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Netherlands

https://www.alten.nl/en/

Alkmaar, North Holland, Netherlands

As Solarwinds consultant I advise different Solarwinds customers of Adfontes about installation, upgrades and configuration of different Solarwinds products and perform them.Achievements:- Given a Solarwinds Maps training for the Jeroen Bosch Hospital

Utrecht, Netherlands

Pepsico uses Solarwinds for monitoring their Network and Applications in West-Europe (approx. 4.000 Nodes) and want to extend this for other Regions (Southern-Europe, the Balkan, Russia and UK&I) up to approx. 30.000 Nodes. Monitoring 30.000 Nodes requires extension of their infrastructure and additional Pollers. Also organizational changes (New Groups, specific access rights, etc.) as well as extension and optimization of their Maps, Dashboards, Alerts and reports are… Show more Pepsico uses Solarwinds for monitoring their Network and Applications in West-Europe (approx. 4.000 Nodes) and want to extend this for other Regions (Southern-Europe, the Balkan, Russia and UK&I) up to approx. 30.000 Nodes. Monitoring 30.000 Nodes requires extension of their infrastructure and additional Pollers. Also organizational changes (New Groups, specific access rights, etc.) as well as extension and optimization of their Maps, Dashboards, Alerts and reports are required.Achievements:- Analysis of the current and required Infrastructure resulting in an Architectural design document- Analysis of the new Organization and their requirements resulting in a Logical Design document- Optimization and extension of their Dashboards, Reports and Alerts for the existing and new Departments/Regions- Setup of NCM/NTA as new products- Support with isolation of the Solarwinds servers, check on a possible security breach and the setup of new Solarwinds servers, after the Solarwinds hack in December 2020 Show less

Alkmaar Area, Netherlands

As a Solarwinds consultant I have advised on and performed different installations, upgrades and configurations of Solarwinds products for different clients of Adfontes Software.Achievements:- Made an analysis for OpenLine, how they can perform a baseline measurement with Solarwinds and other products. This to provide evidence that after delivering their services, the performance remains the same or improves - Answered an RFI from Treant as to which requirements will be… Show more As a Solarwinds consultant I have advised on and performed different installations, upgrades and configurations of Solarwinds products for different clients of Adfontes Software.Achievements:- Made an analysis for OpenLine, how they can perform a baseline measurement with Solarwinds and other products. This to provide evidence that after delivering their services, the performance remains the same or improves - Answered an RFI from Treant as to which requirements will be covered by the Solarwinds products- Performed a Solarwinds upgrade at Ipse de Brugge- Solarwinds installation and configuration for NPO Show less

Rotterdam

As a Business Analyst for the IT Trade&Guarantees department of ABN AMRO, I have worked on several Impact Analyses and performed System and FAT tests for the following Projects: Traces 2 – Traces sheets are Excel sheets used to register and calculate Commodity deals. For compliancy reasons, ABN has to be able to report over these deals. Hence the Traces 2 project aimed to store the content of these sheets as XML data in the Oasis database, store and manage referential data used in these… Show more As a Business Analyst for the IT Trade&Guarantees department of ABN AMRO, I have worked on several Impact Analyses and performed System and FAT tests for the following Projects: Traces 2 – Traces sheets are Excel sheets used to register and calculate Commodity deals. For compliancy reasons, ABN has to be able to report over these deals. Hence the Traces 2 project aimed to store the content of these sheets as XML data in the Oasis database, store and manage referential data used in these sheets in the Oasis DB and create the Reports.RespECT – The main goal of the RespECT project is to extend the Oasis system, originally developed for Commodities, to support Energy and Transportation as well, and become the golden source for all ECT Collaterals.Oasis is ABN’s own developed system for Credits and Collateral Management. It is used to monitor the Client’s position and one of the sources for Risk and Portfolio reporting. Show less

Amsterdam

As Test consultant I have managed all test aspects of the implementation of a new Product for ATB’s Trade Finance processing, Trade Innovation plus (TI+), of the supplier Misys. Implementation of TI+ included the interfacing to the existing back office applications Equation, SWIFT Alliance, and the Data warehouse (ODS) for reporting. Tasks included Planning (Test plans for the different test phases), Test preparation (Test approach Logical and Physical test cases), Test execution, Test support… Show more As Test consultant I have managed all test aspects of the implementation of a new Product for ATB’s Trade Finance processing, Trade Innovation plus (TI+), of the supplier Misys. Implementation of TI+ included the interfacing to the existing back office applications Equation, SWIFT Alliance, and the Data warehouse (ODS) for reporting. Tasks included Planning (Test plans for the different test phases), Test preparation (Test approach Logical and Physical test cases), Test execution, Test support during User Acceptance test, Test reporting and Defects management. Show less

