Ronald Damhof

Current

Owner at Prudenza, Information Management

Past

ICT- and Regie Architect Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence at Belastingdienst
Sr. Advisor Information Management at Cibit, a DNV (Det Norske Veritas ) company
Managing Consultant Data Warehousing and BI at Intelligence in Information (i3)

Managing Consultant Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence at Vertis BV (now Ordina)
Setting up Enteprise Data Warehouse Albert Heijn (Pallas) at Albert Heijn (e.g. Pallas Project)
IT consultant at Logica

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Education

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Zernike College

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Information Services

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Ronald Damhof’s Summary

Senior Architect in information management, focus on (Enterprise) Data Management and it's place in an Enterprise Architecture. To be honest-I am a bit of a freak when it comes to this field of expertise. I love the dynamic thats going on at the moment, many interesting developments, discussions, trends. It just proves that there is a huge need for an Intelligent Enterprise that is capable of (re)-using its greatest treasure in an efficient and effective manner..information.

I am not a 'white paper' architect..put your money where your mouth is, is my motto. I like to see architectures 'live' in enterprises, not just write about it. In most organisations my role extends architecture often. I need to be a missionary (selling the value of an information architecture), a project manager (getting it done) and a specialist (educating hardware peeps, data architects, data logistics peeps etc.). But thats the beauty of the trade...

Over 14 years of experience in the field. At the moment at various (international) customers.

Workting atm as/for:
- Setting up the domain architecture Management Information for a University
- Lead trainer for the Masterclass Data Warehousing in Depth of DNV-CIBIT
- Advisor for a Health Insurance company that is implementing an Enterprise Data Warehouse
- Advising various companies (parttime) on their data management strategy & architecture
- Certified Data Vault Grandmaster of Genesee Academy - assisting in seminars and certifications
- Certifying Data Vault solutions for various customers
- Auditing existing informational architectures and deployments

Ronald Damhof’s Experience

Owner

Prudenza, Information Management

(Information Services industry)

February 2007 — Present (3 years )

Senior Advisor in Enterprise Data Management, focus on Data Warehousing and it's place in an Enterprise Architecture.
ICT- and Regie Architect Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Belastingdienst

(Information Services industry)

May 2007 — May 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Started as an IT Architect for the Enteprise Data Warehouse within the Dutch Tax Authority. Architected and designed the application- and technical architecture and was primary contact for designers, development and parts of the business with regard to all aspect of Business Intelligence. Huge stakeholder environment, immense robust technical environment, huge volumes, complex business processes, relatively large project teams. Keywords: Data Vault, SAS, Mainframe, DB2, etc..

In the period October 2008 untill May 2009 - the first Regie Architect Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for the Dutch Tax Authority. Primarily at the business site, translating various types of data- and functional demand into viable solutions.

In both roles I trained the internal successors.
Sr. Advisor Information Management

Cibit, a DNV (Det Norske Veritas ) company

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)

May 2006 — February 2007 (10 months)

Sr. Consultant information management for various clients, branches and industries.

Trainer of Data Warehousing (in depth) masterclasses, some Business Intelligence masterclasses and the data perspective of SOA architectures.

Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse manager for a drugstore -chain (500 stores).
Managing Consultant Data Warehousing and BI

Intelligence in Information (i3)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)

January 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 4 months)

Managing a team of highly expert Data Warehousing and Business Intellignece professionals.

Project manager of a large Data Warehouse an Corporate Performance Management project in banking that went live for 6000+ users. The Data warehouse as well as the front end solution were offered fixed price, fixed result. The technical solution was hosted as well as the maintanance.

Sr. Consultant in various projects, industries, branches like Youthcare, Media, Hospital, banking, retail.
Managing Consultant Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Vertis BV (now Ordina)

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2001 — November 2004 (3 years 9 months)
Setting up Enteprise Data Warehouse Albert Heijn (Pallas)

Albert Heijn (e.g. Pallas Project)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Retail industry)

October 1997 — February 2001 (3 years 5 months)

I was part of the intial architect team that formed Pallas (Dutch Architecture Award in 2004); an enterprise wide data warehouse for Albert Heijn.I was involved in almost all aspects of this warehouse but focused on the front-end application architecture. I left Albert Heijn when the first increment went live.

A lot of my best practices can still be traced back to Pallas. A hugely unque informational environment in the retail and one of the most succesfull implementation of an Enterprise Data Warehouse that I know of.
IT consultant

Logica

(Public Company; Information Services industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Ronald Damhof’s Education

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Yes , Economics , 1990 — 1995
Zernike College

Versneld VWO , Middelbaar Onderwijs , 1989 — 1990

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Published articles: - The Next generation EDW (De volgende generatie EDW) 1/3 Database Magazine 5-2008. Download from www.prudenza.nl. - The Next generation EDW (De volgende generatie EDW) 2/3 Database Magazine 8-2008