Curriculum Vitae Evert-Jan van den Berg

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1 PERSONAL INFORMATION Curriculum Vitae Evert-Jan van den Berg Name Evert-Jan van den Berg Company VAN DEN BERG Consult ApS Address Råbroparken 50 DK-2765 Smørum Phone Mobile Date of birth Country of birth The Netherlands Marital status Married to Merete Juul Hansen (2 children) EXPERIENCE With more than 13 years of international experience within the Software Consultancy area, I have worked in a range of positions, amongst others as a project manager, test manager and consultant resource manager. Since I started my own Consultancy company one year ago, I have been working as a consultant at the Danish pension company PFA, where I am Test Manager on a System Integration Test. As a project manager at Motorola I was responsible for software testing in an international multi-site project team with more than 30 resources. As a consultant resource manager within the Cap Gemini Group (> 400 employees), I have been responsible for 60 test consultants working at client sites. In addition, I was responsible for recruitment of test consultants in a highly competitive marked. Besides my economical education (M.Sc in Economics), I have an extensive practical and theoretical background within the software test and requirement management domain. Furthermore I have trained consultants in the software test method TMap (Test Management Approach) and am thus a very capable instructor and communicator. PERSONAL PROFILE Responsible, persistent and will always act proactively to ensure that agreed goals and milestones are reached A good communicator at all levels, and dedicated to achieve success in my organization/projects An optimistic and enthusiastic person who appreciates good humour in daily life Flexible but always trying to structure the working processes to the appropriate level Last revised: April, 2009 Page 1 of 7

2 Function well either in a leading role or in a role as second man in an organization (internally organizing, structuring, communicating and binding things together) Able to create my own added value to the company in places where the assignment is not very clear, but also capable of working in a well described assignment CORE COMPETENCES Software Test Management in Software Test Management, with emphasis on system- and acceptance test. 5 years of experience with the test method TMap, both on a theoretical and practical level. Project Management in Project Management in telecommunications and financial industry. Line Management Responsible as a line manager for 60 consultants in a consultancy company Recruitment in recruiting and hiring SW test consultants. Requirement Management in Requirement Management for software design. Defect Management in Defect Management: setting up defect management procedures, organizing and follow up of all defect related issues. Coaching and Training in training and education (test methods, tools). OTHER RELEVANT ACTIVITIES Member of Dansk-IT Faggruppen for test og kvalitetssikring Member of board for the Danish Software Testing Board (the Danish department for ISEB). Member of the organizing committee of Dansk-IT Software test conferences Testing of standard systems (February 2004) and Testing of embedded software (April 2006). Speaker at Dansk IT s conference Softwaretest kom godt I gang. The subject of my presentation was How to become a competent software tester (in Danish), April 2004 Last revised: April, 2009 Page 2 of 7

3 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Curriculum Vitae Evert-Jan van den Berg / Business economics, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Business economics. Title: M.Sc. in Economics / Odense University, Denmark European student exchange program (ERASMUS) / Business economics, HEAO Zwolle, The Netherlands Business economics. Title: Bachelor of Economics / Hatfield Polytechnic (University of Hertfordshire), England European student exchange program (ERASMUS). WORK EXPERIENCE PERIOD 09/2008-now WORK EXPERIENCE VAN DEN BERG Consult ApS, Owner Freelance IT Consultant within Project Management & Software Test Management / PFA (as consultant), Test manager System Integration Test, Denmark. Test manager for a System Integration Test for the integration of a new core pension system together with 10 legacy systems. Managing a test team with up to 15 testers, both professional testers and testers from the user organization. PFA is one of the major pension companies in Denmark / Motorola, Project Manager, Denmark As a Project Manager I was responsible for the System & Integration Test of business critical radio communications infrastructure (Tetra-network). This implies managing the integration testing of soft- and hardware deliveries from up to 20 development teams world wide, into one system. The test team was an international multi site test team (in Denmark, Poland and UK) with up to 30 resources during execution phase. Project size varies up to 220 staff month. In addition, I was also responsible as a line manager for 8 persons in the test department. Motorola, Inc. is a global leader in wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies and embedded electronic products / DWD (Danish Wireless Design), Requirement manager & Defect manager, Denmark After Flextronics closed their site in Copenhagen, the site was taken over by DWD. Within DWD I continued in the same roles as in Flextronics, i.e. as Last revised: April, 2009 Page 3 of 7

