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Han van Loon

MBA Technology Management, B.E, Dip Arts

Principal Consultant

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CH 6318 Walchwil
Switzerland

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Personal information

Wants

Companies wanting to achieve world class performance and quality. People and firms requiring training in management and leadership. Partnerships for STARS consulting.
Haves

Strategy, Innovation, Improvement, Change Management, Certified Scrum Master and team coach, Quality Management, Process Engineering and Optimization, Project Management, Coaching, HR training and motivation courses, Training across IT Software Systems Design and Engineering, Quality, Processes, Knowledge enhancement methods, Agile methods. STARS methodology, Team Based Business Design Improvement methodology, Enterprise Based Business Design Improvement, Industry Based Business Design Improvement, Risk Reduction, Practical Process Profiles. ISO 15504, SPICE, CMMI, iCMM. ISO9001, ISO 14001, auditor, SNV SC7 representative, BPM, Supply chain and logistics improvement.
Interests

Meeting interesting people, Wine, Photography, Skiing, Mountaineering, Writing, Golf
Organizations

IEEE (Swiss excom). AOQ, ASQ, Swiss Standards (SNV) representative at ISO JTC1/SC7, ISO working group member.
Groups

Professional experience

2005 - present

(Only visible for registered members)
Jan 2009 - present
(3 years, 5 months)

Global Project Manager - Certified Scrum Master

Zürich Financial Services, http://www.zurich.com

Industry: Financial Services, Industry: Insurance, ICT, IT Services, IT Beratung, IT Consulting, IT Management, IT Strategy, Service Management, IT Service Management, Service Architecture, Process Management Publicly held corporation, 10,001 or more employees
Feb 2008 - Sep 2008
(8 months)

IT Technology Governance Manager

Swiss Re, http://www.swissre.com

Industry: Insurance
2001 - 2005

Senior Consultant

Synspace

Industry: Information Technology & Services, Consulting. Clients include European Space Agency, Insurance, Banks, Systems and Software development
1995 - 2001

Information Services Manager - TQM Manager

CelsiusTech/SAAB

Industry: Information Technology & Services
1991 - 1995

Quality Manager

CelsiusTech/SAAB

Industry: Information Technology & Services
1983 - 1991

Engineering Project Manager, QA Manager, System Designer

Civil Aviation Authority

Industry: Airlines
1980 - 1983

Senior Engineer

AM Jacquard

Industry: Computer Software
1977 - 1980

Engineer

International Computers Limited

Industry: Computer Hardware

Employment status

Freelancer

Educational background

2008

UBIS Geneva
Project, Operation Management, CM

Visiting Professor - MBA classes
2006 - 2010

Nottingham Trent University UK
Design, engineering, KM

Visiting professor
2002 - 2006

Latrobe University
Management, MBA Technology Management
1999 - 2002

Deakin University
Diploma Business Management, Diploma
Melbourne University
Bachelor Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BE(Elec)
Canberra Tertiary College
Diploma Arts, Associate Diploma
University of New South Wales
Management, Certificate

Languages

German, English, French, Swedish, Dutch

About me

I am the group moderator for the the Leadership and management forum: https://www.xing.com/net/starsleaders . This forum will focus on the various aspects of leadership, management and culture. It will be supported through the XING STARS Knowledge Cafés. Thomas Kappauf and I ran the first Leadership café in 2007 in Zürich, and we ran the next café in April 2008 on Enterprise Culture. Since then i have run another 10 knowledge cafés around the globe, including Europe, Middle East, Australia and Africa.

I was IEEE Swiss section president from April 2009 to April 2011. I am an active professional leadership trainer and workshop facilitator for IEEE, the world's largest society of professionals.

I enjoy challenging myself in mental and physical ways and hence have created innovative methodologies for improvement for teams, business enterprises and industries. In the past few years I have taken on more teaching and coaching roles in addition to my process engineering, assessment and quality management roles. I consider myself a 'Pracademic' - a practical academic. First and foremost is my practical orientation from decades of work in private enterprise. This is supported by my part-time academic research into People-Process-Product (my holistic model for management), training development and teaching.

STARS is one result of my Pracademic work - a way for individuals, teams and enterprises to excel. Practical Process Profiles is another. It uses risk as a means to determine what key processes need to be improved and managed best to improve an enterprise and increase ROI.

I like to create quotes that capture part of my thinking and reflect my practical orientation. Sometimes they come at the most inconvenient times - like when I have been mountaineering above 4000m in the alps, or in the middle of the night (at least then I have a notepad handy to capture them).

Three thoughts and quotes

"Good management creates good performance, good leadership creates great performance."

"I know that I don’t know everything but I hope I know what I need to know."

Dubya's weapons of mass destruction:
1. The Kyoto protocol refusal
2. The unregulated Investment banking (sic) industry

I am a practicing photographer and graphic artist - My image is superimposed over one variant of my corporate logo, a global variant of Yin-Yang.

Besides my mental gymnastics, I enjoy skiing (2008 and 2012 were great seasons), mountain hiking (managed several 4000ers) and glacier hiking, golf (I have fallen out of practice so who knows what handicap level I play today), a little cycling, and most of all meeting interesting people!