2012 - 2023: Software development

Role: IT Director

Customer: Louis De Waele, Brussels

Tasks:

• Management of a team of 3 people.
• Software development
• database administrator
• IBM Power System administrator
• management of hardware and software projects
• contract negotiation
• technology watch
• budget management and audit of the IT department,
• implementation and optimization of internal and external security procedures

Skills:

AS400 Administration (iSeries, Power), Adelia Cloud, Windows Server, CLP, RPG, Adelia/400, Adelia/IWS, Visual Adelia, NetASQ, Stormshield, IBM DB2/400 administration, Network administration, Allgeier, Lotus QuikR, NetExplorer, QlickView

2008 - 2023: Development of a tailor-made ERP on IBM AS400

Customr: LOUIS DE WAELE, BRUSSELS

Tasks:

• Development of a tailor-made ERP on IBM AS400 (development in Adelia by Hardis then generation in RPG) which covers the entire activity of the company (stock management, invoicing, accounting, budget monitoring, price requests, calculation of quotes, management of depot and rentals, monitoring of vehicles, management of workers' payroll, ...).
  • Corrective and evolutionary maintenance of the developed components.
  • Analysis and implementation of new modules and functionalities, with user documentation.
  • Modernization of the ERP (PDF generation, document management, automatic email generation and sending, automatic generation of purchase orders, link with Business Intelligence software, automatic price requests by email, link with third-party software
  • Analysis of business and user needs
• IT service management
  • Management of a team of 3 to 5 people, prioritization of tasks.
  • Implementation of Disaster & Recover policy, backup policy, implementation and optimization of internal and external security procedures. Technological and regulatory watch.
  • Relationship with suppliers and service providers, negotiation of contracts, monitoring of budgets (600k), management of hardware and software projects, audit of the IT department, follow-up of migrations of third-party software.
• Administering an IBM Power System (AS400)
  • Migration, application of system patches.
  • Database administration (IBM DB2/400).
  • Automation of technical reporting and alerts, documentation of technical procedures.
  • User support.

2008 - 2011: ERP modernization, developments, testing

Role: Deputy IT Director

Customer: Louis De Waele, Brussels

Tasks:

• implementation of Back-up & Recovery logic,
• project management
• links with third-party software
• user support
• documentation, programming language migration

2001 - 2007: Development of a leasing finance software

Role: Analyst-Programmer

Customer: C.P.B.I., Brussels

Tasks:

Development, testing, maintenance, installations, documentation, integration of banking standards, user support for our international customers (Man, Scania, Xerox, Dexia, CNH, Caterpillar, Keytrade, etc.).

• Development of a financial software package with more than 1200 programs, Adélia development for PC and AS/400.
  • Corrective and evolutionary maintenance of developed components, analysis and implementation of new modules and functionalities.
  • Specific data extraction and exchange projects (e.g., communication modules with integration and export from and to SAP).
  • Creation of a module for the management and analysis of scoring, rating, and balance sheet data in order to control banking risk (implementation of Basel II).
  • Communication and integration of banking standards on the market: bank direct debits, payment vouchers (BIV Payment Order, VIR2000), bank statements (CODA, MT940 - SWIFT), e-Invoice (EBL001), etc.
  • Client-server programming, SQL and optimization.
  • Study and implementation of the integration of Microsoft Office software tools into the CPBI software package (automatic e-mail, direct mail, macro in VBA and VBScript).
  • Programming of an Adelia Web application installed on the intranet.
  • Tests before production.
  • Customer data transfers.
  • Analysis and modification of the programmes for the introduction of the euro.
• AS400 administration and management.
  • Installation, parameterization, security and production launch of an AS400 (iSeries model 270).
  • Implementation of Back-Up & Recovery logics.
  • System administrator: creation of CLs, job management, problem solving, settings and security, etc.
• Implementation and configuration of software installations on different network architectures.
• Hotline to the various customers (user and technical level).
• Program documentation, technical manuals and user documentation.

Skills:

AS400 Administration (iSeries, Power), Windows Server, CLP, Adelia/IWS, Visual Adelia, Adelia Web, VBScript, IBM DB2/400 Administration, Microsoft Access, Network administration