Patrick Wynants

Senior Project and Program Manager

Salary / Daily rate

1380 Lasne, Belgium

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Project Management (PMO)Consulting IT

Languages

DutchEnglishFrench

About me

Intro

Versatile Program Manager with extensive experience across multiple industries, specializing in PRINCE2-certified project and program management. Successfully led multi-million € initiatives including GSK's system automation program and complex cross-border teams at SWIFT, ING, and Worldline Global. Delivering pragmatic leadership with proven expertise in program governance, stakeholder management, and technical project delivery across diverse technology environments.

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Work experience

Automation program manager - Freelance

GSK

Dec 2021 - Present

4 years 11 months

Lead program system automation for Belgium. OsiPi installation and migration of source system on the new infrastructure • Consolidate projects into program and freeze scope • Ensure project management framework is fulfilled and secure stage gating • Build program organization, HL roadmap, governance, teams • Initiative of 10M in 4 years

Industrial Senior Project Manager

IBAFreelance

Dec 2020 - Dec 2021

1 year 1 month

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Coordination of beam equipment (Particle accelerator rhodotron, Beam and Xray sterilisation industrial equipment - 3 to 10 millions €) construction and installation at client Factories. client in China and Vietnam. • Organize and coordinate the necessary resources (material, labours and subcontractors) in order to produce and install equipment • Analyze and manage risks (technical, feasibility, financial, resources, safety, health, ...). • Lead and coordinate project team • Act as main internal/external point of contact for the project execution. • Identify development issues early and seek continuous improvement

Senior Project Manager (reference here under)

SWIFTFreelance

Apr 2019 - Dec 2020

1 year 9 months

Portfolio Project manager for several projects (infra and business related) in an International environment: Team spread in Belgium, US, kuala lumpur. • Example of an infra project: implementation of a DRP infrastructure DMZ or Financial Application replacement with cloud based app. • Up to 800K external procurement management. • Team spread in Belgium, US, kuala lumpur. • Mix between Waterfall and Agile projects

Interim Manager (During maternity leave)

UCBFreelance

Apr 2018 - Oct 2018

7 months

Brussels Area, Belgium

Freelance Interim management (during maternity leave) of the IT Commercial CRM, Omnichannel and analytics • Team spread in Belgium, Germany and US • Follow up of internal DevOps recurrent meeting and cascade them to the team • Lead and prepare commercial and analytics team meeting • Follow up program/project status • Align with the team to the key priorities • VP reporting of the overall status of the team and flag issue/risks identified • Capex/Opex activities coordination

Senior Project Manager

OrangeFreelance

Sep 2017 - Mar 2018

7 months

FREELANCE E2E Project manager: IFR15 implementation, Business transformation for VIP client Management, and client survey centralization with external partners and scoring calculation. IT and business content projects. • Coreteam meeting organisation • Planning follow up • Offshore development team follow up • External partners follow up • Communication and stackeholders management • Management reporting

Delivery Manager

ENGIE LaborelecFreelance

Feb 2017 - Jul 2017

6 months

FREELANCE Consultancy mission delivery manager process implementation for the IT department of Laborelec, implementing department portfolio management in the energy domain and team capacity process • Project request management  • Capacity planning implementation • Project portfolio management • Management and reporting tool analysis • Timesheet validation, project-wise

Program Manager (Reference here under)

Degroof PetercamFreelance

Dec 2015 - Jan 2017

1 year 2 months

FREELANCE. Proud to be Migration Program manager. Responsible to manage the migration of Petercam to degroof systems (IT and Business perspectives). • Roadmap definition and steering (around 20 projects, more or less 7000 mdays, business, Be and LU scope) • Setting up program governances • IT and business representative • 7 project Managers coordination • Frequent steerco with the COO

Senior Project, Program Manager (Reference here under)

Worldline GlobalFreelance

Oct 2013 - Dec 2015

2 years 3 months

Brussels, Belgium

FREELANCE Issuing department Senior project manager. Migration of Worldline functionalities (ex: card manufacturing) towards BNPP France systems and ING card 2 target program. • Management of one of the biggest initiative with multiple stakeholders (project of > 14 000 mdays in 2 year). • Focusing on client satisfaction / risk management. Accountability for all schedules, quality and customers/stakeholders satisfaction on program. • Development/follow-up & validation of solutions with the customers; • Responsible for project resource planning and end-to-end project management within defined timeframe and budget. Provide leadership to cross functional team. • interfacing and initiative threw all worldline departement (IT issuing, Marketing, Billing, Fraude, Business support...)

Senior Project/Program Manager (Reference here under)

INGFreelance

Aug 2010 - Jul 2013

3 years

Brussels, Belgium

FREELANCE International payment department project and change manager. Swift improvement program and task force management : SWIFT Dual-p Project implementation, Migration of SWIFT Business from Poland to Belgium, SEPA payment performance project • Management of multidisciplinary crossborder projects (Poland migration, Swift projects, SEPA system performance project..) Coordination of more than 25 resources (architects, business analyst, developers, testers, infra project leader, team leaders, DBA and Unisys specialists…). • Project from 1 to 3 M Euros • Cost management and contract negotiation with external partners (colt, AT&T) • High Management Steering committee regular status reporting and presentation. • Poland Migration project Management

Project Manager

ING

Aug 2006 - Mar 2010

3 years 8 months

IFMS (International Financial and Messaging Services) department Project Manager. Responsible for the coordination of a portfolio (3 to 6 projects) from 300 to 1000 mandays from initiation until closure of both local and international projects.

Alstom

Oct 2002 - Jan 2006

3 years 4 months

Charleroi Area, Belgium

R&D Project Manager (transport, space)

Feb 2003 - Jan 2006

3 years

Charleroi Area, Belgium

Manager of an ESA (European Space Agency) Research and development Project in the transport industry. The project delivered a safe satellites train positioning system (using Galileo satellites). Interface with the customer (ESA) on behalf of Alstom and manager of the consortium constituted of four companies (Septentrio for the satellite receiver, Trasys for the web based train positioning system, SNCB as a railway operator specialist and Alstom as the leader of the consortium). • Direct interface with the client (ESA); • Managed the consortium constituted of Septentrio, Trasys, SNCB; • Supervision of the consortium deadline and deliverables verification; • Analyses of acquired data from insight tests; • Development of the final deliverables; • Contact with University for the fall tree analysis of the positioning algorithm • Insight / real-time marketing plan presentation during the final demonstration to ESA, industries interested in this technology as well as representatives from Universities

Safety leader

Oct 2002 - May 2003

8 months

Assurance leader for six train borne equipment projects (Rams studies: reliability, availability studies, safety level determination for the I/O board of the train borne ERTMS system and wiring specification).

Consultant Engineer

Altran Europe

Sep 2001 - Oct 2002

1 year 2 months

Research and development of a new tool for a production line and formation of the operators for the new specification and rules within the nuclear sector (Client: IBT). Feasibility study of a non-standard rolling bearing for an element of the power train (Client: PROST GRAND PRIX).


Education

Istya

Prince 2 Certification : (Foundation & Practitioner)

2007 - 2007

1 month

Management - Solvay Business School

Executive Master en gestion

2004 - 2006

2 years 1 month

Université libre de Bruxelles

Master's degree

1995 - 2001

6 years 1 month

Civil Engineer - ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Civil Engineer in electro-mechanics

1995 - 2001

6 years 1 month

European School

Général Education

1984 - 1995

11 years 1 month

Lean Six Sigma

1900 - 1900

1 month

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