Profile

Senior Program manager with 20+ years ICT-experience in Project Management, Program Management, Solution Delivery, Project Portfolio management, Business Analysis for several banks, in an international environment.

Personal skills:
• Result driven
• Strong overview
• Alignment
• Hands on
• Focused

Industry experience:
• Asset Management
• Brokerage
• Cash Management
• Core Banking
• Custody and Clearing
• Fund Services
• Prime Brokerage
• Risk management
• Trading

Specialties:
• Agile (Scrum)
• ICT Architecture
• IT Management
• Outsourcing
• Portfolio and Program Management (MSP)
• Project Management (Prince2)
• Regulatory Reporting
• Requirements Management
• Software Package selection
• Third Party Management
• Waterfall development


Experience with

• Program/project management
• Project portfolio management
• Architecture alignment
• Release management
• Global projects
• Stakeholder management at senior level
• Setup and implementation of software development environment
• Productivity of software development environments
• Management of projects executed in multiple environments
• Business Activity Monitoring
• Outsourcing
• Third party software development
• Package selection
• Negotiation with suppliers
• Supplier management and relationship management
• T24, Geneva, NTAS, HiPo, Viewpoint, WebMethods, Bancs, Quartz, Sophis, Ullink, Netik, Global One, FIX, SWIFT, Intellimatch, Websphere


Professional experience

Period 2014/03 – now
Organization Company offering reporting services to fund and asset managers
Responsibilities Set up and implementation of company.

Period 2013/11 – 2014/02
Sabbatical, travelling in Argentina and Chile.

Period 2012/12 – 2013/11
Organization ABN AMRO Belgium
Job title Program manager
Responsibilities Migration of Custody portfolio to outside party, securities and cash.
Implemented Straight Through Processing (STP) for brokerage.
Implemented one broker/one custodian model, resulting in substantial cost savings.

Period 2012/9 – 2012/11
Organization ABN AMRO Private Banking
Job title Program Manager
Responsibilities Analysis and advise on modernization strategy for ABN AMRO Netherlands Private Banking core banking environment.
The analysis included make or buy decision, big bang versus gradual implementation approach, technology, cost analysis.

Period 2010 – 2012/8
Organization ABN AMRO (Clearing)
Job title ICT Domain Manager
Responsibilities Application development and maintenance for ABNAMRO Clearing.
Core banking environment, cash management, securities processing and loans.
Manage the relationship with the internal stakeholders.
Implementation of 7 X 24 global transaction processing system, processing over 10 million financial transactions daily.
Development of client portal for market maker companies, offering realtime position and transaction information.
Development of Interest calculation system in Webshpere (Agile).
Enhanced processing capacity of full application landscape with 30% annually.
Migration of core systems from Woerden datacentre to London.
Period 2005 – 2010
Organization Fortis Bank (Brokerage, Clearing, Custody and Prime Fund Solutions, PFS)
Job title Global ICT Manager
Responsibilities As Global ICT Manager responsible for application development and maintenance for Brokerage, Clearing, Custody and Prime Fund Solutions.
Significantly reduced complexity of application landscape, thus reducing cost.
Successful implementation within budget of Prime brokerage program (complete new back office-system) within 2 years. Included large offshore outsourced software development by TCS, requiring additional development to their package (Quartz). Created predictable working relationship with TCS, delivering predictable results and progress.
Migrated majority of the systems to another data centre.
Implementation of Temenos T24 ( complete banking system).
Centralized all key applications of PFS simplifying the overall architecture, resulting in lower cost and improving manageability.
Implemented real time risk management system, processing peaks of 20 million transactions per day.
Development and implementation of EMCF system, now the largest clearing instance in Europe.

Period 2003 – 2005
Organization Fortis Bank (Brokerage, Clearing and Custody and Prime Fund Solutions)
Job title IT Delivery Manager
Responsibilities As IT Delivery Manager end responsible for all IT developments.
Transform the IT department to a delivery organization (Demand Supply model).
Split annual IT budget in small changes versus projects.
Business to prioritize projects and changes.
Regular reporting on progress with respect to both (small) changes and projects.
Create separate boards (IT and business both participating) to manage changes versus projects.
Creation of clearing system for German and Australian market.
Development of new settlement system for custody environment.
Package selection and implementation of Geneva for fund accounting.
Package selection and implementation of data management system for fund accounting.
Implementation of risk management system for Clearing


Period 2000 – 2002
Organization Fortis Bank
Job title Manager Operations and control
Responsibilities Responsible for all pre-investigations and project management within Fortis bank Netherlands.
Successful euro migration per 1-1-2002.
Integrate Generale Bank, VSB and MeesPierson, creating one way of working.
Implementation of uniform project progress reporting.

Period 1996 – 2000
Organization MeesPierson
Job title Senior Program Manager
Responsibilities Completion of Y2K and Euro (I) projects for MeesPierson.
Merge 2 custody systems.
Transfer package knowledge of FTI system in house.
Package selection and implementation of securities lending system (Global One).
Implementation of asset management system HiPo for MeesPierson asset management.

Period 1992 – 1996
Organization MeesPierson
Job title ICT project manager
Responsibilities Successful development of new client position administration and custody system, a blend of package and in house development (15 mio euro project).

Period 1990 – 1992
Organization MeesPierson
Job title Business Analyst
Responsibilities Design of new securities processing system.

Period 1986 – 1990
Organization KPN
Job title Functional designer and Project manager
Responsibilities New system for financial administration



Education

General education

1990-1992: Degree Business administration/management
1987 Technical and functional Design Volmac Utrecht
1987 Information Analysis Cap Gemini Amersfoort
1986 Programming Volmac Utrecht
1978-1986: Degree University Groningen and Amsterdam Chemistry (Masters)
1972-1978: VWO-B Augustinuscollege Groningen
1967-1972: Elementary school Zuidlaren

Professional Training

2011 Organizational change management
2008 Program management (MSP)
2007 Prince2, practitioner
2006 ITIL, securities training
1992 Project management


Languages

Dutch mother tongue
English fluent
German very good
French medium
Spanish some


Technology

• Bancs
• Quartz
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Geneva
• WebMethods (SoftwareAG)
• Netik
• T24 (Temenos)
• Java
• Websphere
• Cobol

ABNAMRO
MeesPierson
Fortis
KPN

Programma manager
Project manager
application development

Racefietsen
duurzaamheid