Companies today must maximize the quality of what they do, minimize their costs, increase speed and grow market share. I believe that the combination of process agility, technology and talented people helps deliver all three. In my career I have always striven to empower people, organizing them in small, multidisciplinary teams to do great work and encouraging them to embrace the innovations and craftsmanship that deliver improved products and better customer service. In creating high performing communities over many years, I have developed a personal set of core skills: - a strong customer focus, keen strategic understanding, execution, international experienced, drive for results, hands-on and trusted business partner - a strategic thinker, thinks beyond annual goals, strategies to drive profitability, revenue, and the ability to re-engineer, re-purpose, revitalize organisations driving innovation and transformation. - the ability to build an engaged, high performing workforce, using effective organization structure and delivering a creative way of working to build (digital) brand loyalty and growth I believe these are the qualities that help build a winning business. Specialties: IT, Operational Excellence, Change and Transformation Management, Software development, Infrastructure, Cloud, Agile / Scrum / Continues Delivery / DevOps / BusDevOps, BigData, AI, Robotics, Digital, Execution, Managing Complex projects, Insurance, Banking, Retail, Telecommunications, Internet, Mobile and leading in an international context with matrix structures and large scale teams trough collaborating and influencing.
Executive Vice President, CIO at Discover Financial Services
MSc, Consulting and Coaching for Change