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Gert Cauwenberg
Senior Business Analyst & Requirements Engineer
Business analysis and requirements engineering for complex IT systems — from stakeholder interviews and as-is / to-be models to solution design, migration concepts and acceptance criteria. Technical background with sound knowledge of architectures, interfaces and security, and fluent French and English communication.
25+
Years in IT
IBM
Global & eHealth
UML
BPMN · Agile · SOA
C2
English & French
Professional experience
A career across government, enterprise and security IT.
Gert has led analysis and delivery work for public-sector programmes, security platforms, learning systems and global infrastructure — always as the bridge between business needs and technical teams.
2020 – 2024
Senior IT Analyst
Smals – eHealth
- Requirements elicitation and analysis for key projects enhancing secure information exchange in the Belgian health sector.
- Developed a database model for a data warehouse.
- Interfaced between business and IT stakeholders; wrote technical documentation.
- Defined acceptance criteria and supported functional acceptance testing.
- Designed SOAP and REST interfaces for multiple projects.
- Set up Jira dashboards for project tracking and delivery visibility.
2016 – 2020
Linux Security Engineer
AXS GUARD
- Served as Scrum Master; managed the backlog.
- Translated business requirements into user stories, functional specifications and acceptance criteria.
- Configured Jira to support Agile delivery.
- Led the migration of a physical security gateway to a Microsoft Cloud offering.
2008 – 2016
IT Architect
IBM Learning Development Europe
- Learning management system for the Dutch government: stakeholder interviews, requirements elicitation, as-is / to-be modelling, solution and migration design, and implementation leadership as Project Manager.
- Learning management system for a Flemish government agency: requirements analysis, technical documentation, integration into multiple back-office systems, alignment across business departments and IT teams, and leadership of the development team.
- Migrated the knowledge base to Confluence.
1998 – 2008
IT Architect
IBM Global Services
- Belgian government agency: interviews and workshops to elicit and harmonise requirements; as-is / to-be models in BPMN and UML; system interfaces; target solution and migration from legacy mainframe to Service-Oriented Architecture; cross-team alignment and technical documentation.
- Flemish public broadcaster: infrastructure development for digital media — feasibility study, functional and non-functional analysis, and implementation of data storage and media search.
- Telecom: proof-of-concept from requirements collection to high-level design, then leadership of the development team.
- Global forex trading platform: architecture team member specialising in core settlement analysis.
Core competencies
What he brings to a project.
From discovery workshops to acceptance testing — a practical toolkit for complex programmes where business and IT must stay aligned.
- Business Analysis & Requirements Engineering
- Business Process Analysis & optimisation
- As-is / To-Be modelling
- UML / BPMN
- Requirements Elicitation
- Stakeholder Interviews
- Agile / Scrum / Backlog Management
- Waterfall methodology
- Functional Specifications & Acceptance Criteria
- Business–IT Alignment
- Solution & Migration Concepts
- Data Migration & Data Management
- Technical Documentation
- Jira
- Confluence
- SQL / Data Warehousing
Education & credentials
Engineering foundation, modern credentials.
Languages
International communication.
- Dutch — mother tongue
- English — C2
- French — C2
- German — B2
- Portuguese — A2
- Hungarian — A2
Need business analysis or requirements expertise?
Describe your challenge — we will discuss scope, stakeholders and how GEGA Consulting can help.