Gert is an (interim) IT director/manager, senior IT consultant, program/project manager, Release Train Engineer (RTE & SM) with 30 years of experience in the IT, Pharma, Telecom, Banking and Logistics business in worldwide leading companies.

 

Gert is adaptive to new situations and combines a pragmatic approach with his result oriented personality in order to lead projects to the required results.

 

Thanks to his very rich career, he can take up various roles and perform several jobs within a wide range of environments. Probably one of his major advantages is his natural organizational talent on different levels. This in combination with his commercial as well as technical feeling makes his profile very unique in this IT landscape.

His expertise in ICT management, consulting, development, infrastructure, service, product, bid, process, project, program and people management are the result of a whole series of successful achievements in the past. During his career thanks to his strong leadership capabilities, he was able to drive very complex programs in competitive environments and to lead, develop, motivate team members in order to achieve the objectives qualitatively and timely, within budget, while keeping the global picture in mind.

He worked as IT Director, IT Manager, Project/Program Manager, Service Manager / Problem Manager, leading development and maintenance teams and participates as technical advisor in functional and business requirements.

Gert is also Prince2 Certified (practitioner), Certified Scrum Master, CMMi Fundamentals as well as certified SAFe 4 Agilist.

 

In September 2010, Gert started his own company giving him the possibility to stay focused on these domains where his expertise is located in.

Currently working as Release Train Engineer (RTE), Scrum Master and Senior Project Manager within a large Data program @ Argenta.

At Unigro, during 2017 till Q1 2018, as program manager he was responsible for the migration of the whole IT landscape from an old mainframe environment towards a new hybrid platform (+/- 20 connected applications and a complete new desktop environment including O365 Unified Communications platform) build around an ERP system. This included the setup of a new IT organization for Unigro.

 

From 2013 till 2017 focus was more on IT Management as Global Lead IT for Thrombogenics (Oxurion) and later as IT Director for DPD Benelux.
Prior Gert worked as Account / Project and Requirements Manager for ING Home banking. Bridging the gap between Business and IT.

Before he held a position as Project Facility Division Manager at BTR Services. A service and consulting company focusing on the banking environment.

Prior to this, he was the Business Leader PPI and Senior Manager at Capgemini Belgium (complete and detailed overview can be found later in the “Professional Experience” chapter).

Vice-President IT & Operations EMEA at Carels Corporation, a component based Software Development Company based in Belgium, where he was responsible for the ICT strategy and overall European Operations of Carels Corporation.

 

Previously he was Business Consultant at WorldCom Belgium Brussels, maximizing data and Internet sales by leveraging MCI WorldCom’s E-business capability to construct solutions which address customer business priorities at functional and senior levels. Prior to that I served as E-Commerce Consultant & Product Manager Ecommerce Services of EUnet Belgium (payment solution & hosting solution). Gert also spent nine years at Baxter healthcare, rising to European New Technology Project Manager.