CV

Michel Bel

Personal details

Name Title Address Phone Email	Bel, M.T. (Michel) Drs.  (Equivalent to MSc) michel@belxs.com
Date of birth	16-09-1951
Languages	Business fluent Dutch and English Good French and German Basic Portuguese

Summary

I have gained my consultancy and research experience in a wide area of projects and activities. I worked as senior consultant on data mining for fraud and risk control and compliance. Beside this I have also worked as auditor, trainer, developer and trouble shooter. Projects have ranged from data mining for setting up risk profiles to customer awareness projects, and from research to high profile audits. In previous technical jobs projects ranged from prototyping to business critical implementations. I also have a good background in business economics and in law.

My main quality is a good combination of both analytical and intuitive skills. Beside that I have a strong business sense and a highly customer oriented attitude. I have worked successfully in both teams as project leader or participant, as well as alone or in a coaching role.  I perform well where there is a ‘delivery pressure’ and where someone is needed to get a project under control again.  I have a skill in presenting painful issues (audit results, risk analysis, etc) in a non-painful way, but still with a no-nonsense attitude.

I prefer working in a complex, ever changing function, where I can apply both my logical and intuitive skills together with my built-up knowledge of 30 years of working in many organizations – commercial, non-profit, government; for example as researcher, project leader or (project)consultant, preferably with a ‘hands on’ approach.

At secondary school I was First Prize winner of the Dutch Mathematics Olympiad, and a Dutch Science Fair prize winner. My Masters Thesis (Doctoraal scriptie) ‘An Intuitionistic Combinatory Theory Not Closed Under The Rule Of Choice’ [1977] was published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science".

Some of my hobbies are music, law, reading, tiny computers and cycling.

Beside that I am regularly active in some committees, for example four years as treasurer of a University subsidized foundation. Currently I am web master for a small international NGO with development projects in Peru.

Experience

Education

Name	Institute	Finished
Drs (eqv. MSc) of Mathematics – secondary subject Econometrics	Utrecht University	1977
Various Consultancy and Project Management courses. Leadership and communications training. Self study: business economics, law and web-analytics.	Various
Many Technical IT related courses	Various

List of jobs performed

Job	Verbond van Verzekeraars, Senior Statistician, 2010-
Activities	Research and consultancy on Insurance Fraud Control. Data mining, data modeling and risk profiling.
Examples
Branche	Insurance Companies

Job	CMC, Senior Consultant, 2006-2009
Activities	Project management, research and consultancy on Law Conformance and Fraud Control. Data mining, data modeling and risk profiling.
Examples	Analysis and reporting on the state of  Fraud Control within a mayor insurance company. Analysis of the available data infrastructure for the possibility of data mining for risk profiles. Project leader for the analysis and Fraud Risk modeling for a large municipal body: Data mining the available identity databases; defining and auditing personal risk profiles; product selection of external tools to optimize risk profile modeling; scientific statistical analysis of the used profiling approaches. Project manager for the development of Risk Analysis tools under Business Intelligence environments: Leading and advising the development groups (2 and 4 members), hands-on prototyping of the remapping existing RDMS databases to OLAP structures for prototyping the fast and interactive creation of risk profiles. Personally designing and implementing proofs of concept using MS.NET tools. Team leader for the writing of proposals to RFP’s. Advise on proposal quality. Write user guides for the use of CMC products; define, prototype and implement reporting tools.
Branche	Financial companies and Law Enforcement organizations

