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Jean-Pol Castus
Education
Qualifications
Master in Mathematical Economics in Operational Research and Econometrics
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
Thesis Title: Finding the solutions of reverse geometric programs, 1975
Industrial Engineer in Electronics
Institut Gramme, Belgium
Thesis Title: Design and Build of industrial high power electrical converter, 1972
IBM Academy of Technology, Past Member
Language
skills English Fluent
French Fluent
Dutch Fluent
Professional
experience
Profile Jean-Pol is based in Canton du Valais, in Switzerland, and delivers services since 2011 as
Business development executive, Executive Consultant in Enterprise and Solution
Architecture and Expert in Insurance Application Architecture.
Before that Jean-Pol worked for IBM since 1977. He has more than 35 years of experience
in the IT industry, among which almost 25 within the insurance industry and 14 in
consulting.
In 1996, in recognition of his leading role in the development of IBM’s Insurance
Application Architecture, Jean-Pol became member of the IBM Academy of Technology,
an IBM organization modeled after National Academies. Its 300 members worldwide,
including IBM Fellows, are drawn from IBM's most exceptional technical contributors.
From 2006 till 2010, Jean-Pol has been playing key roles in SouthWest Europe in the
development of business solutions for insurance.
From 1998 till 2006, Jean-Pol conducted consulting engagements, in various domains and
geographies focusing on the development of enterprise (Business and IT) architectures and
architectural frameworks for large companies’ systems primarily in the insurance industry.
He has conducted multiple engagements on the assessment of the architecture of large and
complex systems, business process reengineering, core insurance solution selection,
business continuity improvement, application portfolio rationalization and application
development effectiveness.
From 1990 till 1998, Jean-Pol played a leading technical role in the development by IBM -
in cooperation with more than 40 major insurance companies world-wide - of IAA / IIW
an architecture for core insurance applications that has been licensed to more than 100
companies world-wide.
In the early 80’s Jean-Pol played a leading role in the design and development of a highly
flexible parameter-driven non-life core insurance application sold to Belgian companies.
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Career
history
04/2015 -
06/2015
AXA Belgium – AXA MDM Product Pre-study
Independent Consultant
Enterprise & Solution Architecture Consultant - Insurance
Application Architecture expert
Mission of assistance as enterprise consultant and expert
knowledgeable in Insurance Application Architecture to assist IBM
in the development of: (1) data models for the management of AXA
Insurance Non-Life Product Specifications in MDM (Master Data
Management) and ODM (Operational Decision Management /
Rules Engine); (2) an architecture for the authoring of product
specifications in MDM and in ODM, the publishing of product
specifications in MDM Runtime and in the IMS environment, the
BPM orchestration of Product related services. The ultimate goal is
to drive the execution of the insurance applications from Quote to
Billing and Printing by product specifications and rules managed
externally in MDM and ODM, orchestrating run-time services by
BPM.
05/2012 IBM, Belgium
Independent Consultant, part of the IBM team
Enterprise Architecture Consultant
Mission of Assistance to IBM for proposal development.
01/2011 –
03/2015
Silvermoon Business Systems, South Africa
Independent consultant: Enterprise Architecture Consultant and
Business Development Executive
Assistance to Silvermoon development, sales and delivery efforts
worldwide. Contribution to the development of sales and educative
material, presentations to international events, assistance in the
elaboration of the sales strategy, solution architecture and development.
Focus on European and Asian market.
01/2011 –
to today
Peach Consulting SARL, Switzerland.
Founder, Partner and Independent Executive Consultant
Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture, Insurance
Application Architecture and Business development.
Key
skills v Business development executive,
v Enterprise Architecture Consulting,
v Insurance Application Architecture,
v Enterprise Data Models,
v Application Portfolio Management,
v Application Development Effectiveness,
v Business Process Re-engineering,
v Data, Process, Function and Object modeling,
v IT Optimization.
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01/2006 -
07/2010
IBM, Belgium
Business Development Executive
Selected Business Solutions for Insurance: Business Solutions
Professional and Solution Team Leader in SW IOT.
GBS Insurance Leader, SW IOT.
