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Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

Utrecht, Ut, Nl

Utrecht, Netherlands

Managing a team of highly professional senior specialists within the "ERTMS Programmadirectie". Responsible for:- Matching the capacity of the team, both qualitative and quantative, with the demand- Products being produced by the team meet the required level of quality - Issue and change management The team is recognised and used for its extensive in-depth technical knowledge and experience with the implementing new complex systems and processes into a railway operation. In their individual fields of expertise the teammembers:- Specify design requirements- Facilitate the implementing rail organisations (NS, ProRail and Freight train operators)- Define acceptance criteria for validation and verification of products and processes to be implemented- Manage and execute issues and changes- Write position papers By doing this the team plays a crucial role in succesfully implementing the ERTMS system in the Netherlands.

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Responsibilities:- Profit/loss responsibility for Business Unit Products- Business development and global sales of products - Management of product managers- Project Director of all product implementation projects- Expansion of product portfolio by developing new products (possibly also with partners) - Training global sales team- Marketing of products Achievements:- Initiated and started up the business line Products - Added products to service portfolio and initiated the products department- Development of market ready products market and closing contracts with launching customers- Fast growing turnover and profitProducts portfolio consists of IoT applications which include enhanced data analysis software (SaaS/PaaS) that help customers to monitor asset performance (trains and track) facilitating efficiency and cost reduction.

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Responsibilities:Managing a department of 25 (technical) consultants giving expert technical and tactical advice in the rail sector specialised in rolling material like trains and metro. The team offers business intelligence services and products. It creates value for customers by transferring system generated - and operational process data into on-spot information on their assets (trains and infrastructure). This information allows our customers to improve their performance and at the same time decrease their costs. The combination of our technical knowledge of rail systems, customer processes and business intelligence expertise makes us unique.

Den Bosch

Business Support is providing support and innovative IT and data solutions for B2B. Teams within Business Support are Business Intelligence, Business Consultancy and Functioneel Management SAP.Assignment:- Managing Business Support during fundamental re-organisation;- Contribute to shaping the new organisation of B2B with personal focus and responsibility for Business Support; - Specific assignment is to define a vision on how to bring Business Intelligence to a higher level;- Representative of B2B in an Essent wide BI program to professionalise BI by a.o. improving awareness, uniforming tools (ETL, DWH), data quality, centralising BI capabilities.

Utrecht En Omgeving, Nederland

Managing department of Project Managers, Engineers and supporting staf focussed at implementing ICT infrastructure projects within Rail business. Management Team member. Profit/loss responsible.Achievements:- Succesfully managed (re) startup of the department after core business and most of employees of Tribase were taken over by biggest customer- Regained trust of most important customer and thereby acquiring more and bigger projects- Made department profitable by optimising operations (increasing billable hours, processes, savings on purchase)

Rijswijk

Objective team: Take care of stable, efficient and effective designed processes and software (standard and customised) to enable users in the business to do their administrative production work. Achievements:- Unified teams work processes and expanded teams responsibilities in projects- Optimised problem- and incident management- Established effective resource management to meet the increasing resource demand (from 14 to 25 fte)- Realised change from technical to customer focus within the team

Amsterdam

Assignment: Optimise and unify processes to improve the performance of Customer Service EMEA and to make integration of the different service centres in Europe possible

Objective team (15 persons spread over Europe): Customised design, configuration and implementation of "Managed Services" data network.Responsibilities: - Operational- and personnel management- Hire and Fire- Manage growth end reorganization of teamAchievements:- Realised 150% increase of teams' production- Saved 33% of departmental operational costs

Heerlen

In close cooperation with customer Motorola manage multi disciplinary project teams and 3rd party vendors to define, design, sample produce and preparation of mass production (design/setting up production lines) of displays for mobile phones. I delivered 6 project successfully towards production in our Chinese factories.

Heerlen

- Implemented an integral project oriented working method and tool across the 90 employees within the department Product Development;- Internal ISO auditing.

Mba, Business Economics

Activities and Societies: Member of CircumflexField of study: International Management

Heao, Commercial Economics