References

Assignments and customers throughout Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Barths, Surinam and The Netherlands.

Management consultancy services

  • business plans deploying mobile telecommunication services operators
  • business plan deploying a WiFi Hotspot operator
  • business plans deploying international telecommunication- and internet services operator
  • business plan deploying an ADSL internet access operator
  • business plan deploying a DVB-T TV broadcasting operator
  • sales & marketing plans for mobile, fixed and internet telecommunication operators services
  • telecommunication operators multi-annual financial budgets
  • feasibility studies determining the feasibility of deploying a regional Internet Exchange
  • feasibility study determining the feasibility of deploying telecommunication submarine cables
  • regulatory policy and legal framework for the telecommunication sector in the former Netherlands Antilles
  • Assisting telecommunications operators in addressing different regulatory legal and policy matters with respect to establish new companies, products and services
  • national broadband Internet policy plan
  • Curacao ICT development masterplan
  • Curacao Information society masterplan
  • fixed Internet penetration level studies
  • mobile Internet penetration level studies
  • Internet traffic volume projections studies
  • Internet domain names “hosting and latency” studies
  • telecommunication submarine cable projections with regards to capacity, wholesale and retail traffic and pricing
  • Executed several projects with regards to revenue assurance and maximization as well as costs minimization and portfolio analysis
  • Team leader in a successful merger and acquisition undertaking acquiring an ISP.

Project management

  • deployment of telecommunication submarine optical fiber cables
  • deployment of local fixed telecommunication cabled network
  • deployment of a mobile 3G network
  • relocation of mobile network core components to new switch building without service interruption
  • mobile operator changing its country code and update entire customer base
  • mobile operator changing currency in its core- back office and front office systems as the respective country changed its currency
  • deploying an Internet Exchange. Establishing the corporate structure, technical infrastructure, business model and front- and back office business processes.
  • global implementation of a global area network (GAN)
  • implementation of a customer-care and -retention program

(Interim) management

  • Management board with P&L responsibility of an Internet Exchange.
  • Interim management responsible for managing 80 professionals.
  • Interim management responsible for a turnaround process introducing ITIL.

List of customers

  • Scarlet, Digicel, Telbo, United Telecommunication Services, Connecting Technologies, Caribserve, Eutel, Ravitel, Satel, EOCG Wireless, TelEm group of companies, Smitcoms, Global Link, Global Comtrade, Eastern Caribbean Cellular (ECC), Netstar, Curacao Airport (CAP), Stimul-IT, Telecommunicatie Autoriteit Suriname (TAS), PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bureau Telecommunicatie, Post and Utilities (Regulator), KPN, Rijksdienst Caribisch Nederland (RCN), Stichting Ontwikkeling Logistieke Projecten Curacao (SLS), Latin Internet Exchange (LAT-IX), Caribbean Internet Exchange (CAR-IX), Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX).