Profile
The Freelancer has extensive experience as a hands-on senior consultant in transformation and business restructuring to support projects at the cornerstone of IT and business in a multicultural environment
History
- 1979-1981: bachelor's degree in economics & IT
- 1981-1990: support of technical IT assignments, software development, architect, dba
- 1990-2001: implementation of business & IT projects, business analysis, team & project management
- 2001-today: strategic transformations, change programs, corporate restructuring
Roles Experience
- Program mgr reporting to C-level, MD +15 y
- Change mgr +20 y
- Transformation / restructuring / data migration +15 y
- Stakeholder mgr +15 y
- Project mgr offshore & onshore +20 y
- Business Process mgmt +20 y
- Product owner +15 y
- PMO +15 y
- Director of operations +5 y
- Trainer Agile ERP, ITSM/ITIL/SIAM/BPM +20 y
- Service delivery mgr / Cut over mgr +15 y
- Portfolio mgr / Strategic advisor +15 y
Types of assignments (hands-on)
- Strategic stakeholder guidance on complex changes (merger & acquisition, carve-outs, ERP, digitalisation)
- Business transformation (agile), scaling up business, restructuring organisations
- Setting up and improving business models: streamlining capacity matrices, establishing and improving business models
- GAP analysis, coach from idea to delivery (prepare business cases, Due Diligence, RFI, RFP, BAFO)
- End-2-end agile delivery of solutions
- Transformation to new business models such as ERP, ITSM, SIAM
- Application of offshore, nearshore, local, including outsourcing services
- Transitioning from data centres to cloud with external service providers
- Setting up and driving an ePMO department for programme portfolio monitoring
- Implementation and transition from application management to service management
- Organisational change management, operational excellence, Centre of Excellence, coaching
- Department Manager (PMO, ERP, Operations)
- Audit of operational models (processes, organisations, data, ICT, governance)
- Review of contracts implementation & transformation projects
- Portfolio management of +30 programmes (capex & opex)
Results
- End 2 end digitisation and integration of end users (citizens, businesses and partners)
- Improved efficiency (operational excellence) for profit & non-profit organizations
- Increased sales/revenue
- Streamlined operations
- Sustainability
- Increase Customer Satisfaction
- Topline Growth
- Cost Reduction
- Foundation
- Reduced inventories & production costs
- Continuous Improvement
- Shortened product life cycles
- Modernization of ICT systems, reduction of administrative burdens & complexity
- Global Programs (digitalization, transition to "data driven" Organizations)
- Time savings for organizations, easy access to information, increasing transparency
- Improving the quality of the working environment, eliminating excess costs
Customers
- SME (7 - 250 employees)
- Large organizations (250 - 3000)
- Multinationals (3000 - 30000)
Management Skills
- Span of control
- Management of teams 5 ? 55 (internal & external solution providers, onshore ? offshore, peer 2 peer)
- Reporting
- CEO / CFO / Vice Presidents, Budget: 0.1 ? 27 MIO ? (excl CAPEX)
- Project Directors, Project Managers, Team Leaders, Managers
- Schedule
- high level / detail level using WBS per value stream
- Decisional
- base decisions upon facts & figures, economic, business & customer oriented events
- Leadership
- flexible to work as a solitaire but also with teams (stakeholders, suppliers, employees), agile
- Riskmanagement
- identifying problems or situations and trying to find the best way to handle using different techniques (human related, workload related, personal, technical, architectural) until pragmatic & detail resolution proposal
- Motivating
- works with all stakeholders, participants to establish a stable temporary project community
- Using workshops to apply change management (awareness, desire & motivation, bringing knowledge to the table, training and become sustainable by means of improvement)
- Areas of improvement
- Agile/Kanban
- Self-organizing
- Standardization
- KPI (top & details)
- Increased collaboration
- Aligned Goals and Metric-Driven
- Decisions & Increased capacity
- Industries
- Public Sector/Government
- Chemicals
- Retail/FMCG
- Automotive
- Energy / Utilities (water, gas, electricity)
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Construction
- Banking
- Leadership & mgmt skills
- clarifying & expressing vision
- structured, hands-on, agile,
- energetic, creative, stress resistant
- empathetic, objective
- motivating, mentoring, coaching, training, supporting
- stable, social, easy to liaise
- result driven, realistic, planned
- altruistic, reliable, effective, disciplinary
- leading transformation
- quick starter & team player
- liaison / stakeholder mgmt
- chopper view, setting goals
- liaison with stakeholders
- Providing training since 2000
- Business Process Mgmt & UML full blown, PRINCE2, PMBoK, Agile, Lean mgmt, COPQ, PMO, MSP, portfolio mgmt, Risk mgmt, ERP, legacy-systemen, enterprise architecture, ITSM/ITIL/SIA