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CEO, Practice Manager, Team Lead, Project Manager

Work Experience

Aug-Sep 2004 Organisational & ICT Quick Scan to drastically reduce time to market for large Dutch bank
May-Jun 2004 Tech-Ed 2004 Manager, Microsoft, Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands
2003-Apr 2004 CEO, Aduna.biz, Amersfoort
2000 Practice Manager, Sun Java Center, Sun Microsystems, Amersfoort
1999 Practice Leader, Sun Java Center, Sun Microsystems, Amersfoort
1994 Java Ambassador, Sun Microsystems, Amersfoort
1992 Multimedia Ambassador, Sun Microsystems, Amersfoort
1991 Windows Ambassador, Sun Microsystems, Amersfoort
1988 Senior Consultant, West Consulting, Delft
1986 System Architect, RIVM, Bilthoven
1985 System Analyst & Developer Office Systems, Nixdorf Computer, Vianen
1984 System Developer MPX Operating System, Philips Data Systems, Apeldoorn

In-depth: Aug-Sep 2004, Organisational & ICT quick scan to drastically reduce time to market
A large Dutch bank wants to drastically reduce the time to market by adopting a new way of working for the organization. Conducting interviews with the key stakeholders in business, development and operations and at all levels (from director level and down) revealed the desire to become an agile, adaptive enterprise, supported by a similar IT organization, embracing change. The Quick Scan also mapped out the gap between now and the future situation, as well as the required steps down the road to get there. The single most important finding is that there is a close relationship—and current mismatch—between the structure of an organization and of the artifacts it builds. The biggest hurdle to take is the cultural gap between the way a traditional big bank works and the high-speed, agile and adaptive way of succesful Internet companies.
In-depth: May-Jun 2004, Tech-Ed 2004 Manager, Microsoft
Tech-Ed Europe is Microsoft’s annual four day conference for developers and IT professionals, in 2004 to be held in the RAI Conference & Exhibition Center, Amsterdam. Tech-Ed Europe atracts approximately 7,000 delegates. Late in the game (two months before the venue), Microsoft asked me to help them get 1,000 Dutch delegates registered for Tech-Ed, since registration was lagging behind. In an intense and close collaboration with the total Dutch Microsoft organization and the UK-based event organization we were able to harvest these 1,000+ Dutch delegates and meet this aggressive goal. This resulted in a €2M+ revenue for Microsoft’s Dutch subsidiary, just before the close of the current fiscal year. Delegates happy, Dutch country manager, management and sales team happy, European Tech-Ed committee happy.
In-depth: Feb 2003-Apr 2004, CEO,
Aduna is an advanced semantic web software company. I’ve given Aduna my whole heart, my whole mind and my whole soul. My responsibilities ranged across vision, mission, values, marketing, business development, strategy, product management, pricing and licensing, infrastructure, talent development and customer care. The whole enchilada. During a challenging and intensive 14 months and under my drive and leadership I have been:
• Defining and executing the business plan, moving from investment mode to profitability, projecting €20M+ upside potential revenue in two years;
• Creating, executing and embedding the vision and strategy;
• Leading a 10-person team;
• Turning Aduna around from an inwardly-focused, technical-oriented group of people to a professional, externally and client-focused team in one year;
• Recruiting a valuable Engineering Manager;
• Setting up a comfortable and predictable quarterly product release cycle, aligning engineering, marketing and sales processes;
• Boosting market awareness while realizing the ingredients for a solid brand, a brand with an attitude (2003);
• Developing and unfolding individual talents;
• Dramatically increasing team spirit, wholeness, commitment, dedication and joy;
• Filling the sales pipeline with direct accounts (ABN AMRO Bank, Unilever, Pharos Reizen) as well as potential OEMs (Tridion, GX) and solution partners (IMN, Triam, Hoger Onderwijsgroep Bouw & Ruimte);
• Changing the name from Aidministrator to Aduna;
• Creating a solid, clear, colorful, professional new corporate identity and logo, the foundation for an excellent brand;
• Relaunching the company, its technology and solutions, on December 9, 2003, for 100+ guests in theater “De Flint”, Amersfoort;
• Showing the first business successes as a consequence of this make-over already in Q1 2004, just 2 months after the relaunch;
• Creating a lot of attention and press coverage for the new Aduna and its solutions, starting October 2003;
• Dramatically improving infrastructure and tooling by adding a file and mail server and other instruments like CVS, Ant, and MailMan; all based on open standards (NFS, NTFS, SMB, IMAP, LDAP, HTTP);
• Turning an almost disjunct set of technology efforts into a comprehensive and coherent set of products called AutoFocus Personal and AutoFocus Server;
• Creating the fundament for a professional, innovative semantic web toolkit or SDK called Spectacle Suite;
In-depth: 1999-2002 Practice Manager, Sun Java Center, Sun Microsystems
• Starting up, leading and managing the Dutch Sun Java Center from scratch;
• Managing the SJC profitably (€1.2M+ revenue on consultancy only), for three consecutive years;
• Recruiting 11 best-of-breed senior Java Architects and Consultants (1999-2002);
• Leading and managing both the Sun Java Center (SJC) and the Internet Service Provider (ISP) team (20 senior technical consultants) at Sun Professional Services;