In 2007 and 2008, in the context of his Business Development
Executive role, Jean-Pol lead the development at the Insurance Solution
Center in La Gaude (France) of an Integrated Workplace for Insurance
demonstrator and a Solvency II demonstrator built based on IBM’s
Insurance Information Warehouse architecture. He also participated to
the launching of IBM Solvency II Solution for Insurers.
10/1998 -
12/2005
IBM Consulting, Belgium
Consultant
Senior Consultant,
Executive Consultant,
Associate Partner,
GBS Insurance Leader SW IOT
01/1990 -
10/1998
IBM Insurance Application Architecture, Belgium
Lead architect & project manager: IAA development
Leading technical role in the development by IBM - in cooperation with
more than 40 major insurance companies all over the world - of
architecture for core insurance applications. The architecture has been
licensed to more than 100 companies distributed all over the world.
01/1988 -
12/1989
IBM Belgium, Belgium
Systems Engineer
Systems engineering for clients in the Distribution industry.
12/1984 -
12/1987
IBM IEC, Belgium
Info Centre Consultant
Consultant in office products to education staff and developments of
info center applications form the IEC.
10/1977 -
12/1984
IBM Data Centre, Belgium
System Analyst
Analysis and development of accounting, financial and insurance
applications for IBM customers.
Definition of a programming model and design of an application and
technical architecture for the online transaction processing part of a core
insurance application package (IIA: Integrated Insurance Application)
sold in the 1980s to multiple insurance companies on the Belgian
market. Re-design and implementation of a variant of that package on a
different technology platform for a large Belgian insurer.
JP Castus also played a key role in the development of real-time
distributed Eurobond stock exchange system, he designed and led the
development of a contract administration system for a Belgian insurance
company.
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Assignment
history
01/2006 –
07/2010
54 months
SW IOT clients
Project Description: Key roles in SouthWest Europe in the
development of business solutions to assist insurance companies
transform their core insurance business: Insurance solutions Business
Solutions Professional and Solution Team leader in SW IOT,
Insurance Primus for SW IOT.
Project Contribution: Developing the insurance solutions market.
Scanning the market and selecting best of bread Insurance Solutions.
Promoting the use of IAA (Insurance Application Architecture) and
Model Driven Development.
Leveraging industry knowledge and expertise to insurance
community: IAA, SOMA, Solvency II, and IIW.
Developing partnerships with ISV such as SAP, Prima Solutions,
IDIT, ITN, Watson Wyatt and EMB just to name a few.
Participation to strategy groups in relation with standard organization.
01/2004 -
12/2005
24 months
Various clients (Delta Lloyd, Fortis, ING)
Project Description: Enterprise Architecture Consulting
IT Optimization
Application Portfolio Rationalization
Project Contribution: Assessing Application Architecture,
Optimization of Business and IT,
Application Portfolio Rationalization,
Using IAA models as accelerators in enterprise architecture
engagements.
07/2003 –
11/2003
5 months
AON Belgium (AON Belgium)
AON IDIT Solution Implementation
Project Description: Specification of interfaces between IDIT and
other application,
Specification of User Acceptance test Cases.
Alignment of GUI design with functional specification.
Enterprise Architecture definition.
Project Contribution: Engagement Management.
Enterprise Architecture Consulting
06/2003 –
09/2003
4 months
Ethias Bank (Ethias Bank)
Ethias Bank Application & IT Architecture
Project Description: Definition of the application & IT architecture for
the new systems developed for the new company Ethias Bank.
Project Contribution: Enterprise Architecture Consulting, Development
and use of the assessment approach and tools.
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01/2003 –
07/2010
90 months
Financial Services - Insurance (IBM BCS/GBS Belgium)
Core Insurance Solutions – Non-Life
Project Description: Responsibility for the development of core
insurance solutions.
Selection of best of bread core insurance solutions and development
of partnerships with selected ISV to enable business transformation
with insurance packages.
Development of systematic package selections and application
portfolio analysis.
Development of service offerings for client to assist them in the
transformation of their core insurance applications.
Development of approaches for evolving applications towards
variable, scalable and flexible service oriented architectures and
component based architectures.
