• Participated in the design and implementation of the Production infrastructure (Application Servers, Databases, etc.), and developed supportive tools for the Operations department.
• See 'learn more' for more details on a few projects...

• Babelgum (Italian webTV): business requirements analysis, BPM-driven implementation and testing of a JEE BackOffice interface for a distributed Internet TV platform.
  Technological keywords: Java EE, BPM, WebObjects, Web 2.0 / Javascript / AJAX, Oracle, ffmpeg
• UCB Pharma (Keops): implementation of a validated Medical Knowledge Management platform for UCB Pharma Research department, based on a set of medical thesauri. Development of a Swing-based content assistant and assorted web services. Database design, strengthening and optimization.
  Technological keywords: Java EE, Swing, WebObjects, WebServices, Oracle/PL-SQL
• Moto.com (US Inc.): Implementation of a client/server messaging stack on top of Jabber protocol, to support the Remoto project for Moto labs, a Twitter-like system for devices.
  Technological keywords: XML, Jabber/XMPP, OpenFire server
• Athenaweb.org (EU project): implementation and testing of the JEE FrontOffice and BackOffice of a video sharing platform.
  Technological keywords: Java EE, WebObjects, Web 2.0 / Javascript, FrontBase, Video Streaming
• Architecture and configuration of Linux-based JEE deployment servers with additional secure services and real-time monitoring with escalation. Some services: Web+SSL, DNS, Virtual Mail, secure source version control
  Technological keywords: Linux, x86-64 hardware, RAID, backups, Apache, Tomcat, Databases, SSL, SSH, CVS, OVH, firewalls, ...
• Description of additional missions upon request...

• Denali, a small company founded in 2001, offers software development and BPM consulting services, centered on its in-house FlexoBPM software suite and methodology.

• http://www.flexobpm.be

IT Consultant (1 year)

Axen - Brussels - Belgium(Permanent contract - September 2003 - June 2004)

• IT Consultant for several analysis and development projects (Java EE)
• See 'learn more' for more details on these projects...

• Banque Belgolaise (1 month): deployment of a modern software development environment for IT employees, with Version Control System and modern IDE - Proof of concept: implementation of a model-2 MVC Java Enterprise XML-based website engine
  Technological keywords: Java EE, Tomcat, XML/XSL/XSLT, Struts, CVS
• Synthetron (Belgian start-up, 9 months): technical design and implementation of Java-based client for collaborative decision platform scaling to hundreds of people in the same discussion without suffering from cacophony. Implementation of proxy-compatible encrypted communication channels for XMPP protocol within corporate environments, unit-testing, load-testing, support.
  Technological keywords: Java EE/Signed applets, JBoss, Java Swing/AWT, XMPP/Jabber, Web Proxies/NTLM, Struts, SSL

• AXEN is a Consulting and Engineering company with a focus on IT and Telecom, active in Brussels

• http://www.axen.info