After my contract with ING ended, I have taken a Sabbatical year for my 50th Birthday, to enjoy things I may not be able to in the future

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

As Senior Business Analyst I have worked on several Analyses and coached Junior Analysts. Analyses included both small changes in the General Lending department as well as aspects of large projects like Tango (the integration of the ING and Postbank systems) and the Hub project (processing of Documentary Trade products for different countries in a central Hub).I have also consulted in the implementation of the CMMi Approach, specifically on the Process Areas Requirements Management (RM)… Show more As Senior Business Analyst I have worked on several Analyses and coached Junior Analysts. Analyses included both small changes in the General Lending department as well as aspects of large projects like Tango (the integration of the ING and Postbank systems) and the Hub project (processing of Documentary Trade products for different countries in a central Hub).I have also consulted in the implementation of the CMMi Approach, specifically on the Process Areas Requirements Management (RM) and Process and Product Quality Assurance (PPQA). Show less

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

As Test Manager I have managed all test aspects of an Imaging project based on Documentum within the General Lending department of the ING including Risk and Requirements analysis, preparation of Test Documentation, setting up of the Test Environment, Test Resource planning (Personnel and Infrastructure), hands-on testing, responsibility for Test Progression and Reporting.Within the ING department Operations and IT Banking (OIB), I have worked on several Impact Analyses of changes to… Show more As Test Manager I have managed all test aspects of an Imaging project based on Documentum within the General Lending department of the ING including Risk and Requirements analysis, preparation of Test Documentation, setting up of the Test Environment, Test Resource planning (Personnel and Infrastructure), hands-on testing, responsibility for Test Progression and Reporting.Within the ING department Operations and IT Banking (OIB), I have worked on several Impact Analyses of changes to the Banktrade system. If it was decided to execute the changes, I coordinated the (external) Development and the Acceptance Testing. I also advised on a Generic Change Process for small changes. Changes included small changes as well as large projects like RBG (processing of Bank Guarantees on the Banktrade system) and Sourcing (Outsourcing of the Documentary Trade products) Show less

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

As Test Coordinator I have coordinated and participated on all test aspects of the Workflow and Imaging and the SWIFT 2006 project within the Documentary Trade program. Within the first project, several versions were released. The SWIFT project was a fixed date (external obligation) project.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Managed a project at ING, to implement a Regression Test tool (Test Automation), for the Documentary Trade application BankTrade. The tool is based on WinRunner and the EMOS Framework providing a clear cut between the scripts and the test cases. This makes it easy to define test cases using Excel and reduces the maintenance cost dramatically.

Rijswijk, The Netherlands

As a Technical Consultant, I visited customers to discuss their current Business Processes and provided Solutions to improve their Operations. In support of the Account Managers, I have written the technical part of the Tenders and Presentations and advised on the Business- and Project plan.

Milpitas, Usa

As QA Manager I have managed a QA test team of 10 persons working on a VPN/Firewall Router. As part of the Project Management team I had both Project- and Line Management responsibilities. This included personnel related tasks as Performance Evaluations, Career Development and Training, Coaching and Mentoring as well as Project Management tasks as resource planning across multiple projects and budget responsibility.

Banbury, Uk

Managed, tested, prepared and executed a SDH network migration project (TMN part) for Viatel (AT&T)

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Supervised the transmission centralised operations and maintenance (COM) systems and Trouble Ticketing system as part of the Telecom Expansion Project 6 (TEP6)Evaluated the systems documentation and Method of ProceduresEvaluated the systems engineering and operationsConsulted in technical and contractual points of discussionPerformed qualification and acceptance testing of COM systems

Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Successfully designed, developed and tested a solution for a Resilient Network Management system for SDH based on HP MC/ServiceGuardSupervised a team of 4 test engineers

Vimercate, Italia

Transferred know-how on OSI communication

Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Wrote Statements of Compliance in support of the sales department on SDH TMN systemsWrote requirements and design documents for SDH TMN systems

Berlin Area, Germany

Integrated, tested and configured OSI-stacks in several TMN projects (for fixed and mobile networks) on different platformsPerformed troubleshooting and interworking tests on OSI at different Alcatel and Customer sites

Berlin Area, Germany

Designed, developed, integrated and tested a software componentResponsible for the OSI stack in a Operations and Maintenance Center project for mobile communication (GSM)

Bsc, Technical Computer Science

Diploma, Electrical Engineering

Diploma received 1987

Electrical Engineering