Herman Willekens

With more than 30 years experience in ICT, I evolved from a hands-on technical system administrator into project management, operations manager and ICT Management.

Having pre-sales experience in midsize and large ICT infrastructure projects, and possessing a good knowledge on different technologies and platforms, I managed projects involving architecture and data center design & setup, networking and network security, deployments, development and performance monitoring in heterogeneous environments.

Leadership experience leading teams of up to 25 people.

My expertise is mainly in system & network architectures and data center related projects, managing infrastructures and teams with a solid technical background.

Using a vast experience in real-life system and network administrator tasks, I can assimilate complex IT infrastructures in a very short time and I have a natural instinct of finding bottlenecks in those systems.

Testing the feasibility of projects against experience gained and the ability to quickly assimilate new concepts, my out-of-the-box approach on tackling issues has already solved many problems.

Having experience in a multitude of (mixed) environments, client- and vendor facing negotiations, data center experience, experiences with managed services (as customer and as service-provider as well as being responsible for a data center, my vast experience can be put to good use in a multitude of functions in a technologically complex environment.

I strongly focus on taking care of IT related matters from a business perspective and being service-oriented, assuring quality, availability and stability in ICT environments is a primary concern to me.

In short :

- Efficient communicator using no-nonsense communication style while keeping good interpersonal relations with the team

- Creative thinker, problem solver and decision maker who effectively balances the requirements and the needs of the ICT stakeholders.

- Result driven and stress resistant, never hesitating to take responsibility to work out new concepts, organize and deliver milestones to stakeholders, while taking care of operational management.

- Managing people with a participative management style and coaching team members to boost technical and organizational efficiency.