Philippe Halbardier
IT Operations Executive
60 years old
Habay-la-Neuve (B-6720) Belgium
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
After spending 4 years in Belgium at the beginning of my career, recruited by my thesis teacher, I started in Luxembourg as analyst-developer, in charge of migrating a legacy banking software to an OpenVMS platform.
I evolved during 24 years around the IBSY banking software with some great achievements to my credit:
• introduction of the Uniface 4GL language for GUI improvement,
• migration to the Oracle relational database,
• porting of the application to Solaris Unix,
• implementation of a high availability platform.
After taking responsibility for the R&D unit with 4 team members, I ended up as product manager for this IBSY banking software with supervision of 20 employees.
With the decline of Private Banking in Luxembourg, I made a transition to new IT technologies and Web projects.
In 2015, I launched my own company SimplyCIT to develop ERP software and the controlling activity. I immediately became an Odoo partner. Due to its strong growth, the Odoo activity could not be covered by internal resources, so the support of a larger structure became necessary. In April 2019, Xpertiz and SimplyCIT pooled an Odoo business unit that I currently manage.
• Aptitude in organizing and managing resources
• Design & Management of complex and international projects and/or migrations
• ITIL (services) and HERMES (project management) certification
• 20 Years of experience in Banking Software (Private Banking transactions, Money-Market, Securities, Forex,…)
• Experience in all areas of the complete life cycle of an application (developer, analyst, DBA, implementation, consultancy, training, project management)
• Very good technical knowledge (Infrastructure, DB, Software dev. Web dev)
I evolved during 24 years around the IBSY banking software with some great achievements to my credit:
• introduction of the Uniface 4GL language for GUI improvement,
• migration to the Oracle relational database,
• porting of the application to Solaris Unix,
• implementation of a high availability platform.
After taking responsibility for the R&D unit with 4 team members, I ended up as product manager for this IBSY banking software with supervision of 20 employees.
With the decline of Private Banking in Luxembourg, I made a transition to new IT technologies and Web projects.
In 2015, I launched my own company SimplyCIT to develop ERP software and the controlling activity. I immediately became an Odoo partner. Due to its strong growth, the Odoo activity could not be covered by internal resources, so the support of a larger structure became necessary. In April 2019, Xpertiz and SimplyCIT pooled an Odoo business unit that I currently manage.
• Aptitude in organizing and managing resources
• Design & Management of complex and international projects and/or migrations
• ITIL (services) and HERMES (project management) certification
• 20 Years of experience in Banking Software (Private Banking transactions, Money-Market, Securities, Forex,…)
• Experience in all areas of the complete life cycle of an application (developer, analyst, DBA, implementation, consultancy, training, project management)
• Very good technical knowledge (Infrastructure, DB, Software dev. Web dev)
Managing Director
SimplyCIT
Since May 2015
Full-time
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
- Executive director
- Odoo Silver Partner
- Business Analyst / Development manager
- Account Manager
Company Description
’’Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication’’ -- Leonado Da Vinci
This quote leads SimplyCIT SA to develop high value-added turned-key solutions for customers.
SimplyCIT is a software developer specialized in industrial processing improvement. Based on the AFNOR NF E60-182, our solutions helps industrial companies to measure their systems performance and initiate continual improvement of their processes
SimplyCIT is also the partner of SME for implementing ERP solutions based on open-source solutions (Odoo)
Ergonomy, user-friendly interface, high-quality development functional coverage and business improvement remains the focuses that lead our methodology. Simplycity is our trademark.
This quote leads SimplyCIT SA to develop high value-added turned-key solutions for customers.
SimplyCIT is a software developer specialized in industrial processing improvement. Based on the AFNOR NF E60-182, our solutions helps industrial companies to measure their systems performance and initiate continual improvement of their processes
SimplyCIT is also the partner of SME for implementing ERP solutions based on open-source solutions (Odoo)
Ergonomy, user-friendly interface, high-quality development functional coverage and business improvement remains the focuses that lead our methodology. Simplycity is our trademark.
Business Unit Odoo - Director
Xpertiz
April 2019
to November 2020
- Odoo Partner
- Business Analyst / Development manager
- Account Manager
Company Description
Xpertiz est un partenaire officiel Odoo pour le Luxembourg.
Une « Business Unit Odoo » est au service des clients de la place et garantit une disponibilité de spécialistes Odoo pour des projets de petite taille aux plus complexes.
Xpertiz est spécialisée sur le déploiement d’ERP dans les milieux financiers, comptable avec des solutions multi-sociétés offrant des solutions globales ou l’implémentation de modules spécialisés.
Une « Business Unit Odoo » est au service des clients de la place et garantit une disponibilité de spécialistes Odoo pour des projets de petite taille aux plus complexes.
Xpertiz est spécialisée sur le déploiement d’ERP dans les milieux financiers, comptable avec des solutions multi-sociétés offrant des solutions globales ou l’implémentation de modules spécialisés.
New Technologies & Consultancy Manager
Real Solutions S.A.
