JOB HISTORY
- March 2001 – now | self-employed senior project managemer & consultant, Goossens BV (owner)
- May 1998 – February 2001 | product manager, Boardware BV (shareholder)
- May 1997 – April 1998 | senior project manager, Progress Software
- August 1994 – April 1997 | senior consultant, james martin + co
- June 1993 – August 1994 | operations manager, Trendsoft
- July 1990 – May 1993 | project manager, Trendsoft
RELEVANT ASSIGNMENTS
- Canon Medical Systems Europe – project management for interface migration to Boomi
- Coty – delivery management for 500+ interfaces to/from SAP. Worldwide scope, cross-continent coordination. Multi-project management, overlapping phases, ‘crazy’ deadlines. Strict quality procedures to release windows. SOX compliance. Stakeholder reporting. Resource allocation. Global team management.
- Tony’s Chocolonely – interim project management at social enterprise with rapid international expansion.
- Progress Software – project management training sessions.
- Oranje Fonds – project management training sessions.
- Smurfit Kappa – consultancy re. acquisition and contract for strategic ERP application.
- Rotterdam School of Management – project management for multiple business process improvement and IT projects, related to MS Dynamics CRM
- Ericsson – software licensing analysis and assessment
- DAT mobility – interim team manager Software Development & Support.
- Wereldhave – assessment of dependencies and risks for core application.
- Smurfit Kappa – assessment of ‘process fit’ of SAP SD with industry specific module VCPowerPack.
- Macintosh Retail / Brantano (Belgium) – programme management for phase 1 Omni channel. At the systems side: implementation of Wincor POS, interfaces and ERP updates. At the organisation side: processes in shop, back office and logistics. Budget €2.1M approx.
- Kalshoven Automation – assessment of ‘future-proof’ status of software development platform.
- GrandVision / Instru optiikka oy (Finland) – project management implementation of MS Dynamics NAV, 60+ interfaces to legacy systems and EDI integration with key European suppliers to the GrandVision group. Budget €2.7M.
- Smurfit Kappa – audit on enterprise capabilities of two strategic ERP systems; and review of strategy document for corporate ICT.
- GrandVision – master planning for international roll-out of Sonic ESB and MS Dynamics NAV incl. integrations with legacy systems.
- Ministry of LNV – audit on interdepartmental project ‘CITES’.
- Undisclosed – audit on problematic e-commerce project with external suppliers; assessed for applicability of tooling, and for project control. Ensuing advice prevented further escalation; project governance was changed.
- Van Gansewinkel – multiple projects: implementation Sonic ESB and SOA; project support for implementation board computers; introduction of ‘process chain’ management. Budget responsibility €500K.
- ANWB – business case and project management of implementation Sonic ESB; then setup and implementation of ‘Integration Competence Center’. Budget €1M approx.
- Smurfit Kappa (across Europe) – project management ‘Segregation of Duties’; clean up access controls in 90+ systems, 150+ locations, 20+ countries. Budget €2.4M.
- Undisclosed (Belgium) – audit on contract and project execution; followed by mediation between parties (main contractor, subcontractor, customer) who were in legal discussion. Advice was followed with mutual agreement, preventing a court case that would have been expensive and reputation damaging.
- Oad – project management of multiple projects (ERP, CRM, CMS) in the business systems renewal programme. Budget responsibility €3M approx.
- Kras – advice on restructuring, and change management ICT department.
- Erasmus RSM – project management for implementation, and later update, of CRM/housing/course/student administration; offshore software development. Budget €500K approx.
- WageningenUR – consultancy on Total Quality Control for the Documents and Records Management Department.
- Smurfit Kappa (Europe) – various projects: audit and advice IT Shared Service Centre in Germany, resulting in 20% annual cost reduction; programme auditor Euro conversion at 60 operating companies; setup and follow-up of ICT security project; project management Sarbanes-Oxley related projects; auditor for international roll-out of industry specific ERP; middle man in enterprise software license negotiations resulting in €600K cost reduction. Budgets total €2M approx.
- Boardware (Benelux) – product management for ‘COBIS’ system (ERP for packaging industry), managing both the software development team at the base office and the implementation teams at 4 customer sites. This included change, release and incident management and consulting support on business process changes according to the ‘new ways of working’ programme. Budgets equivalent to €1.5M – €2M approx. per site.
TRAINING & COACHING
- Tony’s Chocolonely: BPMN & UML with EA
- Progress Software: project management
- Oranje Fonds: project management
- RSM: BPMN basics; Agile primer
- DAT mobility: SAFe Product Owner training
- Instru optiikka oy: project manager coaching-on-the-job
- HRA Visie: project management coaching
- Smurfit Kappa: access controls for ‘Compliance Monitoring’ dept.
- Progress Software: project management toward IPMA-D
- Various other trainings provided: FPA, UML, BPMN
LANGUAGES
- Dutch – native
- English – fluent
- German
- French
PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS
- Blogs on project management topics on this website and on LinkedIn
- Coty Award for the project team P&G/Coty post-merger IT integration
- 2004: Progress Software EMEA Excellence Award for team at Kras Stervakanties
- Co-author of “Cryptografie in de praktijk”, ISBN 90-440-0047-0.
- Automatisering Gids IT Award of Excellence for Vandra Golfkarton project
- World Championship of CASE/4GL Programming (Stockholm), winning team member