I’m an experienced manager in the telecom and R&D world with a broad technical background. My consulting services are all about converting your innovative and technical projects into a

success story.

Paul Vandeneede Engineering Project Manager

My services

End to end project Management Gather requirements: Discuss requirements with your customer. Translate requirements into engineering language. Validate requirements with developers. Manage the projects on: Scope, timing and resources. Steer the necessary development teams. Stakeholders management and project communication. Validate the result with the end user. Translate the project into a success story.
Innovation Management Ideation phase: I assist you in finding a good solution for the problem you would like to solve. Validation phase: Setup a prototype and execute the proof of concept. Realisation phase: Project management. Have all internal and external stakeholders up to date. Execution phase Start using the innovation on the work floor. Translate the project into a success story.
Technical Management Track and solve complex customer complaints and issues. Negotiate with the customer about his technical issues and requirements. Management of technical teams: knowledge and workload distribution and prioritisation of tasks. Ensure the team follows the correct procedures, policies and documentation requirements across project phases. Bridge the gap between technology and management. Translate the project into a success story.

Projects I worked on:

Companies I worked for

My skills

Broad Technical Knowledge Expert of mobile/wireless/telecom technologies. Good knowledge of existing M2M and Internet of Things eco-system. Good knowledge of networking and routing protocols. Quickly adapt to new technologies.
Excellent customer interfacing skills Rich experience of interfacing with all people withing an organisation. (from student to C-level) Able to quickly win the respect of the customer. Able to find out and understand the REAL customer issues/needs and translate them into engineering language.
Excellent Problem solving skills. Define the problem, find the root cause and manage different internal and external teams to solve the problem. Manage long term complex problems with multiple parties involved.

Experience and Education

During the last 20 years I gained a lot of experience in different business domains. This practical knowledge is backed-up with a solid academic background.
Experience
20 years in a Telecom/ R&D environment. ---------- 15 years in wireless technologies. --------- 10 years in an IOT environment. --------- 10 years of people management. -------- 15 years in problem solving.
Education
Master of Science in Electronics/Telecommunication (kIH De Nayer 1990-1994) Executive MBA (Vlerick 2013 - 2015) PMP Certified

 

Paul Vandeneede

Convert your innovative idea into reality!