Erik Rijnders

Target set and delivering on doubling sales figures year-on-year. Leading a sales team of seven sales directors globally and implementing a bullet-proof sales process. Atmail is a supplier of native cloud-based email solutions SW in a market that has a growing requirement for monetization using premium Anti-Spam, advertising and new feature areas such as identity management and collaboration suites.

Designed, implemented processes and enhanced solutions for BTL to effectively roll-out a state-of-the-art Fiber-to-the-home network and convert the entire Fixed Line customer base from copper to fiber with a rate of 3000 connections per month (fastest rate of Caribbean region).

IT Lead for a large Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) project in TSTT in Trinidad and Tobago. Responsible for design of processes, solutions and for operations for activations of new and existing TSTT customers. Solutions are integrated into Legacy platforms and transferred to a new Ericsson BSS/OSS stack. Consult TSTT on impacting programs, including implementation of SIP based telephony and nation-wide address improvement and postcode project.

Driving worldwide business relationship with Nokia (>10% of Redknee total revenue in 2015). Leading a small global team, reinvigorated PCRF product partnership into growing business. Delivered OEM productization of Redknee OCS, compliant with Nokia Mobile Broadband “Create Process and Virtual Zero” quality standards.

Drive sales for Redknee in Japan, China and South Korea. Established basis for large growth of Redknee Japan (> 500%). Redknee OCS-PCRF solution is dimensioned to serve >15 million end-users in KDDi. Redknee successfully expanded PCRF business in Taiwan.

Responsible for Nokia-BSS business in Japan. Won new large deals in Wireless City Planning (PCRF) and KDDi (OCS for Data Share service)

Drive sales for Nokia-BSS mediation business in Middle East, India, China and APAC geo-regions (>15 m USD/year). Leading a team of six regional solution managers. Scope of all solutions were based on applications and workflow running on Digital Route Mediation Zone platform. Differentiated proposition out of mainstream areas such as Real-time (DCCA) and Offline Packet Core towards mediation based PCRF as well as OSS mediation and reporting.

Consulting and Systems Integrations department. Responsible for Business Support Solutions (BSS) for all Nokia clients in Middle East and Africa (MEA). Responsibilities: - Dedicated Solution Manager for Safaricom, Kenya (2008 - 2009) - Drive BSS product and solution portfolio and its value proposition - Support Solution Architects with tailoring solutions - Support Sales consultants in the market - Drive business, maintain regional sales funnel - Participate in consultancy project deliveries

Grow BSS business for Nokia clients in Latin America. Successfully closed deals for Online Charging Key wins: JNETX-OCS in Telefonica Mexico (2008), Packet Core Integration projects AMX group and TEM group, Nokia Profile Server – SPR (Telcel Mexico) Scope: GPRS charging integration areas, Mediation, Online Charging. Policy management, provisioning, Video Streaming, DVB-H and Content Delivery platforms, Service Delivery Platform (SDP)

Telcel Mexico (AMX) "Gestor Corporativo". Implementation project for conversion of a legacy billing system Mobile 2000 (AMPS) to BSCS8. Definition of business and system requirements for Interconnect, Resource Admin, Roaming, Dunning and Commissions areas. Also responsible for several complex key Design Change Requests concerning Resource Administration, Rating and Mediation, Usage Data Record configuration, Virtual Private Network group functionality

Product Sales (Charging, Billing, Reporting, Datawarehouse). Responsible for solution and project scope definition as well as pricing. Five key deals (large IT projects) in less than half a year (total value >26m USD) TIM Peru (Peru), CTE (El Salvador), Comcel (Colombia), Telcel (Mexico), Conecel-Porta (Ecuador)

Project deliveries (Billing-IT ) in Latin America: -Entel, Santiago, Chile (2002) - migration -Smartcom (AMX), Santiago, Chile (2001, 2002) -Iusacell (ATT), Mexico-City - implemented in a merger of 4 local Mexican celular networks ( 2000), -Comcel (AMX), Bogota, Colombia ( 1999, 2000) - conversion project -Telemig Celular (Vivo Minas), Belo Horizonte, Brasil (1999) -Pegaso (Telefonica), Mexico-City (1999)

As consultant in Customer Care and Billing Team, working in clients throughout Europe: -DutchTone (T-Mobile), The Hague - Nov 1998 - Feb 1999 - Project manager for the implementation of a new Fixed-Wire service ‘Indirect Access’ as well as the Fixed-Mobile convergent product ‘Duplo’. -Turkcell Instanbul - Oct 1998 CRM integration consultancy -LHS BSCS (now Ericsson) - main kernel development Frankfurt, Germany. May 1997 - Sep 1998 - developer/designer, programming in C/C++ and Centura (SQLWindows)

R&D processing fluids. Product development of a water emulsion based high capacity grinding fluid for the car industry in cooperation with TU Twente.

R&D for material research with objective to develop bio-degradable plastics from starch and glutens.

Organic Chemistry