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International change manager

International change manager

Work Experience

Company - Consulting Services (February 2005 until
present), The Netherlands
Position - Project manager

Main project for PDM:
Corus (leading European steel producer), The Netherlands
Result (expected): breakdown registration quality from 2% to 80%, reduction of work in progress
Role:
- Development and implementation of new gatekeeping process and management system for maintenance of a whole unit (750 FTE).
- Training of project team to participate in upcoming change management projects.

Company - European Performance Institute (EPI) (February 2001 until December 2004), Belgium
Position - Installation Manager (comparable to Project Leader)

Main projects for EPI:
Alpro (European market leader in soymilk), Belgium
Overall result: efficiency improvement of 7.2%
Role:
- Improve management system for planning by introducing buffer management and the development of a consistent set of KPI’s.
- Renewal of the forecasting process and its usage to provide planning with more accurate information.
- Coaching supervisors in the follow-up of planning and managing their staff.

TPSA Call Centre (market leader, daughter of France Telecom), Poland
Role:
- Revision of capacity planning system, creating more flexibility and balancing the capacity to the needs. Result: meeting 97% of SLA obligations.
- Reorganisation of the IT department, focusing on a pro-active management system, financial control and new roles & responsibilities. Results: direct savings of €115,000

Connex (train operating company), United Kingdom
Role:
- Improve the use of ticket vending machines by creating a turnaround with station staff and management. Result: 6% revenue increase, reduction of 34 FTE, adjustment of retail strategy to increase ticket vending machines.
- Reduce financial losses by improving the revenue management system, creating awareness with staff and active supervision with station management. Result: savings of £631,000 (reduction of 73%).
- Advise on the development of station standards to increase consistency and quality.

NedTrain (train maintenance), The Netherlands
Overall result: backlog reduction from 37 units/day to 0
Role:
- Reduce the throughput time of trains by:
· Development and improvement of processes and procedures.
· Development of a planning tool, integrating all maintenance processes.
· Achieving commitment of the management team and prepare them to get commitment of the workforce.
· Coaching the management team with implementing the changes.

PCM (largest newspaper publisher), The Netherlands
Role:
- Assist in the reorganisation of the Sales department (advertisement sales) by improving processes and redeveloping the system for deployment of sales representatives.
- Develop a management information system and coach management in using it.
- Advise on the purchase of a CRM system.

Company - Technicoop Trading (June 1999 - December 2000), Hungary
Position - Director/Partner
Description:
- Set up of international wood trading activities from Eastern Europe to Western
Europe and China.
- Detachment of software developers from Eastern Europe to Western Europe.

Company - Oracle (November 1997 - April 1999), The Netherlands
Position - Consultant/Application Developer (Custom Development)
Description:
- Analyse business processes, design, build and test the software for applications with Oracle tools. The applications built were mainly mission critical and/or administrative systems for companies such as Shell, ING Group, Fortis and Intrum Justitia (debt collection).

Company - Mikohn Europe (April 1995 - October 1997), The Netherlands
Position - Sales Support Executive
Description:
- Managing and co-ordinating projects related to the implementation of electronics,
casino refurbishment and application systems in casinos in Europe and Africa.
- Issue and negotiate proposals/quotations with customers.
- Managing the Design Department.
- Analysis of sales and forecast for purchasing and planning.
- Organise trade shows.

Company - Philips Electronics (February 1993 - August 1993), Thailand
Position - Management Assistant (traineeship)
Description:
- Logistics, analysis of damaged and missing parts during transport and custom clearance.
- Logistics, analysis of transport tariffs used, making a proposal for a new way to calculate transport tariffs.
- Sales, making a current marketing situation for the Lighting Division.
- Logistics, develop and implement efficiency increasing actions for Lighting.


Education

- Amsterdam School of Business (BBA degree), division International Management ('89-'94)
- MEAO (vocational education), division Business Administration ('87-'89)

- Member of Community of Practice Maintenance & Manufacturing Management (since May ’05)
- Member of the Purchasing competence team (EPI) (Feb - Dec ’04)
- Oracle Custom Development Graduate Bootcamp (Nov - Dec ’97)




Languages

Dutch - native
English - fluent
German - good
French - average
Hungarian - average

Other

- Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Frontpage, Project, Access)
- Oracle: Designer 2000, Head Start Designer 2000, Reports v2.5, Forms v4.5, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, Oracle 7.3

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