Kennis, opleidingen en ervaring:

Opleiding: Universitair

Stages en werkervaring: PROFILE:

Ambitious person with a strong motivation and drive. Has a diversified work experience with banks, consultancy and technology companies in multiple geographies. Has profound experience in project and service management with experience in operations, change and risk management. Provisioned projects as facilitator and lead middleware teams. Experienced in business strategy formulation and marketing. Possess a solid experience in business and IT, seeking to move towards strategic function.


CAREER JOURNEY:

2009 - Present Rabobank International, Wholesale Banking, Utrecht
March Rabobank International is the corporate and investment banking arm of Rabobank Group (since 1996). It focuses on extending the knowledge and expertise Rabobank Group has in Food & Agriculture business.

2009 - Present Middleware Project Manager / Senior Systems Administrator (Permanent)
March
• I am responsible for architecting and managing data transfer projects for various payment, transactional and global financial market systems.
• I have aligned middleware product offering for businesses and regions, providing them with the facility to outsource their middleware operations.
• I am leading a team of six middleware administrators, which is responsible for managing over 600 middleware infrastructure servers.
• I am representing employees in my department and instigating discussions with Management Team Utrecht for the topic of employee engagement.
• Received promotion for efficiently managing and strengthening the middleware infrastructure team of Rabobank International.
• Ran consolidation projects changing data movement strategy leading to savings of half a million euros in 2012.
• Successful management and migration of 250 middleware servers for datacentre move from Zeist to Boxtel, on budget and ahead of schedule.
• Successfully launched first middleware infrastructure services for RaboDirect, Internet Direct Bank Poland.
• Have hands on experience in interfacing data solutions for Rabobank International’s locations in Netherlands, New York, Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brazil, Ireland, Belgium and Poland using middleware technologies like WebSphere MQ, FTE, Connect:Direct and WebSphere Application Server.

2011 - 2012 Marketing Strategist, Rabobank Amstel en Vecht (Internship)
July Feb
• Performed an in depth research on “Technology and innovation shaping the future of retail banking”. The research showed the strategic choices Rabobank had for making technology and innovation as its competitive advantage for becoming a market leader in Dutch retail market.
• The results of the research were taken as points for action by Marketing and Innovation department. Positive feedback and compliments were received from Regional Head Netherlands, IT Infrastructure and Architect Innovation.


2008 - 2008 Barclays Capital, United Kingdom
Sept Dec Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays PLC. Barclays Capital provides financing and risk management services to large companies, institutions and government clients.

Senior Infrastructure Specialist (Contract)
• Designed data migration solutions optimally fitting Barclays data centre migration strategy from ABSA bank South Africa to Barclays bank Singapore.
• Successfully migrated the Connect:Direct data connections as part of Barclays cost cutting initiative.
• Streamlined the baseline quality standards and procedures for the new infrastructure.


2005 - 2008 ABN AMRO Asset Management, Amsterdam
Aug Sept ABN AMRO Asset Management was the investment management division of ABN AMRO, now owned and run by BNP Paribas.

Lead Infrastructure Messaging (Permanent)
• I was responsible for architecturally designing and executing middleware data transfer solutions for ABN AMRO Asset Management.
• Implemented creative and highly efficient merge solutions for data connections between ABN AMRO Asset Management and Fortis Investments, post Fortis acquisition.
• Setup middleware standards by standardizing scripts, processes and service levels.
• Secured top performance ratings in ABN AMRO Asset Management for delivering high calibre performance throughout.
• I was awarded best managed project award.
• My achievements were published in the quarterly business report of ABN AMRO Asset Management for executing middleware integration projects during the takeover of ABN AMRO Asset Management by Fortis Investments.
• I was primary contact for all middleware projects and was leading a middleware team of three people.
• Have interfaced data solutions for Netherlands, Chicago, London, Stockholm, Hong Kong and Belgium using middleware technologies, WebSphere MQ and Connect:Direct.


2005 Net Solutions
Pre Aug Net Solutions is a full service development and design company providing custom design and application development.

IT Engineer (Contract)
• I was responsible for designing the Etracker Tool which was part of internal applications. It was a web based application for tracking employee details. It was developed using ASP.NET, VB.NET and SQL Server technologies.

Opleidingen en cursussen: 2010 - 2012 Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands
March Feb Kellogg School of Management, USA
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Executive Master of Business Administration (Modular)
• Study specialized in strategy, marketing, finance and leadership.
• Attained high GPA of 3.22/4.00 (average grade 8+).
• Served as class representative initiating group activities and maintaining pro-active communication between students and program management.
• As a business consultant provided strategic options to Nietvoorbij vineyard (Stellenbosch, South Africa) to make their business viable and sustainable.
• Complemented study with an elaborative profile analysis of Rabobank to devise a local retail business strategy in Netherlands for the bank.

2001 - 2005 Kurukshetra University, India
July June
Bachelor of Technology (Engineering) in Computer Science (Full Time)
• Awarded degree with honours and excellent academics, 73% marks in percentage based assessment.
• Developed phone extension management system as a final year project, which got positively accepted and accredited by Microsoft Corporation.
• Developed versatile modules for implementation of IP address management and VOIP projects for Hughes Software Systems (now Aricent Group).
• Successfully implemented a library management system for Indian Oil Corp.

Overige informatie:

Rijbewijs: A,B

Eigen vervoer: Nee

Persoonlijke eigenschappen: • Self driven and highly motivated.
• Leadership qualities
• Consistency in attaining results
• Strong communication skills
• Dynamic and proactive individual.
• Striving for customer satisfaction and excellence.

Hobby's en interesses:

Gewenste contractvorm: Fulltime