Cees Grootes

Founder, owner at Proficio

Location: The Hague Area, Netherlands
Industry: Management Consulting

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Cees Grootes's Overview

Current

Founder, owner at Proficio
Founder, owner at Proficio HIS Support

Past

Find an extended list of assignments in my resume at www.grootes.com/cv
Senior Consultant at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ) - Sri Lanka office
Senior Consultant at Royal Dutch Embassy

Acting Teamleader - Senior Consultant to Ratnapura IRDP, Sri Lanka at Royal Dutch Embassy
International Senior Consultant at United Nations Development Program - UNDP
Senior Consultant (1994--> Teamleader) at MDF Training & Consultancy - Management for Development Foundation
Research Advisor / Consultant at University Leiden (Leyden) Netherlands
Consultant / Researcher at Freelance Consultant
Consultant, Information Analyst, System Analyst, and Application Programmer at Polnai Software (Software House)

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Education

Universiteit Leiden
Universiteit Leiden

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Information & Management Consultant with international (expatriate) teamleader experience in a.o. foreign aid and technical assistance programmes.

My passion is to challenge organizations, teams & individuals and not the least myself, to skip routine and to become far more creative in finding management solutions and planning strategies

As on-site Management and Information Consultant, I have over 25 years of practical, consulting and research experience, and a proven didactic record as an informative, theoretical, methodological and practical trainer. Over years I became a cross-functional implementor and accomplished (on site) change agent in multi disciplinary, socially mixed environments.

My long-term and short-term assignments for the private sector, the public sector and universities have been both in western and developing countries. While living for extended periods in the Caribbean, Europe and Asia, and as a result of extensive traveling, I developed a profound cultural interest.

In developing countries I worked in the public sector (with fundamental links to the private sector; such as Chambers of Commerce) on top-national and regional level for, and in cooperation with, the major bilateral and multi-lateral donor agencies for development (foreign aid) programs such as: ADB, FAO, FINNIDA, GTZ, IFAD, ILO, JICA, The Netherlands Govt., NORAD, SACEP, SIDA, WorldBank (WB), UNDP, UNICEF, UNIDO

Specialties

Teamleader competence to run, administer & supervise medium size foreign aid development projects:

1. Management & Institutional Development
2. Management Information - Information Management
3. Strategic (Policy) Planning & Analysis
4. Applied Social Research - Research methodology - Statistics
5. Monitoring & Evaluation
6. Chambers of Commerce development & SME dev.
7. Computers, Internet, Software, Networks
8. IT / SPSS / Social Media
9. Website development / Hosting / Domainreseller

Founder, owner

Proficio

January 2006 – Present (6 years 2 months) The Hague Area, Netherlands

Cees is Senior consultant, founder of Proficio in The Netherlands.

Proficio specializes in International Development Cooperation, a.o. strategic planning, management consultancy, monitoring and evaluations (M&E), small and medium enterprise development (SME), entrepreneur development, trade and tourism development.

Proficio also offers IT, social research (SPSS), social media, website development, and domain resale advisory and services.

Founder, owner

Proficio HIS Support

Public Company; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry

January 2011 – Present (1 year 2 months) The Hague Area, Netherlands

Proficio HIS Support provides training in General Practitioners' Information Systems. (in The Netherlands only).

We support and provide training in "Huisarts Informatie Systemen" (HIS-en) such as Insider, HetHis, Medicom, MicroHIS, MIRA, Promedico VDF, Promedico ASP, OmniHis/Scipio, WebHis zorgdossier and TetraHIS.

Find an extended list of assignments in my resume

www.grootes.com/cv

1978 – 2005 (27 years)

A wide range of Projects in The Netherlands, Projects in developing countries, Projects for Universtites, Projects in the Public Sector and projects in the Private Sector.

Senior Consultant

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ) - Sri Lanka office

Nonprofit; 10,001+ employees; International Trade and Development industry

1996 – 1997 (1 year)

2 Short Term International Consultancies, for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH, in Sri Lanka
(GTZ / - Sri Lanka / Germany)

GTZ is nowadays also known as GIZ, - an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations.