• P&L responsible (revenue, spending, utilization (non-idle time), profit, margin);
• Personal and professional development of team members;
• Member of both local Dutch and international corporate management team;
• Quarterly worldwide management team meetings;
• Synergizing with local and global sales organization;
• Co-developing, articulating and marketing the SunTone Architectural Methodology, focussing on Quality of Service as well as functionality and Use Cases;
• Helping clients succeed by developing ebusiness strategies and architectures, and the way technology can help realize their business objectives;
• Created and partly implemented a radical business-focused redesign of Vodafone Live! architecture and process, slashing operational expenses and time to new services in half;
• Co-architecting and co-ordinating the Vizzavi Vodavone Live! portal, including the network, systems and application layers; a two-year multimillion project for Sun; (press release available on request);
• Auditing, rearchitecting and rebuilding D-reizen’s (travel broker) flaky and poorly performing ecommerce website to a responsive, scalable, robust and successful implementation in six months (customer success story available on request);
• Served customers like Vodafone/Vizzavi, D-reizen, AEGON (insurance), Virtex (transport), Goodlot (media/lottery), Provincie Gelderland (government) and Spott (internet auctioning).
In-depth: 1995-1999 Java Ambassador & Evangelist, Marketing, Sun Microsystems
• Putting Java and J2EE on the map in Holland by creating and executing marketing plan;
• Promoting open (internet) standards and open source;
• Organizing, hosting, moderating and chairing many large scale (audience >100) events, seminars and conferences (various Java conferences, Idea Machine (Evoluon), JavaONE customer trips, Aduna launch event);
• Hosting 100+ relations of Sun Holland at JavaOne 1999 trip to San Francisco;
• Hosting 150 relations of Sun Holland at Java Enterprise Solutions 1999, just like in the years before (1997, 1998)
• Lining up 11 Sun Authorized Java Centers (CAP Gemini, ATOS-Origin, TNO, West Consulting, Acriter, Object-IT) as part of Sun’s world-wide Road to Java program;
• Presenting to hundreds of key customers like ABN-AMRO Bank, KPN, ING Bank, Albert Heijn, KLM, Oracle, CMG, CAP Gemini, etc., but also for seminar organizations like Euroforum, New Media Marketplace and others. Audiences ranged from small 5-10 people groups to just under 1,000. Presentation level was always high level, strategic, yet contained a good dose of in-depth material when appropriate. Audiences also ranged from deep technical experts to board of directors;
• Giving many interviews to journalists and the press, representing Sun, it's vision, strategy, technology and products, Java and Jini in particular in the late nineties. I was referred to as “Mr. Java” in Holland.
• Writing many articles for the Dutch IT press like Automatisering Gids and Computable, to name two;
• Putting Java on the map in Holland, evidenced by the many (30+ by that time) successful Java references;
• Engaging 30 partners in 1998 to participate in the Java in Real Action Pavilion during Holland's largest IT trade show: The Internetworking Event ’98;
• Co-founding Dutch Melange, the Dutch Java User Group during an exciting gathering in the RAI Congrescentrum, Amsterdam;
• Facilitating a Java seminar for publisher/event house Ten Hagen Stam for 100+ attendees in the RAI (1998);
• Completely organizing, hosting, chairing and keynoting an audience of 250+ paying Java fans during a Java conference in Oosterhout in 1997;
• Enthusing more than 500+ attendees during the second large Java conference in ’t Spant, Bussum in 1996. Organized, chaired, presented, programmed and project managed the complete day. Keynotes from Arthur van Hoff, one of the original authors of the Java web browser and Java compiler, Rob Creemers (trendwatcher), Bert Mulder (CIO Veronica).
• Introducing the VPRO to Java and WebRunner (then called Oak and Live Oak). VPRO broadcasting company is one the first organizations working with Java in the world, and the first in the Netherlands. Their efforts resulted in a widely used open source content management system called MMbase.
In-depth: 1991-1995 Multimedia & Graphics Ambassador & Evangelist, Marketing, Sun Microsystems
• Hosted the CHI-93 Candlelight Canal Boat tour in Amsterdam with 30 key people from the Computer-Human Interaction field like Dr. Bob Glass and Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini (both fathers of the Apple graphical user interface.
• Being the technological link between Sun's Dutch customers and Sun's American technology and product development and marketing, focusing on the NeWS (Network extensible Window System), the X Windows system and the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface, and later followed by the Motif user interface.
• Over the years, my role changed to Multimedia Ambassador to cover all aspects from User Interfaces, Graphics, Audio, Video, and Computer-Human Interaction, helping clients, partners and ISVs like Adobe, Agfa, Ahold, CAPgemini, Centraal Beheer, ElectroGIG, ESTEC, Ingres, ITT Publitec (Gouden Gids), Koning & Hartman, Johan Enschedé, Kodak, KPN, Logica CMG, NOB, NOS, Océ, Oracle, Philips, Pressofoon, Postbank, Rabobank, Shape Technical Center, Textlitho, TNO, Triple P, Uniface, Veronica, VNU, VPRO, Wegener, to use Sun’s solutions and technology effectively.
• Gave thousands of presentations, hosted many seminars and tradeshows (annually on NLUUG, PUUG, Efficiency Beurs, IT94, IT95, International Film Festival (1996), IFRA, The Internetworking Event).

