Analytical professional with technical knowledge and critical thinking skills to thrive in data-driven environments. Tackles challenges with positivity and drive to overcome. Works great alone or with others and consistently exceeds expectations.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Inetum Belgium
Huizingen
09.2020 - Current
Manage the corporate data warehouse and the PowerBI reporting platform.
Gather business requirements from users to convert to technical requirements.
Developing visually appealing and intuitive data visualizations, such as charts, graphs, and dashboards, to facilitate understanding of complex data sets and trends
Create and distribute monthly, quarterly and annual reports to management regarding performance.
Create data visualizations in PowerBI to present forecasting to management.
Provide leadership and guidance to team members, ensuring that tasks were completed on time and to a high standard.
Delegate daily tasks to team members to optimize group productivity.
Data Analytics Lead (Sales & Marketing)
Realdolmen
Huizingen
07.2015 - 08.2020
Implement a data driven focus within the Marketing department by implementing CRM processes (MS Dynamics) and Marketing Automation(Clickdimensions).
Support the lead generation team with data based segmentation and targeting.
Established KPIs to measure performance of different initiatives and track progress towards goals.
Data Warehouse Architect/Manager
Realdolmen
Huizingen
04.2010 - 09.2015
Collaborated with stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs and develop appropriate solutions accordingly.
Developed Data Warehouse architecture and data models to support business requirements.
Created dimensional models for star schema design and optimized ETL processes for loading data into the warehouse.
Provided technical guidance to junior developers on Data Warehousing concepts such as OLAP cubes, ETL processes, Dimensional Modeling.
Built high-performance reports using Business Objects that provided business insights.
International Project Manager
Janssen Pharmaceutica
Beerse
05.2000 - 04.2010
Development of the Data Warehouse on top of the Siebel 6 CRM application integrating sales data from SAP and IMS (tools: Siebel & Informatica)
Team and Project Lead of the analytical part of the migration project from Siebel 6 to Siebel 7, transforming the local Data Warehouse to one central Data Warehouse for Europe
Maintain relationships with key clients in multiple countries by providing timely updates on progress of their projects.
External Consultant (EDS)
Janssen Pharamceutica
Beerse
01.1998 - 05.2000
Implementation of SAS PH Clinical in a GxP validated environment to support the clinical writers (Tools: SAS)
Education
Master of Science - Physics
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leuven
07-1990
Skills
Analytical Skills: Very analytical as this is one of my most important skills that have made my career so far
Teamwork: Working together on achieving common targets gives me a lot of positive energy A team can definitely count on me to reach the goal
Planning skills: I'm used to plan my own work and the work of my team to define all necessary steps and reach the deadlines
Problem Solving Skills: I never stop after finding a short term fix, but will always dive into the problem looking for the root cause and start from there to find a long term solution
Decision Making Skills: I will make sure decisions are based on logical and analytical thinking, so I usually don't jump into decision
Business Intelligence Skills: Data Warehousing, Star Schemas, Report and Dashboard Design
CRM Skills: MS Dynamics, Salesforce
Reporting Tools: PowerBI, Business Objecs, Excel, SQL
Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Powerpoint, MS Project
Data Science: self study Python, GenAI
Languages
Dutch
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
French
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Affiliations
Volleybal - competition leader at Oxaco and Zuidrand
<p > <b>Data Analyst- HR Intelligence & People Analytics</b> </p><p > Gargash Group </p><ul > <li > Responsible for identifying, designing and performing complex analyses and make recommendations on complex HR issues in partnership with the Head- HR Intelligence & People Analytics. </li> <li > Providing training to internal/external stakeholders on data interpretation, data evaluation, statistical and analytical techniques. </li> <li > Design and develop useful metrics, dashboards, analyses and data reporting to support variety of HR and business initiatives. </li> <li > Develop, prepare and analyze metrics to measure effectiveness of business outcomes. </li> <li > Produce clear, concise reports and/or presentations. </li> <li > Develop and prepare charts, tables, and other related documents and graphics. </li> <li > Manage multiple simultaneous work streams. </li> </ul> at Gargash Group<p > <b>Data Analyst- HR Intelligence & People Analytics</b> </p><p > Gargash Group </p><ul > <li > Responsible for identifying, designing and performing complex analyses and make recommendations on complex HR issues in partnership with the Head- HR Intelligence & People Analytics. </li> <li > Providing training to internal/external stakeholders on data interpretation, data evaluation, statistical and analytical techniques. </li> <li > Design and develop useful metrics, dashboards, analyses and data reporting to support variety of HR and business initiatives. </li> <li > Develop, prepare and analyze metrics to measure effectiveness of business outcomes. </li> <li > Produce clear, concise reports and/or presentations. </li> <li > Develop and prepare charts, tables, and other related documents and graphics. </li> <li > Manage multiple simultaneous work streams. </li> </ul> at Gargash Group
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform