Dimitri Groenewegen

Current

Vendor Manager at ING
co-founder at Smartminds Group
Owner at ID World

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Past

Contract & SLA Management at KPN
Project Manager at Rehab Group
Project Manager at Nederlandse Staatsloterij

Project Manager / Consultant at OTIS Germany
Project Manager at ABN AMRO
Project Manager & E-Business Consultant at Cap Gemini
Project Manager at Royal Dutch Navy
Project Manager / Consultant at Libertel / Vodafone
Project Manager at SNS Reaal
Teamlead Java development at Baan Business Innovation
Consultant New Media at KLM

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Dimitri Groenewegen’s Summary

Dimitri has been involved in new-technology projects since he started to work as an Internet Strategist for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in 1996. As a Project Manager and Business Consultant, he has a 10-year experience working for over 10 multi-national companies.

Dimitri has in the recent years been responsible for the implementation of ABN AMRO’s Mobile Banking (Amsterdam, 2001), the technical implementation of Sevens, the first Dutch SMS-lottery for the Dutch State Lottery (Staatsloterij, Den Haag, 2002/2003), the introduction of the first Irish Mobile Lottery for Rehab Lotteries (Dublin, Ireland 2004), IT contract/ SLA management at KPN (2005/2008, the Hague) and Vendor Management at ING (2008, Amsterdam).

Dimitri Groenewegen’s Specialties:

Dimitri is at his best in outsourcing and offshoring projects, where the relationship between stakeholders (Directors, IT, Marketing, Investors, Legal) needs diplomacy, flexibility and ambitious milestones.

Dimitri Groenewegen’s Experience

Vendor Manager

ING

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ING; Banking industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
co-founder

Smartminds Group

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2003 — Present (6 years 1 month)

Award winning Smartminds Group and its subsidiaries have unique and proven specialized experience delivering innovative projects, business and technology consulting. Customers include: ING, Ericsson, KPN, HP, IBM, Orange, Vodafone, Randstad, EDS, Fortis, Maintain, ATP, Kluwer, H@ND, Rehab Group.
Owner

ID World

(Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

May 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)

International Outsourcing and Offshoring expertise, with a focus on Europe and South-East Asia.

Access to local knowlegde, resources and business networks in:
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Philippines
- Hong Kong
Contract & SLA Management

KPN

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KPN; Telecommunications industry)

February 2005 — February 2008 (3 years 1 month)

Mr. Groenewegen has been responsible for the Contract & Asset management KPN IT Netherlands. This departments consists of 15 FTE, including Contract Managers and Project Management Office.

Mr. Groenewegen has been responsible for the contract / SLA management for the Division Carrier Services and the transformation of those contracts of the IT- to a centralized IT Operations Unit.
Project Manager

Rehab Group

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year )

The Rehab Group is an independent Irish non-profit organisation working for social and economic inclusion among people with disabilities and others who are marginalised. Rehab Lotteries is part of the Rehab Group and wanted to expand their lottery offerings with an interactive mobile lottery.
The responsibility of Mr. Groenewegen was the overall project management for technology delivery, functional and technical designs with the Irish Telecom Operators (Vodafone, O2, Meteor), functional and technical interface designs with AIB Bank, Administrative Organisation, overall quality assurance, external suppliers and overall budget and deliverables
Project Manager

Nederlandse Staatsloterij

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)

March 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 9 months)

Dutch State Lottery and a group of private investors have implemented the first daily SMS lottery in the Netherlands, called Sevens.

The responsibility of Mr. Groenewegen during this project has grown from business and management consultant towards the overall project management for technology delivery, Administrative Organisation, overall quality assurance, project marketing issues, hardware & softeware rollout, external suppliers and overall budget and deliverables
Project Manager / Consultant

OTIS Germany

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UTX; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

November 2001 — March 2002 (5 months)

Wireless Application Development for Service Engineers of OTIS Germany. First step is a detailed analysis and business case: Second step a tailor-made PDA-tool for a select pilot-group; Third step is the nation-wide roll-out for all service engineers in Germany.
Future steps can include the roll-out of this application and business model to other countries.
Project Manager

ABN AMRO

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ABN; Banking industry)

January 2001 — December 2001 (1 year )

As a Project Manager, Mr. Groenewegen was responsible for the development of the Mobile Banking service for ABN Amro Netherlands. This was the second Mobile Banking service being implemented in the Netherlands and an important testcase for future Mobile Internet services in the financial sector.
Project Manager & E-Business Consultant

Cap Gemini

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

August 1997 — November 2000 (3 years 4 months)

See client experience below. Additional to these client projects, Mr. Groenewegen has been involved in:

Mobile Interactive Center: Partnership between Oracle, SUN, Telfort, Ericsson and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Goals: joint WAP-development, services, consultancy and architecture. The partnership had a strong marketing focus, in order to provide a solid Mobile service-offering and awareness-workshops. Main focus on Telecom and Financial Markets.

Mobile eBusiness Consultant / Course leader: During the development of the innovative Mobile technology, we developed 2 courses to share the knowledge to internal colleagues and to provide the latest innovative information to customers. The first course was a business and technology overview, designed for business consultants, account managers and analysts. The second course was a technical course, for software developers and technical consultants.
Project Manager

Royal Dutch Navy

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

November 1999 — August 2000 (10 months)

Functional specifications and development of an Intranet, to improve communication to all departments and off-shore locations. First part of the project consisted of consultancy towards the functional specs and the challenge of the mobile locations ( e.g. ships, command-centers) Second part was the actual development of the Intranet and the integration in the existing architecture and the rollout on all user interfaces.
Project Manager / Consultant

Libertel / Vodafone

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

February 2000 — July 2000 (6 months)

WAP- service development using Oracle’s Portal-to-Go framework, creating a WAP-service in a multi-device environment. Project-name was Libertel i-Open. The project involved several aspects; translation of Marketing-specs into a WAP service- design, communication between development, content providers and marketing
Project Manager

SNS Reaal

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SR; Banking industry)

August 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 3 months)

SNS Reaal Group wanted to develop an innovative Intranet site Corporate Intranet for 6 financial companies. The project had a very strong marketing focus, because the Intranet has been used to provide a new corporate channel to support a restructuring of the group-members and to enhance the communication between the employees. After the initial procedural and technical architecture, Mr. Groenewegen was responsible for the complete rollout and integration for all SNS Reaal group members (SNS Bank, Hoge Huys Verzekeringen, Reaal Verzekeringen) and its subsidiairies.
Teamlead Java development

Baan Business Innovation

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1997 — July 1998 (10 months)

Main goal of the project was to develop an online Management Dashboard, using Java technology.
Consultant New Media

KLM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KLM; Airlines/Aviation industry)

August 1997 — September 1997 (2 months)

For the New Media Department a new intranet site needed to be designed and implemented. Mr. Groenewegen's role was to create an interactive functional design as a central input for the development phase.