Edward de Leau, e@leau.net

Current

Configuration Management Design at Achmea
Chairman at Household Framework Organization
Managing Consultant + IT Architect at IBM

Content Manager at Startpagina (Self-employed)

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Past

Rational Consultant at KPN
Rational Consultant at Air France KLM
Teamlead Rational Group at Rabobank

Accounting.Net at Numico
CRM Siebel at Rabobank
E-CRM / Digitaal Meldpunt at Amsterdam
Consultant at PwC Consulting
Lead Microsoft Developer at Unive verzekeringen
Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers MCS
Project leader at Helpdesk2000
First Line Support at Packard Bell
Corporal at NATO 1st(NL) Signal Squadron
IT Package Selection and design at RIAGG Vijverdal
Developer at BCS (BCT)
functional designer and development at KNP

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Education

Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Hogeschool Zuyd

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Edward de Leau, e@leau.net’s Summary

I am a Senior Consultant within IBM AS Consulting Services. I advise on services and solutions within leading companies and organizations in several sectors and industries.

- I advice customers on improvement of products, services and processes.
- I propose improvement solutions, plans and/or products for the customer based on business ideas and/or plans and translate business plans to IT requirements.
- I investigate organizational processes and provide ideas and solutions for improvement.
- I advice and help gain the full business benefits out of improvement streams within areas such as governance, compliance, process improvement, change management, requirements management and configuration management and development factories.
- I coordinate solution directions within short and long term business directions and lead improvement projects within the defined business strategy, architecture and roadmaps.
- During my career I gained experience in the full project lifecycle in a wide range of advisory and operational roles.
- I am able to improve and facilitate processes within diverse industries and areas such as CRM, EAI, E-CRM, custom development and Portals projects.

From 1999 to 2006 I was part of the AIS group within PWC Consulting and later IBM BCS as a senior consultant / IT architect.

Starting from 2006 I will focus mainly on Rational solutions and products within the newly formed IBM BCS AS Rational Consulting Group.

Edward de Leau, e@leau.net’s Specialties:

Rational, Microsoft, IBM, Webtechnology, Portals, CRM, Internet, Open Source, KANA, Siebel, Consultancy, IT Architecture

Edward de Leau, e@leau.net’s Experience

Configuration Management Design

Achmea

(Privately Held; Insurance industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)

delivering the Configuration Management Design / Configuration Management Plan for a large program within Achmea.
Chairman

Household Framework Organization

(Individual & Family Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

The HHFW is a framework for maturing a household and integrating it in a fully connected world. The HHFW organization creates and manages the framework.The HHFW organization sets goals and requirements from the viewpoint of a household.
Managing Consultant + IT Architect

IBM

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

I'm at the crossroad of choosing a certification on either the profession Consultancy, IT Architect or IT specialist. I have been at this crossroad for the past 7 years performing a continuous mixture of these roles.
Content Manager
Startpagina (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1999 — Present (10 years 3 months)

Content Manager for Startpagina, #1 dutch site, cv.pagina.nl (200.000 pageviews) and risk.pagina.nl
Rational Consultant

KPN

(Public Company; KPN; Telecommunications industry)

April 2007 — June 2009 (2 years 3 months)

Rational Consultant at KPN
Rational Consultant

Air France KLM

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

April 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Advisory on Rational Implementation AF / KLM
Teamlead Rational Group

Rabobank

(Privately Held; Banking industry)

October 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 7 months)

Project description : Implementation and rollout of the largest Siebel implementation worldwide at a major bank including system integration.
Project contribution : Coupling of the Rational Suite and Siebel including UCM and RUP. Worked on the implementation of a large Siebel Development Factory based on the set of Rational Tools with an emphasis on UCM and supporting parallel development with Siebel. Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, ProjectConsole, RequisitePro, SODA approx. 800 users incl. India. Worked on the Development and Deployment strategy. Performed the role of e.g. Configuration Management Manager. Teamlead of the Rational Team.
Accounting.Net

Numico

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NUM; Consumer Goods industry)

October 2003 — June 2004 (9 months)

Project description : Implementation of an ASP.NET Portal and accounting bible using Microsoft .NET Technology e.g. Sharepoint and Content Management Server

Project contribution : I was architect and designer of an offline version of a Globally used Standard Charts of Accounts Application. I also worked on many parts of the online intranet SCOA and document management system. I guided and mentored a junior consultant on the project. The large multi-tier application was build on the Microsoft Platform (ASP.Net) using C#.
CRM Siebel

Rabobank

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

February 2003 — October 2003 (9 months)

Project description : Implementation and rollout of Siebel at a major bank including system integration.
Project contribution : design the real-time and offline interfaces from Siebel to back office systems, establish the Siebel EIM interfaces, implement parts of the nightly batch interfaces and initial load on AIX with DB2.
E-CRM / Digitaal Meldpunt

