Stephan Dekker
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Stephan is a technology leader with 25 years of experience driving engineering strategy.
He combines deep technical expertise with his ability to get his vision and roadmap approved at board level to deliver the company ambitions.
He is known for uplifting engineering organizations, primarily in morale and effectivenss like the Navigate program at NAB, but also scaling IntelligenceBank from 9 to 21 (within 18 months), OCLC from 36 to 45 for instance.
His 13 years in Melbourne (Australia) made him fluent in English (With an Aussie accent ). He returned to The Netherlands in 2020.
- Technology strategy & roadmap that engages all stakeholders.
- Scaling engineering organizations and agile & devops Leadership to deliver better and faster by happier employees
- Excellent Board, Executive, Shareholders and Customer Communication
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, Google) for high availability systems
- Successfully delivered enterprise SaaS & Big Data Platforms
- Product delivery based on customer engagement
- Cherry picking from industry best practices frameworks, like SAFe, Scrum, ITIL, CMMi, ISTQB, SOC2, DORA and more to ensure compliance
Senior IT Manager
- City: Roden, The Netherlands
- Location: Hybrid, Office or Remote
- Language: Dutch (Native) and English (Fluent)
- Birthday: see javascript
- Email:stephan@stephandekker.com
- Phone:+31 (0)6 1099 3298
- Website: https://www.stephandekker.com
“Train people so well they have every opportunity to leave. Treat them so well they don’t want to.”
Resume
Roles
March 2024 - Present
DuurzaamInvesteren - CTO
Crowdfunding Platform based in Amsterdam
- Implementation of KYC Onboarding.
- Reducing IT Spent with 43%.
- Engaging the entire business in the IT Roadmap.
Jan 2022 - March 2024
OCLC - Snr. Platform Manager
Wise Library Platform, Head office Columbus (Ohio)
- Delivered nation-wide Single Identity solution.
- Increased IT teams with near-shoring in Portugal.
- Introduction of Data Science roles.
- Reporing into VP of Engineering.
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Sogeti Consulting
Snr. Scrum Master at BD Kiestra, Drachten (NL)
- Coach the "Sustain" team in the adoption of SAFe.
- Improve requirement analysis and sign-off process.
- Reporing into Head of Engineering.
Feb 2019 - Sept 2020
Head of Technology - IntelligenceBank
A SaaS Marketing platform, Melbourne (AU)
- Enable growth at IT business units from 9 to 18.
- Deliver super secure video streaming project for NSW Justice Department.
- Initiated automated testing.
- Reporing into CTO.
March 2017 - Feb 2019
Nintex - Director Data Analytics
Nintex Hawkeye, Melbourne (AU) & Kuala Lumpur
- End responsibility for Nintex's analytical product.
- Re-build platform, working directly with the Microsoft Data team in Redmond to adopt the latest best-practices.
- Reduced ingestion times from 18 hours per run, to 18 minutes.
- Implemented automated testing for Big-Data solution.
- Reporing into CTO.
June 2016 - March 2017
Nintex - O365 Forms Delivery manager
Nintex O365 Forms, Melbourne (AU)
- Leading 2 teams, across Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur.
- Responsible for 99.999% uptime of global SaaS product.
- Reporing into Director of O365 Forms.
Oct 2015 - June 2016
MYOB - Snr. Developer
SaaS Accounting software, Melbourne (AU)
- Career experiment to go back to development.
- Worked on MYOB AccountRight enterprise accounting product.
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
UHG - Agile Delivery Manager
Unified Healthcare Group (UHG), Melbourne (AU)
- Agile transformation of Scale-up Company in Healthcare industry.
- Introduced Automated testing.
- Reporing into CTO.
Feb 2010 - Aug 2014
NAB - Standards Manager
National Australia Bank (NAB), Melbourne (AU)
- Initiatied and Delivered aommunity driven approach to Standards.
- Introduction of Agile and DevOps by interenal communities.
- Improved dev performance by 6%.
- Reduction of test times and Sev1/sev2 incidents.
