Track record

More than 25 years of building, leading and supervising.

Almost every sector, in recent years mainly maritime, trade and transport: in software development, integration and control systems, and in leadership roles. In a conversation we are happy to tell you more and put you in touch with references.

Cases

A selection.

Maritime, shipbuilding & machine building

A team of digital integrators for a portfolio of workboats.

Situation
An international shipbuilder wants to turn delivered vessels into a digital product: data on board, connectivity, standardisation and new service models across the product line. IEC 62443 applies to the control systems and networks on board.
Role
Programme manager IT on board, before that software and integration architect in the technology management team.
What we did
Digital value roadmap for the product portfolio. Programme for the next generation of digital infrastructure on board. Standardisation of software and automation, HMI and data analytics. Set up a team of digital integrators that connects IT and OT on board, and directed the suppliers around it.
Result
An in-house team of digital integrators that delivers and further develops the digital roadmap on board, across the whole product line.
Duration
Since 2018, ongoing.
Trade & e-commerce

International e-commerce, integrated into the existing IT landscape.

Situation
Trading companies that want to sell online internationally without upending their existing ERP, logistics and customer processes.
Role
Architect and programme lead, from design to go-live.
What we did
Co-design and delivery of international e-commerce platforms, including native mobile apps, fully integrated with the existing enterprise IT landscape.
Result
Platforms that grow with the business and that the in-house IT team manages itself afterwards.
Duration
Several assignments since 2012.
Finance, insurance & government

A customer communication platform that scales.

Situation
A customer communication platform for banks, insurers and public bodies has to grow in volume, reliability and integrations, under strict requirements for availability and confidentiality.
Role
Platform and integration architect, design of the AWS environment.
What we did
Architecture of platform and integrations, cloud design and the connections with clients' systems.
Result
A platform that carried the company's growth and kept meeting the requirements of financial and public clients.
Duration
2016 to 2020.
Education

Cloud applications for more than 250 educational institutions.

Situation
A software company with hundreds of education clients has to move from custom work to a scalable cloud platform, with a team that can carry it.
Role
Chief Technology Officer.
What we did
Set the technical course, built the DevOps team and translated business goals into cloud applications that sped up processes at the clients.
Result
One platform for more than 250 institutions and a team that delivers independently.
Duration
2009 to 2013.
Energy & telecom

Mission-critical middleware, scaled globally.

Situation
The telecom organisation of an international energy group delivers network management for services that must run worldwide without interruption.
Role
Lead developer in the systems development team.
What we did
Together with the business, turned a plan into production software: middleware and tooling for network management at global scale.
Result
Software in production for mission-critical services, with the discipline that requires.
Duration
2007 to 2009.

Breadth

Sectors we work in.

Maritime and shipbuilding, machine building and manufacturing, automation and robotics, logistics and transport, agriculture and horticulture, trade and e-commerce, oil and gas, telecom, finance and insurance, construction and education.

For logistics providers, trading companies and horticultural businesses we also spent years developing software, doing engineering and hosting applications. We bring that operational experience into every assignment: we know what it is like to be responsible for a system that has to run.

Technical profile

Industrial control and OT, networks and segmentation along IEC 62443, integration and data engineering between ERP, PLM, MES and machines, cloud and infrastructure, and security from network to application. Legacy modernisation: taking existing systems apart, opening them up and moving them to maintainable stacks without stopping production. And the practice no handbook covers: how a yard, a plant and a logistics operation work, and what a stoppage costs.