Ricardo Franke

Current

Consultant Information Management at Reekx

Past

System Administrator at Lentis
Senior Consultant at Textinfo

Education

HanzeConnect
Info Support
Hanzehogeschool Groningen

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Industry

Information Services

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Ricardo Franke’s Summary

Focused on information management, ICT, improvement of processes, content management and knowledge management. Strong combination of practical ICT-knowledge and focusing on what the end-user needs and wants.

Broad experience in selecting software and guiding the implemenation of it. Always keeps the end-user in focus: ICT is a tool to ease and improve your work, not a goal itself.

Ricardo Franke’s Specialties:

Knowledge management, library software, content management, text retrieval, document management, presales, second- and third line support, application management, ICT in general, the role and impact of ICT in organisations, cultural heritage.

Ricardo Franke’s Experience

Consultant Information Management

Reekx

(Information Services industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Reekx provides services in the broad field of information services and ICT. I'm responsible for project management, consulting, business intelligence and acquisition of new projects.

Consulting jobs are mainly aimed at information structures and advising organisations and their users regarding how to work with information and ICT in a more efficient and effective way.
System Administrator

Lentis

(Mental Health Care industry)

April 2004 — August 2007 (3 years 5 months)

Lentis (formerly known as GGz Groningen) provides mental health care in and around the province of Groningen. As system administrator I took care of changes, projects, application management and second line customer support.

I was mainly focused on HP/UX, iSeries (AS/400), Linux and Unix in general. Hereby I was responsible for all applications running on these platforms like Psygis, Beaufort, Exact, Lotus Domino, Domino Web Access (formerly known as iNotes), Lotus Notes, Postfix et cetera. Further I was working with Novell Netware 6.5, Windows 2003 server and all other applications that were being supported.
Senior Consultant

Textinfo

(Computer Software industry)

June 1995 — April 2004 (8 years 11 months)

Textinfo is specialised in software for document management, text retrieval, knowledge management, online archives, Internet and intranets. As senior consultant I was responsible for presales, project management, implementation of customised software and aftersales.

Ricardo Franke’s Education

HanzeConnect

PRINCE2 Foundations 2009 — 2009
Info Support

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for Architects and Project Managers 2009 — 2009
Hanzehogeschool Groningen

Bac. , Library and Information Science , 1991 — 1995

Graduated with special focuses on Retrieval Systems, Information Technology, Business Operation and Management.

My thesis was about designing and implementing a multimedia system to provide online education for the Library and Information Science department.

Activities and Societies:

Students' union SVP (treasurer), Adviesraad IDM, Almanac Committee