Keulenstraat 21 C
3320 HOEGAARDEN tel.:
(016)76 58 53
Gsm:
0496 26 56 84
e-mail: Schoofs.koen@pandora.be
e-mail : Koen_schoofs@hotmail.com
Date of birth: May
30th, 1967
Nationality:
Belgian
Married
2010: Prince II foundations, Certified
2009: (MSP) Programme Management
Foundations, Certified
2006: (PMI) PMP preparation course:
EHSAL Management School
2001-2003: MBA, Vlerick Management School, Louvain
”Thesis: Balance Scorecard for the EMC Belgian Development Group”
Graduated Magna cum Laude
2000: GMAT score: 720 (96th percentile)
1997 – 1998: Post-Graduate course in company management,
Catholic University of Louvain.
Graduated with 72%.
1990 – 1995: Ph.D. in Applied Sciences (Digital Signal
Processing), K.U.L.
Graduate with Magna Cum Laude
Thesis: “Bit-True Implementation of Signal Processing Algorithm in Custom ICs”,
promoter prof. Hugo De Man.
1985 – 1990: Civil Engineering degree in Electro
mechanics, field of Electronics
(specialty: Integrated Circuits), K.U.L
Graduated
Cum Laude
Thesis: “Architecture study of a Dynamic Range
Compressor for Audio”, promoter prof. Hugo De Man
2008-: Sr
Product manager SaaS & Cloud, Belgacom
Responsible for product
management and business case of the Belgacom (major Belgian Telco) Cloud
initiative, covering IaaS and Platform as a Service.
Day to day product
management responsibility for the existing shared web hosting & DNS product
lines.
2007-2008:
Sr Product manager Dictation and Healthcare Europe, Nuance Communication Systems
Managing the
Dragon NaturallySpeaking, PowerScribe, Enterprise Express Digital Dictation workflow
systems (Speech recognition software for retail, legal and medical markets) representing
revenues of $17m annually
Responsibilities
include
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European
Product management for, reporting to the general marketing manager, Europe.
o
Business
cases and market studies for new product launches
o
Requirements
management, and daily contact with development teams in US and Ukraine
o
Managing
product launches
o
Price,
Placement, Product promotions
-
Marketing:
Building sales and distribution programs, partner management for Benelux
market.
2004 – 2007: Manager Product Development, Partezis, Haasrode
Responsibilities
include:
-
Manager
of Business Unit “Product Development”, reporting to General Manager
-
Responsible
for programme management of SAP, .NET and Oracle Forms applications and fixed
price contract software development for the Flemish Hospital market
-
P&L
responsibilities, with monthly reporting duties to board of Directors
-
Project
Office and resource allocation responsibilities
-
Responsible
for software architecture of new applications
-
Special
focus on introducing organizational performance improvements (ISO) and
improving software development methodology (Agile, PMI)
2001 – 2004: Technical Product Manager, EMC, Belgian Development Group, Mechelen
Responsibilities
include:
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Definition
of software roadmap of EMC Centera product (>25 million $ revenue per
quarter)
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Negotiation
with partners and customers about product specifications
- Communication with sales and marketing and field support about the new features and business impact of next product release, presales support
1995- 2001: Director
of Localization, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products
Responsibilities include:
·
Hiring
and daily management of a team of 30 developers and linguists.
·
Budgeting
and road mapping of the product development for the Application and HealthCare divisions
for Europe
·
Project
supervision of the localization of the American version off-the-shelf speech
recognition software, “VoiceXpress” for European markets
·
Various
projects for vertical markets (including legal, and medical and internet
projects).
(Started as software developer – team leader – project manager)
1990 – 1995:
Researcher at IMEC
(Interuniversitair
Micro Elektronisch Centrum), VSDM division, doing doctoral thesis work.
Cooperated on the development of the CATHEDRAL-2nd silicon compiler (CAD
environment for the development of Digital Signal Processors for Audio
applications.), sponsored by the ESPRIT research project of the European
Community
English: very fluent
French: fluent
German: basic
Operating systems:
Windows,
Linux
Application
Software: Microsoft Office
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint),
MS-Project,
Programming
Languages: C#/C++/ Visual Basic
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Technical
definition and introduction of high-tech products
- Product Lifecycle management
- Hospital Information systems
- Deployment of SAP implementations
- Software Development Department organization and strategy: Software Metrics, PMI, Balanced Scorecards and CMM (Capability Maturity Models)
- Agile, Prince II, PMI, PMO, SAP implementation
- Implementation of hosting, cloud, datacenter infrastructure
Koen Schoofs,
Guido Gallopyn, US Patent number: 09/159 838
Filing date: sept
24, 1998
Koen Schoofs,
Guido Gallopyn, Filing date: 27/3/98