Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Programme Manager with a background of progressive achievement, highly focused on meeting short term objectives while observing the long term goals. Able to fast-track critical programmes as he is a strategist as well as an implementer. Excels in the area of conceptual change, adaptation and transition. Stands for short-term continuity by bringing quality and drive to assignments. Specialties: Programme management, product development and product management, system integration, system management, project planning, finance and control, people management and training, software engineering, (proactive) crisis management, managing organisational and technological change, trouble shooter.
In the region Europe, Russia and Africa responsible for Proposition Sales, Pre-Sales, Bid Management and Sales Process Improvement Projects.
Responsible for initiating and managing process and system improvement, incident and problem management thus removing organizational road blocks for the EMEA sales team. Responsible for optimizing and maintaining the relationships between the EMEA Region and the Business Units as well as the EMEA Operations organization. Special focus on business development in East Europe and Russia and the support of LogicaCMG Italy.
Specializes in International Interim Programme Management services in the logistics and telecommunications industries. Worked for 9 months as Programme Manager for LogicaCMG to support the initiation, development and delevery of a new Vodafone Global service. Negotiated the contracts between Vodafone and LogicaCMG and managed the product management, development and test departments with teams in Ireland, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. Worked and lived for a five-month period in Poland to supervise the implementation of the IFS ERP bulk repair process for Teleplan International BV. Managed the required organisational changes and introduced new systematic working methods. Worked and lived for a six-month period in Italy (Milano) to manage the H3G Italy Programme for LogicaCMG. Reduced the backlog in product acceptances by 95% and restored the customer-supplier relationship. Initiated and negotiated a new contract for the development of a new service.
End-responsible for all pre-sales, delivery, customer support and managed services activities of LogicaCMG s.r.l.. at multiple locations within and outside of Italy. As member of the LogicaCMG s.r.l. and the EMEA Operations management teams facing an ambituous Revenue target. Liaison of LogicaCMG s.r.l. towards the large international LogicaCMG organization.
Optimises the business processes of customers by mobilizing their business information so that all information is readily available to anyone, any time, anywhere. Is the architect of solutions and performs the overall project management apart from tasks like vendor selection and change management. I'm still the Managing Owner of Amergin Mobile Concepts BV (it still exists) but am not actively pursuing opportunities.
CMG WDS (Czech Republic) was a new subsidiary of CMG WDS International. This office was a product development centre responsible for the development, integration, implementation and maintenance of high performance and high capacity data warehouse and business intelligence products. Full responsibility for the establishment of the subsidiary and thus for all legal, fiscal and HR affairs. Responsible for managing the development of all the products delivered by the R&D centre in Prague. Reported to the Vice President of Corporate Product Development.