Chris Boer

Background

About Chris Boer

Experienced international Senior project manager / Program manager: 30+ yrs of successful delivery. extensive experience of vendor selection & management in fully & partially outsourced business environments.(carve out/merger) Proactive Stakeholder Communication & Relationship management skills: Confident at working with Board Level Stakeholders. Able to develop & maintain strong alliances with key Business, Technology Office & vendors groups. Managing effective communication at all levels. Successful at managing & motivating: defining programmes, governance, budgets, & communication strategy. Managing/driving resolution of issues, risks and dependencies. Managing large cross-disciplinary / international / multi-vendor teams.(Covering project managers, users, architects, business analysts, developers, testers, consultants, operations groups & vendors). Ambition: • Building the bridge between "new technology" and business practices regarding adding business value through delivery of IT driven solution/services. • Keen to coach, share my experience and work with motivated professionals Specialties and products • Transformation & Integration projects • Outsourcing, offshore / onshore projects • Legacy reduction & application migrations • Enterprise Platform Development & Implementation • Cloud Computing & Service Orientated Architecture • Datacenter consolidation and migration in 24/7 critical business • Security and transaction system monitoring and transaction reporting • Cisco network implementations • Oracle / Shareplex replication • Microsoft Azure / Hybrid Cloud solutions / Mobile SAAS Solutions • ITSM / HP Service Manager / ITIL v3 / ServiceNow • Mobile collaboration and communication solutions • IT Security • Mobile Telecom Solutions • IOT, LORA • Location based advertising • IT infrastructure • IAM, Identity and access management Quest, Dell One •