- Reporing into CTO of Wholesale Banking.
July 2008 - Feb 2010
NAB - Dev Lead, Pricing Centre project
National Australia Bank (NAB), Melbourne (AU)
- Calculating ROI and ROE for Wholesale banking deals.
- First project to adopt agile at bank.
- First project to adopt DevOps.
- White paper from Microsoft on success of project.
- High Performance Team dynamics.
Oct 2004 - March 2008
LogicaCMG - Snr. Consultant
LogicaCMG, Rijswijk (NL)
- Many clients and project in the Public domain.
- Led the Microsoft stream within Resu!t center (DevOps).
Jan 2000 - Oct 2004
VU - Scientific Engineer/Developer
Vrije Universiteit (Free University), Amsterdam (NL)
- Developing bespoke scientific software for researcher at Faculty of Psychology and Pediatrics at VU.
- Assist research with Data analysis and statistics.
- Developed VU-AMS II, the ambulant monitoring device. Including 4-layer print board, soldoring the components and interfacing with desktop software.
Education
Open University (Masters)
Hogeschool Amsterdam (Bachelor)
Hogeschool Alkmaar (Bachelor)
MTS Noorder Hooft College (College)
LTS De zuylen (College)
Other achievements
2024
Sogeti KY2024 kick-off - VIP Panel guest
Panel member at Sogeti global year Kick-off event on Malta
2014
SEPG Conference - Presenter
Presented the Process Improvement Infrastructure (PII) implemented at NAB
2012
Microsoft TechEd Conference - Presenter
400+ People, full-stage conference presentation
Presented on the development lifecycle of mobile development
2006 - 2008
Resu!t centre - Microsoft Lead
Uplifting Microsoft Agile and DevOps
Internal role at LogicaCMG to implement what is now called DevOps for Microsoft client projects within the prestegious Resu!t center.
1996 - 2000
Alkmaar Student Association - Praeses
Praeses Student Association in Alkmaar and Chairman national Praeses association
- Growing from 115 to 900 members, of which 150 active
- Incrased the size of the members club
- Restructuring the Org
- "Member of honour" for life
Testimonials
… Apart from Stephan’s technical skills, he is also a great leader, as all my teams enjoy working with him and learned to adopt state of the art practices increasing the company’s’ IT maturity. His positive attitude towards all obstacles helped the Mathemetrica Group partner with a US multinational.
Aldo Toranto
CEO Mathemetrica Group
Stephan joined our development team from the Netherlands and immediately made a positive impact and valuable contribution to the team developing a new Web based Pricing and Return Measurement application for the NAB.
He grew to become the Lead Developer and displayed diligence, experience and commitment in ensuring the team reached its objectives of delivering an extremely well received quality product for the User Group. An integral compnent of the Projects success, Stephan was easy to engage with to the point that the Business SME's felt comfortable in working directly with him to ensure alignment of understanding.
The application has also recieved external visibility being utilised by Microsoft as a Test Case for their Silverlight Application. I would highly recommend Stephan for application development and team leading activities.
Phil Gadzinski
CEO of “Risk Project Execution"
Stephan is an exceptional communicator who consistently excels at bridging the gap between technical teams, product owners, sales, and customers. His ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights ensures that both non-technical stakeholders and technical teams understand each other's needs. Whether he's leading cross-functional meetings or collaborating with clients, Stephan's clarity and approachability foster an environment of mutual understanding and alignment.
One of Stephan's key achievements was successfully delivering the complex and highly visible Dutch Single Identity project. Not only did he deliver it on time and with top-notch quality, but the success of this project also played a pivotal role in enabling OCLC to secure the highly competitive Dutch national tender for their public library technology platform.
In addition to his outstanding technical leadership, Stephan displayed remarkable foresight and cost efficiency by employing near-shore consultants in Portugal to help deliver the Single Identity project. This decision significantly reduced implementation costs without compromising quality, highlighting his ability to balance technical and financial priorities effectively.
