Olaf Janssens 
Phone: 586-486-3320 (skype)
Email: olaf.janssens@yahoo.com

PROFILE
Results-oriented IT professional, proficient in business analysis, project management, best practices, and product development. Certified in IT Project Management and have a Master’s degree in Law. Fluent in English, German and Dutch and conversant in French.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Owner, JANSSENS CONSULTING (IT Professional Services)
2003 – Present, Netherlands - Global

Application Analyst / Project Leader, OOSTERSCHELDE ZIEKENHUIS (Hospital)
2002 – 2003, Netherlands

Software Developer / Project Leader, RAD CONSULT (Software Vendor)
2000 – 2002, Netherlands

System Administrator / Developer, HEJACO VOF (IT Professional Services)
1998 – 2000, Netherlands – Germany – Belgium

Team Leader, Chip Automatisering (Turnkey Projects)
1998 – 2000, Netherlands


EDUCATION
MASTER OF LAW
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2006

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN LANGUAGES (Economics minor)
Moller Lyceum, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, 1989

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ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK

- OOP Development and 4GL techniques, RAD Consult
Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, 2001

- Java and Web Services, SCO Group
Amsterdam, Netherlands / Lindon, Utah, 2004

- Managing Changes In Large Organizations, Bachelor’s course,
Vlissingen, Netherlands, 2004

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CERTIFICATIONS

- Prince2 Foundation, Project Management, EXIN, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2008
- Delphi 6 and 7 and .Net, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2003
- ITIL Foundation, Change Management, EXIN, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2002
- Exact Software Agent (financial and ERP software), Delft, Netherlands, 1998


SKILLS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Manage projects according to Prince2 Best Practices – certified.
- Handle a multitude of changes and projects in a utilities company as a member of a project team leading about 100 IT professionals.
- Minimized client’s liability risks regarding the millennium bug. Project included business related risks (supply chain) as well as technical hazards within the IT landscape.

TRAINING & EDUCATION
- Provide training sessions to IT professionals about presenting and documenting.
- Mentoring a team of inexperienced developers in J2EE, databases and XML.
- Trained software vendors in the use of middleware and SOA.
- Educated interior designers to use computer aided design.
- Provide hands-on user trainings to customers and their employees.
- Craft training scripts, as well as manuals, procedures and other user documentation.


BUSINESS ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT & IT DEVELOPMENT
- Led technical department of 10 at small IT firm, overseeing turnkey client projects for retailers, wholesalers, pharmaceuticals, universities and oil companies, including BP, Mobil and Q8.
- Determined a warehouse’s need for stock localization. Developed, documented and deployed an application enabling them to handle 400% capacity growth. In turn, company was able to land large accounts, filling the added storage space.
- Optimizing IT for energy generation division in a utilities company, including reorganizing infrastructure, designing business applications and normalizing the application landscape.
- Consulted in a merger of fire departments. Analyzed the what-is, the should-be and developed a successful transition plan.
- Redesigned change management process according to ITIL Best Practices. Reduced number of project leaders and provided greater customer satisfaction in an outsourced IT environment.
- Designed and developed an ERP application for international trade in rugs and carpets.
- Consulted with and trained independent software vendors how to implement SOA and middleware into software products. Customer base spanned from US to Middle East in retail, wholesale and logistics.
- Improved and re-implemented pharmaceutical production application for hospital pharmacy.
- Analyzed a chemical manufacturer’s logistics and implemented improved procedure for financial administration.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & MARKETING
- Developed Web-based community application for software developers and built international network of resellers, agents and direct clients. Brought it to market with TV and press coverage, and established strong relations with suppliers, partners (Amiga Operating System and Amiga User Group), users and customers.
- Manage a program and its sub-projects to bring SCO’s SOA platform to market and spread knowledge about the technology via white papers, SCO’s Las Vegas forum, etc.
- Created and executed marketing plan of Web-based ERP application for international carpet trade. Set up the supply chain with MySQL, SCO, GateProtect, local hardware and services providers and barcode distributors including Zebra. Garnered local and Internet press coverage.
- Expanded local market for IT services provider and handled the CRM for 20 clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Applications – MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio), Open Office, Exact Software, Unicentre Service Desk, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, Toad, Custom Apps
- Languages – J2EE, Java, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, XSL:FO, Shell Scripting, Visual Basic, VBA
- Databases – ANSI SQL, Ingres II, Oracle, MySQL, NDS, LDAP
- Operating Systems – MS DOS, Windows 3.0 - 2003, Novell NetWare, Unix, Linux
- Reporting – Crystal Reports, Cognos (basic), XSL:FO and Apache FOP, Excel, Access
- Methodologies – UML, OMT, Yourdon, OOP, Software Design, Architecture, Regular Expressions, SOA
- Networking – LAN, WAN, VPN, HTTP, FTP, DNS


AFFILIATIONS
- Member, ItSMF, USA, 2008
- Member, Linkedin, Online, 2007

LINKS
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