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Tilburg, Nb, Nl

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

After merger of Vodafone and Ziggo, responsible for managing NW and IT operations budget for fixed and mobile. Working with IT/NW architects and Operations to plan service roadmaps. Negotiating new contracts and SLAs in cooperation with Technology stakeholders. Coordinating cost reduction activities over suppliers, operations, engineering, procurement and finance. Preparing business cases for sourcing of operational activities. Managing contracts of several key suppliers for nearshore and offshore outsourced operations. Achieved more that 20% total Opex reduction while improving the quality of services despite yearly increase in core NW/IT installations and mobile sites.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Planning and managing network maintenance budget and achieving yearly savings targets. Managing supplier contracts, SLAs, escalations and driving continuous improvement resulting in internal customer satisfaction. Managing network performance management executed by supplier which has contributed to yearly improvements in network performance and customer experience. Received Technology award for excellence and operations department recognition awards on several occasions.

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Responsible for roadmap and quality of enterprise fixed telephony services which include SIP PBX trunking, hosted PBX, IP Centrex telephony and full fixed-mobile integration. Preparing solutions and proposals for customers together with sales specialists. Delivered several service enhancement and process improvement projects such as: new IMS network, PBX-Mobile billing integration, functional integration, automated number porting, PBX SIP trunk self-installation service, new active probing system. Upgraded remote hosted NGIN and introduced new range of CPE with new features and enabling migration of SDSL lines to PPPOE. Authored internal/external commercial and technical service documents and developed training courses for operations, account managers and sales specialists.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Design and implementation of PBX SIP trunking service on IMS network. Requirements gathering, vendor selection and negotiation for network systems, support tools and CPE. Deliver user manuals and training for support and delivery departments. Designed customer specific solutions for IP access redundancy and integration of fixed/mobile voice, IPVPN and internet services for large corporates. Technical consultancy for RFPs. Service/process optimisation and assisting back office second line support in solving complex issues.

Stein, The Netherlands

Project management for several roll out projects. Designs, configuration and testing for several new systems and services including: MSC in pool network architecture, Dual SIM service and Codec negotiation on edge of network to improve voice quality. Vodafone representative in international forums for GSM/UMTS/IMS roadmap development with Ericsson and other telecom operators. Participation in European project for data retention and analysis for national security purposes.

Maastricht Area, Netherlands

Second line support and 24/7 call out for mobile voice network. Lead internal projects for roll out of new systems and software a.o. migration of BSCs to MGWs. Authored and managed test documentation for all mobile core voice network systems and voice /messaging services. Coordinating and executing testing of new systems and services. Implementation of GSM/UMTS network systems and integration with billing, multimedia and operational support systems.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Research and development for innovation and optimisation of software and hardware design for DECT/GSM/WLAN devices. Compliance testing and global certification for various wireless standards.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Research on DECT Protocol and ETSI standards. Proposed new features for DECT systems and optimised software design for reduction of ROM size resulting in reduction of production costs.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Characterization of a monolithic Multi-Wavelength Laser with integrated Wavelength Converter.Delivered design proposal to improve performance and solve issues.

Sint Maarten

Mapped relation of all network components and customers and created a user/network-resource database.

Msc, Electrical Engineering

Major in wireless and optical communications

Post Grad, Technical Management

Business economics, marketing and corporate law. Innovation, logistics and planning. Organisational sciences and organisational psychology

Bachelors, Electrical Engineering

Major in telecommunicatiosn and digital electronics design