R.D. Abram
Senior IT Project Manager
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Beersel, Belgium
Freelance
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
Senior IT Project Manager with 20+ years delivering complex financial services transformations. Led €16B fund migration and secured €13M funding for MiFID II compliance projects at tier-1 banks including BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, and ING. Expert in Agile/Scrum program management, technical architecture, and regulatory compliance implementations with proven success managing multi-team environments and high-stakes financial infrastructure projects.
Work experience
Career pause
BA Resources BV SRLFreelance
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 10 months
Brussels, Belgium
Studying, travelling, now job searching !
Cluster ScrumMaster/Program Manager
BNP Paribas CIBFreelance
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
1 year
Brussels, Belgium
Managing squads to maintain the infra and extranet networks hosting the Bank’s CIB presence
Senior Infrastructure Technology Project Manager
Degroof PetercamFreelance
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
2 years 2 months
Brussels, Belgium
Successfully implemented many projects at Degroof including 2 major huge FTE spends 1. Migrating €16 Billion of in-house funds onto the Mutifonds platform2. Upgrading their defunct & unsupported Integration technology platform, Talend
Senior Infrastructure Technology Project Manager
Deutsche BankFreelance
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
2 years
Hybrid
It Investment & Reg projects, MiFID II, MAD, MAR, BASLE II Upgrade Triple ‘A’ Platform - Extensive project across 4 environments inclUding PRODUCTION AND UAT. Hence keen knowledge of unit, system and integration testing incl. acceptance testing plus the entire IT governance process from start to finish
Senior Solutions Architect
BNP ParibasFreelance
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
1 year
Brussels, Belgium
X-Plus Senior IT Architect providing Management Consulting services onsite at Bnp multi sites. Set the architecture and Secured the €13m funding necessary from Olivier Corbier, face to face, Global Head of IT at BnP Paribas and Bnp Paribas Fortis - for the transformation of Bnp Retail Bank’s MiFID phase II systèmes d’exploitation and integration
Senior IT Solutions architect
INGFreelance
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
1 year
Brussels, Belgium
X-Plus Senior IT Architect providing Management Consulting services onsite on MiFiD II Customer journeys within a 100% Agile development and delivery train environment. TOGAF Framework & SAFe methodology used onsite fo implementation of proprietary Xplus IT frameworks specific to ING’s implementation. Acted as multiple squad Architect and occasionally as Squad scrum-master. Also implemented automated architectural printijg solution with the aid of external suppliers,
IT Support Manager - Salle de Marché
BNP Paribas CIBFreelance
Mar 2010 - Oct 2013
3 years 8 months
Managed 3 teams of rapid dev, trading platform connectivity and IT commando trader/sales support across ALL asset types!
Manager IT Front Office Insurance & Group Assets
CandriamFreelance
Jan 2004 - Dec 2009
6 years
Brussels, Belgium
GPMS projects, business case presentation to Executive Committee to secure project funding. Managing FO repoting team
Education
Advanced Agility
SAFe Scrum Master, Agile
2025 - 2025
2 months
Grade: accreditation
Wolters Kluwrer
PRINCE II Foundation, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES
2010 - 2010
2 months
Grade: Pass available online
Middlesex University
Bachelor's degree, Business Studies & Economics
1988 - 1990
1 year 11 months
Grade: 2.1
Activities and societies: Sports society, Football Uni 1st team, Public Speaking, Active in Student Politics
I have had an eclectic life and am still going! I love my work and have a deep appreciation, knowledge & experience in IT transformation, IT Architectural re-design, deployment and acceptance. I have experienced the user’s view, the analyst’s, the project manager’s, the solution & functional architect’s as well as the program manager and cluster scrum master’s views. With over 35 years of experience in the financial Industries in the City of London, Brussels and the Netherlands consulting to the head offices of major banks, moneybrokers, asset managers, custodians, asset & liability managers, collateral management & asset servicing firms; I have accumulated a wealth of experience across the spectrum of IT projects and programs, from simple lifecycle management to complete platform transformations and cloud migrations.