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Services
We provide expert consulting services in
- Enterprise architecture in complex technical and organisational environments
- Cyber resilience and security of the application layer using the Cyfun framework
- (Micro)service based architectures
- Functional analysis
- Business analysis
- Product owner IT Service oriented products
Projects
NIS2 Compliancy Program
- Role: Enterprise Architect
- Duration: Oct 2024 – Apr 2027
- Description: NIS2 Compliancy for a complex application and organisation landscape, focus on making the application layer compliant using Cyfun as a framework.
Physical Mail Registration, Scan and Digital Distribution
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Jul 2022 – Oct 2024
- Description: Business and functional analysis, including gathering procurement requirements for the incoming (paper) mail registration and recipient distribution system for the City of Antwerp.
Green and Orange Cyberattack Recovery Zones
- Role: Enterprise Architect (EA)
- Duration: Dec 2022 – Jan 2024
- Description: Design and governance of cyberattack recovery zones.
Contract Inventory
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Jul 2021 – Dec 2022
- Description: Inventory application for all contracts of the City of Antwerp. Integration with the digital signature engine. Worked as a business and functional analyst across the development track.
Outbound Documents
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Jun 2021 – Dec 2022
- Description: Solution for outgoing documents for the City of Antwerp, focusing on replacing paper delivery with digital delivery. Integration with digital vaults, profile preferences, and document delivery platforms. Handled custom code requirements and integration specifications.
Subsidies and Grants - Auditing Dossiers
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Jul 2021 – Dec 2022
- Description: Application aiding city administration in tracking commitments made by aid/subsidy recipients. Functional and business analysis throughout the development track.
Appointments and Reservations
- Role: Solutions Architect (SA) / Enterprise Architect (EA)
- Duration: Apr 2021 – Sep 2022
- Description: Centralization study evaluating disparate appointment systems (city officials, guides, service desks, libraries). Settled on a multi-instance JCC deployment (“buy”) with a custom-developed, configurable front-end widget (“make”). Led preliminary study and followed up on delivery as EA.
- Role: Solutions Architect (SA)
- Duration: Feb 2017 – Oct 2021
- Description: Rollout of an all-purpose IoT integration platform using custom development for the Gateway (Normalized Systems), along with Ceph, NiFi, Kafka, and FIWARE components. Standardized around the NGSIv2 data standard.
Project Life Cycle Process
- Role: Enterprise Architect (EA)
- Duration: Jul 2021 – Sep 2021
- Description: Clarified processes and tooling for managing IT projects from inception to delivery. Defined project phases (Idea → Business Case → Detailed Analysis → Delivery & Support), deliverables, and milestones across stakeholders (Ops, Support, DPO, EA, etc.).
Ticketing
- Role: Solutions Architect (SA)
- Duration: Feb 2021 – Mar 2021
- Description: Architectural study mapping existing access-control and ticketing solutions across institutions in Antwerp, outlining options to centralize systems and lower licensing costs.
- Role: Solutions Architect (SA)
- Duration: Sep 2017 – Jan 2021
- Description: Custom-developed platform for planning work and personnel across the City of Antwerp. Composed of interconnected apps: to-do app (
a-todo), rostering (plan-a), work planning (planbord), and recurrent work planner (serviceplanner). Plans 2,000+ non-flex employees.
Circular South - Manychain Engine (EU, Urban Innovative Actions)
- Role: Functional Analyst / Enterprise Architect (FA/EA)
- Duration: May 2020 – Dec 2020
- Description: Architectural design for an online community platform using a blockchain-based rewarding/exchange mechanism to foster circular behavior. Implemented a blockchain API abstraction layer across Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric.
Circular South - IoT Integration (EU, Urban Innovative Actions)
- Role: Enterprise Architect / Functional Analyst (EA/FA)
- Duration: Oct 2017 – Mar 2019
- Description: Real-time personal dashboard displaying consumption data flows from smart energy, water, and waste-bin meters. Handled platform architecture and implementation of data streams.
Circular South - Reward System on Blockchain (EU, Urban Innovative Actions)
- Role: Product Owner / Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (PO/BA/FA)
- Duration: Jan 2017 – Dec 2017
- Description: Solution delivery for behavioral nudging and circular incentives via blockchain (whitepaper, wallet, challenge builder, and administration app). Handled pre-analysis, procurement, and PO duties.
Blockchain POC - Move of Addresses
- Role: Business Analyst (BA)
- Duration: Mar 2017 – Oct 2017
- Description: Joint proof-of-concept with Accenture exploring decentralized administration, specifically verifying municipal address changes without requiring physical police verification visits.
- Role: Solutions Architect (SA)
- Duration: Jul 2017 – Oct 2017
- Description: Service architecture-based platform design for the Culture and Sports business unit of the City of Antwerp, including TOGAF stakeholder reviews.
Central API Engine Services (City of Antwerp)
Rollout, backlog management, and functional support for centralized, reusable API microservices across Antwerp business units:
- Digital Assets Engine (Mediamosa) Feb 2016 – Mar 2017 (Role: PO)
- Digital Signature Engine (Connective) Feb 2016 – Mar 2017 (Role: PO)
- Multilanguage Engine (Development Track) Feb 2016 – Mar 2017 (Role: PO)
- Workflow Engine (Activiti) Feb 2016 – Mar 2017 (Role: PO)
- eID Authentication (Dioss) Feb 2016 – Mar 2017 (Role: PO)
- Role: Enterprise Architect (EA)
- Duration: Mar 2017
- Description: Defined as-is capabilities and target architecture for the replacement of the OCMW Antwerp application landscape using a (micro)service-based approach.
Additional Screening (Selor)
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Jan 2015 – Feb 2016
- Contributors: Tim, Yassine
- Description: System allowing government departments to recruit candidates who completed screenings elsewhere. Defined complex business rules to guarantee fairness and impartiality.
Targetstructure (Selor)
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Nov 2015 – Feb 2016
- Description: Redesigned competency scoring structures used for integrated testing sessions to satisfy modern business needs without requiring a full re-engineering of the legacy stack.
Third Party Clients (Selor)
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Jul 2015 – Feb 2016
- Description: Platform opening Selor’s testing pipeline to third-party clients (e.g., security companies). Functional analysis and project management using Enterprise Architect, TFS, UML, and Agile user stories.
Decentralised Testing (TestNavigator) (Selor)
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Nov 2014 – Dec 2015
- Contributors: Pieter
- Description: Application for decentralized candidate testing, candidate authentication, test selection, and third-party platform integration. SPA built on ASP.NET MVC and AngularJS.
Enterprise Architecture Application Landscape (Selor)
- Role: Enterprise Architect (EA)
- Duration: Jul 2015 – Sep 2015
- Contributors: Wouter
- Description: Mapped the application landscape and its interactions with business and infrastructure layers using ArchiMate to streamline application and portfolio management.
Move (Selor)
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Aug 2014 – Apr 2015
- Contributors: Yassine
- Description: SPA kiosk/dashboard providing event details, candidate attendance checks, and PC station monitoring. Built on ASP.NET MVC and AngularJS.
Recruitment (Selor)
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Jul 2014 – Nov 2014
- Description: Feature expansion and business requirements alignment for Selor’s corporate recruitment platform using Enterprise Architect, TFS, and UML in an Agile environment (.NET MVC).
Autonoom Publiceren (Selor)
- Role: Business Analyst / Functional Analyst (BA/FA)
- Duration: Apr 2014 – Aug 2014
- Contributors: Kris
- Description: .NET MVC CMS for business clients to publish postings across Selor channels and third-party media (Google AdWords, social media) using a credit-based payment model.