Utrecht University

Project Manager and Product Owner ad interim

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AI Consultant and Project Manager, supporting companies to outpace the competition

Zelfs BV provides interim management services to medium and large organisations facing complex information and ICT Challenges. As an Interim and Project Manager I was responsible for successfully realizing projects and targets. Customers include Maastricht University, GVB, Amsterdam Museum, Ahold Europe, Unilever, TransIP Nederland, the Datacenter Group, JungleMinds and Finalist.

Zelfs BV

Owner - Available for opportunities 

ViVa! Zorggroep

Projectmanager a.i.

GGD regio Utrecht

Projectleider en Product Owner a.i.

Maastricht University wanted to provide a fast and easy way to research institutes to create their own website, with their own look and feel. Maastricht University also wished to ensure the quality and continuity of the maintenance of the websites of the research institutes. It was my role to lead the development team towards a Multisites solution, in a complex organisational field.

In result we created a multisite solution. A multisite CMS with a toolbox of functionalities such as cross site content sharing possibilities for news, events and blogs. Content could be shared between multisites and the Maastricht University corporate site. Also research profiles from Maastricht University Personal Profile Pages and publications from Pure could be incorporated. Authorisation of editors can be managed centrally by Maastricht University via ADFS.

Finalist

Project Manager - Maastricht University Multisites for Research institutes (a.i.)

Maastricht University wanted an intranet site for each faculty, where users could collaborate in workgroups. It was my role to manage the development of a tool that makes this possible.

In result we created a Social Intranet site for 22k users, where content is shown on basis of groups (for example faculties or workgroups) and roles (for example, student, employee, external employees). In these groups articles, news, events, blogs, documents and a knowledge base are shared. The intranet site is available for students, employees and employees of the Maastricht UMC+. The intranet can be accessed via single signon (ADFS) of Maastricht University and Maastricht UMC+ and the profiles of all employees are provided by the webservice of the Maastricht University Personal Profile Pages.

Project Manager - Maastricht University Social Intranet  (a.i.)

Maastricht University had many systems where information was registered on employees and wished to switch to one system where the employee can enter his/her data. It was my role to lead a multidisciplinary team into realising a user friendly IT-solution. I was also involved in mapping the wishes of Maastricht University, budgeting and reporting.

The result is that a Personal Profile Pages tool was made for >5k employees and researchers of Maastricht University in multiple languages. Here, they can keep their personal profile up to date, including contact information, career history, research profile and publications. The Personal Profile Pages are a source for the website, intranet and multisites. The employee and researcher can decide which parts of their profile are shown in other systems.

The solution was created in Drupal, Single Signon iAuthentication happens through adfs. Information is retrieved from Pure (publications) and sap (HR, contract information), UMAPI (Enterprise Service Bus of Maastricht University).

Project Manager - Maastricht University Personal Profile Pages (a.i.)

JungleMinds is an agency for digital innovation. As an external consultant I help clients with their business architecture. I'm responsible for defining and translating viable business strategies into technical solutions. Clients include Eriks, Atag, Etna and Pelgrim.

Jungle Minds

Interim Consultant

University Maastricht wanted a visitor centric website that integrated content from many parts of the organisation. Students, employees and external users needed to find relevant information more easily in their own language, scaled to their devices. It was my role to direct this complex IT project, using Agile methodologies such as Scrum.

The result is that all information on 80 curricula with 2400 courses, >5k employees and research is available through a logical menu and excellent search engine. The old site with over 55.000 pages has been replaced by a customer friendly site of 4.000 pages. 

The project is based on Drupal CMS and a wide array of information has been made accessible to the users by connecting many systems, such as SAP, Hodex, Tripolis, UMAPI, Personal Profile Pages (PPP), Pure en SSO ADFS. To make the corporate website and related website and newsletters searchable SOLR and Nutch were used. 

The website won the Spash Award for best educational site in 2017

Project Manager - Maastricht University Corporate Website  (a.i.)

TransIP Belgium is a hosting company and offers domain names, webhosting and dedicated servers.

TransIP Belgium bvba

Director and co-founder

Func. is a web software development company, specialized in Java J2EE, open source, web standards and accessibility.

Func. Internet Integration

Co-owner

TransIP is a hosting company and offers colocation hosting, rackspace, virtual hosting and domain names. TransIP is the largest domain name provider of the Benelux.

TransIP

Director

Los Programadores supplies outsourcing services to web development companies. Los Programadores is based in Argentina.

Los Programadores

Openbare Werken is a web software development company, specialized in web standards and accessibility for the non profit sector.

Openbare Werken

Managing Partner

The Kitchen is a V.O.D.W. owned subsidiary for developing internet sites and advanced intranet solutions.

Bas Hekking