Experience

Macaw

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Lead of Competence Team Commerce

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands The Competence Team Commerce focusses on knowledge development for Commerce solutions based upon on the Sitecore platform. Besides Sitecore XC implementations, at this moment we are mainly focussing on the Macaw portfolio based upon the Ordercloud platform. I am not only leading the Commerce Team, but I am also working with both feet on the ground as part of our projects and by helping our Commerce clients to be succesful with the solutions Macaw provides.

• Strategy Consultant

  • Sep 2016 - Aug 2021

  Hoofddorp For me, Digital Transformation means changing business models, create an alternative mindset, apply new tooling to make things possible and help people to use them for their own succes and the succes of their company. It's my drive to guide companies through this process of change. I bring a technical background and years of experience helping customers with their new ambitions and the route how to get there. I help to define the ambition and the goals and I advise customers on the roadmap to… Show more For me, Digital Transformation means changing business models, create an alternative mindset, apply new tooling to make things possible and help people to use them for their own succes and the succes of their company. It's my drive to guide companies through this process of change. I bring a technical background and years of experience helping customers with their new ambitions and the route how to get there. I help to define the ambition and the goals and I advise customers on the roadmap to get there, the organisation that enables the ecceleration and the technologies that are needed.

• Innovative Concepts

  • Jun 2014 - Oct 2016

  Schiphol-Rijk I am always trying to apply new possibilities. Within Macaw Interactive a group of creative people develop new concepts based on Machine Learning and BI (e.g. segmentation in retail), iBeacons (tracking potential customers en gather information about behaviour), NFC, IoT (How to apply the enormous possibilities of a simple Raspberry PI in serious business scenario's)

• Solution Consultant

  • May 2011 - Aug 2016

  Schiphol-Rijk As a Solution Consultant I had a key role in developing service offerings for Macaw but also in selling and delivering them to our customers. I advise the management of Macaw Rich Internet Solutions as well as our customers in the area's of web, e-commerce, social media and apps. In collaboration with the analists and architects of Macaw, all solutions in our portfolio are detailed, prepared and industrialized. Several examples are: Evides (a new website), BCC Elektro-speciaalzaken (an… Show more As a Solution Consultant I had a key role in developing service offerings for Macaw but also in selling and delivering them to our customers. I advise the management of Macaw Rich Internet Solutions as well as our customers in the area's of web, e-commerce, social media and apps. In collaboration with the analists and architects of Macaw, all solutions in our portfolio are detailed, prepared and industrialized. Several examples are: Evides (a new website), BCC Elektro-speciaalzaken (an improved webshop on a flexible platform), Smurfit Kappa (replatforming of the website with a new branding), Mammoet (new website on a new platform), Vitens (selection process for a new Content Management System)

• Solution Center Manager RIS (Rich Internet Solutions)

  • Mar 2007 - May 2011

  Schiphol-Rijk The Solution Center RIS (Rich Internet Solutions) is responsible for the delivery of all the internet projects of Macaw. The Solution Center facilitates several groups of webapplications, all for high volume users: - webshops, - complex web content management websites, - custom made extranets and - campaign websites (with a short lifecycle). The Solution Centers consists of all people that can make the realisation of these projects succesfull: project managers… Show more The Solution Center RIS (Rich Internet Solutions) is responsible for the delivery of all the internet projects of Macaw. The Solution Center facilitates several groups of webapplications, all for high volume users: - webshops, - complex web content management websites, - custom made extranets and - campaign websites (with a short lifecycle). The Solution Centers consists of all people that can make the realisation of these projects succesfull: project managers, analyst/consultants, designers and last but not least developers. Due to a large experience with webshops and WCM projects, we are able to help our customers with defining and realising the solution and to make them reach their targets.

• Lead Project Manager

  • Jan 2002 - Mar 2007

  Amsterdam Working mainly in e-Commerce websites for one of the biggest retail companies (e.g. HEMA) in the Netherlands. Besides managing some individual projects myself, I am making proposals for all new projects and I am controlling the whole program of running projects. There are max two teamleaders to delegate projects to and all together we keep 15 people at work.

• Unit Manager

  • 2001 - 2003

  Hoofddorp As a Unit Manager I was P&L responsible for a group of 25 consultants. I managed accounts, closed deals, initiated and monitored our projects and coached my collegues in their work. We were building websites and webshops, in the earlier days of internet make use of all new technologies that Microsoft came up with at that time.



Homefashion Group B.V.

• Netherlands
• Retail
• 200 - 300 Employee

• www.kwantum.nl

  • Jan 2019 - Jan 2023

  Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands Part of the IT-department as a Product Owner / Operational Manager of kwantum.nl. In close collaboration with the business I involved and controlled all suppliers (website, infrastructure and various integrated applications), and succeeded for the webplatform to keep pace with the gigantic boost in traffic and requirements during the Corona period that nobody could forsee.



HEMA

• France
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager Hema Website

  • Feb 2004 - Mar 2007

  Hema is operating a webshop, leading in the Netherlands. The webshop was founded step by step during several years. First starting with online ordering of hardcopies of photo's, it grew more and more to the essential busines channel it is right now. During this periode I advised Hema in the steps to make in developing the website and was responsible for the development team that did the real hard work.



KPMG

• Brazil
• Construction

• Lead Project Manager

  • 2000 - 2001

  Amstelveen Macaw build an application for online accountacy for KPMG. KPMG aimed at a new mid-market where the high quality KPMG consultancy services could be offered through an online channel. Custoemr upload exported accountancy data and received online comments and advise from the specialists from KPMG. It was a challenging project due to complex calculation rules, performance risks and security requirements. I was project manager for this project where 10 people were working on.

• Lead Developer

  • 1998 - 2000

  Amstelveen



Cap Gemini

• India
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

• Developer

  • 1990 - 1998

  Starting as a junior developer, I grew to lead developer. My best project: working on the automation of the computerised container terminal at ECT, Rotterdam. My best part of that show: I personally made a full planning system for the 'empty' container generating orders for storing an retreiving containers in een LIFO-stack.