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Filip lingier

Program/Project-Manager / BC/DR Expert
filip@black-hole.design
Mobile: +32-473-911096

Professional Profile

A seasoned professional with over two decades of experience in project and program management, specializing in Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) across complex, multi-site, and multi-national environments in diverse industries (banking, energy, telecom).

  • Expert in BC/DR: Proven track record in developing, coordinating, and implementing high-availability/BC/DR strategies, methodologies, and technologies for mission-critical systems and data centers.
  • Leadership & Communication: Capable of leading cross-functional and virtual teams to successful outcomes. Highly effective at communicating BCM/DR risks and strategies, providing both technical engineering details and high-level, strategic "helicopter views" for C-level management and business stakeholders.
  • Solutions Architecture: Experienced solutions architect across storage, backup & recovery, and archiving technologies, which form the technical foundation of robust BC/DR plans.
  • Goal-Oriented: Resourceful and goal-oriented approach to achieve successful installations, migrations, and critical problem resolution.pibus leo.

Certifications & Training

Certifications (Selected)Trainings (Selected)
PMI Certification (Ongoing)Designing HPE Hybrid IT Solutions (04/2020, ViLT)
CommVault Certified Professional (CCP)EMC Technology Architect – BRS/VNX/ISILON (2013)
HPE ASE – Hybrid IT Solutions Architect V1EMC Cloud Architect – Specialist (08/2013)
HPE ATP – Hybrid IT Solutions v2CommVault SIMPANA (V10) Partner Services (2014)
EMC Implementation - VPLEX (EMC-IE VPLEX)Dell Compellent Storage Center (03/2013)
Information Storage Associate Version 2 (EMCISA)

Key Skills & Expertise

Soft SkillsProject/Program ManagementBC/DR & ITIL ExpertiseTechnical Domains
Customer-OrientedPMI, PMBOK, Prince2, Agile (Scrum, Kanban)Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Risk AssessmentStorage-Networking (SAN/NAS)
Problem-SolvingC-level Reporting (Budget, Scope, Risks)DR Plan Coordination and Testing (CRB/MRB)Virtualization
Stress Resistant (Crisis Management)Resource Management (Virtual/Dedicated Teams)ITIL (Service Continuity Management Focus)Microsoft and UNIX Environments
Communication (Engineer to C-Level)JIRA, Microsoft ProjectDatacenter Migrations/ ConsolidationsBackup & Recovery Solutions

Languages

LanguageUnderstandingSpeakingWriting
DUTCH★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
ENGLISH★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
FRENCH★★★★½★★★★★★★★★½
SPANISH★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
GERMAN★★★★★★N/A

Professional Experience

Toyota Motor Europe
VUB
CRELAN
Worldline (FR)
Coreso
DELL Technologies
ATOS Belgium
BP²I Belgium
Daimler
Proximus
BULL
NRB
Lucent Worldwide Services

Project-Manager/Product-Owner | 08/2024 – 12/2025

  • Managed a pan-European Cohesity backup implementation, ensuring successful deployment and hand-over to support teams.
  • Oversaw and managed the associated database teams for the duration of the project.
  • Methodologies: Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Project-leider | 12/2023 – 04/2024

  • Guided the writing and publication of the tender for the next-generation Tier-1 High-Performance Computing (HPC) system for Flemish universities.
  • Methodologies: PMI

Technical Project Manager | 08/2023 – 11/2023

  • Laid the groundwork and foundation design for the scale-up/scale-out of infrastructure required to support data migrated from AXA Bank.
  • Project scope included the platform hosting critical .NET applications.

Project Manager | 01/2023 – 06/2023

  • Assisted Worldline France with the deployment of a new customer relationship tool (voice, chat, email) for BNPPF.
  • Managed acceptance testing and onboarding for all retail agencies and call-centers.

IT Project-Manager | 06/2022 – 12/2022

  • Managed and followed up on all internal IT projects and consulted on the implementation of JIRA as a project and resource management tool.
  • Methodologies: Agile (Scrum and Kanban)

IT Project-Manager | 06/2022 – 12/2022

  • Managed and followed up on all internal IT projects and consulted on the implementation of JIRA as a project and resource management tool.
  • Methodologies: Agile (Scrum and Kanban)

Infra Architect / SME Storage | 12/2018 – 07/2021

  • Managed and updated infrastructure documentation for a major client, documenting evolutions within the datacenter infrastructure.
  • Provided expert knowledge and execution on all storage-related activities, including firmware upgrades and migrations.
  • Methodologies: Kanban

Project-Manager for Business/IT Continuity | 04/2018 – 12/2018

  • Acted as the key liaison between BNP-Paribas-Fortis and BP²I for all IT Continuity aspects.
  • Provided critical information for new datacenter infrastructure and assisted in updating CRB/MRB documentation for DR-testing.
  • Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), DR-BC

Datacenter Consultant/Migration Specialist | 08/2017 – 03/2018

  • Assisted and advised Daimler on a major datacenter migration/consolidation project.

Project-manager for Datacenter | 07/2015 – 07/2017

  • Managed and delivered implementation solutions for customers hosted in the Proximus datacenter.
  • Projects included environment upgrades, tech-refreshes, complete migrations, and several migrations of .NET based applications to a hosted Azure-pack environment.
  • Methodologies: Agile (Scrum)

Pre-sales Solutions Architect / Post-sales Project-manager | 08/2012 – 07/2015

  • Served as Principal Solutions Architect for presales and delivery in the storage and BRS domains.
  • Designed and delivered the most economical solutions for clients, with a focus on Backup-Restore, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery.
  • Methodologies: PMI, DR-BC

IT Coordinator DR/BC | 03/2012 – 07/2012

  • Coordinated the building and rigorous testing of Disaster Recovery plans for clients, projects, and datacenters.
  • Methodologies: DR-BC

Technical Consultant (Project-manager outsourced to EMC PS) | 11/2000 – 09/2005

  • Developed a comprehensive high-availability/business-continuity methodology to conduct business-impact/risk-analysis.
  • Designed appropriate technical solutions for applications based on the methodology outcome.
  • Methodologies: PM-lite, RABIM (Risk analysis, Business impact methodology)