Senior IT Account Manager with 30+ Years Experience
1. CARINE LAMS
Mechelsesteenweg 78 – 1933 Sterrebeek
0474 / 35.99.34
Carine.lams@gmail.com
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PERSONALIA
Nationality: Belgian
Marital status: married / 2 children (20 and 23 year)
EDUCATION
Licentiaat Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen (Economist), Specialisation :
Quantitative Economics - VLEKHO 1985 - 1989
Master in Information Technology - VLEKHO 1994 - 1995
KEY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior International Account Manager IT, specialised in the financial sector Since Sept 1989
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Company : Prodata Systems - Since Feb 2016
Function
Senior Account Manager for the financial sector. My main customers are KBC, DKV, P&V,
ERGO, AG insurance, GIAL, ETNIC, CPH BANQUE, Sofina, ….
The business lines of Prodata-systems are Datacenter Solutions, Netwerking and Security
solutions. My individual target is 800K euro/year
Company : NSI – Feb 2015 – Jan 2016
Function
The business lines of NSI are Collaboration projects , Infrastructure Projects and Application
development, ERP software.
My mission consists of pure Business Development and making new names.
Achievements : I made new names as Axa, Luminus, Recycollecte,
Company : BULL SA – Oct 2006 – Feb 2015
Function:
Senior Account Manager for the Financial Sector. My main customers are KBC International,
Credit Agricole, Fortis BNP Paribas, Belfius, Delta Lloyd Bank, Diebold, Ingenico, BGL, EFA,…
Mission:
My mission consists of
Having a very good understanding of the BULL portfolio consisting of :
o Infrastructure: High end Servers (AIX), HPC (high performance
computing), Bullion (X86 servers), storage (EMC2, Netapp, …)
Converged Infrastructure, Network components
o Maintenance on the proposed infrastructure even in MVS mode (Multi
vendor-Services)
o Managed Services on the infrastructure of the Customers on site, in
the private cloud, public cloud or a combined solution.
o Managed Services of applications (Windows 365, Microsoftdynamics)
or SAAS.
2. CARINE LAMS
Mechelsesteenweg 78 – 1933 Sterrebeek
0474 / 35.99.34
Carine.lams@gmail.com
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o Security : Bull proposes audit and governance services around actual
security level on site of customers. Bull is capable of to implement or
improve security thanks to a lot of experience in a wide range of
security products (partners and own products from Evidian). The SOC
(Security Operation Center) provides a remote managed service offer
on security alerts.
o Application development and Application management.
o Business Intelligence and Big Data
o Professional Services in t&m
Finding new opportunities within existing Customers
Detect, prospect new customers in the financial sector
Managing the commercial aspects of projects at international level
o For the KBC Group, this means that I define together with KBC
technical standards for their ‘Catalogue’. I also control the respect
of the catalogue in all countries of Central Europe. I manage local
BULL account managers and organise once or twice a year an
international event for the whole KBC Group. During this meeting the
latest technologies and evolution of the BULL offer is presented.
Managing and coordinate the transition between the new project and the
delivery.
Follow-up the customer during project implementation (Present during
Technical Account Meetings)
Coordinate all actions internally to deliver proposals in line with customers
expectations.
The main realisations are
New names for BULL as KBC, Ingenico, BGL Luxembourg, FOYER, European
Fund Administration, Fortis bnp Paribas, Bank De Groof, ….
Postion BULL from Infrastructure provider to Service provider with a Managed
Service Project at KBC site covering multi-technology.
Results from the last years
Fiscal year quota M€ Achieved
2011 5 6,7 134%
2012 3 1,9 63%
2013 4 4,8 120%
2014 4 5,5 138%
3. CARINE LAMS
Mechelsesteenweg 78 – 1933 Sterrebeek
0474 / 35.99.34
Carine.lams@gmail.com
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Company : GETRONICS – March 2004 – Oct 2006
Function:
Senior Account Manager for the Dexia group. Getronics (ex Olivetti) is since more than 25
years supplier of Dexia (ex Gemeentekrediet) especially for infrastructure services
Mission:
My mission consists of
Follow up of the existing contracts, managing difficulties when they occur.
Optimisation of the relationship with the customer at all levels (It, Business,
Purchases…)
Finding new opportunities at Dexia in an early stage.
The offer of Getronics consists of
Infrastructure integration
Application development and Application Management
Communication projects (IP communication products)
Workspace managed services
Application Management
Cabling
The main realisations are:
During 2005 I realized new service project, thanks to a mobility project for
potentially 2000 Black Berry Users.
In 2006 I realized a new infrastructure and service project for 7 MIO € (until 2008)
for the re-cabling op 1000 agencies at Dexia.
