The Randstad, Netherlands
I am a well seasoned senior IT Executive with an absolute passion for continuous improvement and a drive to exceed expectations. Experience in as both CIO/general IT leadership as in IT security positions. Successfully navigated a wide range of situations and challenges. Proven track record in leading large scale (IT and OT) organisations in their growth to Business optimisation and guiding them in the journey to digitalization. Regardless of organisation type or industy
C-suite IT and security executive with a decade of experience inside private-equity-backed platforms (Astorg, KKR), reporting at board and sponsor level. Track record of turning IT from a cost centre into a value-creation lever: standardising and rationalising fragmented landscapes, integrating acquisitions in buy-and-build strategies, and hardening cyber resilience to protect enterprise value and de-risk exit. Combines strategic vision with hands-on delivery across mission-critical 7×24 environments, multi-country operations and large, distributed teams.
As Head of Group IT Infrastructure & Operations (Director) responsible for all IT infrastructure & operations for the Normec Group and all his 35+ entities across 7 countries (NL,BE,DE,FR,CH,UK,PL). Acting as deputy Group CIO and Group CISO. A passion for continuous improvement and a drive to exceed expectations. Proven track record in leading large scale corporate (IT) organisations in their growth to Business optimisation and guiding them in the ever changing journey to digitalization. Keywords: Azure Cloud, Office365, Legacy infrastructure, AI, Security, Business Continuity, Hardware, outsourcing.
Acting as regional CIO, accountable for all IT strategy and operations within the Benelux region of Selecta and the Pelican Rouge Coffee Roasters factory facility (both IT and OT). Board member of the Benelux board of directors directly reporting to the Selecta/KKR Board. The Benelux board represents 1400 associates. Selecta is a KKR portfolio company. Delivering millions of moments of JOY! Proven track record in leading large scale (IT/OT) organisations in their growth to Business optimisation and guiding them in the journey to digitalization. Key achievements overview: • Restructuring IT Benelux governance and organisation, business orientated, lean and cost effective; • Introduced an IOT (data) strategy to drive business (operation) enhancement and commercial goals; • Executed rationalization of the application landscape and infrastructure; • Implementation of Security Information Management System and security resilience strategy; • Execution of Group IT initiatives
As the Chief Product Owner Backend Services gained a lot of experience in maintaining, developing and driving innovations in business critical IT platforms in the biggest utility company of the Netherlands (both IT and OT). Key achievements subset: • Development & execution of a new IT/OT (platform) Strategy; • Introducing new security framework & SOC • Leading 24/7 IT-Operations Centre and SOC • Leading several agile teams up to 60 FTE • Introduced Program/Portfolio management • Owning all contacts for Backend Services (spend 8 million) • In and outsourcing of Backend Services contracts (spend 3 million) Program manager Datacenter Migration (on premise and cloud). Key achievements (successfully completed projects): • Project Construction new datacenter • Project Cloud computing AWS • Project Migration to the cloud • Project migration and consolidation on premise Datacenter Vendors / Technologies: Microsoft, Linux Redhat, Citrix, Oracle, Citrix Netscaler, NetApp, Dell, Dell EMC, HPE, Rubrik, Hitachi Vantara, Networker, VMware, Amazon.
Accountable for management & support, all programs, portfolio (development),projects and developments in IT and OT (vital infrastucture) Data centers and the 7X24-hour IT Operations Center of Alliander IT. In total a group of 35/40 FTE direct reports. This concerns management / renewal / adaptation / update of the (virtualized) server and storage environments, the data center network infrastructures, cloud management platforms (Public / Private & Hybrid), technical infrastructure of the physical data centers themselves (including electricity, cooling) and the related security solutions.
Operationeel en tactisch verantwoordelijk voor een IT productiecluster van ongeveer 200 FTE, direct reports 10 FTE. Leidend in de functie-uitoefening is het waarborgen van de relaties tussen de business en IT drivers en principes, de doelstellingen en performance indicatoren, de gerelateerde bedrijfsprocessen en haar (toekomstige) behoeftes, maar ook de IT ondersteuning (applicaties, organisatie en infrastructuur) op strategisch (visie), tactisch (change) en operationeel (run) niveaus. Dit alles gecombineerd met de volledige HR verantwoordelijkheid van binnen het cluster. Defensie Materieel Organisatie | Operations is de ICT en IV dienstverlener van het Ministerie van Defensie. Operations levert ICT dienstverlening onder alle omstandigheden ook onder extreme omstandigheden, wereldwijd daar waar Defensie actief is. Het cluster Application Hosting is onderdeel van de afdeling Infrastructuur en Services ( 1200 FTE) en levert Application Hosting services op de volgende aandachtsgebieden ERP (SAP, Peoplesoft), Applicaties (technisch beheer van ongeveer 400 maatwerk applicaties), Webhosting en Documentaire IV (internet / hosting) IBM Filenet Hosting, Databases (SQL, Oracle, Progress, my SQL, Maxdb), Applicatiescripting, Exchange omgeving incl. OCS / LINK, generieke koppelvlakken (defensie), Cognos.