Frank Vanwelkenhuysen

Driving growth. Delivering impact.
I help organizations build the strategy, governance, and leadership capability to navigate complex change and the momentum to sustain it. Over 30 years, I've worked at the intersection of strategy, transformation, and the public sector, moving between advisory roles and operational leadership. That combination shapes how I work: I bring an advisor's clarity to th

DPA is the digital partner of choice for Bar associations in Belgium. It’s the result of a strategic partnership between the Flemish Bar Association (OVB) and the Ordre des barreaux francophones et germanophones de Belgique (Avocats.be). An ambitious protocol was signed to develop IT solutions that make the legal sector more efficient, secure and modern.
DPA is also thé strategic partner of FPS J

Service Lines development and execution:
- Strategy validation, definition and delivery
- (Digital) Business Transformation
- Skill based organizations
- Sustainability strategy and transformation

Operational management of alliances (Atos, IBM, TechWolf)

Major accounts:
- FOD Justitie/SPF Justice: Digital transformation
- FOD Volksgezondheid/SPF Santé Publique: Skill based organization transfor

As an independent management consultant I assist customers in defining and reaching business objectives through ICT projects.
In a project & process oriented approach, based on the requirements of the client and the need of particular experience/competence I actively participate in the transformation proces.

As Transition Expert for ARCH, working on following projects
- Traject Manager for Redesign Traject Volksgezondheid at FOD Volksgezondheid, Federaal Agentschap voor Geneesmiddelen en Gezondheidsproducten and RIZIV
- Transition expert and Coach optimising the organisation and operations of the inspection services at FOD Volksgezondheid
- Internal audit advising on optimising the operations at SCK

Worked as Voorzitter Adviesraad Locale Economie at Gemeente Willebroek.

- Public Sector pratice manager
- Service Delivery Manager Vlaamse overheid & RVA
- Business transformation expert
- Program portfolio Manager
- Deployment coach
- Operational coach

Major clients: Kabinetten, Agentschappen en Departementen van de Vlaamse overheid (o.m. Agentschap Binnenlands Bestuur, Onderwijs en Vorming, Leefmilieu Natuur en Energie, ...), Infrabel, RSVZ, BelgoControl, FOD Econ

Docent "Managementadviseur Social & Non-Profit Sector"
Gastcollege's "Leiding geven"

Worked as Program Manager at Honda Motor Europe Logistics NV.

Interim manager of a team of analysts and developers, and senior project manager for major clients. Supporting the business transformation towards a project and process oriented operation

Senior project manager for a portfolio projects executed in various areas of (digital) press.
These projects included amongst others:
- Mass scale personalised multichannel (direct) marketing
- Process optimalisation of prduction of promotional marketing products
- Digital production integrated princing lables
- Process optimalisation POS production

Organisational & operational coach guiding the

- Member steering committee for digital governmental services
- Member steering committee for integrated governmental services
- Member Usergroup IRIS project (Cipal)

- As-Is Analysis
- Quality & Risk Assessment
- Budget & Resource forecasting

Senior Change & Strategy Advisor within business optimisation projects.
- Management coaching
- Process design and optimisation
- Design management dashboards
- Design Governance structures
- Escalation management

B-Watch Interim Manager.

Program manager for portfolio of projects focussing on:
- Implementation of WAN/LAN infrastructure enabling SAP Roll-Out
- Follow up projects assigned to/ exec

Program manager for a portfolio of projects executed in various areas of Governmental administration.
These projects included:
- Expansion of the WAN of the Flemish Government (VO-Net) towards other governmental agencies;
- Installation of WAN optimisers;
- Development of secure access towards web applications for governmental agencies;
- Installation of WAN traffic monitoring;
- Installation of

Project manager, and member of the PMO unit, for a portfolio of projects executed in various areas of social security and HR administration.
These projects included:
- Outsourcing of employee payment administration of the integrated federal police. Project executed in cooperation with EDS and Dell;
- IT Integration of subsidiary (Alia) into the Acerta Group;
- Version control of in-house develope

Practice Manager and member of the management team leading the following teams of junior to senior consultants:
- Business Process consulting;
- ERP (mainly SAP);
- Business Intelligence;
- Enterprise Content Mgt

BPR Project manager for the governmental Social security agency (RSZ). Goal of the project was to start up the Cross Control activities, synchronising the auditing tasks while processing the Dimona and DmfA declarations.
Project included:
- Documenting the existing organisational activities
- Business process optimisation
- Defining organisational needs for Cross Control
- Defining roles and respo

Project manager for a portfolio of project executed for and in cooperation with the City of Antwerp.
Projects included:
- Version management of citizen application
- Transition of citizen application from powerbuilder to MS .NET
- Front to back-office integration for the Electronic Identity card
- CRM Implementation (SAP)
- Electronic office desk

WMS Project Manager for the implementation DLx/P in Spain, Italy, Sweden and Greece.
Projects included vendor management, i.e. the selection of Vendors for local implementation of MHE and contract negotiation and follow-up.
Execution of the portfolio had to be closely synchronised with the roll-out of the ‘Common-Platform’ (= ICT architecture standardisation project for Levi’s Europe).
Projects we

Start-up of an European distribution centre for Hill's Pet Food Nutrition (member of the Colgate group).
Define & optimise the business processes to increase overall site performance.
Alignment business processes and ICT deliveries

As Management Consultant I participated in the (pre-)sales and execution of the following projects:
• Exel: As an ICT project manager assisting in the start-up of a European warehouse;
• Microsoft: As a business analyst researching impact of Open Source investments for ICT service suppliers for local governments. Calculation of Total-Cost-of-Ownership Benefit plan and Return-on-Investment;
• Aquaf

In a line management function, heading a team of 6 people, I was responsible for the following projects:
• Organisational Re-Engineering: managing the organisational impact of the ERP re-implementation through process optimisation
• ERP Re-Implementation: partial re-implementation of the ERP package (JBA)
• Lotus Notes/Domino R5 Migration: Upgrade of the mail and groupware platform

Additionally

Heading a team of about 40 junior up to senior developers, I was actively involve in the day-to-day management, defining corporate strategy, pre-sales, recruitment, mentoring of resources, development of the EMD Comgress Methodology and developing/giving internal training.

Additionally as project manager I was responsible for the planning, staffing and execution of projects at:
• Huntsman Polyur

As IT Consultant I participated in the execution of database driven projects, using mainly Oracle and web technology, at:
• De Persgroep: Application integration project
• Janssen Pharmaceutica: Day-to-day IT support for researchers
• S.W.I.F.T.: Feasibility study of ‘STP Automation’
• TechniSearch: Implementation of client oriented Internet services