Education

Training

2002 Siebel TAS training
2001 NIBE training
2001 Leadership training (Sun internal)
2001 RUP & UML training
2001 Consulting Skills (LIFO)
1999 Media training, Bob de Ronde, Utrecht
1994 Power Base Selling
1992 Strategic Selling
1991 Mansal sales training

Education

1981-1984 HIO Enschede
1977-1978 MTS Electronics, Apeldoorn
1976-1977 HTS Electronics, Arnhem
1970-1976 HAVO, Christelijk Lyceum, Apeldoorn

Skills

Leadership Skills
• Leading Aduna, an advanced semantic web technology company, by creating, executing and embedding the vision and strategy. Turning Aduna around from an inwardly-focused, technical-oriented group of people to a professional, externally and client-focused 10-person team in one year. Defining and executing the business plan, moving from investment mode to profitability, projecting €20M+ upside potential revenue in two years. Setting up a comfortable and predictable quarterly product release cycle. Boosting market awareness while realizing the ingredients for a solid brand, a brand with an attitude (2003);
• Starting up, leading and managing the Dutch Sun Java Center from scratch, and profitably, for three consecutive years by recruiting 11 best-of-breed senior Java Architects and Consultants (1999-2002); responsible for €1.2M+ revenue, spendings, utilization (non-idle time), profit, margin, as well as personal and professional development of a team of consultants; member of both local Dutch and international corporate management team; quarterly worldwide management team meetings; teaming up with sales organization;
• Leading and managing both the Sun Java Center and the Internet Service Provider team (20 senior technical consultants) at Sun Professional Services (2000-2002);
• Organizing, hosting, moderating and chairing many large scale (audience >100) events, seminars and conferences (various Java conferences, Idea Machine (Evoluon), JavaONE customer trips, Aduna launch event);

Professional Skills
• Excellent presentation and communication skills (thousands of presentations for tens of thousands of people);
• Creative, strategic, and pragmatic;
• Creating business plans and executing them accordingly (responsibilities include profit & loss, headcount managment, revenue, margin, contribution, management reporting);
• Project and program leadership and management;
• Extreme focus on clients (focusing on their numbers, rather than mine);
• Deep understanding of technology and its strategic and social impact;
• Good writing skills (English, Dutch);
• Active listener, seeking first to understand, then to be understood;

Languages

Dutch, English: good.
German: moderate.
Frenc: I survive.

Other

Ambition and drive
My primary ambition is to lead, facilitate, develop and evolve individuals in balance with managing the processes to meet and exceed the business goals. My main drive is to create an environment that gets the best out of people around me (clients, partners, peers and colleagues), to appeal to their intrinsic motivators so that the teams go the extra mile with a smile and compassion. I am there for them, not the other way around. Spotting, developing, growing and harvesting growth opportunities, both in humans and in business, thrills me. You will always find me networking as a professional ambassador, aligned with the corporate vision, mission and values, and a clear focus on measurable bottom-line results. The value of a network grows exponentially with the number of links. Relationships are the currency of the networked economy, creating tomorrow’s wealth. Change the changes.
Organizational wholeness
I add the most value in an environment where I am valued more for my creativeness, non- conformistic thinking, vision and leadership talents. My ambition is to excel in a leadership role, using leading edge and extreme quality people, blending my architectural and organizational talents into creating and growing multi-disciplinary teams of excellence that in some way help make the world a better place by using state-of-the-art resources. I thrive in flat, networked organizations. I like working with people, help find and cultivate their talents, and always strive to make the total much greater than the sum of the parts. Wholeness.
Inspiring & energizing
I get my energy from working in a state of flow with sharp and focused teams. I invoke energy in my role as wise fool. I get my inspiration and passion from people like Christopher Alexander, Tim Berners-Lee, Jesus Christ, Arnold Cornelis, Stephen Covey, Bill Gates, James Gosling, Steve Jobs, Bill Joy, Stewart Kauffman, Kevin Kelly, Steve Krug, Dalai Lama, Scott McNealy, Geoffry Moore, Jakob Nielsen, Donald Norman, Alvin Toffler, Bruce Tognazzini, and Kees van Zijtveld. Their collective intellect help me see at least two years ahead of the curve.
Don’t just take my word for it
Others see me as fresh, lively, charming, passionate, amusing, practical and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to my head. They also see me as open, integer, loyal, committed, dedicated, kind, considerate, and understanding; as someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out. And last but not least, they see me as someone with vision, with a clear picture of the techno-social future.

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