I am a project and program manager with over 25 years of experience in leading projects and programs and implementing change in the financial services, pharma, and med-tech industries. I have led change initiatives related to process improvement and digitization, new product development and launch, selection, development, and implementation of IT systems, and implementing regulatory change within both large and small organizations. I excel in complex environments, where content is important and stakeholder management vital. I have worked with various project management methodologies, including Prince2 and Agile/SCRUM.

TYPICAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Project Manager - Development of repositioning strategy for med-tech product
  • Led project to develop new corporate and product positioning to improve investment attractivity, involving internal stakeholders and external experts.
• Project Manager - Development of various SaaS-based BI and training tools
  • Co-determined functional and technical specifications, in collaboration with experts and customers.
  • Led development and maintenance of tools, leading a team of designers and developers (internal and external).
  • Negotiated support contracts with clients.
    
• Team Manager
  • Led geographically distributed administration and finance team in charge of handling day-to-day administrative and financial tasks.
  • Led Collateral Management team, managing daily exchange of collateral (cash, bonds) for large asset manager.
  • Managed team of project managers
• Project Manager ? Creation of market segmentation and launch readiness tools
  • Led teams (partly off-shore) defining requirements and collecting and processing market data.
  • Led the technical implementation of the tools.
• Program Manager ? Company-wide SEPA implementation at an asset manager
  • Led 9-month program to ensure SEPA compliance before legal deadline, reporting to board member.
  • Ensured operational and regulatory compliance, through organizational and system change, including value chain testing with external service providers.
  • Reported to external regulator monitoring readiness.
• Consultant & Project Manager - Financial modelling of optimal launch strategy
  • Led 4? to 6-week projects to determine optimal multi-year launch strategy for pharmaceutical products.
  • Built Excel-based forecasting tools to quantify impact of options.
• Project Manager ? Implementation of financial regulations (UCITS, EMIR, MiFID)
  • Led projects to determine impact (legal, operational, system) and implementation/mitigation options for new and updated regulations.
• Project Manager ? Selection of (mission critical) IT systems
  • Organized requirement gathering with internal stakeholders.
  • Organized and led RFPs and beauty contests with suppliers.
• Analyst ? Container planning optimization system for large postal service
  • Managed requirements and prepared design proposals for inter-hub container planning system based on Oracle Database technology.