AI & automation direction
Identify credible opportunities, shape business cases and create product roadmaps for AI-driven enterprise workflows and managed-service platforms.
- Opportunity framing
- Business cases & roadmaps
- Product direction
Consulting
Senior advice, with the prototype attached.
I work at the interface of business and technology: senior advisory thinking, clear communication across languages and cultures, and the hands-on ability to make an idea visible, testable and ready to move.
30+years in enterprise technology
15+years transforming EY, in five cities
100k+users in one global rollout
90+countries in one programme
Enterprise experience
What I bring
Three disciplines, usually in one engagement.
Direction, a working concept early, and the delivery that makes it stick.
Creative solutioning & rapid prototyping
Turn ambiguity into a working concept early, so stakeholders can react to something concrete before significant time and money are committed.
- Concept exploration
- Functional prototypes
- Business validation
Global product & transformation delivery
Connect business priorities, technical teams and adoption across countries through clear writing and facilitation.
- Product ownership
- Functional architecture
- Executive workshops
Every wave, in the field
Five technology waves, each one worked hands-on.
Each wave brought new tools. The work of getting people to adopt them stayed much the same.
The big shifts
- PC1980s
- Web1990s
- Mobile2000s
- Cloud2010s
- AI2020s
- 1995
The early web
Webmaster and website developer; localisation for IBM and DuPont.
- 1996
Multilingual content
Globalisation programmes for IBM, Nestlé, Biogen and Dassault Systèmes.
- 1999
Documentum
Enterprise content management for Pfizer, Heineken, Robeco, ING and EY.
- 2007
SharePoint
Twenty years of collaboration platforms, up to 100,000+ users.
- 2012
Power Platform
Workflow, forms and apps with Nintex, Power Automate and PowerApps.
- 2021
Generative & agentic AI
Designing and building agentic solutions for EY’s global service lines.
Selected work
From global rollouts to working prototypes.
01 · EY Global Tax
One collaboration experience. More than 100,000 users.
Programme management, product expertise and training for a global document-collaboration rollout spanning more than 90 countries.
Reach100k+
Countries90+
ScopeGlobal
02 · EY Client Technology · now
Agentic AI for four global service lines
Designing and building AI and automation solutions from first idea through working prototype to deployment, and explaining them across the global business.
- Role
- Solution Architect & Product Owner
- Stack
- Claude Code · LangGraph · Azure
03 · EY Finance Managed Services
From AI ambition to an operational roadmap
Strategy, business cases and roadmap for AI-driven automation of end-to-end P2P, with agentic uplift across R2R and O2C. Reporting to the CIO.
- Focus
- P2P · R2R · O2C
- Role
- Product Owner, AI & Automation
04 · EY Global Tax · Washington, DC
The design behind a global document platform
Vision and proof of concept for the engagement-centric design of the Global Tax & Law document management solution, followed by a worldwide tour to win stakeholder buy-in.
- Role
- Solution & functional architect
- Outcome
- Now EYI MyDocs
05 · EY Finance Operations
A portal that turns ERP tasks into action
A SharePoint Online portal with bespoke apps, workflow and AI Builder, letting users act on aggregated back-end ERP tasks, publish reports and exchange files.
- Stack
- SharePoint · Business Central · Power Platform
- Delivered
- Live in four months
06 · Nestlé · Dassault Systèmes · Biogen
Content that speaks every language
Globalisation and multilingual content management for global brands, from Documentum workflow in SAP to localisation repositories for marketing.
- Where
- Vevey · Paris · Cambridge, MA
- Scope
- Multilingual ECM
07 · VSBfonds
A five-year transformation vision
ICT strategy and a practical migration path from local infrastructure to cloud services across operations, HR and finance.
- Scope
- Enterprise-wide
- Contribution
- Strategy through execution
Experience
Thirty years, five companies.
EY · Client Technology
Solution Architect & Product Owner, AI & Automation
Since 2025: AI and agentic automation for EY’s four global service lines. 2024–2025: Product Owner, AI & Automation for Global Compliance & Reporting Finance Managed Services, reporting to the CIO.Contenu Global ECM Consulting BV
Founder & owner
Digital transformation for enterprise clients across all verticals: EY in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, London, Belfast and Washington, DC; Legrand/Minkels; VSBfonds; Limburgse Academie.Informed Consulting
General Director & co-founder
Specialist ECM consultancy: Pfizer, Robeco, ING/AZL, Springer, the City of Amsterdam and a classified government project.LogicaCMG Consulting
Senior Consultant, Enterprise Content Management
Heineken’s global ECM pilots, Pfizer compliance automation, and change manager for Philips IP&S.Lionbridge Technologies
Global Engagement Consultant · Waltham, MA
Multilingual content programmes for IBM, Nestlé, Biogen, Dassault Systèmes and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics.Earlier
Localisation, professional audio and my own music production company
Translator and editor for Microsoft Office and IBM OS/2; audio consultant at Saris Instruments. Educated in Leiden and at Duke University.Contact
Questions, ideas or a conversation?
I’m always glad to hear from people working on AI, product strategy, transformation or software.