Vincent Schippefilt

Solution Architect .Net & JS

Solution Lead for Agile Fixed price projects

Full stack developer

My current responsibilities
My favorite technologies
C#/.Net
Javascript/NodeJs/ES6
React
Sql Server
MongoDb
to see a full list of the technologies I have used over the years, follow this link (http://www.schippefilt.com/cv/technologies/html)
Brief positions history
  • 2018-now : Python & Javascript developer @Odoo
  • 2016-2017 : Solution Lead Agile Fixed price projects @Gfi
  • 2011-2017 : Application Architect - .Net & JS @Gfi
  • 2007-2011 : Consultant - .Net & JS @Gfi
  • 2004-2007 : Analyst-Developer - distributed systems @Euroclear
  • 2000-2004 : Bachelor in Computer Sciences, management & systems @HEB-ESI
Methodologies
  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • XP
  • TDD
  • BDD
What I am good at
  • Teaching
  • Pair programming
  • TDD
  • Working in agile teams
  • Delivering value to customers
  • Organizing workshops
  • Debugging
Challenges I want
  • Build event/message based systems
  • Integrate/build an agile team
  • Continue to teach other and myself
  • Use best practices to deliver value
Challenges I faced
  • Build systems my team and I supported for years
  • Do the first scrum project in non-agile companies (2 times)
  • Do the first 1 week spring project in agile friendly company
  • Multiple firefighting interventions in on-going projects as consultant
Non-technical skills
  • Coaching
  • Training
  • Project estimation
  • Project organisation
  • Team motivation & (not) management
  • Candidate interview

Odoo

2018

Gfi

2017
Gfi Starter academy @ Gfi 1 months

I was teacher

Team size: (7)

Teach a group of people who started working at Gfi after they graduated the basis of the different technologies, practices and methods Gfi uses on our projects.

My function: Teach about architectures, Event Storming, managing complexity and DDD

Technical environment: Agile, Scrum, Event Storming, Architecture, Managing complexity, DDD, TDD

CP Audit @ Toyota 2 months

I was team leader, scrum master

Team size: (5)

Explore the functional, technical and human landscape of the project as it is currently done, detect issues and possible optimizations or fixes in all domains.

My function: Guide the team to produce a high quality audit. Participate in the writing of the final report. Imagine different strategies to fix the issues in the short, mid and long term.

Technical environment: NodeJS, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Postal, Backbone, JQuery, mongo db, Rest, Java

Renouvellement Charte Graphique @ Total 4 months

I was solution architect, development team lead, scrum master

Team size: (6)

Standardize the graphical charter of all the plants of Total across Europe. Total needed an Autocad Add-on to ensure the drawings are respecting the charter, as well as tooling to configure the charter and to help the drawers make less mistakes.

My function: The project started by another team was lacking visibility over the results. My main contribution to the project was to organize the requirements into a backlog and run the project using Scrum. I also participated in the architecture of the solution and the development.

Technical environment: .NET 4.5.2, C#, Asp.Net, Autocad 2017, VueJS, Webpack

2016
Contractors Portal migration to Azure @ Total 3 months

I was solution architect, member of the development team

Team size: (3)

Migrate Contractors Portal from a private host to Microsoft Azure environment.

My function: Design the solution using Microsoft Azure services to host a complex web application. Redesign all the interfaces with external systems using cheaper azure services.

Technical environment: .NET 4.5.2, C#, MVC 5, Web API 2, Rest Services, ASP.NET Identity 2, Durandal.js, Require.js, Knockout.js, I18Next, Entity Framework 6, SQL Server 2012, IIS 8.5, Windows 2012, Bootstrap 3, VSTests, Jasime, Qunit, Git, TFS, VSTS, Visual Studio 2015, HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript, Sftp, Azure Blob Storage, Azure WebSites, Azure WebJobs

Gfi Starter academy @ Gfi 2 months

I was teacher

Team size: (9)

Teach a group of people who started working at Gfi after they graduated the basis of the different technologies, practices and methods Gfi uses on our projects.

My function: Teach about architectures, Event Storming, managing complexity and DDD

Technical environment: Agile, Scrum, Event Storming, Architecture, Managing complexity, DDD, TDD

Network KPI @ Toyota 3 months

I was solution architect

Team size: (3)

Network KPI is a new web tool made for Toyota that allows them to gather KPIs from their NMSCs so that this data can be used in their PowerBI tools. This web tool replaces an Excel based solution with a much more user friendly interface conform with the Toyota styling standards and provides a more reliable way to get the correct data.

