Lee Provoost

Current

Large Enterprise Projects and Partnerships at Headshift

Past

Senior Consultant at Capgemini
Lead Software Engineer at 4-dimensions

Education

Capgemini University
Universiteit Utrecht

Connections

389 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Lee Provoost’s Summary

Lee Provoost is a Senior Technical Consultant at Headshift with a focus on large enterprise projects and partnerships.

At 18, Lee’s dream was to become an investment banker, but when he discovered the noble art of Perl programming (regular expressions anyone?) in his first year of economics, he switched to computer science. After combining a master in programming language and compiler design at the University of Utrecht with a job as lead PHP developer for an Internet startup, Lee joined a large global IT consultancy firm. Over three years, Lee explored the wonderful world of integrating Microsoft, SAP, Java and open source systems at various international clients. Once in a while, the geek donned a suit and helped internal business units and clients understand the disruptive change that emerging technologies can bring to their business.

At Headshift, Lee combines his expertise in nitty-gritty systems integration and dealing with the “IT stability vs. business agility”-tension at large companies with his passion for emerging technologies.

Lee has previously lived and worked in Belgium, the Netherlands and India. He now lives in London. You can follow his ongoing stream of thoughts on Twitter: http://twitter.com/leeprovoost.

Lee Provoost’s Specialties:

Systems integration (Microsoft/Java/SAP/Open Source), emerging technologies, Web 2.0, Social Media, Cloud Computing

Lee Provoost’s Experience

Large Enterprise Projects and Partnerships

Headshift

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

November 2009 — Present (1 month)

Headshift is Europe's leading social business consultancy. We help organisations use smarter, simpler, social technologies to improve business performance, communication and customer engagement.

Part of the Dachis Group, we provide consulting and advisory support to organisations exploring social technology, and our implementation work covers everything from bespoke development to integration and customisation of social platforms and tools, plus the follow-on engagement and support services that ensure they deliver results.
Senior Consultant

Capgemini

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

September 2006 — November 2009 (3 years 3 months)

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience. The Group relies on its global delivery model called Rightshore, which aims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Present in more than 30 countries, Capgemini reported 2008 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion (approximately USD $12.74 billion) and employs over 90,000 people worldwide. More information is available at www.capgemini.com.

Overview of roles and projects:
- IT Strategist: Web 2.0, social media, cloud computing
- Excel/VBA integration with SAP at Shell (Rijswijk NL, Utrecht NL)
- Expert group leader Microsoft-SAP/Java-SAP integration
- Capgemini global Java community leader
- Corporate blogger (http://www.capgemini.com/technology-blog)
- Java-SAP Solution Architect at Akzo Nobel Industrial Chemicals (Amersfoort, NL)
- Java lead consultant for SAP e-commerce project at Oce (Venlo NL)
- Offshore Operations Manager (Mumbai IN)
- Board member Capgemini Dutch Java Community (Utrecht NL)
- J2EE Software Engineer at Fortis Bank (Rotterdam NL, Brussels BE)
- Technology adviser at Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (Kampala UG)
- Technology adviser at I-Network Uganda (Kampala UG)
- Lead organizer at Capgemini Java Night 2007 (Utrecht NL)
- .NET/Tridion Software Engineer at Organon Schering-Plough (Oss NL)
Lead Software Engineer

4-dimensions

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

September 2004 — August 2006 (2 years )

Lead developer for an internet startup specialized in community websites, responsible for professionalizing the software development life cycle. (Veenendaal NL)

Lee Provoost’s Education

Capgemini University

2007 — 2009

Object-Oriented Design and Analysis with UML2, TechnoVision 2012 Masterclass, Emerging Leadership at Les Fontaines (Paris, France)

RightShore for Software Engineers at Indian School of Business (Hyderabad, India)
Universiteit Utrecht

MSc , Computer Science , 2004 — 2006

Software Technology Research Group (Compilers & Programming Languages)

Activities and Societies:

Erasmus Student Network, A-Eskwadraat