Project Contribution: Development of solutions offerings.
Enterprise Architecture Consulting.
Consulting on Core Insurance Solutions.
09/2002 -
11/2002
3 months
Le Foyer Assurances (Le Foyer Assurances)
Global Client Architecture
Project Description: Definition of a global application architecture for
the consistent management of the information related to the concept of
Global Client across the various systems having accessing that
information.
Project Contribution: Enterprise Architecture Consulting, Mentoring,
Development and use of the assessment approach and tools.
07/2002 -
09/2002
3 months
Base (Base)
Base Business and IT Transformation Study
Project Description: The objective of the IT track in which I was
involved was to design and financially size a target architecture and
infrastructure that reduced costs, improved internal efficiency, promote
customer satisfaction and enabled new business capabilities.
Project Contribution: Enterprise Architecture Consulting, Mentoring,
Development and use of the assessment approach and tools.
01/2002 -
11/2002
11 months
Carrefour + Mercator (Carrefour + Mercator)
Application Development Effectiveness
Project Description: Engagement with various clients to assess
effectiveness of their application development process and organization
using the AD Benchmark.
Project Contribution: ADE Consulting, Engagement Leader and
Mentoring.
01/2001 -
12/2001
12 months
La Vaudoise Assurances in Geneva (La Vaudoise Assurances)
Strategic application portfolio selection.
Project Description: Engagement to assist La Vaudoise to define its IT
architecture, select its strategic application portfolio and issue RFP for
matching solution.
Project Contribution: Enterprise Architecture Consultant, Mentor
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01/2001 -
04/2001
4 months
Sabena Swissair AMP (Sabena Swissair AMP)
e-Commerce enabling study.
Project Description: Study to assist SSAMP to use Internet technology to
improve competitiveness, reduce cost and develop a lasting and
profitable relation with their customers and partners.
The study addressed:
- The refinement and prioritization of SSAMP requirements
- The assessment of the Swissair Sabena business plan and the definition
of the related business processes
- The assessment of the proposed architecture against the Swissair
Sabena requirements and estimation of the amount of work necessary to
align these
- Definition of the precise specifications for the different Travel
Management Systems of selected key corporate customers
- Definition of a release plan, estimates and the project plan for
implementation during the first release
Project Contribution: Enterprise Architecture Consulting, Mentoring.
10/2000 -
12/2000
3 months
Brenntag (Belgium) (Brenntag (Belgium))
Business-to-Business Consultancy study.
Project Description: Engagement to define a single e-commerce (order
entry) front-end, the network, the infrastructure and the organization
that Brenntag - a pan-European group in the distribution of chemical
products - wanted to build in front of its existing and heterogeneous
systems distributed all over Europe.
Project Contribution: Enterprise Architecture Consulting.
10/2000 -
04/2001
7 months
La Vaudoise Assurances (La Vaudoise Assurances)
Strategic application portfolio selection.
Project Description: Engagement to assist La Vaudoise to define its
strategic application portfolio and IT architecture.
Project Contribution: Enterprise Architecture Consulting, Mentoring.
08/2000 -
09/2000
2 months
La Vaudoise Assurances
Strategic approach to the selection of new application environments.
Project Description: Engagement to assist La Vaudoise Assurances to
assess the alignment of its information systems with its business strategy,
and undertake a major global transformation of its various and redundant
information systems in order to answer rapidly the needs of the insurance
market. Strategic approach to the selection of new application
environments.
Project Contribution: IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture
Consulting, Mentoring.
05/2000 -
08/2000
4 months
ING (ING Group: BBL Insurance)
ING's insurance applications assessment
Project Description: Assessment of ING's portfolio of insurance
applications using the IBM Insurance Application Architecture as a
reference framework for the assessment of their functions and data
structures. Objective: provide recommendations on reducing
redundancies and inconsistencies between the life insurance applications
in Belgium and Luxemburg.
Project Contribution: Enterprise Architecture Consulting, Mentoring.
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01/2000 -
06/2000
6 months
Atraxis Belgium (Atraxis Belgium)
Business Continuity Improvement
Project Description: Outages of operational systems led to flight delays
and the resulting costs. Atraxis wanted to improve the business
continuity of their critical systems.
