Jan Van Hal Email & Phone Number

Netherlands

After 35 years of working in the ICT industry in several functions (see my profile) I am now very happy being a baker, postman and granddad. This does not mean I'm not interested in another challenge anymore. If the right job comes along then I would be interested to share my experience/expertise so that you can benefit and I can learn some more.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

The Hague, Houten, Beek, Groningen

Setting up the systems management department for the new internal datacenters of Holland’s largest telecom company and have been responsible for this team of 40 professionals until the activities were transferred to the internal Getronics Datacenters which had been acquired by KPN.After some time the activities were offshored to India and after several years actions were initiated to reshore most of the work.During the offshoring period I have mainly been acting as the “technical conscience” of the manager, as he himself calls it, and mainly been concerned with the quality of the delivered services (3500+ servers) by the systems department. This included problem management, product selections and implementations, second opinions and process optimizations.

The Hague

I have set up the systems management department for the new internal KPN datacenters and have been responsible for this team of 40 professionals until the activities were transferred to Getronics Datacenters.Ad Interim (8 months) head of the system management departement of Holland’s largest credit registration company.

Gouda, Eindhoven

Setting up a third and fourth line support organisation for one of the largest customers. This included selecting and hiring staff, writing service descriptions and managing the suppliers that provided network-, email- and other services.

Odijk

The Infrastructure Development Centre (IOC) develops the standard infrastructure (network, OpenVMS, UNIX, Server Based Computing, Backup & Restore, Messaging, Antivirus, etc) for the Dutch National Police.

Amsterdam

Teamleader of the Backoffice at Dienst Materiële Ondersteuning, Bureau Computer- en Telecommunications Technologie. Subsitute Head of the Bureau.Responsible for the full ICT infrastructure for 6500 users on 40 locations. The infrastructure consists of a Police owned fibre- and copper network, central computer systems (OpenVMS, UNIX), the Windows 2000/Citrix infrastructure, telephony, high frequency radio network and the DBA’s.Leading a department of 40 people

Barneveld, Boston

Responsible for developing and leading the European sales- and marketing organisation. During this time the market for Internet-startups endured dramatic changes and the American parent company quickly decided to terminate the European activities.

Amersfoort, Putten

Initially Manager Information Management and part of the management team at Baan Backoffice (later on named Vanenburg Business Systems Support). Afterwards Global ICT Manager.Responsible for internal ICT, the technical consultancy department and software distribution.Baan Backoffice is the service organisation for Baan Business Systems (BBS, later on named Vanenburg Business Systems). Core business of the organisation concerns delivery of helpdesk services to the approx. 500 customers of BBS. Furthermore Baan Backoffice delivers service account management to these customers, second line support to other European BBS subsidiaries, as well as high-quality consultancy services.After two years I started working for the holding company (VBS Holding) as Release Manager. By the end of 1998 the Vanenburg Group and Baan Company organisations had to be separated. This was when I started with Vanenburg Group where a whole new ICT organisation had to be built as these activities were outsourced to Baan Company. As Country Manager ICT, I was responsible for all ICT-related issues in the different countries and during the last year I was working as Global ICT Manager for the complete worldwide organisation (1500 employees in 18 countries).Responsible for the world wide network (a.o. frame relay- and satellite connections), license management, anti-virus policies, internet access, software- and hardware standards, contract management, procurement, security, telephony in the Netherlands, first line support in the Netherlands, second line support support to the international subsidiaries, drafting and administering budgets. Leading a team of 15 people (Network management, NT management, Exchange management, Baan management, UNIX management). Confer with the ICT managers in the various countries to ensure that local ICT infrastructures remained in step with the centrally developed standards and procedures.

Amersfoort

Responsible for internal ICT, the helpdesk- and consultancy departments and product policies.Established as triumvirate, of which I was one of the shareholders, we expanded this company to an organisation with 42 people. Salcom sold, implemented and supported office automation applications in the Digital world (OpenVMS), implemented helpdesk- and service management applications in open client/server environments and selling and supporting Windows NT products. During 1996 a part of the company was sold to one of the American suppliers and the other part was acquired by The Vanenburg Group.

Gouda, Oberhausen

Initially I was a trainee and later on employed at this Digital (DEC) based software company. The company sold, implemented and supported VAX/VMS applications (project management, telex- and fax management, RDBMS, office management software). I was responsible for the installation and support (telephone and on-site) and have also participated in establishing a German subsidiary.