Senior Consultant

Royal Dutch Embassy

1996 – 1996 (less than a year)

Short Term International Consultancy, at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Sri Lanka

Acting Teamleader - Senior Consultant to Ratnapura IRDP, Sri Lanka

Royal Dutch Embassy

September 1995 – January 1996 (5 months)

Short Term International Consultancy for the Royal Dutch Embassy in Sri Lanka, Acting Teamleader / Senior Consultant to the Ratnapura Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP)

International Senior Consultant

United Nations Development Program - UNDP

Nonprofit; 10,001+ employees; International Affairs industry

January 1994 – August 1995 (1 year 8 months)

Short Term International Consultancy for United Nations Development Programme. Conducted Survey in South East Dryzone of Sri Lanka (Hambantota, Moneragala area)

Senior Consultant (1994--> Teamleader)

MDF Training & Consultancy - Management for Development Foundation

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Nonprofit Organization Management industry

May 1992 – April 1995 (3 years)

Senior Staff Member of the Management for Development Foundation (MDF); The Netherlands. Senior Consultant : "Management Information / Policy Analysis / Evaluation", attached to the Ministry of Finance, Planning, Ethnic Affairs and National Integration, earlier Ministry of Policy Planning and Plan Implementation (MPP&I), Regional Development Division (RDD), Monitoring and Evaluation Project (MEUP), Sri Lanka. (1994 - 1995 Teamleader).

Research Advisor / Consultant

University Leiden (Leyden) Netherlands

January 1989 – May 1992 (3 years 5 months)

University of Leiden (Leyden, The Netherlands), Associated Researcher and Advisor ( Social Policy Analysis and Evaluation ) to 2 separate applied-research institutes. .

► Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University, dep. of Child and Education Studies, section Intercultural Education.

► Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University, dep. of Child and Education Studies, Centrum Onderzoek Jeugdhulpverlening (COJ), (Center for Juvenile Research)

Consultant / Researcher

Freelance Consultant

1984 – April 1992 (8 years)

Freelance Consultant. Evaluation Research / Policy Analysis. Assignments for various governmental (ministries) and non-governmental institutes and organizations

► Ministerie van Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Cultuur, (WVC), (Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport)
► EVO, Dutch Shippers and Transport Association,

Consultant, Information Analyst, System Analyst, and Application Programmer

Polnai Software (Software House)

January 1978 – June 1983 (5 years 6 months)

Consultant, Information Analyst, System Analyst, and Application Programmer. Consulting and implementation of IT related projects to predominantly private sector clients.

Universiteit Leiden

drs. / (Master +), in Sociology (2 majors: Research Methodologies / Sociology of Information Technology & Science)

1977 – 1991

University of Leyden (Leiden)
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University, dep. of Sociology, Sociologisch Instituut Leiden, (SIL)

► Research Methodologies
► Sociology of Information Technology & Science
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Activities and Societies: . From 1989 to 1992 Cees has been employed by the University of Leyden (Leiden) as an advisor to 2 separate research departments/centers : ► Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University, dep. of Child and Education Studies, section Intercultural Education. ► Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University, dep. of Child and Education Studies, Centrum Onderzoek Jeugdhulpverlening (COJ), (Center for Juvenile Research)

Universiteit Leiden

Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

1975 – 1977

( no degree )

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Interests:

Cees enjoys his Family (!), Friends (!), Traveling, Nature, People, Cultural and Social differences, Photography, Sailing, Cycling, Scuba Diving and Art. He cannot do without Music.

Groups and Associations:

► Schroederschool, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, ► Peter Stuyvesant College, Curacao, ► Louise de Coligny Scholengemeenschap, Leiden, (da Vinci College), ► Leiden University, Sociologisch Instituut Leiden, (SIL), ► EVO, Dutch Shippers and Transport Association, ► Veurs Lyceum, Veurs College, OR / MR / GMR, ► s Gravendreef College, OC / MR / GMR, ► Spinoza Scholengroep, GMR, Leidschendam, Voorburg, Den Haag, ► Wijkberaad Mariahoeve (board member), Den Haag, ► Hambantota Chamber of Commerce, HDCC, Sri Lanka, ► Ministry of Policy Planning, Sethsiripaya, Sri Lanka, ► Sri lanka Business Council, ► InterNations, ► UNDP, United Nations Development Programme, ► SIDA, (Swedish Aid Program), ► NORAD, (Norwegian Aid Program), ► JICA, (Japanese Aid Program), ► FINNIDA, (Finnish Aid Program), ► USAID, (USA Aid Program), ► GTZ, (German Aid Program), ► SNV, (Dutch Aid Program), ► Worldbank, (WB), ► Asian Development Bank, (ADB), ► UNICEF, ► FAO, ► IFAD, ► ILO, ► UNIDO,