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Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

🌐 Global IT Infrastructure Management: Oversaw the global IT infrastructure landscape, services, contracts, and technology (Datacentres, Cloud, Digital workplace & Networking) for a user base of 20K.🌐 Leadership: Directed a large team of senior internal resources, vendors, service providers, external consultants, and contractors spread globally.🌐 Policy Development: Led the design, implementation, & refinement of new and existing IT policies and procedures.🌐 IT-OT Integration: Played a pivotal role in bridging the gap between IT and OT, facilitating the transition to Industry 4.0 through innovative technology changes.🌐 Relationship Management: Cultivated & maintained strong relationships with businesses, (factories), suppliers, and local IT teams in various regions. 🌐 Strategic Advisory: Providing senior management & C-level executives with actionable insights🌐 Project/Program Management- Emerging Technologies: Led the integration of emerging technologies like Edge Computing, digital platforms, IoT, O365,Copilot and AI driving operational efficiency and innovation-Hybrid Cloud Solutions: Championed the adoption of Hybrid Cloud solutions, integration between on-premises and cloud environments-Cybersecurity: Initiated Zero Trust Security Framework, bolstering the organization’s cybersecurity posture in an evolving threat landscape.- Integration Management: Managed Global Infrastructure, Application, Modern Workplace, mergers, and acquisitions integrations-Cloud Security: Spearheaded Cloud Security Posture Management -Application Modernization : Orchestrated the Cloudification of SAP & Enterprise applications.-Sustainability: Initiated and led an IT sustainability program🌐 Successfully completed major global IT strategic initiatives, focusing on Standardization, Digital Transition, and Transformation through comprehensive sourcing processes (RFI / RFP creation), negotiations, and commercials to deliver and transition to support organizations

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

✓Managing and maintaining IT infrastructure (hardware, software, networks, and servers)✓Overseeing implementation and maintenance of cloud-based services and solutions✓Ensuring security and integrity of organization's ✓Managing and leading a team of IT professionals responsible for infrastructure and cloud services, including hiring, training, and performance management✓Planning and executing infrastructure and cloud service projects

Dublin 2, Ie

- Prepare for the cloud migration and conduct holistic due diligence on the full infrastructure perimeter and service operating model- Combines Project Management expertise with an understanding of the technology enabling the client's Cloud Migration delivery- Lead delivery and scope of the schedule, budget, communications, risks, issues, dependencies, and tracking all deliverables and milestones, and resources- Drive technology from “current state to future state” with a focus on Cloud services migration- Manage the design and implementation of a chosen solution, ensuring it meets business requirements and is delivered on time- Create an engagement model, conduct deep dives and collaborate with all business stakeholders and central functions to understand friction points, and ensure proposed action plans are executed and enablement is driven by needs, gaps, and priorities.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Analysis/identify Business functional requirements and plan end to end migration. Managing the entire activities for the application deployment and support• Validation of the solution against the Architecture (Blueprint) Security Guidelines and other standards.• Performing fit/gap analysis on the requirements – Manage the suppliers to deliver the required services.• Overall costs and efforts estimation for the project delivery.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Design Infrastructure and solution for Siemens Application Energy IP (HLD, Environment Plan, implementation strategy, service management)• Leading and managing the entire project activities for the application deployment and support (hosting, VPN, Identity and access management, security).• Validation of the solution against the Architecture (Blueprint) Security Guidelines and other standards.

Dublin 2, Ie

 Guide data model design and implementation. Manage international business stakeholders (Information managers representing site owners) Define business rules to determine how the Data is governed in the future and identify anomaliesManaging topology Database and provide a virtual hierarchy/structure describing the target Environment

Dublin 2, Ie

Planning and executing datacentre consolidations, relocation, and migrations of Storage

Dublin 2, Ie

• Technical advice on all the data centres (production operations, network, change control, Disaster and Business recovery planning, helpdesk, systems management, and facilities) with a focus on server, storage, virtualization, and other databases technologies.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Implementation of required local services for supporting and managing the new DWPS environment (incl. file & print, Active directory services)• Disentanglement between ING Insurance Belgium (ILNL) and ING Bank Belgium (IBB), migrate its workplace services (WPS) away from IBB towards a new service provider. At the same time upgrade the current Windows XP platform to windows

Dublin 2, Ie

• Guiding and technically coordinate application migration team in landing application on new infrastructure.• Providing High level and deep technical inputs to Clients in shaping migrations.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Assessment of Datacentre on the IT landscape & Guide and support the implementation of the new Solution• Design, build and implement new Solutions Architecture• Virtualize the applications Landscape.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Migration of Enterprise and Home-grown applications. Designing security and authorization matrix for applications including Authentication, Authorizations, Connectivity etc.• Developing presentation material and delivering presentations to the different stakeholders such as Business, IT, Leadership Team, etc.

Dublin 2, Ie

• Design and build a workable solution for patching and deployment of these on 1400 + Servers across 2 Datacenter• Perform project planning, High & Low-level Designs, and effective implementation on these impacted systems and projects. • Test and evaluate provisioned hardware and software to determine efficiency, reliability, and compatibility with existing environments.

Paris, France, Fr

• Lead and implement change initiatives related to business processes and technologies• Change management activities with cross-functional team members and stakeholders to understand and ensure adoption of the Enterprise Business Transformation• Develop short and long-term goals, KPIs, and objectives, and execute against an annual operational plan.

Paris, France, Fr

• Managing Infrastructure of multiple clients (Eneco, Akzo Nobel, ministry infrastructure and economics)• Detail design of a client's system specifications, understanding their work practices and the nature of their business and incorporating that into the proposed solution.

London, Gb

• EMEA lead of All End-user services & Local hosting (Servers & Network) • Prepare, evaluate & recommend improvements on End users services & Infrastructure.• Modify and customize commercial programs for internal needs.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

• Aiding Unilever Employees in system upgrades and problems/fault finding to better generate fast evolution of services and consistent product quality

Executive Mba, Information Technology Project Management

Information Technology, It

Bachelor, Economics

Ssc