Wim Vandevenne

Wim Vandevenne

Key Skills

  • Project Management
  • Team Lead
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • IT Service Management
  • JIRA / Confluence
  • SRUM / Agile
  • Miro
  • HTML / CSS
  • JavaScript
  • VueJS / Nuxt.js
  • NodeJS
  • SEO / SEA

Work Experience

Managing Partner at appeel.io

August 2020 - Present

As Managing Partner I'm responsible for the day-to-day operational tasks of the company. Responsible for business development (looking for projects for our team), sales and pre-sales (prospecting, quotes) and people management (HR, holidays, common people well-being), etc.

Certified Scrum Master at Toyota Motor Europe

April 2022 - March 2024 | Project via Appeel.io

As Scrum Master of the ehub team I'm responsible for facilitating the SCRUM ceremonies of my team and improving the general workflow processes. Processing the retrospective feedback and making sure the sprint boards are up-to-date for the Product Owner and business stakeholders to have a clear overview.

Certified Scrum Master at ECS

July 2021 - September 2021 | Project via Appeel.io

As Scrum Master I'm responsible for facilitating all the SCRUM ceremonies of my teams and make sure the teams get unblocked if anything comes up during the daily meetings. Processing the retrospective feedback and making sure the sprint boards are up-to-date for the Product Owners.

Tech Lead & Senior Frontend Developer at ING

January 2021 - March 2021 | Project via Appeel.io

As Tech Lead I was responsible for coaching and guiding my squad to new levels from a technical point of view. Cross-team responsibility of technical guidelines and platform migration to Azure DevOps. Developing product roadmap with stakeholders and business colleagues. Stack is native JavaScript with lit-html and web components. Served as proxy Scrum Master for my team during daily standups and retrospectives.

Freelance Senior Web Developer at WiVen Web Solutions

October 2014 - Present

What started as independent freelance web development as side job grew into a fulltime job. Front End Web Development with focus on VueJS, JavaScript (ES6), SASS, NPM, HTML5, WordPress, and so on. Consulting & developing websites, platforms, apps, SEO, SEA and visuals for small or medium-sized businesses to big corporate enterprises.

Senior Front End Developer at Vlaamse Overheid

June 2020 - November 2020

Working on KLIP and GIPOD projects for Flemish Government as Senior Front End Developer with VueJS as the main technology. Backend was written in .NET and communication with backend went over a REST API. Responsible for taking on new development tickets and keeping an eye on code quality with pull requests.

Lead Front End Developer at OneDot

December 2018 - June 2020

Working on platforms for clients like Syntra Vlaanderen, Flemish Government and the European Social Fund as lead Front End Developer with VueJS and NuxtJS as the main technology. Responsible for the frontend of the project by taking on new development tickets, keeping an eye on code quality with pull requests, onboarding new team members, meeting with tech lead and cross-team frontend leads. Managed to successfully launch project which was hugely delayed before upstaffing.

Senior VueJS Consultant at HR Organizer

September 2019 - May 2020

Consulting the company during their platform migration to VueJS. Migrating components to reusable VueJS components and guiding with the architecture + move to separated back- and frontend.

Front End Web Consultant at ENGIE Electrabel

May 2017 - December 2018

Working on the new website (using Magnolia and HP Teamsite), new mailing templates (using Pardot and SalesForce Marketing Cloud), innovation projects (NodeJS API for a Facebook bot integration + admin dashboard using VueJS, Bulma CSS, Webpack + KPI dashboard creating a WordPress custom theme) etc. This using tools like VueJS, Bulma CSS, Webpack, ES6, NodeJS, SASS, etc. Created themes for the Drupal websites and was responsible for managing the remote development team in Portugal. Managed the KPI dashboard project as well sitting together with stakeholders from different business teams. Functioned as backup Scrum Master in abscence of leading PM.

Front End Web Developer at Axxes

April 2016 - August 2018

Consulting at big companies after following an extended Front End Masterclass.

Front End Web Consultant at Delen Private Bank

November 2016 - April 2017

Working on the new website, new mailing templates (using Addemar), etc. This using tools like Gulp, SASS, BEM, ITCSS, Atomic design model, etc.

Front End Web Consultant at Mediahuis

April 2016 - October 2016

Working on websites like Nieuwsblad.be, GvA.be, etc. on the Front End. This using tools like Grunt, SASS, Jekyll, Handlebars, etc.

Web Developer at Colruyt Group E-factory

May 2015 - April 2016

Developing static web pages, HTML mailings and web banners for over 1 million clients for all the Colruyt Group websites (Collect&Go, DreamLand, DreamBaby, ColliShop, Colruyt, SPAR, BioPlanet, etc.). Main tools used are Photoshop and Fireworks. Most frequently used Bootstrap as framework.

Support Engineer E-commerce at Colruyt Group

November 2012 - May 2015

Support for all the Colruyt Group websites (Collect&Go, DreamLand, DreamBaby, ColliShop, Colruyt, SPAR, BioPlanet, etc.).

Personal Profile

Web Development has always been a big part of my life. At the age of twelve, I spent countless hours on the "tinkering" in code. Not afraid of a new challenge or a jump into a new adventure, always willing to learn.
In my spare time I like karting, fast cars and multimedia gadgets.

Education

Electronics - IT

Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven Gent (2009-2012)

Mathematics - Sciences

Pius X-Instituut Zele (2003-2009)

References

Peter Willekens

Project Manager, tel +32 496 99 49 56
- Working together for 6 months at Flemish Government. Was my team lead during this time.

Leiv Hendrickx

Technical Team Lead Digital Factory ENGIE, tel +32 468 20 27 97
- Worked together for 1+ year at ENGIE. Was my team lead during this time.

Frederik De Roover

Former Web Technology Consultant & Front-end Developer Typografics, tel +32 497 30 02 04
- Worked together for 1 year at Colruyt Group E-factory

Thomas Strosse

Former Functional Analyst Colruyt Group, tel: +32 472 47 28 77
- Worked together for 2,5 years at Colruyt Group Support. Was my team lead during this time.