Gartner statement July 2022:
“Virtual meeting solution requirements are increasingly complex and have outpaced the ability of many IT departments to successfully architect, implement and manage those solutions.”

This was the case at ASML too. Today they are leading.

• Designed  a scalable system for AV solutions in hybrid work spaces
  Designed and realized a global IT Audio Video and Collaboration portfolio for over 40.000 people at ASML for shared workplaces to unlock their potential even more: meeting rooms, flexible creative collaboration areas, agile team areas, Plazas, clean rooms, war rooms, focus rooms, and many more.
• Made the AV designs in 59 Corporate Real Estate projects, including 10 new buildings, dozens of reconstructions and various complex specials. From zero to over 2,700 meeting spaces equipped with AV solutions in 3,5 years.
• Created and continuously further developed a global concept and product portfolio.
• Crafted a AV Design Library comprising more than 100 detailed designs and instructions for the many different work spaces across office floors and clean rooms. The designs are used in every project by multiple disciplines to determine the number and position of facilities, to order the right equipment and to install the equipment in the right way.
• Designed AV proactive management, monitoring, and reporting systems.
• Created adoption materials for all ASML employees: an intuitive website, quick reference cards, videos and explainers.
• Collaborative efforts have spanned across multiple disciplines, including ASML floor designers, building architects, technical installation companies, construction project leaders, project developers, IT project leaders, AV installation teams, AV support teams, ASML trainers and technical engineers from Design & Engineering and Customer Support, AV companies, AV product manufacturers and furniture suppliers.

• Business development
  Researching the possibilities for designing a Modern Workplace proposition for – and with – customers of Triple P Nederland B.V.

• Strategie en Roadmaps
  Mapping the current situation with existing customers, reviewing a strategy, making roadmaps and providing insight into financial aspects of a new workplace.

• Won the opportunity
  Convinced Cardano’s C-level in London to choose Simac for building their new IT landscape using Microsoft Cloud services after sharing our team’s vision and showing that we understand what Cardano needs.

• Office 365 extra services and adoption program
  In my role of business developer together with two colleagues created extra services Simac delivered to it’s customers on top of Microsoft Office 365, created a business model and Cardano was our launching customer.

• Containers create value
  In my role of business developer together with two colleagues created the infrastructure needed by Cardano’s application developers to build modern Apps. Used Rancher, Docker, Jenkins and Linux in Azure Amsterdam and Dublin, and a Hadoop environment on-premises.

• TCO reduction leads to innovation
  Contributed to successful realization of a TCO reduction program of 1 million euro by designing innovative solutions using Microsoft Azure, Office 365, modern workspaces, and more.

• New Workspace Concept
  Designed and introduced a new Workspace concept which was adopted by IT and DELA Business in 2016. From then on incrementally (agile) developed the concept together with a great team of Workspace-, Application-, Test- and Adoption specialists;
  Inspired people to start the Café De La IT, a group of end point specialists always available to the employees of DELA helping them out with every user (adoption) question.

• Modernize Infrastructure
  Designed the plans to move the application servers from Simac Cloud to Microsoft Azure. Started in 2017. Incrementally (agile) moved Test- and Develop systems to Azure;
  Created the Business Continuity Service built on top of Azure and Simac Cloud;
  More and more PaaS services were used to become more efficient and flexible.

• Developed a new IT-Infrastructure strategy
  Having understood the challenge that GSN faced and learned about the current infrastructure, I took the initiative to develop a new IT strategy and get it supported by all stakeholders.

• Realization of the new IT-Infrastructure
  Designed a new high-available infrastructure and supervised the realization of it; created designs for a new application landscape with interfaces to many banks; created plans for the upgrade and consolidation of GSN’s core business IT systems; introduced architectural governance.
  This was necessary to make the transition to Geldmaat.

• DELA partnership
  Together with a team of three successfully restored the relationship between Simac and DELA – Simac’s largest customer; rebuilt defective technology, restructured the organization and its processes. To keep the customer onboard for the long run, took things one step further; created the Simac strategy roadmap which got embraced by DELA. In the next iteration created a Simac mission, vision, strategy and supporting portfolio, which won new clients for Simac.

• DELA Belgium
  Helped out to fix the most urgent issues in the relationship between Simac Belgium and DELA Belgium; After winning a RfP started to deliver modern cloud services from Simac in the Netherlands.

• Business Development
  Designed and built Simac’s Business Continuity Service using Microsoft’s cloud services;
  Office 365 Top Support, the IP on top of Microsoft’s Office 365;
  Dynamic Workplace concept which was sold to several clients;
  Improve the relationship with Microsoft NL and interact with the productteams and Marketing of Microsoft Corp.

• Marketing ~ connecting to the right audience
  Several presentations for external organizations i.e. VNO NCW Brabant Zeeland about transformation and how to deal with it;
  Writing e-books and whitepapers;
  Creating storyboards of video’s;
  Give presentations on several Simac marketing events.

• Teaching
  Train three people from MTV IT in Amsterdam on how to get more out of Nagios and Centreon.

• Enterprise Service Bus redesign
  Taken the initiative to get rid of the spaghetti-integration-horror and redesign and rebuild the patient data messaging landscape. Goal was to create transparency, efficiency and more flexibility when changing or replacing Healthcare Systems.

• Installing several new Healthcare and Logistical Systems
  Designed and helped realizing the infrastructure and integration components of a few brand new Systems: OR System, Patient Flow System, Smart Signs, Check-out System for the restaurant.

• Improving the infrastructure
  Introducing a new Storage system; Workspace development; Introducing the iPad to support in the Triage process and patient registration.

• Automated Enterprise Service Bus (Cloverleaf)
  Designed and built a complex Electronic Patient Data messaging ecosystem delivering 1.5 to 2 million HL7 and Edifact messages a week.
  Automated the operations and error-handling by thousands of lines of code; saving over 2 FTE’s and incidents had no impact anymore on healthcare processes.

• Professionalizing infrastructure systems & work-processes
  Taken the initiative to improve almost all IT Infrastructure systems and work-processes one-by-one using innovative solutions and bringing the IT-services to a higher level. I.e. print, backup & restore, virtualization, storage (SAN), monitoring & remediation, networking, moving from Novell to Microsoft.

• Understanding healthcare
  Liaison between physicians, nursing staff, care managers and IT. Focus on Radiology, OR, ICU, Dialysis, Clinical Chemical Laboratory, Pathology, Microbiology, Ophthalmologist.

• Understanding healthcare IT-systems
  Designed, built and operated many complex IT Healthcare systems; Electronic Health Record systems, systems for radiology, Pathology, CKCHL, Microbiology, MDL, dialysis, ICU and OR.

• Early introduction of VMware
  Introduced VMware and an EMC SAN in Elisabeth hospital from 2004. In May 2006 performed the first vMotion between the two datacenters (which was a “this is going to change everything” moment in time). Virtualized all 200 physical Windows and Linux servers by myself in 2006.

• Automated radiology image transportation between hospitals
  In 2007 took the initiative and built a brand-new low-cost solution which automatically transported MRI images from another hospital to Elisabeth. Result: patient visits could be planned 5 days earlier; staff members were saved from doing hours of tedious work (uploading DVD’s). This solution was still operational in 2018, and as far as I know still is today.

• Getting in control
  Built pro-active monitoring, alarming and reporting system using Open Source software: Nagios, Centreon, Linux, MySQL. Coded dozens of plugins to monitor specific systems and processes.
  The result was a new way of work for the IT department: proactive instead of reactive. Big game changer.
  Philips Healthcare copied parts of this system and added it to their Radiology PACS-solution.