Luc Maquil
Senior Enterprise Architect
Summary
Luc is a senior managing IT professional with 15 years of experience in research and development,
technical sales and enterprise architecture.
Luc has built an international career profile with a strong focus on large scale and highly complex
projects. He has seized the opportunity over many years to work in very diverse IT roles and is highly
passionate about Business-IT alignment, meaning customer oriented and business strategy aligned
usage of IT.
Experience
Partner Digital Transformation and Regulatory IT Services
BHS Services S.A.
October 2015 – Present (7 months)
BHS Services S.A. is an IT and Business Engineering company in the Risk and Compliance domain,
working with professionals from the financial sector. BHS focuses on supporting their customers in
their research for innovative, cost effective and efficient IT solutions.
As a Partner, Luc is in charge of the Digital Transformation Advisory Services including:
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Sourcing advisory projects (strategy, optimization and selection of sourcing partners).
IT Infrastructure, Application Architecture Design and Optimization.
IT Regulatory Filing assistance in the FinTech domain (e.g. Bitcoin Exchanges).
Market research and Digital Strategy engagements as part of the BHS Innovation Lab.
Internally at BHS, Luc is actively involved in Business Development, FinTech market
research, IT solution design and implementation project management.
Sectors:
Banking, Investment Funds Professionals and Insurance.
Senior Manager IT Advisory
KPMG Luxembourg S.A.R.L
February 2012 – September 2015 (3 years)
As a Senior Manager within the Management Consulting (MC) practice, Luc conducted IT related
engagements including:
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IT Infrastructure and Application Architecture Design and Optimization.
Business Development in Business Intelligence and Data analytics.
IT Outsourcing projects (strategy, optimization and selection of sourcing partners).
Project Management of Implementation projects (Pre-study to Go-Live).
Sectors:
National Market, Banking and Insurance.
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Software Client Architect Financial Sector
IBM Belgium s.p.r.l
2007 – 2012 (5 years)
As a Software Client Architect, Luc was designing SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and Business
Process Management (BPM) Solutions within the Financial Sector in Luxembourg including
investment funds, payments and private banking: His tasks consisted of:
- Architecting and design of Payment and Financial Messaging Gateways and Process
Orchestration solutions (Workflow Engines).
- Capacity planning and design of Infrastructure Architectures for IBM software solutions.
- Defining IT strategies, design of enterprise architecture following the principles of industry
frameworks (blueprints) and IBM solutions best practices.
- Technical account management, technical lead of subject matter experts working in IBM
sales approaches.
Technical Sales EMEA
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
2005 – 2007 (2 years)
Luc was acting as a WebSphere integration architect with a focus on Business Process Management
within the Benelux Software Group WebSphere technical community. His responsibilities consisted of
advising the sales teams, business partners and IBM customers on architecture, education and best
practices concerning WebSphere integration solutions in presales situations. This includes Workflow
engines, financial messaging and payment gateways.
Research and Development
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
2001 – 2005 (4 years)
Luc was working as a test and performance engineer. Luc’s task consisted of guaranteeing the
product quality of IBM’s BPM (Business Process Management).
The daily work was to develop test benchmarks of the releases related to the product. Luc also
advised customers on specific infrastructure setup, performance and capacity planning questions and
worked on projects in the EMEA including training, pre-sales, Proof of Concepts and software
support.
Qualifications
2002
Université de Haute-Alsace – Institut universitaire
professionalisé - Méthodes informatiques appliquées à la gestion
(IUP-Miage), Mulhouse, France.
Diploma: Master of Science in IT applied to Business Management (IUP-MIAGE).
Title: Ingénieur-Maître en Informatique appliquée à la Gestion d’Entreprises (with distinction).
2002
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin, Germany
Diploma: Diplomierter Wirtschaftsinformatiker.
1999
Centre Universitaire – Cycle Court, Luxembourg.
Diploma : “Diplôme d’études supérieures en informatique appliquée à la
Gestion d’Enterprises“. Similar to a Bachelor degree Computer sciences applied to
business management.
1997
Lycée Technique Ecole de Commerce et de Gestion
Diploma: 13ème Gestion. (High-School degree in Economics, Accounting and Business
Management).
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Major Customer engagements
2015-present
As a senior Project Manager and Enterprise Architect, Luc is in charge of the IT
Conversion Roadmap at an Investment Funds Management Company in
Luxembourg. In the context of the sale of the entity to a new owner, Luc conducted
the entire IT conversion project including selection of an IT Service Provider through
an RFP (Request for Proposal) process, design of the target operating model, design
of the migration scenario and execution of the project as a project manager. Luc is
managing the day-to-day work of the conversion team and interfaces with the key
project stakeholders.
2012-2014
Luc led the Security Roadmap project at a life insurance company in Luxembourg. As
a project Manager and Enterprise Architect, Luc was in charge of the analysis, the
infrastructure architecture design and managed the conversion towards the new
target model. The project includes several streams such as development (Java and
Cobol), infrastructure design (AS400 and WINTEL) and IT Security Design.
2012-2013
Luc conducted the system selection project of a Media and Communications
Company in Luxembourg with the objective to replace their current editorial system.
Luc lead the project and was in charge of the Infrastructure Architecture design.
2012
Luc accompanied a German bank in the selection of an IT Outsourcing provider
including the definition of the strategy, gathering of business and functional
requirements, definition of the RFP and evaluation of the responses.
2007-2012
Luc has been involved in multiple sales related engagements in the EMEA Region,
Benelux and Luxembourg. He was in charge of the architecture design of SOA
(Service Oriented Architecture) solutions in the financial and telecommunication
sectors.
2006-2007
For a major Belgian Public administration Luc acted as a key technical consultant in
the design and setup of an SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). Luc was involved in the
design and implementation of the solution.
2001-2005
Luc has worked within a large (more than 400 persons) project spread over 7 IBM
locations with the objective to develop the product “WebSphere Process Server”. Luc
has been involved in this project as a quality manager and performance engineer.
Luc also was deployed onsite at customer sites to address specific configuration
issues and to solve performance issues.
Skills and Experience
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15 years of experience in IT in Research and Development, Technical Sales, Enterprise
Architecture and Project Management in the Financial, Insurance and Telecommunications
sectors.
Luc has multiple years of experience in Infrastructure Architecture design and Cloud
Computing acquired in his role as an IBM Infrastructure and Software Architect.
Luc has the ability to work in a highly diverse and international context. He was assigned to
an IBM EMEA position for several years and worked in different geographies including US,
UK, Germany, France, BENELUX, Spain, Italy and Israel.
Luc has a deep IT Infrastructure knowledge including Unix, Linux, Windows and AS400 built
on engineering skills acquired in the laboratories of IBM Germany.
Luc has a deep knowledge in Luxembourg IT Regulatory PSF context related to outsourcing.
Luc has lead 4 IT outsourcing projects since 2012.
Luc is certified in Prince2, he is a Certified Open Group IT Specialist and regularly applies
TOGAF (Enterprise Architecture methodology) in his engagements. Further he has deep
knowledge in RUP (Rational Unified Process).
Luc has software programming Skills in Java, C++, C and COBOL. IBM WebSphere. Oracle
and DB2 Databases.
Luc is 39 years old and speaks Luxembourgish, English, French, German and Polish.
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