Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Strong interim professional with experience in various management positions. → pragmatic and result driven: focus on delivery → strength in project direction, programme management & operational management → thrives in complex environments and under difficult circumstances → operates in a natural manner concerning ‘political’ issues → "firm" on content, "soft" on relationship → passionate about (new) technology and infrastructures → people manager Management drives: red (24), yellow (23), orange (20), blue (13) Preferred positions: → project director → data center director → operational director/manager → programme manager for complex programmes Experience: → 14+ years in (interim) management positions → 20+ years in project- & programme management and consultancy → 10+ years in data center domain → 20+ years in ICT infrastructures → 12+ years at telecommunications operators (both BSS and OSS/network infrastructure) → 4+ years in 5 different MVNO startups Data center experience: In both electrical & mechanical domain, and network & IT infrastructure domain. Main supervised projects: → construction of a switch location and commercial datacenter for mid size operator in 2001. Migration of the largest free internet service provider to that data center. As project manager responsible for the inhouse construction and migration. → upgrade of 4 datacenters of a premium bank towards Tier III level, sanctioned by the national financial regulator. Building construction, electrical and mechanical change and improvement while the datacenters remained operational. Transition through temporary means (power distribution, UPS, cooling). Subcontracted to 3 main contractors. As project director responsible for all sites. Reporting to banking board of directors. Budget responsibility in excess of € 120 mio. → construction of a small datacenter (750 m2) in Amsterdam. Subcontracted to specialised data center builder. Migration of the customer base ICT infrastructures from leased location (RedBus, Tele2). As operations director responsible for construction and operations. → Owners representative site mobilisation and pre-construction for 2 hyper scaler locations in EMEA regios. Self employed since 2000.
Salute Mission Critical is a global provider of integrated lifecycle services for data centers. → project responsibility of the site redevelopment of one of the first large carrier neutral commercial data centers in Amsterdam
Interim management | programme management | project direction | operations management | project management | Data centers | Telecommunications | MVNO/MVNE | Network infrastructures | IT infrastructures
Soben is a Construction Consultancy firm, combining traditional consultancy with practical experience. "A Contractor mindset with a Consultancy skillset”. → directing the site mobilisation and pre-construction phase (design, permitting) of two hyper scalers as PMC - clients representative - in the EMEA region
→ implementing a large portfolio of unified communications projects acquired through RFP's and European tenders → developing a tailored project management framework to cater for telecommunication implementations
Traveling & Learning. 4 month break away from work
→ leading the firm in the strategic alignment → managing the day-to-day business development, sales and operations → building strategic partnerships
The Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) implements national insurance schemes in the Netherlands, on behalf of the ministry of Social Affairs. → programme management of a wide infrastructure programme on all infrastructure domains such as network, data centers, telephony, server & storage, databases and IT tooling → improve infrastructure on angles stability, security and agility → draw up roadmap towards future infrastructure landscape; cloud based and sourced