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Programme - Project Manager

Programme - Project Manager

Work Experience

India- Schweiz, 2005-today
Management consulting and project management
Management consultant, owner

Assignment at Mumbai Mobile Crèches, 25yr old NGO, supporting 4k children - 2007- today
• Designed a replicable and self-sustainable funding concept, based on win-win scenario’s between the NGO and its corporate stakeholders

Assignment at Godrej Sara Lee, consumer products, turnover 2004: €100 mio - 2005- 2006
• Participated in company-wide turnaround-project, resulting in 25% profits increase
• Designed and led the implementation of a new supply chain organization, processes and IT system, resulting in a decrease of out-of stock products from 10% to 2%, and increase the number of inventory-turns from 9 to 14
• Planted the seeds and nurtured a culture of “process-of-ongoing-improvement”


Swissvoice AG, Switzerland, 2004
Telecom hardware consumer products, turnover 2003: €70 mio

Strategic Assistant to the CEO, Business development
• Programme manager for all CEO initiatives
• Co-designed and planned a turn-around strategy based on the Theory of Constraints, that formed the base for a complete restructuring programme
• Project leader and contact for external companies during due diligence projects


Vodafone – Proximus, Belgium, 1999-2004
Mobile Telecommunications Service provider, 53% market share, turnover 2003: €2200 mio

Senior Project Manager, Business development – 2003-2004
• Led 5 Top-25 Company wide projects in parallel, with a total budget of €6 mio, as youngest senior manager within the Project Management department
• Directly managed and developed 30 people within the various project teams
• Ran company pilot projects under the newly adopted PMI Methodology
• Chaired the multidisciplinary Negotiation Committee, achieving the best terms for contracts with key suppliers. E.g. Siemens, Ericsson

Product Manager - GPRS, Business development, 2001-2003
• Programme manager for the development and implementation of all new GPRS technology projects within the company.
• Successfully coordinated the existing GPRS product gamma, through training workshops involving 250 colleagues, which led to a better understanding of customer needs and thus an improvement of overall customer satisfaction
• Managed the GPRS product roadmap, which came to represent 5% of the annual company turn-over

Junior Product Manager – Customer Relationship Management, Marketing – 1999-2001
• Interfaced between CRM business team and IT developers by translating marketing needs into functional IT requirements
• Led 2-3 projects simultaneously
• Developed and implemented a redesign of a handset insurance program with a budget of €3 mio
• Led the creation of the processes, systems, and logistical hardware operation
• Directly managed and motivated a cross-functional team of 10 to support the new product launch (total nr of people involved in the project exceeded 75)


CMD, Luxembourg, 1998-1999
Mobile Telecommunications Service provider

Project Manager, Marketing
• Participated in the marketing plan and launch of an internet service provider start-up
• Supported the customer relationship management


Alcatel SEL, Germany, 1998
Multinational IT and Telecom hardware innovator and manufacturer

Thesis internship, Communication and IT dept.
• Created a new knowledge management structure for the company based on state of the art trends of this topic
• A new intranet structure was implemented based on the thesis


Education

2005
TOC-International Certification Organisation
Accredited Theory of Constraints Implementer

2003-2004
PMI
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

2000-2002
United Business Institutes, Brussels-Belgium
Executive M.B.A Global IT and Telecom Management
Graduated with honour

1993-1998
Radboud University Nijmegen-Netherlands
Netherlands Master in Business Communications
Bremen Wirtschafts Hochshule, Germany, 1 yr Erasmus exchange program, 1996-1997


Skills

Solid Programme- and Project Management experience in both large product development projects, as well as change projects within companies.
Strategic consulting knowledge focused on analytical solution finding, and capability of translating business needs in complex technical systems, in various telecom service and consumer products supply-chain environments.


* Structured mindset
* Integrity and honesty
* Proven team-work leadership
* Strong problem solving skills
* Desire to learn and develop


Languages

Dutch: mother tongue
English: fluent
German: fluent
French: average
Spanish: learning

Other

Nationality: Netherlands
Work permit in Switzerland: yes

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