4. CARINE LAMS
Mechelsesteenweg 78 – 1933 Sterrebeek
0474 / 35.99.34
Carine.lams@gmail.com
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Company : GFI (Groupement France Informatique) – Sept 2002 – March 2004
Function: Sales Director BeLux
Mission:
My mission consist of
Structuring the sales department in Belgium and Luxemburg.
I was responsible for 3 sales representatives, 1 in Belgium en 2 in Luxemburg.
Definition of the sales portfolio of GFI. Until then GFI Belux was specialised
in ‘Professionel Services’. After 2001 there was a need to redefine the
portfolio. Especially with the help of GFI France, we could identify a new
sales portfolio. The services we could offer:
o Security
o Third Parties Application management thanks to near shore offices
(Lille)
o Office hosting
o SAP third party maintenance thanks to near shore office (Bordeaux)
o E-learning and Education Center at GFI Luxemburg
o Easy Accounting
o CRM, …
Redefinition of the install based amongst the account managers.
Definition of the sales targets.
Working in collaboration with the salespersons, helping to achieve their
targets
Main realisations:
Win new customers such as ABX transport, Vlaamse
Participatiemaatschappij.
Turnover: 2 MIO €/year
5. CARINE LAMS
Mechelsesteenweg 78 – 1933 Sterrebeek
0474 / 35.99.34
Carine.lams@gmail.com
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COMPANY : BULL-STERIA – 1997 - 2002
Function: Account Manager (2000 – 2002)
Mission:
My Mission consists of presenting the whole portfolio from BULL and afterwards
Steria to dedicated customers.
Follow up of RFI and RFP in a early stage.
Coordinate all actions internally to provide a proposal that is in line with the
expectations of the customers.
Main customers: Mercator, Centea, Antwerspe Diamant Bank, Axa
The portfolio consists of On-line Banking, EDMS (Eastman Software), Outsourcing, Hosting,
Security, networking services, Helpdesk en call management systems.
During that period I sold especially on-line banking software and EDMS projects.
Turnover: 120 MIO BEF/year
Function : Sales Development Specialist BULL 21 (1997 – 2000)
Mission:
Specialized in the sales of migration projects for Y2K and Euro. The operational
organisation consisted of a migration factory, called Bull 21 and 2 sales specialists. I
was responsible for all financial customers as Mercator, Axa, DIPO Bank, Antwerpse
Diamantbank, Centea, Caisse Privée, BBL, Crédit Professionel, …
Selling professional services
Turnover: 100 MIO BEF/year
Main achievements:
Realise new names for BULL with this service offer at AG Insurance, DVV
verzekeringen, Christelijke Mutaliteiten, …
COMPANY: ATHYLON - 1993 - 1997
Athylon is a Company specialized in the selling and customization of software based on
Oracle as a database and more specific in domains as, Accountancy, ERP systems and
Maintenance systems
Function: Consultancy, project management, Pre-sales activities (1995 - 1997)
Mission:
Giving technical training. (SES Luxembourg)
Project management for the implementation of new installations (O.N.E, Unipost)
Functional consultancy (Creyffs)
Presales, Giving Demo’s (O.N.E)
Function: Service Desk (1994 - 1995)
Mission:
Responsible for telephone assistance to customers. Identify problems, qualify
problems and follow-up until resolution. Planning of technical interventions if
necessary.
Function: Developer (1993 - 1994)
Mission:
Developing software based on Oracle tools (Forms 3.0, Report, SQL).
6. CARINE LAMS
Mechelsesteenweg 78 – 1933 Sterrebeek
0474 / 35.99.34
Carine.lams@gmail.com
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COMPANY: CERG FINANCE – 1989 - 1993
Function: Technical Commercial Function
Mission:
Cerg Finance is specialized in financial software concerning cash management Asset
management and bank communication .
My mission consists of :
Installation of the software and training of the customers on the new software.
Customers: Merlin Gerin, Cockerill Sambre, Canal +, Ponts&Batiments,...
Organization of yearly customer day and presentation of new releases.
LANGUAGES
Flemish/Dutch : Mother tongue
French : perfect
English : Very good
Spanish : Basic
SPORTS
Jogging
Horse riding
AMBITION
Be a part of a company where my experience as senior account manager is appreciated in a
relationship based on trust.
Working in a company where there is a good balance between procedures and reactivity
towards the customer.
Working in a company where sales work is the beginning of a success story realized by close
teamwork between sales, presales, bid team and operational team having all the same
goals.
I am working since many years as an independent (freelancer, contracter)and I prefer to
keep it so.