My function: Member of an agile development team using the Scrum methodology and pair programming, functional analysis, pre-sales research and estimation, analysis, development, testing, integration, bugfixing

Technical environment: React, Redux, Node.js, Express, Heroku, Git, Visual Studio Code, SQL Server 2012, Javascript, HTML 5, CSS 3, ES6, Babel, Webpack, Bower, Npm, jQuery, Passport, Mocha

Safe Transfer Protocol @ Credoc 10 months

I was architect, developer

Team size: (4)

My function: Define the functional and technical solution, coaching the development team to implement the solution.
Participate in the development of the solution (20%)

Technical environment: .Net 4.6.1, Windows Services, Web API, Durandaljs

2015
Contractors Portal Support @ Total 21 months

I was solution architect, development team lead

Team size: (5)

Total Contractor Portal is the new web portal for contractors that want to work for Total Antwerp. See full description on the previous project.

My function: Third line support, execute change requests (in Kanban)

Technical environment: .NET 4.5.2, C#, MVC 5, Web API 2, Rest Services, ASP.NET Identity 2, Durandal.js, Require.js, Knockout.js, I18Next, Entity Framework 6, SQL Server 2012, IIS 8.5, Windows 2012, Bootstrap 3, Visual Studio 2013, VSTests, Jasime, Qunit, Git, TFS, VSO, Visual Studio 2013, HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript

2014
Contractors Portal @ Total 6 months

I was solution architect, development team lead

Team size: (10)

Total Contractor Portal is the new web portal for contractors that want to work for Total Antwerp.
It is the main entry point for new contractors to present their company, offer their services to Total Antwerp, and request for an approval to make sure their employees are allowed to enter the different sites of Total.
As management tool it helps external contractors and Total employees in their daily administration. Documents, employee details and site entrance requests are handled and stored in one central place and the tool makes the follow-up of contractors and people access more transparent.
Contractors can register their company as a candidate for a collaboration with Total, manage their documents requested by Total, add and manage employees, add and manage sub-contractors and keep track of their own approval state.
Total coworkers can manage contractor requests in a structured way, keep track of documents needed to get approved as a contractor for Total Antwerp and handle the complete approval flow of companies and employee access to the different sites of Total Antwerp.

My function: Member of an agile development team, Pair programming, Test-driven development, choose the framework

Technical environment: .NET 4.5.2, C#, MVC 5, Web API 2, Rest Services, ASP.NET Identity 2, Durandal.js, Require.js, Knockout.js, I18Next, Entity Framework 6, SQL Server 2012, IIS 8.5, Windows 2012, Bootstrap 3, Visual Studio 2013, VSTests, Jasime, Qunit, Git, TFS, VSO, Visual Studio 2013, HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript

Master Data Loader @ Atlas Copco 4 months

I was architect, analyst, develpper, team leader

Team size: (2)

Master data loader is a tool used by atlas copco to synchronize data coming from multiple sources into their Quotation system.
It includes loading, cleaning and computing of data coming from various sources (databases, files, other systems through webservices) and uploading them into the Quotation system using webservices.

My function: For this small project, I did the architecture, analysis, management of the other developer and developed part of the application.

Technical environment: WPF, XAML, WCF, Entity Framework 6, Sql Server 2012, web services (asmx), TFS, VSO, Visual Studio 2013, XML, SOAP

T1 @ Toyota 13 months

I was senior consultant

Team size: (15)

Recreate the entire customer facing website, for all websites in Europe and Russia:
www.toyota.be, www.toyota.it, www.toyota.fr, www.toyota.nl, etc.

My function: Analyse the performance of the application on all devices and make recommendations to improve the different performance KPI.

Technical environment: Node.js, Javascript, grunt, jquery, CSS 3, HTML 5, bootstrap, scss, nunjucks, mongo db, C#, tridion, Git, Webstorm

2013
iC³ Maint @ Atlas Copco 26 months

I was analyst developer, pm

Team size: (3)

Review and enhance parts of IC³ developed in 2008

My function: Define priorities with the client
Implement changes
Test and deploy changes

Technical environment: .Net 4.5, WebApi 2.0, Asp.Net, Entity Framework 6, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Jquery, Knockout.js, VSTests, TFS, VSO, Visual Studio 2013, XML, JSON

PMA @ Atlas Copco 7 months

I was architect, member of the development team, development team leader

Team size: (6)

The goal of this project was to rewrite and integrate in iC³ the tools the engineering teams needed to support their new way of managing the proposal and contracting phase of the order process, using LEAN methodologies.

My function: Design, code, test along with the other team members.
Create and present demo to the client
Setup and maintain the continuous delivery platform (using VSO)

Technical environment: .Net 4.5, WebApi 2.0, Asp.Net, Entity Framework 5, Entity Framework 6, Pair programming, TDD, Javascript, Jquery, Knockout.js, Moq, VSTests, TFS, VSO, Visual Studio 2013, HTML, CSS, XML, XSD, XSLT

2012
Apollo – Replacement of plannification application @ SNCB/NMBS 3 months

I was senior .net developer

Team size: (9)

The goal of the project Apollo is to create and update a set of applications that allows the central and local plannification of train drivers, for the mid and short term.

