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Sabrina Willaert
Manager PMO
Portfolio / Program Manager
Department Manager
Business Process Owner
Phone:
+32 475 80 45 47
Email:
Address:
Stationsstraat 129
2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver
Belgium
Date of Birth:
July 24th, 1979
Jan 2022 - ...
PMO – Besix Unitec (Infrastructure)
Responsible for the project supporting departments: Business processes & tooling, Purchase, Warehouse, Plan office and Project administration.
Manager: 25 people of different levels.
Reporting to: CEO
Work Experience
Jan 2019 - dec 2021
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
Apr 2014 - Sep 2015
Sep 2012 - Mar 2014
Dec 2008 - Sep 2012
Jul 2007 - Nov 2008
Feb 2004 - Jun 2007
Nov 2003 - Jan 2004
PMO Coordinator R&D – Etex (Construction)
Building a world class PMO in an agile way (scrum), aligned with the new One R&D organization and centralize project management across the 6 R&D sites and across the 4 divisions. The main focus is on the:
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R&D internal projects (Research & continuous improvement)
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business projects (new product / process / service development)
Improving the quality and efficiency in project management, by establishing common processes based on Waterfall, Hybrid and Agile methodologies.
Reporting to: Head of innovation processes and communication
Manager Corporate PMO – imec (Scientific research)
I managed the change program impacting the digital tools used at imec, thus improving our operational excellence. Meantime setting up & expanding the corporate PMO to a full-size organization.
Reporting to: Chief of Staff & VP ICT
Leader PMO Strategic Engineering-Research – Commscope (Telecom)
By governing the processes and managing the communication flow between the executives and project managers, I contributed to the development and delivery of the overall strategy. It’s a two-folded function:
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Governing the strategic engineering roadmap and portfolio.
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Creating, improving and managing the development process and tools in a global team of PMO leads.
Supervising 8 non-dedicated project managers
Reporting to: Senior Vice President Strategy & Business development
Project Manager – PMO – TE Connectivity (Telecom)
Deliver outside plant and inside plant development projects within scope, budget and time for our key customers.
Supervising multifunctional project teams
Reporting to: Leader PMO
Technical Project Leader – R&D – TE Connectivity (Telecom)
Technical project management and development of closures.
Supervising Cad designers and lab technicians
Reporting to: Manager R&D
Leader development – R&D - Reynaers Aluminum (Construction)
Main focus: Overall project management for the development department.
Technical responsible for: Sliding/folding systems, peripherals, conservatories and small projects.
Leader of 5 up to 10 junior/senior engineers and technical drawers.
Reporting to: CTO
product engineer – R&D - Reynaers Aluminum (construction)
Responsible for the development of the peripherals and conservatories.
Leader of 2 junior product engineers and 1 technical drawer.
Reporting to: Director Development
Technical sales – Vlassenroot Brussels (XXL Steel processing)
Responsible for the sales department and the follow-up of the projects.
Leader of 5 assistants
Reporting to: General Director
Interim - Receptionist - Ceres Brussels (Food)
Receptionist – order intake –logistic department
Reporting to: Logistics manager
Others
2009 till 2011
Chamber of commerce: VOKA - PLATO 6 region Mechelen: Coordinator for the group ‘general management’
This is how I see myself:
A promotor for change & innovation, driven and efficiency minded. I have a ‘getting things done’ mentality, harmonizing business, R&D and OPS.
Education and degrees
1998-2003
Master in product development
College: Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen
Degree: With honors
Thesis: D-O-K (e-government kiosk)
Promoter: Verhaert, masters in innovation
1991-1997
Latin - Science (6 hours mathematics)
High school: Scheppers institute, Mechelen
2004-2023
Coaching
External trainings
Internal trainings
On the job work experience
2022-2023
Leadership and management & personal coaching
2020
Change management & Scrum & agile project management
2019
Agile project and portfolio management & PowerBI
2018
Mini-MBA
2017
Stakeholder management & PowerPivot
2016
Communication: Strategy, change management, cultural diversities & Insights discovery
2015
On the job: FTTdp, cabinets & racks
2014
Business case writing + P&L
2013
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator & PMI (PMBOK) + PRINCE2
2012
On the job: FTTH, Closures and boxes
2009-2011
MBTI + Time management
2007-…
Internal and external trainings: On production techniques for plastics, metals, coatings, SW & HW, FO + Cu cables, optical components and rapid prototyping
2006-7+2012
Inventor & Creo: basics + sheet metal
2005
Cost price calculation + Winning negotiations
2004+2010
Leadership and motivating
Skills
Spoken languages:
Written languages:
Software programs:
Excellent: Dutch, English and French
Good: German
Excellent: Dutch, English and French
Good: German
Project management: Daptiv+cognos, program Central, CPT (custom made)
Microsoft: Office 365 +Powerpivot, Teams+apps, SharePoint, MS-Project, Visio, Publisher, PowerBI, ERP:Navision
Adobe: Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, Indesign.
2D: AutoCAD
3D: Creo & Inventor
Processing: PDMLink, Smarteam (custom made)
Hobbies
Tennis
Skiing, snowboarding
Sailing, windsurfing
Horseback ridding
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