Eddy De Jonghe

– Act as the bridge between business and IT – Turn business needs into clear, actionable solutions – Analyze & Translate: gather requirements and convert them into functional specs & high-level designs – Design & Collaborate: Work with business teams to refine solutions – Test & Validate: Perform functional tests and ensure top quality – Drive Projects: Support modernization, migration, and re-engineering initiatives

– Consultant for EBP plans for various employers: encompassing: Defined benefit plans Defined contribution plans Group life Disability insurance Medical insurance Cross-border retirement Employee info sessions Stakeholder management (Insurer's back-office versus employer) Solving individual situations for C-level expats (including 80%-rule implicatons: Branch 21 and Branch 23)

– Collaborate with stakeholders, business experts and the client's business analysts to identify business needs, gather requirements and document functional specifications for the software development project – Challenge business requirements towards feasability, risks and limitations; propose alternatives and improvements and validate against target solutions – Act as a bridge between business and technical teams, ensuring clear communication of requirements and priorities – In an agile environment, create user stories and process flows to support software development

– Sales-, organizational and process implementation consulting for local SME's, including progress follow-up, correction, website layout and publicity – Consultant for EBP plans for various employers: encompassing: Defined benefit plans Defined contribution plans Group life Disability insurance Medical insurance Cross-border retirement Employee info sessions Stakeholder management (Insurer's back-office versus employer) Solving individual situations for C-level expats (including 80%-rule implicatons: Branch 21 and Branch 23)

– screening of the existing EB portfolio (+ 10.000 sets of rules and regulations; + 250 000 affiliates) with, at the same time, co-developing, testing and extending the new, access-based, in-house developed, screening - and career transfer tool (version 1 through 299) – Semi-automatic transformation (via .NET- interface) of an existing situation to a new IT platform, in conjunction with adaptations to the new legal dispositions concerning extra-legal pensions and corrections of the data and results. As developments and consecutive releases of the new software were based upon the scope results of the screening tool (only 80% of portfolio screened before development migration tool) and as preliminary testing of releases took place in an environment different from the production environment, the program often stalled ('abend'); requiring additional analysis and testing from the actual migration team (creation of so-called 'APR"s (= requests for program changes) - +164.000 between august 2004 and present). Reporting and follow-up of malfunctioning, analysis and test-results through in-house developed access-based tool.

– market development for English insurance policies, most of them out of Guernsey – development and commercializing of a mortgage-insurance product, through a Universal life policy (Scottish Life International Universal Life products with a three monthly choice for the client of a capital protection between 96% and 100%) – development commercializing of a fixed income-insurance product, through a Universal life policy (Scottish Life International Universal Life products with a three monthly choice for the client of a capital protection between 96% and 100%) in combination with a Generali Guernsey annuity insurance – market development for offshore disability, medical and death cover

– Responsible for the sales, both directly and with assistants, of local and international employee benefit plans (both defined benefit and defined contribution) through Dutch-speaking brokers – Given the imbalance of the existing portfolio (strong stress on large plans), open up the SME market and fine-mazing the broker network, in conjunction with fine-tuning the back-office (more smaller plans = bigger workload) – Together with Gaemo (Generali Aetna Marketing office): follow-up and prospecting of Belgian subs of American and European clients – Together with Mitsui (Gaemo's Japanese partner): follow-up and prospecting of Belgian subs of Japanese clients – Increase, follow-up and defence of an existing group insurance portfolio – Coordination of the internal administrative teams with the client / broker – Coordination of the employer / employee relations in an ever changing environment, including info sessions for the employees – Follow-up of files from a (onset) to z (after-sales), including process improvement and implementation – Co-author of the specifications for the cafeteria plan (Geniflex), testing and manual verification of calculations of pre-commercial releases of the software. – Transfer of Generali's inhouse medical insurance to a bespoke DKV product with larger guarantees, including contacting/convincing employers/employees and market release

– responsible for the sales of local and international group insurance contracts in the provinces of Antwerp and Limburg

– 'foreign transfers - letters of credit - bills of exchange' employee, stocks and bonds department employee

– sales of advertisements in local newspapers