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• World Class Performance; Consulting & Implementation
• Teaching & Training
• Management
• Information Technology

World Class Performance; Consulting & Implementation;

• Extensive and intensive consulting in the field of IT, TPM (in the office), BPR, WCM, Lean and Six Sigma
• Implementation of Business Units
• Transition from functional- to process oriented organizations
• Crisis Management
• Change management

Examples:

• Full scale 5S implementations for Pechiney (Germany) Rieter Automotive (Netherlands, Germany and Belgium)
• Push to pull conversion, including functional to process orientation for Bova (coaches)
• Merger of 3 country-organizations into one BeNeLux organization; Process improvement for Coca Cola
• Root Cause Analysis on a Nafta Cracker (Sabic) resulting in elimination of regular 1 mio euro breakdown ánd 10% more output.

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Teaching and Training;

• Author of course material, hand-outs, manuals etc.
• Survey educational needs
• Organizing lectures and training
• Realization and implementation of training programs
• Speaker at TPM conferences in UK, Las Vegas and New Orleans
• Trainer for NVDO (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Doelmatig Onderhoud)
• Teacher at CETPM (Centre of Excellence for TPM) of the Ansbach University

Examples;

• Content expert for Unilever Japan Tour
• Training of 350 Unilever TPM-SD facilitators
• Training of 60 OEE facilitators for Bosch Siemens in China, Germany and Turkey
• Training of all Asian OEE facilitors for Numico
• OEE training at several TPM conferences in USA (>1000 visitors)
  

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Management;

• Project management
• Personnel and Organization
• Financial management
• Commercial management
• Production- and wholesale logistics
• Negotiation and consultation at all levels
• Negotiation and trade in Asia, (i.e. Taiwan, Malaysia, Hongkong and Thailand) Europe (East & West, inluding former USSR) and USA.

The traditional or functional management above does no longer attracts me. However I am available for:

• Crisis management
• Change management

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Information Technology

Technical- and functional information-analyses and system design.

Software development (both customized as standard, particularly administrative relational databases in multi-user environments. Procedural and Object Oriented).

• Financial and logistic software for harbor installations, implemented at one of worlds largest harbor installations
• Software for logistic handling & controlling of container terminals
• Software for Student and Examination administration for a national network of vocational training institute
• Key & Lock administration for a large manufacturer of office furniture
• Software for gathering and processing poll information
• Software for employment offices; employment exchange and employment finding
• Customer relation & tracking systems
• Laboratory software (LIMS)
• Testing software for PCB industry
• Banking and Mortgage software ('Kluwer Hypotheek Schijf')
• Budget planning software
• Software for color-mixing equipment in paint industry
• Data conversion software, EDI interfaces etc.
• MRP system for food industry
• ERP like systems including advanced financial modules, logistic processing, complex stockkeeping & planning and purchasing, project management, etc.
• Software for processing and analysing Overall Equipment Effectiveness data (OEE Toolkit)
• Web-developement
  

Platforms & Languages;

• CP/M, Novell, Windows, S36, AS400, UNIX
• Cobol, RPG, Prolog, Assemblers, Basic, Pascal, xBase
• Delphi
• HTML - PHP
• Joomla, Drupal, PostNuke

Hardware; some milestones

• In 1977 I build my first ''computer'' completely from ic-components, with a wired PCB, to serve as Baudot-ASCII converter for Radio Transmitted Teletype messages (RTTY), including the analogue filtersystem
• In 1988 I participated in a project to build a pneumatic driven satellite tracking system at the Foundation for Young Researchers
• In 1992 - 1994 I was involved in building dozens of computer networks. The largest consisted of over 1000 PC's, two AS400 and several UNIX machines.

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