Curriculum Vitae of Nick van der Vlugt

Nick van der Vlugt is a Senior Consultant with ICT, Marketing, and Procurement experience.

Nick van der Vlugt’s Experience at Coreal, own company since 1999

Developer and leader of the course “Essential Knowledge for Better ICT Decisions”
This new course consists of a mixture of business aspects and ICT aspects. Excellent results can be attained with the knowledge acquired in this course. For more details of this course, click here.

ICT Improvements and Savings by applying a Quick Scan method since 2010
On the basis of checklists and general questions it becomes clear during discussions where the potential is for ICT improvements and ICT savings. A quick scan afterwards enables your consultant to estimate potential improvements and saving results. The consultant is hereafter prepared to actually realize those improvements/savings for organizations.

Independent ICT Consultant, Strategic & Tactical Senior Purchaser since 1999
For large and mid-sized companies and (semi, local) government with knowledge of ICT:

• Setting up of requirements, tendering (requests, offers), negotiations, contracting and after care on many ICT subjects:
  1. Applications: Development, implementation and functional management of CRM (Customer Relation Management), Document Management, e-Procurement, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Workflow, Content Management, Searching on Web, etc.
  2. Infrastructure: Mainframe, Unix system, Windows system, Call centre, operating system, Database, Middleware, SAN (Storage Area Network), etc.
  3. Network: WAN (Wide Area Network), LAN (Local Area Network), Internet, Intranet, Extranet
  4. Office automation: Workstation (laptop, PC, tablet), mobile field solution
  5. Personnel: Hiring ICT experience
  6. Projects: Planning of big software projects, estimation of costs with model of QSM (Quantitative Software Method), CMM (Capability Maturity Model) for quality of software Supplier
  7. Services: Maintenance, Outsourcing, System integration, Technical management
• Deals with business, commercial, economical, financial, technical ICT aspects
• Is prepared, at conditions to be discussed, to work on basis of no cure no pay at large extensions and new investments amounting several millions of Euro’s over a period of years

Special consultancy aspects include:

• Business cases
• Benchmarking
• Cost/benefit analysis
• Cross examination of purchasing portfolio
• European tender
• Forecast over several years
• Franchising
• ICT Budget discussions
• ICT Infrastructure optimization
• Improvement of ICT efficiency and effectiveness
• Improvement of ICT outsourcing contracts
• Investment model
• Judgement of requirements/offers/contracts, negotiations, tender
• Large software projects
• Leasing
• Mediator in ICT conflicts
• Mergers, carve-out, acquisitions
• Migrations
• Procurement advice, sourcing plan
• Second opinion
• Seminars, management training

Nick van der Vlugt’s Experience before 1999

• Marketing at different ICT suppliers
• Corporate ICT Procurement Manager at Philips
• ICT Project Leader of system migration and planning system at Philips Division
• International ICT Product Manager at Philips