Luc Segers

Hulshout Belgium
[email protected]

Interest

Hiking, Reading web & project management releated books, Mountainbike, Gardening, Music Festivals.

Organising ski and hiking trips.Organising teambuilding activitities for local sport clubs and companies.

Summary

Experienced people manager.
Broad overview of new media technology.No detailed technical knowledge though.
Good organisational skills and commitment to the cause.
An experienced, hands-on digital project manager accountable for leading the development, execution, and management of innovative, results-oriented, cross-media digital projects.
A passionate agile advocate converging business and consumer needs when collaborating with teams on new media projects.
Constantly inspired and fascinated by the ever-changing world of new media with an agile skill set built on the the art of leveraging digital technologies.
Ability to well in a work in a team environment
Friendly and able to develop good customer relations
Enjoys learning new tasks and taking on new challenges
Enjoys acting as an Agile Coach thoughout the organisation
Fluent in Dutch and Englisch (spoken and written), German (basic spoken and understanding), French (basic understanding)
Writing User Stories as part of the functional specifications of a project.

Work experience

Jan 2010Present

Owner

Planet68

Jan 2011Present

Sales & Account Management

Heaven Can Wait

New Business Development in digital online marketing market
Account Management for projects where different competence centers are involved
Agile project management (Scrum & Kanban based) for several large scale projects.
Responsible for budget, scope and quality and briefing the technical team and scrummaster.
Acting as a proxy-product owner between the customer and the production team.
Working on new initiatives within our group.
Definition and compliance schedules
Ensuring the coherence of the overall project (graphic, legal, etc..), its quality and performance monitoring;
Coordination of stakeholder teams (design, technical, legal, etc..) and potential providers / partners
Monitoring of budgets and ensuring the profitability of projects
Interface with permanent clients: reporting, meetings, counseling.

20052010

Managing Director

Boulevart Group

2005 – 2010 : Managing Director Boulevart (in 2010 renamed to District01)
- Sales & Account Management e-marketing and digital project for several SMB & large accounts.
- Steering Board member on large scale projects (100-500K projects)
- Performing Project Management on several webtechnology based projects.
- Management of production, project management & office support teams including performance, recruitment and appraisals
- Member of the management team responsible for company performance, direction and strategy
Responsible for implementing agile/scrum project methodology throughout the whole organisation.
Agile Coach within the organisation for all project mangers.
Initiator for new initiatives like Monkeyshot (user exeperinece design competence center), and Dradis (mobile iphone development), Little Miss Robot (creative studio)
Management of new media projects from conception and planning, to delivery and support
Ensuring projects are delivered to specification, on time and within budget by means of Agile project management methodology
Key liaison point between clients, the account management team and production
Assisting with specifying and testing webtechnology applications

19972005

Business Unit Manager

AXI

1997 – 2000 : Developing Lotus Notes/Domino applications for several customers, including workflow, web and CRM, HR and Legal applications.
- Developing document management systems for BASF Antwerp with Lotus technology.
- Project Manager for Lotus Notes/Domino, SAP & Documentum integration
2000 – 2005 : Business Unit Manager Lotus Department
- Sales & Business Development & Project Management for several projects & accounts.
- Peoplemanagement for a 20 person development & system administration team.

19971997

Lotus Notes/Domino Consultant

EDS Belgium

Lotus Notes/Domino Research & Development consultant for the General Motors account.
Implementation & server migration for General Motors Russia (Moscow & Elabuga – Kazan)

19881997

Project Manager

BASF Antwerp

1988 : Mainframe operator
1989 – 1992 : Providing in-company PC Support
1992 – 1997 Implementation ofLotus Notes/Domino within the organisation of BASF Antwerp
- Responsible for Lotus Notes/Domino infrastructure & and actively involved in Lotus development projects.
- Training end-users in working with Lotus Notes Mail and applications