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Managen van IT en Telecom projecten

Established own company together with 2 partners with the name Connected Loyalty.Connected Loyalty provides identification and authentication functionality in an NFC environment so that companies can use this infrastructure for their own loyalty programs. This new way of working makes joined promotions and personalized advertising easy to implement.Define, establish and start a new company, Connected Loyalty, that aims to remove all plastic cards from your wallet. Designs finished, life demonstration and organisation established. Halted due to financing problems at the third round of financing.

Establish a programme for the Sixpack initiative. The initiative aimed to introduce mobile payment services in the Netherlands. The three main operators (Vodafone, T-Mobile and KPN) and the three main banks (ING, ABNAMRO and Rabobank) established an independent entity, called Sixpack, to develop the service and introduce it to the market.Programme defined and started where 6 companies worked together with the central organisation Sixpack. Designs ready and RFI/RFP processes finished.

Define, specify and build an FMC solution for Vodafone the Netherlands.Wrote a 5 year plan together with colleague from Marketing with an estimated turn-over of 100m euro and a budget of 40m euro was approved by the board and later also by the board of Vodafone Group. Team size: 35 people.Organisation established and the service launched in the market.

Lead an R&D centre of 30 people and a budget of 10m euro. Specialises in Motivational research, long term capacity planning, network topology, new service options. Examples: Cirtual participation, Always Best Connected, Remote monitoring, Travel time measurements, Fixed Mobile Convergence, NFC services, V-Life and few spin-off companies.

Establish the new department. Define the programme and lead projects.Provided advice to the board for the GSM1800 and UMTS auctions and researched service opportunities on top of voice - rich voice services.The purpose of the department was to support the strategic thinking within the organisation, to prepare the technical organisation for new technologies. Provide the organisation with a long term vision by using the scenario thinking methodology.OPEX budget: € 3.5 millionCAPEX budget: € 500.000Responsible for the set-up of a joint venture between Ericsson, Vodafone and LIOF (Dutch Local Investment Bank). The joint venture is about disaster recovery, joint testing and development of new products & services. A new company was set-up called Syntrack. Syntrack is running a full fledged GSM and 3G network that can be moved out of the building (trailers) to a disaster area somewhere in the Netherlands. While not in use for disaster recovery, the network is used for testing, training and service development.

Established in the new organisation of Libertel the department Radio System Development with 4 key responsibilities: Fixed Network planning, Base Station Development, Mobile phone testing and long term planning.Department of 35 people, annual budget of around 20m euro.

Responsible for the sales targets in the Far East.

Heading a department of 15 engineers. Supporting the sales organisation