My function: - Member of the development team
- Develop a central validation process for all the interface nourishing the current application
- Develop validation rule engine

Technical environment: Oracle 10, .Net 3.5, WPF, XAML, WCF, Moq, NUnit, TFS, C#, Nhibernate, visual studio 2012

Mercure – Replacement of lotus notes applications in .Net @ D’Ieteren 8 months

I was architect, senior .net developer

Team size: (4)

The goal of the project Mercure is to migrate all the IBM Domino/Notes infrastructure to Office 365 and Sharepoint Online. Not all the applications that were hosted in Domino were fitting those environments, so we have rewritten them as custom .NET web applications.

My function: - Follow-up and guide the development team
- From September, member of the development team

Technical environment: Sql Server 2008, Asp.Net, .Net 4.0, SSO, Active Directory, C#, Entity Framework 4.1, Entity Framework 5, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.5, Moq, Nunit, VSTest,TFS, VSO, visual studio 2012

2011
AFDA performance audit @ Wit-Gele Kruis West-Vlaanderen 2 months

I was consultant

Team size: (2)

Find why the new application AFDA is not performing well, propose solutions. Lead the implementation of the solution.

My function: Find why the new application AFDA is not performing well, propose solutions. Lead the implementation of the solution.

Technical environment: .Net 4.0, WPF, XAML, WCF, Entity Framework 4, DevArt, Oracle, Unity, MVVM, async programming, Visual Studio 2010

Asset Security Modeling Tool @ Fortis 1 months

I was application architect

Team size: (3)

Define the architecture of the new application, assist the functional analyst with the gathering and formalization of the requirements (functional and non functional).

My function: Define the architecture of the new application, assist the functional analyst with the gathering and formalization of the requirements (functional and non functional).

Technical environment: .Net: Silverlight, WCF, SQL Server, Entity Framework 4, Entity Framework 4.1, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012

Define migration from X to microsoft strategy @ Gfi 4 months

I was workgroup responsible

Team size: (1)

As many of our clients are willing to migrate from their current situation, usually lotus notes based, to Microsoft solutions (especially sharepoint), GFI is willing to go one step further and propose them a single strategy to find the best possible solution for the client (sharepoint on premise or on the cloud, custom development or customization, …) using a single, unified approach.

My function: Coordinate the information gathering, write the summary and the methodology of migrating from anything to the microsoft platform

Technical environment: Domino, Notes, .Net, Sharepoint, Office 365

2010
MoveDesk @ Fortis 1 months

I was application architect/team lead/technical analyst/developer

Team size: (4)

Write an application that can manage the physical move of assets.

My function: • Refine the business analysis with the client and write the technical analysis,
• Define the architecture of the solution,
• Manage and coach a team of 3 junior developers + 2 developer,
• Participate in the development of the solution,
• Define the test environment, create continuous integration environment,
• Realize integration and performance test on the client’s environment.

Technical environment: Silverlight, WCF, SQL Server, Entity Framework 4, Visual Studio 2008

2009

2008
iC³ @ Atlas Copco 17 months

I was application architect/team lead/technical analyst/developer

Team size: (10)

Create a collaboration product allowing the different parties taking part or wanting to know about some custom design compressors, to:
• Ensure that no duplicate request from the same client is evaluated by the engineers to avoid internal concurrency and misuse of HR (worldwide),
• Ensure that the custom design compressors are described in a controlled and query-able way,
• Manage the construction of custom design compressors from requirement to delivery, integrating with the current AtlasCopco’s production and reporting infrastructure,
• Communicate with other parties, using dedicated methods or standard mails,
• Manage the security of all the virtual components of the projects, allowing the power users to change the security rules using a complex set of conditions without any IT actions.

My function: • Refine the business analysis with the client and write the technical analysis,
• Define the architecture of the solution,
• Manage and coach a team of 3 junior developers + 2 developer,
• Participate in the development of the solution,
• Define the test environment, create continuous integration environment,
• Realize integration and performance test on the client’s environment.

Technical environment: C#, .NET 3.5, VSTS 2008, SQL Server 2005, WCF, ASP.NET, Codesmith, Nettiers, Moq, Nunit, TFS, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, HTML, CSS, Javascript

Pegase 2 @ Electrabel 4 months

I was developer

Team size: (6)

Writing a product to manage the gas networks and decision model based on it.

My function: Write code

Technical environment: .NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005, Winform, Visual Studio 2005

Euroclear

from 2004 until 2008