The objective of the Engagement was to provide a plan for
improvement of performance and availability of these systems by mid-
2000.
A very structured and systematic approach was necessary to analyze a
large number of systems, with high degree of interdependency,
complexity and heterogeneity.
A model built to link impact of outages to their costs and the system or
event that causes them enabled to prioritize action to take and estimate
their returned value.
Project Contribution: Enterprise Architecture Consulting, Development
and use of the assessment approach.
09/1999 -
12/1999
4 months
AXA Group
AXA Group CRM Global Program Office
Project Description: CRM - Global Project office. Engagement for and
in partnership with AXA Global IT organization and main companies in
the group to: update AXA CRM Global Vision, recommend CRM
Roadmap, build a CRM Education Plan, coordinate the definition and
the implementation of AXA Corporate Data Model, define AXA CRM
Reuse and Knowledge Management Methodology, promote reuse,
provide recommendations on the standardization of the technical
platform and data extraction tools.
Project Contribution: Project Manager, Enterprise Architecture
Consultant
03/1999 -
04/1999
2 months
AXA
AXA Reference Model: Functional Framework definition
Project Description: Expertise and Consultancy Services to produce the
initial generic content of the functional level of the AXA Reference
Model: a key element of the Frame of Reference.
These services complement the former engagement on the assessment
of the validity of AXA's Frame of Reference.
Project Contribution: Engagement Management, Lead Consultant,
Mentor.
11/1998 -
03/1999
5 months
AXA (AXA Global IT Organization (WW))
AXA Global IT Organization (WW) Rue de Londres, Paris
Project Description: AXA Frame of Reference assessment. Expertise
and Consultancy Services to produce a report expressing views and
recommendations on the validity of the definition by AXA of a
descriptive and normative host structure at the conceptual level - the
"Frame of Reference" - that was intended to be used to represent,
manage and leverage knowledge on AXA's information systems and the
associated resources.
Project Contribution: Engagement Management, Consulting,
Development and use of the assessment approach and tools.
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01/1990 -
11/1998
107 months
IBM WW ISU (IBM World-Wide Insurance organization)
Development of IBM's "Insurance Application Architecture"
Project Description: Development by IBM - in cooperation with more
than 40 major insurance companies all over the world - of an architecture
for insurance applications. This architecture (IAA: Insurance Application
Architecture) and its business models have evolved in four editions for
representing the processes, the functions and information elements that
any insurance business requires to manage its core business. The
architecture represents generically many parts of the business and has
been licensed to more than 100 companies distributed all over the world.
The first 3 versions of IAA were built using traditional modeling
techniques: data model, function model and function flow (process)
model.
Development of an advanced object oriented (OO) version of the IAA
business models based on a model driven development approach.
Development of a meta-model and tool (IBEE) used to build object
models using an extended version (in particular with processing modeling
capabilities integrated) of UML, simulate processes and generate OO
code.
Development of application prototypes of the Object Model based on
Object Oriented and e-business technologies.
Development of the IAA Business Components Blueprint (BCB) and also
played a key role in designing BCB used to define IBM component based
strategy to advice insurance companies to (re)design their legacy systems
based on solid business requirements.
Project Contribution: Jean-Pol developed the vision, launched and
successively managed the development of all parts of IAA. Jean-Pol was
the chief architect of IAA. He developed the IAA meta-model for the
traditional model and led the development of the meta-model for IAA
Object Model.
01/1987 -
12/1989
36 months
Insurance and Distribution clients (IBM Belgium, Service Sector:
Insurance and Distribution.)
Systems Engineering
Project Description: Solution proposal for mainframe environments.
More specifically: VM, VSE, AIX, RT, Publishing, Capacity Planning
Clients: Rossel, GIB - UNIC Ternat, 3Suisses, Unigro, Lithorex,
EPECE, Wolters-Samson.
Project Contribution: Technical and technical sales support.
01/1985 -
12/1986
24 months
IBM, IEC, La Hulpe (IBM International Education Centre, La
Hulpe)
Office systems consulting
Project Description: Support of office, graphics and in-house publishing
systems. Development of in-house publishing system for the school.
