Summary of Experience

Near to sixteen years working experience of which ten years in Information Technology. During these ten years acted in a variety of roles such as Information Analyst, Project Manager, Management Consultant and Chief Architect.
Broad international experience throughout the European Union, since 1999 engaged in approximately 35 projects in 12 different countries.

Main areas of expertise are EAI, BPM, SOA, BPR, ERP, Collaborative Commerce, Strategic Consulting and Change Management.

Innovative generalist, combining pragmatism with a creative urge and passion for excellence with both a bird's eye and detailed view on business context and technological means into enterprise scale solution architectures.

 

Mid-long term goal:

Provide strategic, tactical and operational counseling and consulting services in the areas of enterprise architecture, system integration and collaboration, the enabling frameworks and the technologies involved.

Research and develop evolutionary applications combining approaches of knowledge management, semantic web technology, agent-based computing, artificial life and collaborative commerce and the interdisciplinary application of such in a business environment.

 

IT Employment (last position held):

·          Oct 2004 - onward: Self-Employed

·          Aug 2002 - Sept 2004: SeeBeyond Italy - Enterprise Architect.

·          Jan 2001 - Jul 2002: EDS / AT Kearney Netherlands - Consulting Manager New - & Emerging Technology

·          Jun1998 - Jan 2001: EDS Netherlands - Change Manager EDS Finance Northern Europe

·          Aug 1997 - May 1998: Evident Internet Netherlands - Multimedia programmer.

·          Until Jul 1997: Short assignments

 

Since six years focused on design, implementation and management of integration and collaboration based solutions. Recurrent activities involve:

·          Project, program and client engagement management. Define and manage engagement plans, deliverables, milestones and task allocation.

·          Pre-sales and managerial activities such as : scope definition, project estimates, risk assessment, coordination and support.

·          Sales support, proposal scenario designs, proof of concepts.

·          Architecture design and proposals, technical meetings, reviews, quality assurance.

·          Advising, guidance, assisting in and setting up EAI best practices, mentoring and training.

·          Establish standards for information exchange, message catalogues, reporting, procedures and documentation.

·          Complex implementations, performance optimization and fine tuning, large file processing.

·          In flight troubleshooting for architectural issues, code reviews, and project management methodologies.

 

Functional Specialty:

·            Business Modeling, Business Process Redesign and Optimization, Supply Chain Management.

·            Enterprise Application Integration - SeeBeyond eBI suite 4.5.*, SeeBeyond ICAN 5, WebMethods, MQSI, TIBCO, Mercator.

·            Enterprise Resource Planning systems - SAP/R3 [PS, HR, CATS, FI, CO, MM, SD], BaaN, Retek, Exact

·            Collaboration Commerce - PTC Windchill, TeamCenter, Groove Networks, eRoom, Ariba Buyer

·            Web technology - Intranets, Portals, Application Servers

 

Industry Specialty:

• Information Technology

• Finance, Banking and Insurance

• Automotive

• Energy and Utilities

• Retail

• Human Resources

• Trade Fairs

 

Education

·     Business Administration & Econometrics (90-91)

·     Mathematical Physics & Astronomy (91-97)

 

Language Skills

·     Dutch (Native)

·     English (Excellent)

·     Italian (Average)

·     German (Average)

 

Training Courses

·     ICAN training – October 2003

·     RQ Methodology – SeeBeyond implementation methodology, April 2003

·     Italian basics – Linguarama institute, February 2002

·     4 week course – PTC Windchill, Rational Rose, XML & Java

·     EDS SED Technical Development – 9 week OOA&D, UML & Java training.

·     EDS SED Technical Development – 2 week RAD/JAD & Presentation skills

 

Work related interests

·     Model Driven Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Data Architecture, Information Architecture, Integration patterns, Workflow patterns, Enterprise Event Management, IFEAD related frameworks such as Zachman Framework. Six Sigma, RUP, GQM, Total Quality Management.

