Director & owner
VP IT / CIO / PROGRAM Manager / Director with large experience as people/project/unit/program manager for multi cultural and multi disciplinary teams within SAAS SOFTWARE and DATA centric development and operational/infrastructural IT area.
The philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason.
Key focus on IT department TRANSITION and STRATEGIC programs build on modern technical assets as cloud, open source, advanced data with pragmatic TCO pov. Innovation management track experience.
Loves to transform, build, create, improve, change and manage IT programs, teams in a pragmatic way cross boundaries, multi location with a focus on EU. Always striving to align to business needs with P&L / KPI focus, C level within software business oriented companies.
Large technical background in J2EE, MICROSOFT, package implementations, WEB and MOBILE technologies and integrations to backoffice applications (ERP/CMS) including SAAS/PAAS & API integrations. High focus on DATA value (BI/Analytics/Advanced Analytics) & hybrid CLOUD tracks in context of business value & tco.
Managed teams up to 150+ FTE successfully including multi vendor & distributed offshore & nearshore teams.
Strategy focus & driver of the management team (cio/board).
Active member of CIONET Peer Group Belgium.
Personality: MBTI Type: ESTJ
IT is not just another department in an organization. It’s pervasive, like electricity, it’s everywhere and default.
The best customer service is when end users don’t need to reach out to your help desk.
Deliver as IT department what you promise. That’s customer service.
portfolio
Works mean activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.
IT Security is a form of Problem Management. It looks to proactively prevent Incidents.
The value of networking. Very important in IT. There are so many resources out there that you can connect with for the latest updates, tips and tricks.
Service stays forever
Talent is natural aptitude or skill. A natural ability to be good at something, especially without being taught.
Excellence is not a destination, it’s a continuous journey that never ends.
Customer experience is the marketing battlefront.
COMMUNICATION / RELATIONSHIP
Communication is the imparting or exchanging of information or news. Means of connection between people or places, in particular.
I liked working with Ivo he brought a professional and calm atmosphere to the group combined with his good market knowledge and a vision. Ivo was highly trained as a senior project manager and realised several nice projects together with his teams. It is rare to experience such a ying and yang complementarity as I did with Ivo.
recommendation given on Linkedin
As a competence developer, Ivo has provided me on many occasions the best possible solution for my staffing requests. Ivo is a professional, mixing people skills and technical knowledge. On top of that, always customer focussed !
recommendation given on Linkedin
During the ten years I worked at CTG, one of the main reasons for being so happy at my job was because of the work of Ivo, who was my career developer at that time. His unforced and natural way of dealing with people resulted in a trusty relationship. He is able to listen and motivate, so I always had the feeling I could rely on him, 100%!
recommendation given on Linkedin