Environment: VM, MVS, APL, GDDM, DCF/GML, 3820, 3800 M3, PC,
PC/AT/GX.
Project Contribution: Technical consulting and development.
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12/1983 -
12/1984
12 months
EEC (European Economic Community, Commission)
Implementation of Econometric Model named QUASIMODO
Project Description: Implementation of an Econometric model for EEC
based on CASIMODO model developed by University of Brussels
Environment: VM, MVS, TROLL (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology).
Project Contribution: Consulting and technical support.
06/1982 -
12/1983
19 months
Caisse Patronale - Patronale Kas (Belgian Insurance Company,
CPK, Drouot Group)
Integrated Insurance Application (IIA)
Project Description: Implementation of first COBOL, mainframe version
of IIA: administrative system for non-life insurance. This application was
built as a package with a high level of parameterization.
IIA was later sold later to multiple Belgium companies: CPK, DVV,
CGER, Zurich, Generali,
Environment: VM, VSE, CICS, and COBOL.
Project Contribution: Methodology, Architecture for the on-line layer of
the system, design. Programming and testing of COBOL program
templates as well as the patterns for pseudo-transaction mechanism and
cross-transaction information exchange mechanisms.
01/1981 -
12/1982
24 months
Ethias Insurance - Home Insurance (Belgian Insurance Company,
SMAP/OMOP now Ethias.)
Development of Integrated Insurance Application (IIA) early
version in PL/1
Project Description: Development of an early version of IIA. Core
Insurance Application for the management of non-life, home insurance
policies.
Jean-Pol implemented the first on-line calculation of premiums within
this application. The objective was to provide to the user to provide
directly the information about the cost of a contract to the client.
Environment: VM, VSE, CICS, PL/1, DL/1.
Project Contribution: One-man-show: Project Management,
Methodology, Architecture, Functional Design, Technical Design, set-
up and operation of the hardware in the VM environment, programming
and testing of PL/1 program templates as well as the patterns for
pseudo-transaction mechanism and cross-transaction information
exchange mechanisms.
08/1979 -
12/1981
29 months
Eurex, Luxemburg, (Eurex, Luxemburg, Eurobond Trading)
Distributed real-time trading system for Eurobonds
Project Description: Development of a distributed computerized real-
time trading system for Eurobonds. A real challenge at that time
considering the constraints imposed by the technology.
Environment: VM, VSE, CICS, DL/1, PL/1.
Project Contribution: Analysis, Design, Lead Programmer.
10/1977 -
12/1978
15 months
EU, EIB, Luxemburg (European Investment Bank, Luxemburg)
Accounting and financial management system development
Project Description: Development of accounting and financial management
applications
Environment: VSE, CICS, DL/1, and COBOL.
Project Contribution: Programming, Analysis.
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Publications
v Insurance Application Architecture’s Meta-Model, IBM, 1992
v Multiple editions of Insurance Application Architecture and Insurance Information
Warehouse Models between 1990 and 1998.
Other
job-‐related
activities
v Member of the IBM Academy of Technology since 1996.
v Chairman of Technical Expert Council - West Region in 2001 and 2002.
v Member of Lions Club of Jodoigne, Belgium. 2009-2011.
v Member of Lions Club du Chablais, Switzerland, 2011- today.
04/1977 -
10/1977
7 months
Elly Lilly Benelux, Brussels (Pharmaceutical Sector, Elly Lilly
Benelux)
Marketing application
Project Description: Responsibility for the analysis and programming
of a new application for the management of the gathering and analysis
of the information collected by the field force.
Environment: Mainframe and System 3.
Project Contribution: Analysis and programming.
09/1975 -
02/1977
18 months
Belgian Army (Belgian Army)
Military Service as Officer
Description: Military service in telecommunication division.
Development of a didactic computer to explain the working of
computers. Part of the curriculum for the training of army specialist
in communications. Translation of various books on
telecommunications.
Achievement:
First of 1977 Reserve Officer promotion in Transmission Corps.
Second lieutenant in Transmission Corps.
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