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Work Experience

Professional experience (in reversed chronological order)

1999 – 2003 Project Manager Baan Development
Project Management within Baan is focused on defining the requirements for a project (together with product management), planning and execution. The execution is not only driven on time, but also on quality. The overall focus within Baan was less on budget.

- Projects within Baan have a multi-site development focus, as development is done in the Netherlands, India and in Germany. This makes the approach of projects complex.
- The Project Management Office within Baan Development is member of the Project Management Institute.

Some of my projects:
- Overal responsibility for the development of a migration solution from the former Baan environment to the new BaanERP6.0 environment. This was an extremely complex program, with multi-site development (the Netherlands, India, and Germany, and a multi byte test program in Japan). I approached this project as a program with several subprojects focused on deliverables (tools, content, documentation). Six project managers reported to me (two in India, one in Germany and three in the Netherlands).

- Before this program I was assigned to manage a process improvement program within the sub-department Configuration and Delivery (C&D). This department is responsible for quality ensuring (testing, performance), documentation, translation and software configuration. This program was split in several sub-programs like requirements management, project management, supplier agreement management measurement & analysis et cetera. A project leader or line manager managed every sub-program. My role was to manage the overall program. Beside that I was asked to bring project management within C&D on a higher level.

Before these two projects I released various applications within Baan, like:
- BaanERP5.2; a new ERP-environment
- Baan Service Scheduler; an application that schedules service people in a dynamic environment
- Workflow; a customization project around the workflow of ERP5.0c for KPN (Dutch Telecom). As this was a fixed price project, budgeting was an important aspect as well. For this project I had to set-up a way of financial reporting (not common within Baan) in such way that budgeting was well managed.
- Automotive Global Solution; extension for the automotive industry with a focus on “Tier one suppliers”.

A release within Baan means taking care of bringing an application to the market; from product development to organizational readiness. As such it was my responsibility to take care of (i.e.)
- Product readiness:
o Product quality (testing, multi byte enabling)
o Documentation (installation guides, release notes, user manuals)
o Media development (on CD, tape or via web delivery)
- Organizational readiness:
o People trained to support the applications (organize trainings)
o People trained to implement and support on customer site
o Marketing material available (white papers)

1997 – 1999 Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense (The Hague)
Rresponsible for the external communication concerning all navy-related matters and of organizing press events and press journeys. Beside that I was also, aseditor, responsible for the internal Navy magazine (“het Marinenieuws” and the “Alle Hens”).
In that same period I was also a member of the "Disaster Assistance Response Team" (DART), a team of military specialists that, within 24 hours, could be send to human disasters all over the world. I have actively participated in disaster assistance operations in Honduras (Nov 1998) and the Dutch Antilles (Sep 1998). Within this team I was responsible for public relations.

1995 – 1997 Operations Officer on board of Dutch frigates (various vessels)
As Operations Officer responsible for all aspects of maritime operations, reporting directly to the Commanding Officer. At the same time I was responsible for the navigational and logistic aspects of the journey of the vessel. I was responsible (operational as well as in HRM-aspects) for approximately 40 naval officers, petty officers and sailors. During this period I have worked in arms embargo operations along the coast of former Yugoslavia, in counter drugs operations and other naval operations.

1993 – 1994 Executive Officer on board of a minesweeper (HNLMS Naaldwijk)
As Executive Officer I was second in command of a minesweeper and responsible for a total crew of 45. In this role I was responsible for the operational aspects of the vessel, and of all HRM-aspects on board.

1991 – 1993 Watch Officer on board of frigates
Responsible for the safe navigation of the ship.

1987 – 1991 training as a Maritime Officer
Within the Navy I was specially selected to follow the sivillian education to become Maritime Officer in Amsterdam (Hogere Zeevaartschool Amsterdam). One sailor per year was specially selected to follow this program. This was paid by the Navy.

1983 – 1987 Sailor
Served on various naval vessels.


Education

Education:
1982 Christelijk MAVO “t Anker”
1986 HAVO (Via state exam in the Navy)
1991 Hogere Zeevaartschool (Bachelor of Science)

The "Maritime Officer" is educated to become officer on board of merchant naval vessels. This training consisted of parts:
- Navigational officer
- Mechanical engineer
- Electromechanical engineer


Skills

Alex is a team player with good sense of humor and excellent communication skills. He has a good sense for diplomatic and (company) political sensitive issues. He knows how to improve team spirit, specifically in a multi national environment. Alex is creative, but also pragmatic. He can set priorities and while keeping an helicopter view of the situation.

Languages

Language
- Dutch
=> Read : Excellent
=> Speak : Excellent
=> Write : Excellent
- English
=> Read : Excellent
=> Speak : Excellent
=> Write : Good
- German
=> Read : Good
=> Speak : Good
=> Write : Modderate


Other

- Driver's license Code B

- Experienced user of Microsoft Office 97/2000.
- Experienced user of MS Projects 98/2000
- Experienced user of MindManager2002 / X5 (mind mapping)


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