January 2012
to April 2015
Luxembourg
- Team Management
- Project Management & Pre-Sales
- Account Manager
Detailed Description
- Ongoing Project : FrontView (see portfolio pictures)
• Creation of a Web Portal for lawyer's office, including CRM features and Document Management add-ons.
• Pre-Sales actions, Project costing, Offers, Partnerships conclusion
• Project management, Business Analyst - Ongoing Project : "Calcul de la Freinte brasserie" (see portfolio pictures)
• Creation of a Web tailor-made application for industrial monitoring of brewery processing. deployed in 70 breweries in Africa. Project for a french multinational company with financial control in Luxembourg.
• Pre-Sales actions, Project costing, Offers, Steering committees
• Project management, Business Analyst, BI reporting, VBA Excel - Project ended 2012 : CVDB
• Web project for internal prupose : CV database & procurement tools
• Including skills management, search engine & reporting facilities for commercial team
• Project management, Business Analyst - Project ended 2012 : Real Solutions Web site
• Reeingeer of REAL Solutions Web site (implementation of Atlassian Confluence for multilinguism & team collaboration)
• see more on www.real.lu
• Project management, Tools selection
IBSY - Banking Software Manager
Real Solutions S.A.
January 2008
to January 2012
Luxembourg
- Team Management
- Project Management
- Account Manager, Steering Committees, Pre-Sales & Demos
- Business Analyst
Detailed Description
- Jan 2008 - until now : IBSY 3.x release (Integrated Banking SYstem, private banking software).
Management of team that focuses on modules and interactive interface developments in the context of the banking package IBSY (Integrated Banking System).
• Account and Project Management and coordination with banks (tasks planification).
• Resources management for consultancy profiles (up to 20 persons).
• Proposal management. - Feb 2008 - Dec 2009 : IBSY V3.1 - Large project of opening of local bank's new branch in Poland for Credit-Suisse Zurich
• Project management. Business follow-up in multiple areas, e.g. accounting, Polish legal reporting, customer reporting, central file management.
• Resources planning. Steering committee
• International Project with coordination in Head Office (Zurich), Credit Suisse Hub Luxembourg & Poland, Software Houses (Luxembourg & Poland)
Technical Account Manager
Real Solutions S.A.
2003
to 2008
Luxembourg
- Resources management and tasks planification.
- Account Management & Consultancy
- Technical R&D, Implementation
Detailed Description
- 2003 - 2008 : IBSY 3.0 Release (Integrated Banking SYstem, private banking software).
Software consolidation of the accounting kernel to integrate the IAS/IFRS accounting standards and a new WEB Front-End
• Application architecture
• Elaboration of technical solutions : Oracle schema for multi-banking software, synchronous MQ-Series Messaging, Unix job scheduling
• Implementation and training
• Account Management during customer pilot phase.
[ Technologies used in this project : Oracle PL/SQL, COBOL, UNIFACE, Java ] - 2005 - 2007 : ITIL compliance implementation
Adaptation of REAL's internal procedures and tools, e.g. HelpDesk, to match with the ITIL best practices (SPOC, etc…). Web access for customer to register & follow their calls. Cross application platform for REAL Solutions
Focusing on the Service Management area, due to REAL's main activity of software provider:
• Service Desk and Incident Management
• Problem Management
• Change Management
• Release Management - 2002 - 2003 : IBSY V2.5 – Solaris Migration
Migration of the banking software IBSY from the OpenVMS 7.3 / Oracle 8 platform
to Unix Solaris 8 / Oracle 9i
• Feasibility study
• Elaboration of technical solutions
• Contact with provider & external consultants
• Project conception and planification
• Hardware installation
• Implementation and training
Product Research & DBA
Real Software Finance S.A.
1998
to 2002
Luxembourg
- Technical R&D, Implementation
- Database Adminstration
Detailed Description
- 1998 - 2002 : IBSY V2.0 – Database Migration
Migration of the banking software IBSY on the OpenVMS platform from indexed files (RMS)
to a relational database (Oracle 8).
• Feasibility study
• Elaboration of technical solutions
• Contact with provider & external consultants
• Project planification
• Implementation and training
Product Research & DBA
IBSY Finance S.A.
January 1992
to January 1998
Luxembourg
- Technical R&D, Implementation
- Database Adminstration
- Business Analyst
Detailed Description
- IBSY V1.0 Banking Software
• Development and analysis in the area of banking software
. (Money Market, Securities and Forex and accounting for Private Banking sector.)
• Implementation of the Client/Server architecture and 4GL development tools with UnifAce
• Implementation of the Version Control, Patch & Release Deliveries
Software developer
J.B.Wagner S.à r.l.
January 1990
to January 1992
Luxembourg
Detailed Description
- Development and analysis in the area of banking software
(Money Market, Securities and Forex and accounting for Private Banking sector.)
Junior Software Developer
Groupe S
September 1987
to February 1990
Bruxelles
Detailed Description
- may 1989 - feb 1990 : Boels & Begault : Development and analysis in the area of finance & insurance
- sep 1987 - mai 1989 : Groupe S - Development and analysis in the area of occupational medicine