Job	Moniforce, Senior Consultant, 2002-2005 (note: Moniforce was bought by Oracle in 2007)
Activities	Project management and general Web-Analytics activities. Defining data transformation rules from web access data to explicit customer profiling. Risk analysis and security/compliance scans on internet/web traffic. Advising sales and senior management on legal and liability issues. Training and coaching of junior and medior consultants. Write SLA’s and user guides.
Example	Joint project leader for a ‘Data Stream Mining’ proposal of Moniforce, Vrije Universiteit, Interpay (now Equens), Robeco and BKWI/CWI to Senter: Write a combined scientific research and business proposal for the mining of large time dependent data streams. Liaise with the other partners, manage the confidentiality framework and NDA between the partners. A major four-year subsidy was allotted. (see http://www.cs.vu.nl/ci/DataMine/DIANA/index.html  for details). After start of research project: Management of the data/knowledge transformation for the researchers. Liaise with the partners on the required research data.
Example	Implementation of web-analytics and user-experience environments at major Dutch corporations for datamining customer behaviour and set up customer profiles. Design and implementation of a real-time Web Risk Analysis module for a major finance player to set up customer risk profiles, including the writing of the user guides.
Example	Successful tendering on RFP’s from Top500 companies. Auditing proposal quality.
Branche	Top-500 companies and Government

Job	AtosOrigin, Senior Consultant, 1995-2002
Activities	Consulting, Architecture and Project Management for (mainly) IT Infrastructure based projects. Financial Analysis. Auditing endangered projects. Trouble shooting.
Example	ICT architect and team leader for implementation of business critical Mainframe data transformation/data exchange facility: Find sponsors, report to steering committee, lead the development team of  4 developers,  write the users guides, embed as a fully operational service within the service organization. Service developed from migration service to cash cow.
Example	Project leader for the implementation of a ‘customer awareness’ project: Lead a team of five consultants to implement conformance to ISO 9000 behaviour for the full local (1000+) service organization: Organize awareness sessions, write training guides showing local ‘best practices’, audit results.
Example	Fully manage the insourcing of the 30 fte ICT service team of an AKZO  company into the Atos organization.
Example	Define full regional costing structure for worldwide customer network: Map and analyse worldwide regional service levels and SLA’s, audit (and correct) charging schemes, .
Example	Take over failing projects. Failure root cause analysis. Restore relationship with customer and successfully finish projects. Write SLA’s
Branche	Industry

Job	Self employed 1994
Activities	Consultancy and pre-sales for large Telecom projects. Consultancy on infrastructure, product selection, business cases. Write RFP’s for service proposals. Evaluate proposals.
Example	Define full Videotex and Network Dial-In infrastructures for customer, including Cost of Ownership and Returns on Investment. Project leader for of implementation teams (4-6 people).
Branche	PTT’s , Industry, Banking

Job	Shell Research, IT Consultant, 1991 – 1993
Activities	Project leadership and consultancy on IT infrastructure projects. Including full business cases stating TCO and ROI.
Examples	Lead a team of  six consultants to define and prototype a full DBMS infrastructure for a large research environment (> 1000 researchers). Product selection and prototyping database presentation tools, managing staff and hardware resourcing. Define and sell internally a full contingency service for research environment: Convince senior management to sponsor the project; write the proposal and service level requirements; manage the product selection; lead the implementation team. Co-write RFP’s for the full PC service outsourcing. Audit RFP quality before staring tender. Evaluate and score the proposals.
Branche	Research

Job	Shell International, Communications Consultant, 1986-1991
Activities	Consultancy on global E-mail communications infrastructure. Consultancy on communications security, compliance and risks. Vendor liaison, trouble shooting. Organizing and presenting seminars and workshops on data-communications, E-mail and Directory services.
Examples	Organize and present international training on ISO X.400 Email and ISO X.500 Directory Services. Manage supplier conformance to ISO X.25, X.400 and X.500 standards. Crisis management during security breach.
Branche	Industry

Job	Digital Equipment, Senior Software Specialist. 1979-1986
Activities	Technical and pre-sales consultancy on DEC products. Doing projects for customers. Organize and present workshops on operating systems, E-mail, networks and data-communications. Third line support and troubleshooting.
Examples	Develop an integrated Forth graphics development system, including full user documentation. Develop and present seminars on operating systems internals for real-time developers
Branche	Industry, Banking, Insurance, Education, Research, Government

Job	Utrecht University, Scientific Officer, 1973-1979
Activities	Design, development and implementation of Scientific Library Cataloguing Infrastructure
Example	Specify full flexible and modular design to produce different catalogues on demand. Product sold to other universities.
Branche	Education, Research