Tom De Ruysser

Co-founder of a mobile application startup. Agile Product Owner managing an off-shore development team of 7 experts and performing: • Introduction of Agile development methodology • Stakeholder management • User story definition • Backlog grooming (JIRA) • Sprint planning • Sprint review Product Manager for a research application released on iOS.

Operations Manager in charge of 3 commercial deliveries for an e-commerce oriented B2C-application startup with top priorities: • Stakeholder management (contract preparation, expectation management, product presentation and feature discussions) • People management (talent acquisition, time management) • Release planning (project plan, integration, technical support setup) Agile Product Owner managing an off-shore development team of 9 subject experts.

Product Manager for 5 product releases of the Nokia Siemens Networks Business Support System specializing in: • Business Requirement Analysis • Product definition (feature definition, backlog creation, roadmap planning, marketing documentation) • Customer relationship management (understanding business needs, customer workshops, sales training) • Stakeholder management (C-level, sales, marketing, development) Scrum Product Owner managing 3 offshore development teams in Poland and India.

Network Design Architect for 2 end-customer products in charge of: • Requirement Analysis (network impact, BSS feature extensions, architecture changes) • Stakeholder management (marketing, IT, vendor)

Technical project manager for 5 business-critical Business Support System migrations (3 in Europe and 2 in the Middle East). Task highlights: • Program definition for a unified approach to all migration projects • Step-by-step planning of time- and business critical migration for mobile network operators • Stakeholder management (C-level presentations, technical workshops, project planning, integration issue clearing) • Agile methodology introduction in a waterfall-based environment

Solution Architect for time critical swap projects (Safaricom Kenya, Claro Peru), unconventional solutions (Comcel Colombia) and other projects (Globe Philippines, Zain group) covering: • Business Requirement Analysis for high-impact projects not covered by the off-the-shelf product line • Stakeholder Management • Product definition for product portfolio extensions • Project support during all waterfall development stages

Solution Sales Manager for a new business line: • Product definition (customer expectation collection, budget planning, prototype definition) • Stakeholder management (initial product presentation, customer requirement workshops, sales presentation)

Solution Sales Manager for complex merger-projects (T-Mobile Germany, Austria, Czech and Netherlands), swap projects (Ben Netherlands) and prepaid introduction projects (AT&T Wireless) focusing on: • Project definition (Pre-sales analysis, customer agreement, architecture impact, development buy-in, change request management, 3rd party management) • Stakeholder management • Follow up the waterfall development phases up to integration into the customer network

Software specialist in charge of end-to-end tests and on-site integration of BSS products for customers in France, Portugal, China and Taiwan.

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