Amsterdam

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

June 2002 — January 2003 (8 months)

Project description : System integration of Kana. The municipality started a pilot in which parts of the i-care suite of the e-crm supplier KANA were implemented to answer questions from citizens consistently, to implement central registration of phone/fax/mail messages and route questions within the organization. This implementation was followed by several other parts other municipality, which used different functionalities on the same architecture
Project contribution : Architecture and implementation. Kana IQ, Kana Forms, Kana Response.
Consultant

PwC Consulting

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2001 — September 2002 (10 months)
Lead Microsoft Developer

Unive verzekeringen

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

May 2000 — May 2002 (2 years 1 month)

During 6 "waves" we designed and implemented the www.unive.nl e-commerce site, providing online (new) insurances, couplings to back office and other systems like Siebel, improving marketing capabilities. During these years of waves I fulfilled roles as testanalyst, developer, lead developer, analysist and architect.
Several tasks i fulfilled during these waves were providing feedback on several functional designs and user questions from a technical perspective; designing, building and testing several new insurance products; solving daily incidents and resolving change requests; implementing several changes and improving a general technical framework 'wizard wizard'; assisting in several marketing campaigns, implementing and designing back-office interfaces, instructing team members, euro conversion and providing documentation.
The site was based on the Microsoft e-commerce platform, (d)com, sql server, asp, html, javascript, VB, SiteServer, SourceSafe, InterDev.
Consultant

PricewaterhouseCoopers MCS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PWC; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1999 — November 2001 (2 years )
Project leader

Helpdesk2000

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

March 1999 — July 1999 (5 months)

The client's goal was to penetrate the technical callcenter area with a new company which main revenue was generated from a pay-line for technical endusers.
I made a management projectplan of the communication company. The phases following this were the selection and recruitment of callcenter technicians, creating the architecture based on a Microsoft Platform (including a NT network linked to the callcenter ), designing and implementing a technical and customer database including interfaces, training of the new technicians and at the end of the project the daily lead over the team of technicians.
First Line Support

Packard Bell

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; PB; Computer Hardware industry)

January 1995 — January 1999 (4 years 1 month)
Corporal

NATO 1st(NL) Signal Squadron

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

October 1994 — June 1995 (9 months)

(Germany) corporal crypto & communications COMCEN
I was responsible for a (crypto) communication centre
IT Package Selection and design

RIAGG Vijverdal

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Mental Health Care industry)

February 1994 — July 1994 (6 months)

I made a proposal, plan and package comparison wherafter a facility management system was introduced in the organisation.
Developer

BCS (BCT)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1993 — July 1993 (6 months)

I developed several new modules in a Financial System using Progress 4GL
functional designer and development

KNP

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Paper & Forest Products industry)

August 1991 — February 1992 (7 months)

I designed and developed a system for course registration using Clipper and changed several modules in the financial system Rode/PC

Edward de Leau, e@leau.net’s Education

Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

drs. / master , Cognitive Science , 1997 — 1999

Schomaker, L. Vuurpijl, L. & de Leau, E.: New use for the pen : outline-based image queries, Piscataway, Dangalore, India, 1999, IEEE

Schomaker, L., de Leau, E. & Vuurpijl, L.: Using pen-based outlines for object-based annotation and image-based queries, Berlin: Springer (Ln in computer science, 1614), 1999

Thesis Title: Using pen-based outlines for object-based annotation and image-based queries

Activities and Societies:

president of student association CognAC
Hogeschool Zuyd

ing. / bachelor , Informatics , 1989 — 1994

Additional Information

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Edward de Leau, e@leau.net’s Interests:

IT Architecture, Internet, Web2.0, Social Media, EAI, CRM, E-CRM, project management, new technology, Innovation, Social Networks, e-business, ideas, wiki, weblog, Rational, ClearCase, ClearQuest, RequisitePro, RUP, UCM, Unified Change Management, Microsoft Technology, IBM Technology, Consulting, Team leadership

Edward de Leau, e@leau.net’s Groups:

Cognac

The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Helping Friends Career Network (LI2HF)
Configuration management
Networlding
Facebook.com
MyLinkWiki
The Enterprise Architecture Network
Skype for Business
Dutch ICT professionals
TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
IBM Rational Enthusiasts
DB2 Professionals
The 4-Hour Academy
IBM Lotus Enthusiasts
Marketing 2.0 Technology (Over 3400+ Members)
Rabobank Networking Group
Software Testing & Quality Assurance
Linux Users
Radboud University Nijmegen Alumni
Startpagina.nl
Cognitiewetenschap & AI alumni Nijmegen
Hogeschool Zuyd Professionals
Indo Inside
LION500.com (Open Networkers)
Packard Bell Alumni
the_brights
Dutch LIONs (Open Networkers)
WordPress
Agile Application Lifecycle Management