March 2008 – September 2008 Management consultant (Wholesale Financial Markets.
To advise on the cost managing the required expansion in IT Services and Grid Capacity for the major financial markets trading & risk systems. Participation in FM steering board.

Oct 2007 – March 2008 Wholesale Equity Markets IT) Project lead for conducting a feasibility study on external hosting of trading and order routing applications.
The project entails a redraft of the architecture and the vendor selection & RFP on Hosting and Networks, a Managed Market Data platform and the selection of data feeds/direct exchange access. Hand over of results and contract to IT project organisation and for final implementation.

2006 – Sept 2007 Interim manager function as the Chief engineer (Energy trading).
Responsible for coordination of multiple critical IT projects towards the business. Initiates projects and innovation in order to improve the current IT landscape in conjunction with lead architect, CIO and business support manager.
• Manages projects at steering committee level and project board level.
• Projects: replacement central pricing data base, EMG Data warehouse, EMG Risk project, Maritime Freight & Logistics project.
• Active in the post merger consolidation IT team for the merger of 2 companies.
• Soundboard to management on ad-hoc questions and vision on trading and information management IT.
• Review of the current IT multi year vision document.

2006 – 2006 Senior purchaser in the IT & Advice procurement department and soundboard to procurement and IT Management.
• Managing vendors.
• Support procurement manager with year plan cycle and ad-hoc activities.
• Negotiate KabelCom network and telephony contract. Including setting up business case VOIP.
• Tender of all external Legal services (corporate).
• Preparation and advice on the tendering of the Multi Functional printer equipment.
• Renewal contracts for telephony and mobile services, including UMTS/HSDPA.
• Contracting E-auction services.
• Procurement consultant to the strategic Heath and Smart Meetering market scans.
• Project consultant for the adaptation of the UNSPSC coding system in SAP/SRM
• Surpassed savings target with a factor 2.

2005 – 2006 1th Term Senior purchaser for Bids & Purchase consultant
• MasterCard outsourcing bid, vendor management and deal preparation for the 3rd parties that will support X in its bid for the MasterCard network. Deal value > 50 Mio Euro.
• Preparation for the X outsourcing bid.
• Advisor to the Purchase Excellence programme at its Business unit “Connectivity” and redefining purchase strategy and KPI’s.
• Advise on IT tooling and market analyses.
• Advise on improving the SAP contract administration to allow for better reporting and analyses.
• Managing the RFI & RFP for the contracting of a Pan-European Business service for XDSL.

2005 – 2th Term Senior Purchaser for Bids.
• Vendor management for a Global Outsourcings Bid (LAN, WAN, Security en Service management). Deal value >500 Million Euro.
• Sub contractors to the above bid.
• Global focus and an international bid team.
• Task at hand: management of all third parties and align their propositions. Contract alteration and legal communication.

2005 - 3th term Tactical Procurement Manager.
• Managing the back-log in administration within the operational procurement team and eventual handover to the central procurement administration.
• Project management for the implementation of software tools to further support the procurement organisation.

Starting activities as a contractor for procurement and interim management.

1999/2004 – Global Category Manager Procurement (Vice-President),
• Extending and managing the procurement strategy for Banking Information services.
• Management of cost reduction programmes within wholesale banking, that relate to IT and the information infrastructure of the BU Wholesale banking.
• Management of the Dutch branch of the Information Services Catagory (6 FTE’s).
• Global vendor management.
• Supplier selection based on cost saving potential, performance, quality and longer term prospects.
• Annual contract volume between 50 and 100 Million Euro.
• Management of the contract administration and responsibility for the distribution of the cost to the many hundreds of cost centres. Later on the department introduced a web based account system to allow for individual managers to be informed about their cost and to create a better cost awareness.
• Consultant to senior management for the usage of financial information and financial websites.

1996/1999 Project manager IT,
responsibility for all ICT projects within the Fixed Income business-line Fixed income and Market Data projects for the wider organisation.
• Manager Functional support (4 FTE’s).
• Back-up to the Manager ICT support (12 FTE’s).

1995/1996 Consultant, Various assignments.
• Feasibility study to improve front office IT support.
• Training & review Dealing room systems.
• Trainee Cobol programmer. Programming assignment for a Ministry.

Strategic Procurement, HEAO Business information management.

Courses: IT-project management training, SAS Database training, NIBE Bank & financial values training, NIBE Financial markets, Negotiation training, Communication and influence courses, Member of the Dutch procurement institute - Nevi

Languages: Dutch, English, German.