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Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands

Responsible for P&L and strategic roadmap development & delivery for several teams (Reporting & Data Analytics, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), AI Document & Message Handling, and AI Innovation)Hyper Automation & AI• Moved from fragile experimental solutions by business departments with the help of vendors, to a robust and centralized in-house DevOps team developing and maintaining 30+ business critical robots. • Combined the RPA and AI solutions are now active across many countries, processing 5Mio+ documents & emails annually.• Transitioned to a fully in-house DevOps team based in Lisbon, creating significant cost savings whilst future-proofing the platform and team.• Enhanced the tech stack with reusable components, driving faster development cycles and improving solution quality and maintainability.• Implemented centralized roadmap with a value-based project qualification and prioritization process.Reporting & Data Analytics• Transitioned team from incident and change request driven developing custom solution for each client to an Agile and DevOps driven approach with a product roadmap, creating standardized data products for common reporting and insights use-cases.• Launched a suite of data products, including standardized bordereaux, transaction reports, and KPI reporting suites, driving operational excellence and increasing solution adoption.• Improved platform stability by focusing on roadmap-driven stability initiatives, decommissioning legacy systems, and integrating shadow data solutions into the central platform.• Introduced agile and DevOps to the team and hired new team members on critical engineering and analyst positions.

Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands

Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Sunweb Group is one largest tour operators in the Dutch market. Their ambition to become the leading digital holiday expert requires transforming from operational excellence to a more customer intimacy-based value discipline. Their corporate strategy consists of several levers that each hinge on digital transformation and intelligent use of data.As a senior leadership team member, I was asked to co-develop the data & intelligence strategy and set up and lead a new centralized internal team consisting of 10+ analysts, data scientists & engineers. The centralized team is an in-house data consultancy that manages and improves current enterprise data and develops novel new data products.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

OYO Vacation Homes is one of the largest platforms in the European online market for accommodation rentals, such as holiday homes, holiday parks and hotels.My role was to lead Belvilla to compete on Data & Analytics in the vacation rental market, by hiring and managing a new team of data scientists & engineers, developing new analytical data products, enabling internal stakeholders through data and coaching them to use analytics to their advantage.This successfully enabled growth and improved profitability and @Leisure Group ultimately was acquired by OYO (Indian, Softbank-backed) in June 2019 for EUR 369 Million.My responsibilities included:• Developing the organizational Data & Analytics strategy as part of a digital transformation of Belvilla• Build the team: hired and coach a 10+ team of data scientists, data engineers and BI professionals• Driving adoption of data & analytics in the other departments• Managing the team to execute on the data & insights roadmap with focus on: • Business Intelligence & reporting: setting up comprehensive, single source of truth and reliable management & operational reporting • Market intelligence: building a web scraping farm to develop a comprehensive overview of prices and occupancy in the vacation rental market • Sales excellence: improve home owner conversion by developing automated tools including quotation and pricing algorithms. • Revenue Management: initiated the data & analytics components for the newly set up revenue management function • Conversion rate optimization: improving search result ranking to ensure optimum margin from visitorsData Platform consolidation• Operation of data platform and continuous change requests• Cloud migration from legacy MSSQL Server to Google Cloud GCP stack• Consolidation of data platforms of DanCenter (AS400/Cognos) onto new technology stack of Belvilla Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, Tableau)

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Selected projects:• Growth strategy for the store portfolio in key cities in China using geospatial analytics for a multinational sports apparel brand (6 months in Shanghai)• Development of a competitive pricing analysis framework and automation tool for a large international retailer• Customer segmentation & pricing analysis for development of a pricing strategy for a market leader in bulk liquid transportation• Analytics Maturity assessment for a multinational sports apparel brand • Improving promotional forecasting by fact-based evaluation of current promotional forecast performance and by developing and piloting a new, more accurate forecasting model to demonstrate improvement potential of using advanced analytics• Designing a new analytics organization for a large retailer, including developing the benefits cases and starting Analytics pilot projects• Research & development of proof of concepts for the application of (advanced) analytics in Deloitte's M&A department• Development and delivery of a performance management dashboard for a large manufacturer for tracking business development opportunities in emerging economies• Project support at a governmental organization during change and transition programme focussing on restricting the organization and improving operational management• Supported fashion brand with creation of a mini data mart and analyses of performance and market insights used as basis for a new brand strategy

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

As a consultant and developer I helped companies leverage the power of the latest web enabled technologies. In the aviation and travel industries I developed electronic booking, pricing and travel time calculation tools. I also did research and development, prototyping and rapid application development for organisations in construction and banking industries (i.e. business performance dashboards, corporate social media applications and electronic form generation tools).Launched several products, such as Pooll, a social ride sharing application. This service was licensed by a consortium of ABN-AMRO, Goudappel Coffeng, Movenience and NedMobiel as part of a tender for large mobility project aimed at the highway A15 near Rotterdam.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Graduate research at the BU Automotive, Enterprise and Government / Product Unit TrafficThesis: ‘Data Mining in TomTom’s Big Data: Trip Origin and Destination Classification using Machine Learning.’ (grade: 9/10)

Master Of Science (Msc), Civil Engineering And Management

Specialisation: Transportation Engineering and Management, about the behaviour, performance and management of traffic and transport.

Minor: Geo Data And Spatial Engineering, Geographic Information Science And Cartography

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Civil Engineering And Management

Thesis: ‘The design and development of an ICT system to capture, process, interpret and disseminate real-time data from GPS enabled online.

Vwo / International Baccalaureate

Bilingual (English/Dutch) VWO programme (8 subjects)