Stephan's strong technical and architectural background gives him instant credibility with the engineering teams that he leads. His in-depth understanding of complex systems and architecture allows him to provide clear guidance, solve challenging problems, and lead with confidence. His technical expertise, combined with his communication and leadership skills, makes him invaluable to any organization.
T.J. Godsey
VP Technology OCLC
I have worked with Stephan on multiple projects at NAB. He has in depth knowledge of .net framework, IT practices and agile methods. He has single-handedly implemented SEPG model at NAB which allowed the standards to be set by very people on the ground. His involvement in .net and agile community is quite commendable, he always think for the people on the ground and try to ease the pain which technical people face everyday.
His work at ALM community also shows that he is all for people who believe in sharing culture.
I have learn a lot from Stephan and would not hesitate to recommend him for any .NET or Agile jobs. He is a God send to any team.
Vinay Tripathi
Founder of Spolib Group
... These initial actions and improvements allowed IntelligenceBank to increase Engineering staff,
setting up a third team and delegating line management responsibilities to team leads. Stephan
trained the teamleads to be successful in their newly created roles.
As a result of Stephans’ actions, the department headcount has been doubled, and due to
improved processes the feature delivery has increased even more than double, project
estimation variance dramatically reduced, production issues decreased overtime, and importantly
staff engagement and enablement has gone up significantly.
The company acquired a significant business deal with the Department of Justice NSW, which
Stephan led and delivered while mentoring his successor in the lead time before his departure.
I thank Stephan for his contributions and especially with his work turning the development teams
into a thriving area within the IntelligenceBank business, ready for us to continue to scale it up
and meet more exciting business demands. I’m available to have a conversation with Stephan’s
future employer if required.
Download the Letter of recommendation
Tessa Court
CEO Intelligence Bank
Being able to participate in community based standards empowered me to fix things and improve the way I worked for our whole organization. Along the way it caused me to engage with everyone else in meaningful discussion about what would improve our ability to deliver code to production, building stronger team collaboration
Brian Mills
CTO POLi Payments
I still don’t know how you guys do it exactly, but there is a great ‘Vibe’ happening across the entire business. So, please do MORE of it!
Bob Lyons
CIO NAB Wholesale Banking
I worked with Stephan on a POC (windows 8 App) for the Internet banking in the National Australia bank based.
Stephan managed the POC and as a project manager showed a deep knowledge in Agile methodology practices and successful implementation. Stephan also utilized the Team Foundation Server infrastructure to be used as the Application Life Cycle Management tool for the project.
Beyond the project management, Stephan demonstrated a deep knowledge in all the technical aspects related to the project, based .NET development and JSON.
Finally I found Stephan as an easy going and pleasant to work with.
Carmel Halabe
Cloud Architect
I had the pleasure of working closely with Stephan for nearly a decade. Throughout that time, he consistently
demonstrated exceptional professionalism, technical capability, and leadership. Stephan has a rare ability
to combine deep technical insight with a genuine understanding of how technology impacts real-world users,
a quality that made him invaluable to our work in the health and wellness technology space.
He led an offshore team with calm efficiency, communicated clearly, and delivered high-quality outcomes
across complex projects involving cloud infrastructure and software integrations. Above all, Stephan is
reliable, collaborative, and brings both intellect and good humour to every challenge.
Stephen Simonds
CEO Simonds Health
Projects
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- Process
- Finance
- Marketing
- Pesenting
- Analytics
- Tech
Downloads
Please find below a selection of downloads and shareable items. When resharing, please consider copyrights
The role of stimulus driven and goal driven control
Accademic paper regarding Saccadic Visual Selection using Eye tracker
Microsoft Case Study
Microsoft published a case study on the success of the Pricing Center project
Source Control Tool Evaluation at NAB (PDF)
A thorough evaluation during NAVIGATE led to the Developers choosing Git as the source control for NAB. I still believe this lead to Microsoft also released GIT support to TFS 6 months later.
Source Control Tool Evaluation at NAB (Excel)
The data in Excel to support the PDF report.
Letter of recommendation (PDF)
Letter of recommendation from Tessa Court, CEO of IntelligenceBank.
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