Philippe Halbardier
IT Operations Executive
61 years old
Habay-la-Neuve (B-6720) Belgium
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
After spending 4 years in Belgium at the beginning of my career, recruited by my thesis teacher, I started in Luxembourg as analyst-developer, in charge of migrating a legacy banking software to an OpenVMS platform.
I evolved during 24 years around the IBSY banking software with some great achievements to my credit:
• introduction of the Uniface 4GL language for GUI improvement,
• migration to the Oracle relational database,
• porting of the application to Solaris Unix,
• implementation of a high availability platform.
After taking responsibility for the R&D unit with 4 team members, I ended up as product manager for this IBSY banking software with supervision of 20 employees.
With the decline of Private Banking in Luxembourg, I made a transition to new IT technologies and Web projects.
In 2015, I launched my own company SimplyCIT to develop ERP software and the controlling activity. I immediately became an Odoo partner. Due to its strong growth, the Odoo activity could not be covered by internal resources, so the support of a larger structure became necessary. In April 2019, Xpertiz and SimplyCIT pooled an Odoo business unit that I currently manage.
• Aptitude in organizing and managing resources
• Design & Management of complex and international projects and/or migrations
• ITIL (services) and HERMES (project management) certification
• 20 Years of experience in Banking Software (Private Banking transactions, Money-Market, Securities, Forex,…)
• Experience in all areas of the complete life cycle of an application (developer, analyst, DBA, implementation, consultancy, training, project management)
• Very good technical knowledge (Infrastructure, DB, Software dev. Web dev)
I evolved during 24 years around the IBSY banking software with some great achievements to my credit:
• introduction of the Uniface 4GL language for GUI improvement,
• migration to the Oracle relational database,
• porting of the application to Solaris Unix,
• implementation of a high availability platform.
After taking responsibility for the R&D unit with 4 team members, I ended up as product manager for this IBSY banking software with supervision of 20 employees.
With the decline of Private Banking in Luxembourg, I made a transition to new IT technologies and Web projects.
In 2015, I launched my own company SimplyCIT to develop ERP software and the controlling activity. I immediately became an Odoo partner. Due to its strong growth, the Odoo activity could not be covered by internal resources, so the support of a larger structure became necessary. In April 2019, Xpertiz and SimplyCIT pooled an Odoo business unit that I currently manage.
• Aptitude in organizing and managing resources
• Design & Management of complex and international projects and/or migrations
• ITIL (services) and HERMES (project management) certification
• 20 Years of experience in Banking Software (Private Banking transactions, Money-Market, Securities, Forex,…)
• Experience in all areas of the complete life cycle of an application (developer, analyst, DBA, implementation, consultancy, training, project management)
• Very good technical knowledge (Infrastructure, DB, Software dev. Web dev)
Technical Account Manager
Real Solutions S.A.
2003
to 2008
Luxembourg
- Resources management and tasks planification.
- Account Management & Consultancy
- Technical R&D, Implementation
Detailed Description
- 2003 - 2008 : IBSY 3.0 Release (Integrated Banking SYstem, private banking software).
Software consolidation of the accounting kernel to integrate the IAS/IFRS accounting standards and a new WEB Front-End
• Application architecture
• Elaboration of technical solutions : Oracle schema for multi-banking software, synchronous MQ-Series Messaging, Unix job scheduling
• Implementation and training
• Account Management during customer pilot phase.
[ Technologies used in this project : Oracle PL/SQL, COBOL, UNIFACE, Java ] - 2005 - 2007 : ITIL compliance implementation
Adaptation of REAL's internal procedures and tools, e.g. HelpDesk, to match with the ITIL best practices (SPOC, etc…). Web access for customer to register & follow their calls. Cross application platform for REAL Solutions
Focusing on the Service Management area, due to REAL's main activity of software provider:
• Service Desk and Incident Management
• Problem Management
• Change Management
• Release Management - 2002 - 2003 : IBSY V2.5 – Solaris Migration
Migration of the banking software IBSY from the OpenVMS 7.3 / Oracle 8 platform
to Unix Solaris 8 / Oracle 9i
• Feasibility study
• Elaboration of technical solutions
• Contact with provider & external consultants
• Project conception and planification
• Hardware installation
• Implementation and training