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Director Business Performance Improvement

Work Experience

Bouwbedrijf Van Roey : several apprenticeships in accountancy during 1985 – 1989 during my studies
Located in Belgium

Groep Van Roey-Franki : 1993 - 1994
I was responsible for the development and implementation of the Executive Information System, which allowed management and other stakeholders to have all the important business data at any moment. I worked on the project for one year and finished it succesfully. The EIS-system was written in Hypercard for a Mac Environment on an Oracle Database. This job involved meeting with different key stakeholders, doing financial analysis of a worldwide company and developping new software.
Located in Belgium with branches worldwide

Ernst & Young : 1994 - 1997
Financial auditor (senior), member of the IT-team and responsible for the education of new employees. My customers were medium and large National and Multinational companies mainly in the Chemical, Metal, Paper & Packaging, Transportation (shipping, distribution) and
the Services industry. In my last year I performed special tasks (Acquisitions, Fraude investigation, Mergers) and managed people on the job. I also was a speaker for E&Y at seminars.
Worked mainly in Belgium and Holland

Penske Logistics Europe : 26th of October 1998 – March 31st 2000
Started as a Financial Analyst for the Corporate Audit Team. The main tasks were acquisitions, integrations, major contract analysis, process control and financial responsibility of the different sites. I was also Finance Manager of the Ridderk and the Roosendaal sites and member of the Management Team (totalling 600 employees and 500 trucks). I was member of the operational team in Roosendaal as part of the reorganisation of this site. I was appointed Black Belt Operations (Quality manager trained by GE) to head operational projects for the whole group. I was an interim Director during restructuration of the Ridderkerk Site. I also worked on implementing new accounting and planning software at the sites as well as a Management Buy Out.
Examples of some projects : implementation of Paragon Software to increase the utilization and efficiency of the truck fleet, redesign of the Invoicing process which included implementing a new software package, implementing a company wide KPI-reporting tool, an HR Project to decrease temporary labor, …
Worked mainly in Holland, Belgium, France, Germany and the UK

Columbus Logistics : April 2000 – December 2000
I was appointed as a director of Columbus Logistics which was set up in October of 1999 with the goal to set up different companies in the transportation industry as well as offering consultancy. Together with two experts from the Transportation Industry we created a business plan for a Digital Marketplace for Transport.
Worked in Europe and the US

TransportationZone : December 2000 – Now.
I was appointed Director Business Performance Improvement for this new company in charge of Finance, Quality, Human Resources and Analysis. . My main tasks over the last year were setting up a Finance Project (JD Edwards Finance and Order Management), an Operations Project (Glog) and a Data Warehousing Project (Cognos). This included designing the processes (I am a six sigma trained Black Belt ex GE), writing RFPs, building and managing project teams. As a Director I was involved in the Sales process defining new targets and winning new Business.
Worked in Europe and the US

Education

Primary school Sint-Jozefcollege Pieter de Nef straat Turnhout 1981
Highschool grade 1 - 3 Latin-Greek Sint-Jozefcollege Turnhout 1984
Highschool grade 4 - 6 Latin-Sciences Sint-Jozefcollege Turnhout 1987
Master in Economics, specialised in Management and Business Strategies, K.U.L. 1993
Thesis : ‘Strategieën in de bouwsector met het oog op de éénheidsmarkt;
Casestudy Franki s.a.’ (strategies in the construction industry for the single European Market)

Skills

I am a team player that loves new challenges. I have had formal training and experience in financials, operations and quality and have learned to combine those three fields to come up with new ways of analysing companies and making a Change. I am trained in Process Management and Change Management and have lead several projects to good results (optimising customer satisfaction, increasing profits, reducing lead times, decreasing costs, optimising investments, …).


- Management Reporting (Vlerick Management School)
- Advanced accounting (Ernst & Young)
- Management skills (Ernst & Young)
- Train the trainer (Ernst & Young)
- Advanced Word, Excel, Powerpoint (Dolmen)
- Green Belt (Penske Logistics)
- Change Acceleration Process (CAP) (Penske Logistics)
- Black Belt Training (Penske Logistics)
- JD Edwards: One World Fast Track Financials
- Manugistics and Glog operational training
Hypercard, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Macromedia Director (Groep Van Roey)
Advanced Excel, Word, Powerpoint (Ernst & Young)
Paragon, Access, Minitab, MS Project, Visio, MS Outlook (Penske Logistics)
JD Edwards, Manugistics, Glog (TransportationZone)
Datawarehousing and reporting: Cognos, Business Objects, Hyperion

Languages

Dutch / French / English / German Excellent Knowledge
Spanish / Italian Basic Knowledge

Other

Hobby's
Music : silver medal solfege, attending concerts
Sports : Scubadiving (Padi Certified Diver), tennis, squash, swimming
Travel : I love to explore new worlds and new dimensions. My favourite expression comes from Leichhart (an Australian explorer) : « The effort of exploring is often rewarded by the joy of discovery ».

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