Bart Oortwijn

Bart Oortwijn

Entrepreneur and expert in building IT platforms for the financial industry.

Location
Stockholm County, Sweden
Industry
Financial Services

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Bart Oortwijn's Overview

Current
  • Program management at Payments area
  • Founder and owner at StepScout
  • Owner and co-founder at SecondFloor
Past
  • Solvency 2 product development at Algorithmics
  • Insurance Risk management and Solvency 2 assignments at Several international insurance companies
  • Program Manager at ING Netherlands
Connections

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Bart Oortwijn's Summary

I am a manager with 15 years of experience in the financial sector in Europe. My strength is in the delivery of (complex) changes to support new business developments and innovation. I provide a combination of business knowledge and excellent IT expertise. For me the keys to success are; team-work, good governance and a strong focus on the business objectives. I drive changes by leadership and practical use of modern methodologies.

Specialties

Program manager (Prince2/KiP/Certified Scrum Master) with expertise in: Cards & payments, Risk management, Solvency II, Banking & Insurance processes, Securities/Brokerage, Online financial services (STP), IT Solution delivery (ITIL), Agile software development, Technical/Enterprise architectures, Vendor management, Quality management (ISO-9126).

Bart Oortwijn's Experience

Program management

Payments area

October 2011Present (5 months) Stockholm, Sweden

Management of development projects within payments.

Founder and owner

StepScout

March 2011Present (1 year)

Consultancy with program/project management and IT services in banking and insurance in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries.

Owner and co-founder

SecondFloor

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

April 2005Present (6 years 11 months)

SecondFloor has a full understanding of Solvency II Governance Risk and Compliance and the software to make it happen.

Based on our 5 years of Solvency II experience, SecondFloor offers compelling solutions for your Solvency II Risk portal.

As CTO I have participated in founding SecondFloor and had this role until the end of 2010.

Solvency 2 product development

Algorithmics

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; FIM; Computer Software industry

2009October 2010 (1 year)

Development of market leading solution for Solvency 2 as front-end to Algorithmics Risk Suite in cooperation between Algorithmics and SecondFloor.

Insurance Risk management and Solvency 2 assignments

Several international insurance companies

20062010 (4 years)

Requirements analysis, scoping, planning and project management of solution development for insurance risk management platforms in compliance with Solvency 2. Solvency 2 required the implementation of new IT platforms for compliance with the EU regulation that will be enforced in January 2013.

Program Manager

ING Netherlands

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ING; Financial Services industry

July 2007March 2009 (1 year 9 months)

Program manager for the merger of two credit card portfolios (>1M clients) with an upgrade to EMV and processor migration. Complex program of projects with 15+ vendors in an international environment (mainly UK/Netherlands/Italy). The complexity of the environment required strong involvement and domain knowledge. The complete transaction chain involved integration of many systems/vendors. The program had positive feedback from PWC on governance, progress and structure. We delivered within the strategic milestones for the merger of the two banks.

Project lead

Ditzo (ABN AMRO)

May 2007August 2007 (4 months)

Project lead and architect for integrated Customer intelligence solution for new online insurance company (start-up/Greenfield). The customized solution provided an integrated view of all customer related data from multiple insurance back-office systems (factories).

Project manager

ING-DiBa

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry

July 2005April 2006 (10 months)

Development of multi-channel solution (Internet, call and back-office) to support new sales and services for the credit card business. The solution is developed for the launch of the ING Card business in Germany. Delivered as fixed-date/fixed-price, and on-time for the market launch of the new credit card products.

Project manager

ING Card

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Banking industry

May 2003September 2005 (2 years 5 months)

Project management of multiple projects to launch a new business unit for credit cards. The business unit launched as planned in March 2004. The projects involved the implementation of a complete new IT environment to support the credit card business including card processing, back-office, call centre and internet services. Projects included all activities from vendor selections (RFI/RFP) till implementation.

Partner

Aureus Association VOF

April 2001March 2005 (4 years)

Partner at Aureus Association VOF providing project management services in the Financial sector.

Senior consultant

ABN AMRO

Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Banking industry

July 2002March 2003 (9 months)

Senior analyst for replacement of the online security trading solution for a major Dutch bank.

Senior consultant

DSB Bank

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry

March 2002July 2002 (5 months)

Design and development of conversion software for the migration to a new core-banking system.

Project lead

Van Lanschot Bankiers

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VLAN.AS; Banking industry

March 2000January 2002 (1 year 11 months)

Design and implementation of e-Brokerage solution for a leading private bank with trading and AEX interface based FIX protocol.

Project lead

Van Lanschot Bankiers

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VLAN.AS; Banking industry

January 2000May 2000 (5 months)

CRM system implementation for leading Dutch private bank.

Project lead

IC Banka

June 1999December 1999 (7 months)

Implementation of a core-banking solution, including migration, as Y2K project for a Czech retail bank.

Project lead

J&T Banka

January 1999October 1999 (10 months)

Implementation of a multi-currency banking and payment system for international trading by Czech private bank.

Analyst/developer

Allshare

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Human Resources industry

November 1995December 1998 (3 years 2 months)

Development of core-banking solution Queastor for international mid-sized retail banks. A flexible generic client/server banking platform covering all key banking functions; payments, credit&loans, savings, general ledger, international routing, etc. All products are fully configurable including interest and commissions.

Bart Oortwijn's Languages

  • Dutch

    (Native or bilingual proficiency)
  • English

    (Full professional proficiency)
  • German

    (Limited working proficiency)
  • Swedish

    (Limited working proficiency)

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