Patrick Swaans is a Program Manager Program Management Office at Nokia Corporation based in Antwerp Metropolitan Area, Belgium, Europe. 2016-Now: Program manager PMO in PM Excellence & Project Readiness April 2013-2016: PMO Project Improvement Initiative (PII) Stream Manager Region West August 2010-March 2013: Operations Manager Managed Services Benelux 2007-2010: Project Management Operational Support Manager People management and coaching of 20+ project managers in West and East Africa. The team included 7 nationalities and were located at different locations in Africa: Kenya, Ghana, Senegal and also Belgian home based ex-pats and remote working project managers executing projects in 18 African countries. Cost center management Resource management Process management Management reporting Escalation management Crisis management 1999-2007: Senior project manager Executed projects in mobile and fixed communication. I managed mobile accounts for MTN in Ivory Coast and Sonatel Mobile in Senegal. I managed fixed communication projects for NATO and PCCI (call center) in Senegal. 1992-1999: Project Field Engineer doing commissioning, integrations and customer acceptance of PABX and/or fibre optic access projects in NATO countries, China, Myanmar, Kuwait, Oman, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Kosovo, Marocco, Algeria, Libya, Zimbabwe, Cameroon. Specialties: Project management in telecommunication area. People management.
Current Position: Program Manager Program Management Office
Company: Nokia Corporation
Location: Antwerp Metropolitan Area, Belgium, Europe
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