Hello, I'm Jurgen Mangé
Solution and technical architect
Business and technical analyst
Team leader and project manager
Senior full-stack developer
-- and looking for a new career opportunity --
SGS (from 02/2013 until present)
SGS is a multinational company that, employs over 90,000 people and carries out
inspections worldwide and in all possible sectors.
The IT department, where I currently work, provides support and development for various
business lines within the BeNeLux (4,000+ employees).
In this department I started as a full stack developer, and soon I was promoted to
technical/solution architect with combined roles in
team leader, senior developer, TFS and DevOps admin, mentor, interviewer of new
applicants. In short, the go-to man for the difficult assignments.
I started many new projects and fully guided them to successful completion.
I've rewritten (by myself or my team members) many old legacy applications, all
kinds of winforms applications, websites, windows services, web services and
APIs.
A recent example of a large project is the entire migration from the old TFS to
DevOps, additionaly implemented new workflows and guided all members of the
development teams in the usage of git.
In all these years, I've gotten ownership of 50+ applications from many
different business lines, that means I'm constantly multitasking many projects
simultaneously, while also managing meetings, mentoring the juniors and answering
many different questions the entire day.
In most of these project I had to manage multiple internal and external developers.
I have done many demos for managers and users.
Since we don't have a dedicated DBA, everything related to the database also belongs
to our range of tasks, including but not limited to performance monitoring by means of analyzing
indexes, execution plans and SQL server profilers.
As a business analyst and team leader I mainly deal with meetings, budgets and
schedules, and I act as an intermediary between the business managers and the members
of the development team.
Due to the international context of the company, this often takes place via
conference calls with Geneva, Madrid and Ireland. Physical trips also occur
regularly.
For the business analyzes I mainly use BPMN, RACI and Power Intrest Matrix.
For technical analyzes I mainly use UML diagrams.
In my current role a technical architect, my time mainly goes to elaborating the
internal framework and communication with external parties (ranging from the Flemish
Government, Rijkswaterstaat and many companies with their own applications such as
Attentia, Pluriform, 2G , SuperOffice, ...).
At the moment I am studying Blazor, a technique that I believe holds a great future.
Used technologies / techniques
Cumanco / Curelco / Up-Call (02/2003 – 12/2012)
These 3 companies are (were) all call-centers.
Curelco and Cumanco were the same company but the name was changed.
When joining the IT team at Up-Call, they still worked with dos FoxPro and a lot
of the work was still carried out manually, both on IT and administrative level.
I then supervised the switch to visual FoxPro, and rewrote and optimized most
applications. After this initial switch with less impact, I coordinated the switch to .Net.
After the bankruptcy of Up-Call, we decided with a number of selectively chosen
managers, IT staff and other employees to continue with a new call-center
(Curelco).
The new call-center started as an empty office, and went into a full multi-site
call center under my technical leadership.
There I've developed complete automatic dailing software for the operation of
these companies.
Despite the very high complexity and heavy load, the caller services ran non-stop for
many months without any problem or server restarts. After the ocasionally restarts after updates,
my software could again run for many months.
The suite also included a proprietary visual scripting tool that was able to
import text based (non compiled) .Net code and compile and run it at runtime,
This flexibility allowed almost every operation thinkable for the users of the scripting tool.
In addition to the calling system, corresponding applications were also
developed, such as service management software, statistic overview, reports,
commissions, planning tools.
In my own opinion an achievement that I am still very proud of.
After many years as a .net developer and project leader, I became an IT manager
in March 2010.
In itself this did not change much for me as I already supervised almost
everything in the IT department.
In this function I was mainly involved in project planning, budget management
and contacts between customers and suppliers.
In December 2012 Cumanco stopped due to bankruptcy.
Navisoft (06/2002 – 02/2003)
At Navisoft I started as a developer in Navision (later acquired by MicroSoft and rebranded to Microsoft Dynamics NAV), after some time it became I didn't feel at home with this company, so I did not take the opportunity to become a permanent employee and I found a job at Up-Call.
Gecotec (08/2001 – 06/2002)
Gecotec was a company that provided both hardware and software support to
different companies.
After a training period of several weeks at Electrabel (hardware and software
support), I was placed on 2 projects: Hardware support at AXA and software
support at the Federal police (administrator tasks, network interventions and
stagings (migrating from win9x to NT)).
Due to the dissolution of the GIB group (the sole shareholder of Gecotec), which
made the future of the company uncertain, and the loss of several large
contracts (Carrefour and Electrabel), many jobs were jeopardized.
Consequently, the workers were systematically fired. I myself was fired on July
2002 for economic reasons.
As fas as I know, Gecotec doesn't exist anymore.
Other (before 07/2001)
Different interim jobs, mostly not IT related
I'm looking for a versatile job in a medium size company.
The ideal job would combine all my knowledge of IT, like my technical and solution architect
talents, combined with my project management and development skills.
I'm definitely not looking for a full-time development function anymore.
Location is preferably in Antwerp, "Linkeroever" or the North of Antwerp would be
fantastic.
Brussels is not an option for me.
For more information please contact me directly.
Please contact me on LinkedIn