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Development Manager

· Hands on IT manager with 15+ years experience managing teams across the world
· Improving processes, incorporating common sense, and bringing people together are my passion
· Proven ability to manage multiple projects in a fast and continuously changing environment 
· Strong communication and mentoring skills.  I love what I do, and I am an advocate for my team and my company


·	BDP International is a global logistics company specialized in the transportation of specialized products for large chemical customers.  Our IT department does not only provide a toolset for the users to do their work, but it is also a selling tool towards our customers, as smart applications and process automation can give use a big advantage against our competitors. 
·	Under new IT management within the company, BDP offered me the possibility to switch positions to be the development manager for our internal operational software, thus managing the day-to-day business and the development team.  The team I oversee consists of a development team domestically in Houston, as well as programmers internationally in Europe.  As a team, our main task is to maintain and create customer integration projects, which is a hot topic within the logistics world.  Additionally, we provide support and maintenance, new development, and new integrations of the application in additional offices.  Personally I am responsible for the setup of the helpdesk, prioritizing tasks, processes within the team, delegation of tasks, management of the team, and mentoring employees within the IT field to become competent.
·	My technical environment has remained consistent during my time at BDP, however a strong emphasis has been placed on team management and the setup/follow up of our team processes using different third party applications for project management, ticketing, and collaboration.
·	My main goal for the team for 2015 is to implement the application throughout all US offices– successful European application implementation and integration was one of my main accomplishments during my time in Europe.

·	I started at BDP International as the hands-on IT manager for Belgium, Netherlands, and France.  I was in charge of a three-person team with an initial goal of leading the team into globalization and systems integration.  BDP Europe became the first region to be standardized on both systems and operational software within the group.  The integration of our operational software quickly became my biggest challenge, as well as putting in place a team to secure our systems performance.
·	As BDP grew our infrastructure needed to follow, and I was responsible for the systems integration in all new countries and offices, creating a European IT organization with separate responsibilities, a helpdesk setup, and backups.  I take great pride in the team built.  My philosophy has been to guide and mentor inexperienced people to move up within the organization.  Together, with my team, we supported over ten countries, upgraded network lines, centralized servers and software, set up a central data center in Brussels, and supported our systems and applications.  Besides the day-to-day work, I was also the key contact to build relationships with our vendors and customers and built an annual budget; including possible savings and added benefits for the company.
·	Main Projects: European/Global network migration, Cloud email migration, Data center setup, country-per-country integration to our systems, European telephone setup, and European help desk organization.
·	Main Technical Environment: Windows and Unix environments, Citrix, VMWare, Cisco Networking, and Google applications.
·	Concurrently, my responsibilities and tasks also included the development team.  This team was in charge of our in-house operational software, thus acting as a single point of contact for support and implementation in Belgium, Netherlands and France, and gradually adding tasks, offices, and countries to our portfolio.  The application is currently the sole operational software used in Europe, and we do all the programming, support, and maintenance within the global team.  Within this global team, I was in charge of analysis of new needs, customer integrations, new development, implementation, planning, training, and support.  Building relationships with our customers and serving them in a consultant roll was also my responsibility.  
·	Main Projects (all related to the same operational software): New country implementations, EDI connectivity with customers, vendors and internal systems, day to day support.
·	Main Technical Environment: PHP, Java, MySQL, Eclipse, XML, Edifact, Unix
·	I moved on to the development manager role during a global IT structure change.  My infrastructure responsibilities where passed on to one of my main colleagues in Antwerp, someone who I had hired as a young support engineer and guided along the ranks of the team.

European IT Manager

* At Thales IS, I was a part of the “Software Development Team” and the “System Administration Group”.  I started working at Thales as a programmer and managed the development of internal applications as well as customer application.  These applications were both Web based and Local Server/Desktop applications, or application add-ons (eg. Microsoft Office modules).  For the development of such applications, I have been equally responsible for the analysis and development, database design, implementation, planning, and support.  For some projects I also conducted training for the users.
* As I evolved within the company, I became more and more involved within the IT Infrastructure, and the management and support of our network and servers.  Gaining experience in this field, I was also assigned to consultant on tasks with our customers.  These projects involved design and implementation of new Window Active Directory networks, Email servers, Security, Storage, rack assembly, and third party software management.

Programmer / Support Engineer / System Administrator

EOS partnered with Thales Services a short period after I started my career with them.  At EOS, I was also part of the Software development team, as well as the Systems administrators group, responsible for:
* Development of the EOS web site
* Client Web site maintenance & development
* Internal network support and system maintenance
* Client network installation and upgrade
* Development of small applications

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Davy Vanderheyden: Development Manager in Houston, TX

Davy Vanderheyden

BDP International

BDP International

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