Case Studies

Steria > European Commission Project

• Serving as methodology coach
  
• Constant monitoring of the quality of the builds by implementing continuous integration tools (Cruise Control)
  
• Alignment of the analysts team on a common way of working and specification structure
  
• Achieving efficient team work and separation of concerns through a shared repository of assets implemented as a webdav server, an Oracle database server and a source control system (CVS) storing all knowledge, specifications and code for the project.
  
• Achieving reuse of tools and assets such as specification structure for other projects in the company (even if in a different sector).
  
• Monitoring software quality assurance and improving the code quality through the use of Checkstyle, PMD and other Open Source tools integrated with SQA metrics in custom-created tools displaying the code base state as a treemap allowing for quick spotting of issues and direct access to source code through them.
  
• Achieving acceptance of key deliverables by authoring their structure and several of their technical parts (technologies included web services, SOAP, distributed systems, XSD).
  

Tools & Technologies Used

Steria > Registre National

• Introduced issue tracking concepts through custom trainings and tool recommendation (using Open Source Eventum).
  
• Improved the communication between the team members and their customers through software engineering trainings centered around system modelling and the UML notation.
  

Steria > Axa Engineering Improvement Program

• Provided a clear explanation of what RA is to align people
  
• Made the team gel by serving as a catalyst for change
  

Steria > SPF Finances

• Establishing a set of templates for capturing requirements and analysis specifications
  
• Running a series of workshops for scoping the project
  
• Helping in structuring the revenue structure for the companies running the project
  

Expert-IT > Ogilvy

• Helped in putting a large ailing project back on track.
  

• Helped in bridging adverstising people, designers and geeks together, identifying key problems, producing high level specifications for putting everyone on the same page.
  

IBGE (with Imalogic)

• Delivered a flexible, selfupdating, branded, multilingual, cross platform (windows, linux, mac)
  

• Ensuring that changes took less than a day to significantly change the layout, field counts and
  

State of the roads of the City of Brussels (with Imalogic)

• Developing a web application based on Java technologies for encoding the state of the roads and visualizing it on dynamic maps.
  
• Leveraging the dynamics of a small, high grade team to deliver the application.
  

MC Properties Website (with Imalogic)

• Created a top notch web presence for MC Properties, a luxury home real estate agent.
  

Metachannel SA

• Enabling web based team work, sharing of tasks, documents, content, applications in the company by leveraging TikiWiki, a CMS/Groupware Open Source solution.
  
• Enabled Customer Relationship Management through the use of VTigerCRM, an Open Source CRM solution. Features include leads management, account management, quotes, product catalogs, invoicing and trouble ticketing.
  
• Introducting robustness analysis to colleagues.
  

• Delivering an ad server solution based on OpenX (Open Source Ad Server) and additional PHP code and files to support Geo targeting. Key concepts: Advertisers, Campaings, Ads, Zones, Publishers, Statistics, Capping, Delivery constraings.
  
• Designing and delivering a video player embedding ad-serving features in pre roll and post roll (technology used: Adobe Flex)
  
• Designing and delivering a MP3 ads pre roll and post roll embedding mechanism along with RSS feed rewriter system. (Technologies: MP3, PHP, Apache, MySQL, tagging, RSS, Podcasting)
  

Computer Sciences Corporation > Brussels Airlines

• Helping move the KPI of technical availability of internet booking engine to 99.6%, resulting in significant monetary gains
  
• Helping improve the issue tracking process with off shore developers in the Philippines (technology used: Jira)
  
• Helping improve the scalability of the solution by finding out solutions to very annoying bugs (technology used: Spring, Java, MySql replication, Terracotta)
  
• Helping improve the communication between business and IT by chairing the eBusiness coordination meetings for several months to tackle long time issues
  
• Helping the specification and implementation of an availability dashboard
  
• Improving the performance of the commercial website by identifying performance bottlenecks and moving the time to load the pages from 17 seconds to less than 3.
  

Computer Sciences Corporation > Belgacom

Atos Origin > Trainings

• Aligning people on project management and solution delivery concepts by creating and delivering a custom made training course
  
• Educating the presales team on how to elicit and manage requirements of various types
  
• Teaching analysts on how to model systems
  

Stratis Group

Valtech > European Commission (various DGs)

• Identifying specific requirements for the teams that were going to perform system modelling
  
• Successfully crafting and delivering a custom made course on how to do system modelling and using Sparx Enterprise Architect
  

Orsys France > Tomcat Administration Course

Orsys France > Object Oriented Analysis and Design Courses

Orsys France > Web development with Java

Orsys > Calataÿ & Wouters

• Conducting several trainings on how to put the UML in practice
  
• Conducting several trainings on how to use Sparx EA tools
  

STIME > Web Platform review and benchmarking

• Providing solid advice on the customer platform shortcomings and proposing new ways.
  
• Implemented the new ways successfully and replacing the old ways.
  
• Benchmarking against the old platform and achieving a factor of improvement in speed and scalability of a minimum of 5 to 10 times.
  

Trionis > Web Site

European Savings Banks Group > Membership directory web site

Eufiserv > Website / Intranet / Newsletter / Forums

MAT > Technical Interfaces Programming

Netika > Methodology training and consulting

• Helped the client leverage object oriented approaches in their work.
  
• Helped the client think about his new product line with an improved formalism.
  
• Helped the client model his new systems with the UML.
  

Former Employer > Belgacom

• Helped in shaping the access to all backend systems in an integrated fashion, significantly driving the integration costs down.
  
• Helped in improving the availability of a lot of applications through measurement of problems and root cause finding.
  
• Helped in aligning teams by defining and implementing common ways of working, shared team missions, causing the software engineering maturity to move up significantly.
  
• Helped in making the company leverage the emerging Java technology by deploying the NetDynamics platform in an operational setup.
  

IconMedialab > Stroeve Bank - Online Project

• putting in place an agile development process
  
• automating the build and release process
  
• making the quality of the software better by order of magniture by using sound architectural practices
  
• making the same team work nicely together
  
• putting testing procedures in place
  

IconMedialab > NATO NIDS CMS Study

• delivering a comparative study of the leading CMSes of the time
  
• defined all content items and their relationships in a content model, based on the specific requirements of NATO
  
• prototyped the user interface experience as part of the HCI group
  
• running series of workshops with the client to share the vision
  
• examined the performance requirements in order to propose a technical architecture
  

Former Employer > Digiline

• Designed, implemented and deployed the next generation interactive voice response systems sold by the company.
  
• Led the technical team and implemented Object Oriented approaches in order to rationalize the development methods, cutting the development time of solutions by at least a factor of 10.
  
• Delivered voice-mail systems based on the technology.
  
• Delivered over the phone games based on the technology.
  
• Delivered phone banking IVR systems based on the technologies for La Poste, Banque Generale du Luxembourg and others.
  
• Delivered a large installation of the technology for Ring Ring Company, a leading IVR provider in Belgium (systems that were delivered in 1993 ran in production until 2000).
  
• Delivered one of the first CTI-enabled platform for Skynet, including document fax back, custom headset hardware, presence registration and planning.
  

Formed Employer > Digipass | Vasco Data Security

• Helped customers implement the Digipass technology.
  
• Helped in knowledge transfer to Vasco Data Security USA.
  
• Helped in visualizing new products by prototyping them in software.