·     Business Rules engines, Enterprise Decision Management, Collaborative Product Lifecycle Management, Knowledge Management, Next Generation Manufacturing, Business Intelligence

·     Web services, Composite Applications, Rich User Interfaces, Semantic web, Jini, JavaSpaces, Agents, Evolutionary computing, Adaptive computing, Grid computing, distributed file systems, distributed operating systems, query languages.

Selected Consulting Engagement Experience

Engagement

Roles and Responsibilities

Dates

Sonae

o         Senior Enterprise Architect / Project Manager

Dec 04- Dec 05

BRFkredit

o         Chief Enterprise Architect

o         Architectural Design BAM-driven SOA-based Workflow solution

Aug 04 – Dec 04

Fiat - GM

o         Chief Enterprise Architect

o         Technical Account Management.

Jun 03 – Jan 04

DeSpar Italia

o         Chief architect. Architecture, Design, Engineering ,Technical Account Management, EAI and Java Mentoring, Implementation, Testing, Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning. Focussed on Business Process-driven Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Activities Monitoring, flexibility, reusability, resilience and ease of use.

Sep 02 – Mar 03

Onetrail

o         Chief architect. Analyze, design and implement interaction architecture and interfaces from BaaN IVc, Exact, CommerceOne and SAP to web services using SeeBeyond 4.5+.

o         Onetrail .Net is made compliant to RosettaNet 2.0 (RNIF 2.0). Usage of Java.1.3.1, XML,XSL,JSP,EJB, iPlanet and Oracle 8.1.7.

Jun 01 - Mar 02

EDS

o         Construct proposals for global reporting standards and templates, EDS internal systems integration, cross-country and cross-LOB collaboration, ES system improvements, new reports. Reports are constructed in line with GSMS guidelines.

May 01 – Jun 01

EDS

o         Categorize and group related initiatives for Web Client Information Systems.

o         Flexible design oriented at functioning as core for related systems.

o         Support for multilevel customers, internal and external contact roles, advanced integrated security, search and maintenance.

o         Export functionality to Excel with flexible and user-defined display variants.

Feb 01 – May 01

EDS

o         Develop, implement and streamline time registration, project administration and billing processes, procedures and reporting within EDS’s SAP R/3 system.

o         On May 1st 2001 the complete process and all procedures are set as EDS global standard, approximated extra revenue near to $1.5 billion.

Jun 98 – Mar 01

 

Selected Other Work Experience

 

EDS (6/98 – 07/02)

·     Several internet projects. (Intra- and extranets)

·     Automate productivity, utilization and P&L reports.

·     Streamline all financial processes concerning contractors.

·     Mentoring of several System Engineers

·     Quality Improvement; prepare EDS NL Solution Center for CMM level 2.

·     Mainframe conversion from Siemens to IBM.

 

Evident Internet BV (12/97 - 5/98)

·     Construction of electronic information pillars for trade fairs.

·     Research & initial development of database driven websites using Java.

 

Ministry of Defense – Study Counselor (9/94 - 6/95)

·     Arrange courses and education for military personnel.

·     Career development testing and advice

·     Group and individual lectures and informative sessions.

·     Supervise progress technical personnel and arrange compensation of costs.

 

Freelance & employed Private teacher (1/91 – 8/97)

·     Mathematics, Physics, Economy, Business Analysis, Marketing, Chemistry (up to academic level)

·     Assistant with thesis and exam training : Physics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Econometrics, Business Analysis, Business Administration, Geographical Economics, Political Economics, Psychology.

 

 

Technical experience

Area

Details

Applications

o    SeeBeyond eBI suite (e*Gate, e*Insight, e*Xchange, e*XpressWay) 4.5.*, SeeBeyond ICAN 5+, Sun JCAPS, WebMethods 5, MQ/Series Integrator, TIBCO, Mercator, BizTalk, NetWeaver

o    SAP/R3 4.5, SAP/R3 4.7, MySAP, BaaN IV, Exact, JD Edwards, Retek 8, 10

o    Windchill 5, UGS TeamCenter, eMatrix, eRoom, Groove Networks.

