Expertise

• Tax Authorities - March 2018 to present

  • Functional Designer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Analyzing business questions and presenting the pros and cons of possible scenarios.
  • Identifying requirements, processes, and information needs.
  • Working on the innovation and modification of applications and systems.
  • Phasing out existing systems and introducing new robust solutions.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders, functional administrators, and colleagues in scrum teams.

• Achmea - April 2007 to February 2018

  • Functional Designer
  • Technical Designer
  • Tester
  • COBOL Developer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Advising on both functional and technical areas for the department and clients.
  • Independently conducting impact analyses, preliminary research, and quotations in accordance with standards and guidelines.
  • Responsible for providing estimates, preliminary research, and quotations within the guidelines.
  • Independently creating release plans.
  • Managing the progress of bank releases within agreed time, quality, and budget.
  • Ensuring the division and distribution of tasks in collaboration with the team coordinator.
  • Independently creating functional designs in accordance with standards and guidelines.
  • Ensuring delivered functionalities meet acceptance standards.
  • Identifying bottlenecks and proposing potential solutions.
  • Escalating when necessary to the team coordinator.
  • Reporting to the team coordinator.
  • Ensuring continuity of systems through proactive measures.
  • Analyzing and advising on technical aspects of software applications.
  • Independently resolving production problems.
  • Identifying technical issues and proposing potential solutions.
  • Managing the progress of production issues.
  • Escalating when necessary to the application coordinator.
  • Reporting to the application coordinator.
  • Serving as a substitute for the application coordinator as a liaison with other external departments.
  • Translating preliminary research by the functional designer into technical designs.
  • Supporting developers during realization.
  • Conducting system and integration tests of modifications following the T-map methodology.
  • Supporting during functional acceptance tests (FAT) and user acceptance tests (GAT).
  • Developing in COBOL, ADS, IDMS.

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• Tax Authorities - November 2006 to March 2007

  • Functional Designer
  • Technical Designer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Generating and modifying functional and technical designs in the Financial Traffic System (GVS) of the Tax Authority.
  • Supporting developers and testers during development and testing phases.

• Van Lanschot Bankiers - February 2006 to October 2006

  • Functional Designer
  • Technical Designer
  • Tester
  • COBOL Developer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Executing COBOL migration to an integrated banking package in Siebel.
  • Drafting and modifying functional and technical designs for interfaces via MQ and XML.
  • Setting up test environments.
  • Developing in COBOL, CICS, DB2.

• PGGM - November 2005 to January 2006

  • Functional Designer
  • Technical Designer
  • Tester
  • COBOL Developer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Implementing the new Health Insurance Act in the Pension Payment System (PBS).
  • Drafting and modifying functional and technical specifications.
  • Guiding user acceptance tests (GAT).
  • Developing in Microfocus COBOL, COBOL, TP, IDMSX.

• Van Lanschot Bankiers - March 2005 to October 2005

  • Test Coordinator
  • Tester
  • COBOL Developer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Integration of bank system for the acquired entity.
  • Setting up test environments.
  • Drafting logical and physical test cases according to the T-map methodology.
  • Creating test plans.
  • Coordinating the acceptance test.
  • Developing in COBOL, CICS, DB2.

• Logica - July 2004 to February 2005

  • Tester
  • COBOL Developer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Testing data conversion from IDMS to DB2 for Nationale-Nederlanden, both technically and logically.
  • Setting up test environments.
  • Drafting logical and physical test cases according to the T-map methodology.
  • Developing in COBOL, DB2.

• DAF - October 2002 to July 2003

  • COBOL Developer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Developing in MAID, COBOL, IDMS.

• PGGM - January 1998 to September 2002

  • Team Leader
  • Functional Designer
  • Technical Designer
  • Tester
  • COBOL Developer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Drafting and modifying functional and technical specifications.
  • Guiding user acceptance tests (GAT).
  • Performing system tests.
  • Planning the technical design phase and construction phase.
  • Drafting budget specifications.
  • Creating test designs according to the T-map methodology.
  • Developing in Microfocus COBOL, COBOL, TP, IDMSX.

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• Royal Netherlands Air Force - March 1995 to May 1996

  • COBOL Developer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Developing in COBOL, ADS, IDMS.

• Tennet - March 1995 to May 1996

  • Environmental Policy Officer

  

  Responsibilities

  • Executing the environmental policy plan in the context of the Electricity Act.
  • Automating environmental data for the mandatory annual environmental report.

• IMAG-DLO - October 1993 to February 1995

  • Project Leader

  

  Responsibilities

  • Leading various projects related to ammonia issues
  • Drafting new project proposals aimed at the European Union
  • Writing publications