4 requirement manager and defect manager. DWD is 100% owned by Infineon Technologies and delivers platforms for mobile phones / Flextronics (former Microcell), Requirement manager & Defect manager, Denmark As a requirement manager I was mainly responsible for all SW User Interface (UI) requirements. The requirement manager is a linking pin between the customer, the developers and the testers. Together with my colleague we created and optimized the (multi site) requirement process. A successful introduction of a requirement management tool (Rational Requisite Pro) was part of this. The defect management role involved creating and introducing the defect management process, keeping track of all defects (software, hardware and mechanics), deciding whether a defect is a defect or not, coordinating defect management meetings with managers from different departments and providing the project management with defect metrics. Flextronics is an ODM (original design manufacturer) for mobile phones / Embedit, SW Test & SW Requirement consultant, Denmark During this period I worked on starting up Embedit s test competence center and I worked on the assignments described below. Embedit is a software consultancy company specialized in Embedded software / / / Flextronics (as Embedit consultant), Requirement manager & Defect manager, Denmark. Eurocom Industries (as Embedit consultant), Requirement manager, Denmark Writing requirements for a ship security alert system. Microcell (now Flextronics) (as Embedit consultant), SW Test consultant & Requirement manager & Defect manager The 3 different roles were combined during the first project (until ). After that I concentrated on the requirementand defect management role. As a test consultant I was responsible for testing the UI software of a mobile phone. This involved the test strategy, setting up the test, writing and executing test cases and coordinating the test effort. The test was executed by a large Last revised: April, 2009 Page 4 of 7

5 team / Consultancy company, Denmark Co-started a new Software Test company / Sabbatical year Traveling around Europe in a mobile home with my family / IQUIP (now called: Sogeti), Consultant manager, The Netherlands Line manager for 60 software test consultants in IQUIP. All consultants were working offsite for IQUIP customers. As a Consultant manager my responsibilities were: Negotiating salaries and promotions Evaluating the test consultants achievements Education plans Personal development and competences development Recruitment interviews Assigning consultants to the right assignments at the right level Contributions to IQUIP s Human Resource strategy Initiating software test experience groups for the consultants IQUIP is a software consultancy company and market leader in the software testing area. IQUIP changed name into Sogeti in 2002 and is fully owned by Cap Gemini / IQUIP, Recruitment, The Netherlands Recruiting, selecting and contracting new test consultants and test managers for IQUIP Software Control / IQUIP, Test Consultant/Team Leader at KPN Telecom, The Netherlands Working as a software test consultant (for IQUIP) at a large test project for a new billing system. Started as a tester and quickly became test team leader for a test team with 5 team members. The test was a functional acceptance test where the newly developed systems and the legacy systems had to be integrated. The acceptance integration test involved 16 different systems. REFERENCES References are available on request. Last revised: April, 2009 Page 5 of 7

6 PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Curriculum Vitae Evert-Jan van den Berg Several management courses (some at ESI/George Washington University). Among others: Situational Leadership Leadership Unplugged! Achieving Results Through People ESI - Managing Projects ESI - Risk Management ESI - Scheduling And Cost Control ESI-Project Leadership & Communication Tango Business Simulation 2004 Mobile applications & Services by APIS training & seminars 2003 GSM System intensive by APIS training & seminars Several seminars on Software test and Requirements / Management Academy at IQUIP, The Netherlands First year: General management. Second year: Focus on Human Resource Management / Several Personal development courses given by different training institutes in The Netherlands Communicative skills Teaching skills Selection- and assessment techniques Presentation techniques Teamwork Interview techniques Understanding Project Management Interview techniques, focused on competences / Several IT courses at IQUIP, The Netherlands, among others: TMap Structured Software Testing Black Box Testing Organizational audit Effective influencing Stakeholder Management Dealing with emotional events Motivation techniques Employee evaluation Coaching Negotiation and dealing with conflicts PAPI training (PA Consulting) Function Point Analysis Quality Management Test Point Analysis Last revised: April, 2009 Page 6 of 7

7 LANGUAGES VERBAL WRITTEN Danish Fluent Fluent English Fluent Fluent Dutch Fluent (mother tongue) Fluent German Moderate Moderate French Moderate Moderate PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Tools Quality Center (test & defect tool) Rational Requisite Pro (Requirement management) Test Track Pro (Defect management) Rational ClearQuest (Defect management) Primavera Project Management Telelogic Doors (Requirement management) Methods Test method TMap (Test Management Approach) Test method TPI (Test Process Improvement) Test method TEmb (Test of Embedded Software) CMMi Job functions Project management Software test management People management Recruitment Requirement management Defect management Coaching, training Level Last revised: April, 2009 Page 7 of 7