Raphaël Dehousse

Freelance - Product Owner / Agile Project Manager

Summary

I'm a pragmatic, hands-on, tech-savvy, solution-oriented Product Owner

« True Agile isn't about twice the work in half the time but about doing half the work while producing twice the value »
@Steve Denning

Experience

Team Manager, Head of Development Teams, Cloud Lead, DevOps Accelerator and Change Manager

TotalEnergies Power & Gas Belgium (ex-Lampiris)

12/2020 - 12/2023
Liège - Belgium

Several positions over time, managing between 10 and 15+ people

Creating & promoting a Vision, prioritizing the backlogs based on Value while respecting the Products

Product Owner / Agile Project Manager

Startups

09/2017 - 11/2020
Liège - Belgium

AI & IOT (Big Data / Distributed)

Understand the product and the market
Collecting needs and feedbacks from the market
Manage the prioritized backlog, create User Stories with Acceptance Criteria

Agile Coach / DevOps Coach & Agile Project Manager

The Faktory

08/2016 - 08/2019
Liège - Belgium

Startup Incubator

Helping startups to organize their product development using Scrum

Solution Engineer / Agile Project Manager

Proximus

11/2013 - 07/2016
Brussels - Belgium

Belgian Telco Operator - Proximus TV

Delivering new ProximusTV Web/Apps with Scrum
Implementing Scrumban for operations

Industry Expertise

Leadership ★ ★ ★ ★ ⯨
Management ★ ★ ★ ★ ⯨
Agile / Scrum / Lean ★ ★ ★ ★ ⯨
Project Management ★ ★ ★ ★
SRE / DevOps / CI/CD ★ ★ ★ ★ ⯨
Python / SQL ★ ★ ★ ★
Jira / Confluence ★ ★ ★ ★ ⯨
Big Data & AI ★ ★ ★ ⯨

Education

07/2024
12/2023
11/2021
06/2016
10/2015
06/2015
02/2015

Languages

French ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
English ★ ★ ★ ★ ⯨

Detailed relevant experience

Team Manager, Head of Development Teams, Cloud Lead, DevOps Accelerator and Change Manager

TotalEnergies Power & Gas Belgium (ex-Lampiris)

12/2020 - 12/2023
Liège - Belgium

Manage teams comprising 10 to 15+ individuals, including both local and remote members

As Head of Development, responsible for qualitative delivery of projects and maintenance with the Team Managers & PMO.
Collaboration with the IT & business teams to define the role of PO to improve the value delivery.
Responsible of the the Move2Cloud program (AWS) & transformation (new Operating Model) Advising on the Cloud Architecture and seeking standardization to speed up the migration.
With my Agile & DevOps experience, my goal is to coach/encourage my team to improve their practices, including their WoW and their environment, with more cooperation, better communication.

Product Owner / Agile Project Manager

Esnah

09/2019 - 11/2020
Liège - Belgium

IOT / Communication gateway for aircrafts and boats

Collect feedbacks from prospects/customers with the help of the commercial.
Gather knowledge from the CEO (himself pilot and user of the product).
Create the User Stories respecting the INVEST principles.
To improve the product mgmt and the communications, I used Jira as main tool, also for the executive team. It helped the team to organize their own tasks and be more transparent and communicative about their progress.

Product Owner / Agile Project Manager

Data Fellas / BDM Reco

10/2017 - 09/2020
Liège - Belgium

Big Data and AI

I was holding the vision of the product and traveled a lot to meet the market to validate the needs and how the product should be.
I created the User Stories respecting the INVEST principles, with Acceptance Criteria so that the stories were transparent and clear.

Agile Coach / DevOps Coach & Agile Project Manager

The Faktory

08/2016 - 08/2019
Liège - Belgium

Startup Incubator

In order to help the startups to organize their team and product development, I organized workshops about agility and Scrum, with the role of the Product Owner and priorities management around product value
One start-up had difficulties to organize the work to deliver a connected object. I proposed them to help with using Scrum to better prioritize the backlog to deliver "user" value first before technicalities.
The start-up could finally deliver a working product to be tested by their market to collect feedbacks in much less time.

Solution Engineer / Agile Project Manager

Proximus

11/2013 - 07/2016
Brussels - Belgium

Belgian Telco Operator - Proximus TV

For the new ProximusTV Web/Apps, I managed a team of up to 12 people (web integrator, frontend/mobile and backend developers and functional analyst; onsite and offshore).
To improve the operational team, I implemented Scrumban to have more transparency and better communication, with "backlog" mgmt, daily standups and restrospectives