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OCCUPATION:
ENTREPRENEUR; VISIONARY; STRATEGIST and SYSTEMS CONSULTANT

NATIONALITY: DUTCH

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS :
BUSINESS ECONOMICS – MASTERS WITH DISTINCTION – ERASMUS - ROTTERDAM
AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING – BATCHELOR DEGREE – THE NETHERLANDS
POST GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PHILOSOPHY – KUN NIJMEGEN
FIRST LIEUTENANT - DUTCH ARMY

PROFILE
A Senior Manager with a wide ranging experience in organizational change, the domain of strategy, project and international finance and commercial control of major projects. His career has covered a full development line of management positions in an Anglo Dutch multi national oil company, management consultancy and systems design with specific applications to project cost management and business improvement. Joseph embraces the shift from win/lose to win/win thinking and is increasingly occupied with the shaping of new business opportunities in line with the newly emerging paradigms.
As lecturer and researcher of New Paradigms for Arts, Business and Politics Joseph addressed the systemic behavior and collective drivers of People Systems. He became the pragmatician that knows how to transform new insights into leadership and management.

Founder and President of:
Foundation for Innovative Leadership and Management Solutions (FiLMS) an NGO to promote new Paradigms for the Arts, Business and Politics.

Speaker and Representative
On New Paradigms for Business and Politics: to the XIth World Thinking conference in Phoenix, Az. (July 2003) and to different peace conferences.
EU representative in a security conference between USA, Israel and India in Delhi

Consulting specially directed towards Strategy
Advisor to Chief Executive of a Publishing Company on Strategy, London
Advisor to Chief Executive of Insurance Company on Leadership, Rotterdam
Advisor to Presidency of Bulgaria on development strategies for Bulgaria,

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

Employer: Magnum 7; Sofia; Bulgaria
Position: Strategy and Business Development Director
Duration: 2006 - present
Arrange a management buy-out of one of the owners and develop strategies for the future development of the company with Bulgaria as member of the EU.

Assignments carried out in the network 1995 - 2004

Client: RHI Group, Guildford
Position: Director of Systems and System Design, Client coach
Conceptually designed and coached the realization of a modern, user friendly Budget and Cost Control Systems designed to support all stages of the money processes in large capital projects. (BCCS for Anadarko and PEMS for Shell Deepwater)

Successfully Managed the introduction of PEMS as the new cost management tool for major projects for SPDC in Nigeria. Initiated the steps to firmly position the system and its supporting philosophy also as the new standard for the Shell Group world wide (2003).

Led the introduction of the PEMS system in the Shell Sachalin II project which led to the recommendation to undertake a full project re-estimation resulting in the doubling of the project budget to 20 Billion Dollars (2004).

Advised RHI on their Systems, IT and Product Market Strategy. Proposed to fuse the individual RHI and Alliance Company purchasing systems into an integrated portfolio to support large capital projects worldwide with a web based portal as umbrella structure.

Designed and project managed the realization of a Project Estimating Support System (PRESS) for Exxon in Houston. The system was tested and happily accepted by the client, delivered on a very strict timetable and realized within budget.
Client: Anadarko Corporation, Uxbridge (UK)
Position: Commercial and Organizational Consultant
Identified the need for changes in organizational and logistical set up and address the need to create an appropriate business culture to make the shift from an exploration company towards an integrated field development entity. Made a plan, got agreement and addressed the required changes in the organizational structure, management and business culture. For the HR function designed the personnel and management skill training program. Managed the selection process for training course providers. Worked on an intercultural change program and additional training requirements for local (Algerian) Management and other Project Management Teams.

Client: Rotterdam Port Authorities, Rotterdam
Position: Interim Manager Strategy
Re-orientation and raising of quality, professional status and image of the Strategy Department. Introduced Scenario Planning for a.o. Supply Chain studies. Structured the methods for project studies. Created a bespoke system of Business Controls.

Client: Shell Nederland, Rotterdam
Position: Project Manager Information Security
Created the Shell Group Policy for Information Security. Aligned major player companies to the new way ahead and created and introduced the implementation plan.

Lectured amongst others:
- Business Controls to Shell Management Training Program in London.
- Operations Management to MBA program in Haarlem, Holland
- Strategy and Project Management to MBA Surrey University, UK
Employer: Nederlandse Aardolie Mij (NAM) – ASSEN
Position: Director Audit and Controls
Duration: 1989 to 1993
Managed a multi disciplinary audit team of 12 auditors of NAM the largest gas company operating in Western Europe. Co-created (together with the Shell Group Auditor) the operational audit approach for the upstream part of the Shell Group and successfully introduced this integrated system concept in NAM. Project Leader for Finance in the re-organization of NAM to Business Units. Personal advisor to the CEO on commercial contracting and business control issues.
Employer: Shell International Materials Division, The Hague
Position: Director Finance, Services and Information
Duration: 1987 to 1988
Initiated strategic planning and information management in Shell Materials Division. Redesigned major purchasing strategies. Re-organized the computing department and subcontracted its operations to SCS in Rijswijk. Re-negotiated the basis of central overhead cost allocation thus halving the cost and saving the Division £1m annually. In charge of 35 staff.
Employer: Tern Project – Shell UK, London
Position: Finance Manager and Project Services
Duration: 1984 to 1987
In charge of 80 direct staff in Finance, Planning, Cost Engineering, Contracting, Computing, Document Management. Functionally responsible for another 75 Project Services professionals.

Initiated the concept of co-operative contracting making the Shell/Exxon Tern project the first in the UK offshore industry to adopt this strategy with spectacular results. The project was completed on time and saved £400m out of a total budget of £916m.

Experimented with different project control approaches all based on sound risk management rather than prevention of criticism. Was the idea champion behind the re-design of project execution and contracting out processes.
Employer: NAM-ASSEN, The Netherlands
Position: Commercial Contracting Manager
Duration: 1980 – 1983
Introduced regional tender boards and independent negotiating teams. Re-designed contracting out and purchasing strategies. Negotiated amongst others, contract claims with construction contractors, offshore lay barge, and helicopter operators.

1980 – 1981 Head of Financial Planning. Responsible for the design and construction of the NAM cash-flow simulation model and advised on billion-guilder money market dealings. Actively involved in the Shell scenario process. Participated as the financial and contractual specialist in farm-in negotiations of exploration concessions.
Employer: Societe Gabonaise Des Petroles Shell (SGPS), Libreville
Position: General Manager
Duration: 1979 - 1980
Reduced outstanding debts of SGPS through better credit management, increased market share and doubled profits through more daring and intelligent bidding for international aviation sales.

Project managed Palm Oil refinery project undertaken with PID funds (Provision des Investissements Divers) an oil revenue tax paying for local economic development.
Employer: Shell Gabon Port Gentil, West Africa
Position: Controller of the Exploration and Production Company (1978)
Auditor (1976 – 1977)
Duration: 1976 - 1978
Initiated and supervised the execution of a major cost reduction exercise in Shell Gabon

Auditor of all Marketing, Sales and oil product distribution activities of PIZO (the national oil distribution company of Gabon) and of all the Shell Marketing companies in the French speaking countries of West Africa.
Employer: Petroleum Development Oman Ltd., Ras al Hamrah, Oman
Position: Assistant to and after 12 month Head of Desert Transport PDOman.
Duration: 3 years

In charge of all desert transport arranged from the base camp Fahud and comprising of haulage to and from the coast, personnel transport by air and road and rig moving of the two Shell operated drilling rigs. Also responsible for the first and second echelon vehicle repair shops in the interior.

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