Recent projects

CUTOVER MANAGER - Prepare a pilot migration to SAP S/4HANA under a tight deadline, picking up exactly where the previous team left off
Giant Global, for Imperial Brands PLC (Jun 2025 – Sep 2025)
Brought back into Imperial Brands via Giant Global (UK) to finish the test phase, build and validate the cutover plan for a pilot S/4HANA migration at a cigarette factory in Poland.

• Completed System Integration Tests and User Acceptance Tests
• Delivered a cutover plan including data-migration plan (1.700 steps) covering all processes and connected systems
• Ran a full dry-run of the cutover and data-migration plan across all involved departments, from Sales, Planning and Procurement to Data Management and Finance teams worldwide

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER - Lead multiple parallel projects for one of the world's largest tobacco manufacturers, from regulatory compliance to scientific data infrastructure
Imperial Brands PLC (Sep 2020 – Apr 2025)
Returned as Senior Project Manager, initially to implement a global regulatory information platform, then took on further projects running in parallel.
Implemented the LifeSphere regulatory platform (EasyDocs, RIMS, Publishing)

• Built the roadmap for the future Tobacco and Blending System
• Implemented DataLab, a scientific data lake on the Azure platform
• Delivered a B2B web portal on Salesforce

PROJECT MANAGER - Help a global electronics leader automate product and material compliance across REACH, RoHS and Prop 65
Royal Philips (Feb 2020 – Feb 2022)
Philips treats sustainability as a driver for innovation and growth. Philips Group Sustainability selected iPoint Compliancy Agent as its central solution for automated product and material compliance.

• Designed, configured, tested and delivered iPoint / iPCA
• Enabled product declarations to the SCIP database of the European Chemicals Agency
• Integrated iPoint with cPLM Windchill compliance dashboards for materials and products

MIGRATION MANAGER - Pick up 25 years of on-premise history and make it work again in the Cloud, in only one year and with minimal business impact
Imperial Brands (Jan 2018 – Nov 2019)
As part of the strategic IT2020 programme, non-core activities such as data-centre hosting, software development and functional support were outsourced.

• Migrated QAD ERP (1 central + 11 local databases) to the Cloud, across 21 factories, 6 automated warehouses and 6 finance centres worldwide
• Transitioned 13.000 customised programs from Windows to Linux
• Migrated 2.900 users, 600 shopfloor terminals, 400 RF scanners and 275 interfaces

Under high pressure, running multiple teams in parallel and travelling almost non-stop, we accomplished the impossible — and had a lot of fun doing it. Following the successful completion of the QAD-Cloud project, I went on to manage two further projects in parallel, together with European and Indian teams:

• Piloted the ARAS PLM system
• Introduced material traceability in ERP and MES

PROJECT MANAGER - Replace long-running, ad-hoc initiatives with a standard project approach, centred on selecting and implementing standard business applications
Neways Electronics International (Apr 2017 – Dec 2017)
European Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) organisation producing advanced electronics.

• Introduced a standard project methodology (PRINCE2/PMP)
• Selected an Enterprise Quality Management System (EQMS)
• Selected a Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
• Rolled out Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) functionality

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT - Development and introduction of a Supply Chain Planning data model
Enexis Netbeheer (Jan 2017 – Mar 2017)
Grid operator managing 2.7 million electricity and 2 million gas connections across 10 sites, running a multi-year programme to optimise processes and underlying systems.

• Connected strategic, tactical and operational levels of resource planning
• Built a conceptual data model based on standard manufacturing-industry products
• Delivered a proof of concept for operational planning at the Breda site

PROJECT MANAGER - Manage complex, parallel ERP projects across multiple countries and cultures
Imperial Brands PLC (Dec 2012 – Dec 2016)
Imperial's Group Information Systems is responsible for strategy, design, development, delivery and support of core manufacturing applications across global manufacturing sites.

• Full ERP implementations (QAD2010), including data migration and integration with central systems, at a Spanish cigar factory, a Belgian rolling-paper factory and a German cigarette-tube factory
• ERP integration with automated high-bay warehouses in Ukraine and Poland
• Software selection for an Enterprise Quality Management System (EQMS)
• Redesigned the shop-floor terminal (MES) application

Further foundational experience

• PROJECT MANAGER - Weir Minerals China (2010-2011)
  Set up ERP and operating procedures for a new manufacturing facility in China.
  A green-field project with special attention to cultural differences and protecting intellectual property
• ICT MANAGER - Weir Minerals Netherlands (2010)
  Restructured the ICT department; improved productivity and restored customer confidence
• PROJECT MANAGER - Weir Minerals France (2009-2010)
  Migrated ERP from Oracle EBS to CEGID while relocating production lines and logistics to France.
• MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT- Celanese Acetate (2008)
  Reviewed and optimised SAP logistics configuration, reducing inventory costs
• SHOPFLOOR MANAGER - Flextronics Reverse Logistics (2008)
  Restarted production and warehouse operations (180 FTE) using Lean Sigma after the organization was relocated.
  The department was subsequently audited as HP Global Best Performer.
• LOGISTICS MANAGER - Paradigit Groep (2007)
  Reorganised the logistics department, improving lead-time reliability
• MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT - Look-O-Look (2007)
  Analysed supply chain planning; redefined SAP SCM usage
• LOGISTICS MANAGER - Curtec Nederland (2006-2007)
  Rearranged warehouse layout and introduced KPI reporting
• OPERATIONS MANAGER - Copaco Netherlands (2003-2006)
  Ran Order Management, After Sales and Logistics for this Benelux ICT and telecom distributor, restructuring the warehouse and implementing SAP-LES with full RF functionality.
• OPERATIONS MANAGER - Lifeware (1991-2002)
  Joined shortly after start-up as an MT member; grew the ICT-distributor's operations and IT services, then led the integration with sister companies A-Line and Amtron and the transition from Omnivers ERP to SAP R/3.
• SERVICES MANAGER - Reijers Computers (1987-1991)
  One of the first regional ICT suppliers for office environments; introduced repairs, helpdesk and service-contract functions during the early rollout of PCs, office applications and networks.