o    Eclipse, NetBeans, Jbuilder, Rational Rose, Visual Studio .Net, Macromedia ToolBook, HomeSite, Macromedia Flash, Visual InterDev,

o    Jboss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Jakarta Tomcat, iPlanet, Netscape AppServer, Sun AppServer.

o    ClearCase, CVS, PVCS,

o    MS Project, Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint,

o    CA Unicenter, cluster technology,

Methods & Frameworks

o    J2EE, RAD/JAD, UML, CMM, GSMS, ITIL, Six Sigma, CBD, OOA&D, SOA

Messaging standards

o    RosettaNet 2, UN/EDIFACT, ANSI X12, ebXML, xCBL, cXML, UCCNet, WfXML, XPDL, BPEL4WS

o    SAP Interface Repository (IDOCs, XML IDOCs, BAPI, RFC), SAP ALE, OASIS BODs, OASIS UBL

o    JMS, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, XML Schemas

Operating systems

o    DOS, Windows NT 4, 2000, 2003, 95, 98, XP, AIX 4.3.3 & 5.1, HP-UX 11 & 11i, Solaris 8 & 9

Languages

o    Java1.3, Java1.4, SQL, PL/SQL, VB, VBScript, HTML, JavaScript, ASP, Pascal, Cobol, C#

Databases

o    Oracle 8i, 9i, 10. SQL Server 7, 2000, 2005. DB2. Informix. Sybase. Ms Access. MySQL. Toad

Career – detailed:

 

Oct-Nov 06

Cadbury Schweppes – Birmingham, UK

Function:

Principal Enterprise Architect

Experience

Technical architecture validation of existing integration solutions. Technical comparison ICAN 5.0.5. and JCAPS 5.1.2. intended for strategic migration business case. Initial program management roadmap meant for risk and issue management in relation to migration and transition of existing integration solutions.

Initial business and technical analysis and design for global Common Services Framework based on SOA principles. Initial analysis and design SOA Governance framework.

 

 

Jun-Aug 06

Hera – Bologna, Italy

Function:

Principal Consultant

Experience

ICAN 5.0.5. (Integrated Composite Application Network) architectural validations, clustering and hosting model design and verification on Sun Cluster. Ad hoc development troubleshooting. Performance and stability tuning. Risk and issue management.

 

 

May 06

AR Telecom – Lisbon, Portugal

Experience

Initial setup and training concerning SUN SeeBeyond JCAPS (Java Composite Application Platform Suite) using Sun Application Server cluster, Sun Message Queue cluster, Sun Solaris Cluster

 

 

May 06

Carrefour – Paris, France

Experience

Troubleshoot development environment. Setup procedures for migration management.

 

 

April 06

SKF / EDS – Gothenburg, Sweden

Function:

Principal Consultant

Experience

Troubleshoot production environment.
Architectural review. Recommendations for high-performance and architectural roadmap.

 

 

Jan 06 – Present

Self-employed

Experience

Research into ontologies, semantics, semiotics, categorization theory, self-organization and artificial life.

 

 

Dec 04 – Dec 05

Sonae – Porto, Portugal

Function:

Senior Enterprise Architect & Senior Project Manager

Experience:

Client Engagement Management and Project Management of all strategic integration implementations.

Architectural reviews + general production environment troubleshooting. Technical mentoring.

Document and mentor on architectural design and performance best practices.

Develop guidelines and samples on e.g. environment migration.

 

 

Aug – Dec 04

BRFkredit – Copenhagen, Denmark

Function:

Senior Enterprise Architect

Experience:

Business Process Analysis and redesign.

Lead architecture SOA-based Workflow / BAM solution, using SAS Data warehouse.

Interface between Business Architecture and Technical Architecture teams. Supervise and mentor resources.

Supervise and verify documentation, methodology and merger of architectural models.

 

 

Jun – Sep 04

Carrefour Italy + Carrefour worldwide

Function:

Senior Architect

Experience:

Development supervision, troubleshooting, mentoring and remote support.

HP-UX sizing and performance tuning

 

 

Jan – July 04

SeeBeyond – variable clients

Function:

Enterprise Architect

Experience:

Fiat / GM - Italy