About Me

During my past assignments, I had the opportunity to lead offshore and onsite multi-cultural teams totalizing more than 30 people of which up to 7 direct reports. These teams were operating from the US, India, Russia, Central and South America and EU; my objective being to always apply the best sourcing strategy for the project and the organization. Managing budgets and programs of more than $10M and 2K man/days, my target is to maximize the value for money and deliver high quality on time.

Who Am I

I was often brought to present and negotiate at CxO level, budgets, visions, roadmaps, strategy as well as interim and final results of projects and teams achievements. I also participated to prospects, customers or agent’s presentations and negotiations concerning chosen strategy of technological or functional enhancements as well as processes or organizational changes required to deliver higher levels of services or ROI. Highly flexible on working hours and working locations, I would be happy to envision relocation or expatriation to perform my duties or to travel when required.

With a blend of leadership, technical and business experience, I am recognized as a first class leader. In my technical roles, I have developed a broad experience in the wide IT domains from systems architecture till software packages integration, ERP and Internet POS development management, always with a result oriented mindset. My experience brought me to lead multi-national and multi-cultural teams and proactively manage programs from the design up to the roll out in production, covering the full projects lifecycle. Always with a diplomatic and pragmatic attitude and with a real sense of urgency, through the various projects, I have widened my experience in business development, processes and change management. These capabilities have been bolstered by my MBA, adding important financial management dimensions to my capabilities. With more than 19 years of IS consulting, international programs and teams management, I will bring to your organization proven skills in leadership, process engineering and re-engineering as well as financial management at multicultural and international level.

Professional Profile
  • Leadership, Portfolio and Operations Management expertise enhanced by an IT Director, European Field IT Senior Manager and European Program Manager positions held in multinational groups.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills in English and French. Comprising fifteen months of experience as bid manager, developing the business, managing bid teams, writing proposals and SLA’s; negotiation and management of suppliers, reporting to top management levels.
  • Strong background in Information Technology, with firsthand knowledge of systems development and integration, databases/ERP technologies. Including more than nine years of experience in IT consultancy within various organisations ranging from the EC, Banking and Financial sector (Western Union, Banksys, BBL), telecommunication companies (CellNet, Belgacom Mobile), industry (Alstom, Coca-Cola, Toyota Motor Europe) and energy (Electrabel) sectors.

Testimonial

I had the pleasure to work with Thierry for the last two years. Thierry masters incredibly well the landscape around IT: from managing a small project to manage large programs to being a trusted advisor for senior executives. In addition to his technical and analytical skills, he has a wealth of knowledge of the world in his diversity in cultures and habits and is able to understand and grasp the environment surrounding him and his team. This gives him the ability to react fast and adapt himself and his team to work towards the objectives without being interfered by the political landscape. I do recommend Thierry to be your future IT executive. August 20, 2009, Mario managed Thierry at Western Union

Mario Herreman - Technology Executive

Thierry is a tremendous asset to any team. He can see to the root of an issue, problem and find the best solution quickly. He has a great sense of humor and can make a difficult issue much easier to think through by injecting humor and plausible solutions. He is a hard worker and very dedicated and will see any project through to completion. August 7, 2009, Sally managed Thierry indirectly at Western Union

Sally Hesson - Project Manager at MBS Dev