Francisco Ortega

Vice President of Engineering

NSIDE

Apr 2026 - Current (5 months)

Team Manager

OMP

Sep 2024 - Apr 2026 (1 year 8 months)

Agile Coach

Bricsys

Mar 2022 - Sep 2024 (2 years 7 months)

Director IT Development - Search & Match

StepStone

Jan 2019 - Mar 2022 (3 years 3 months)

VP of Technology

IgnitionOne

Oct 2017 - Jan 2019 (1 year 4 months)

As VP of Technology in the Brussels office, Francisco has been introducing leadership in the Brussels office. This includes helping teams to be more Agile, discussing with product teams how to improve backlog and project preparation, create a feedback culture in the office, help creating career path for people (in conjunction with HR), help closing the communication gap between offices. Team: - 25+ I.T. developers and testers in Brussels, Atlanta and India Main projects: - Initiate cultural change in Brussels office based on feedback and happiness at work - Help improving the Agile transition at IgnitionOne - Introduce leadership in technical teams - Foster innovation

Development Manager (Business Applications)

Swift

Jul 2012 - Sep 2017 (5 years 3 months)

As a Software Development Manager Francisco is in charge of the development and maintenance of two of the cloud services proposed by SWIFT: Alliance Lite and Alliance Lite2. Additionally, He has to provide technical guidance and coaching to the team, as well as communicate with different departments and stakeholders. Team: - 10 I.T. developers and testers Main projects: - Maintenance and 3rd level support for Alliance Lite - Development and 3rd level support for Alliance Lite2 Methodology: - Mainly Waterfall

Software Development Manager

OM Partners

Dec 2010 - Jun 2012 (1 year 7 months)

As a Software Development Manager he has coordination and analysis tasks, while continuing to participate in the development of applications. Team: - 4 I.T. developers in Belgium + 4 I.T. developers in Lviv (Ukraine) Main projects: - Maintain and develop the planning application for the Corrugated Board Industry - Implement a transport planning module - Transition to Agile/Scrum Methodology: - SCRUM

Software Development Manager

Eastnets

Dec 2008 - Nov 2010 (2 years)

As a Team Leader of the Software Development Team for the Compliance and Resilient products Francisco was in charge of all the planning and coordination activities. The compliance products consist on a suite of applications for Anti-Money Laundry: SafeWatch Filtering for the on-line and off-line transaction scanning, SafeWatch Profiling for the off-line transaction monitoring, and SafeWatch Anti-Fraud for the on-line transaction monitoring. The resilient products are a suite of products installed as plug-in of Swift Alliance Access. The main products here are en.Reporting for the long term archiving of messages, and en.Duplicate Detection to detect if messages are sent more than once. In the role of development manager, Francisco also parti

Senior Software Developer Team Lead

OM Partners

May 2004 - Nov 2008 (4 years 7 months)

As a Developer Francisco participated in the implementation of planning applications for the plastics, paper, and metals industries. The common factor among all these applications was the mathematical programming problem to be solved: The cutting stock problem. Given the complexity of the problem to be solved, the planning applications have to be robust, reliable, and fast. Main projects: - Cutting Optimizer for the plastics industry - Analysis of a cutting problem in the paper industry - Object Oriented Framework for Cutting Stock like applications. - 2D guillotine cutting problem in the aluminum industry (prototype) Technologies: - C/C++ - OMP Optimization engine and modeling language - Oracle database - Windows

Senior consultant

NSIDE

Sep 2001 - Apr 2004 (2 years 8 months)

n-Side develops ad-hoc applications for its customers. As a senior consultant he participated in the complete development cycle, from the analysis to the deployment at the customer. An important phase in each project was to understand the customer needs and translate them into a mathematical model. The main projects here were related to: - Maximization of profit in a distribution network - Minimum cost beets harvesting in the sugar industry - Optimal machine assignment to test chemical processes in a laboratory - Optimal glass production taking into account change over times and transportation Technologies: - C/C++, JAVA, Visual Basic - Cplex as optimization engine, OPL as modeling language - XPRESS-MP as optimization and Mosel as

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Oracle chile

Jan 1995 - Jan 1996 (1 year 1 month)

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