contenu

Consulting

Senior advice, with the prototype attached.

I work at the interface of business and technology: senior advisory thinking, clear communication across languages and cultures, and the hands-on ability to make an idea visible, testable and ready to move.

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Home base · Almere, NLWorked on site · 42 cities
100k+users in one global rollout
90+countries in one programme
5technology waves, worked hands-on
4working languages

Enterprise experience

Every wave, in the field

Five technology waves, each one worked hands-on.

Each wave brought new tools. The work of getting people to adopt them stayed much the same.

The big shifts

  1. PC1980s
  2. Web1990s
  3. Mobile2000s
  4. Cloud2010s
  5. AI2020s
  1. 1995

    The early web

    Webmaster and website developer; localisation for IBM and DuPont.

  2. 1996

    Multilingual content

    Globalisation programmes for IBM, Nestlé, Biogen and Dassault Systèmes.

  3. 1999

    Documentum

    Enterprise content management for Pfizer, Heineken, Robeco, ING and EY.

  4. 2007

    SharePoint

    Twenty years of collaboration platforms, up to 100,000+ users.

  5. 2012

    Power Platform

    Workflow, forms and apps with Nintex, Power Automate and PowerApps.

  6. 2021

    Generative & agentic AI

    Designing and building agentic solutions for EY’s global service lines.

What I bring

Three disciplines, usually in one engagement.

Direction, a working concept early, and the delivery that makes it stick.

01

AI & automation direction

Identify credible opportunities, shape business cases and create product roadmaps for AI-driven enterprise workflows and managed-service platforms.

  • Opportunity framing
  • Business cases & roadmaps
  • Product direction
02

Creative solutioning & rapid prototyping

Turn ambiguity into a working concept early, so stakeholders can react to something concrete before significant time and money are committed.

  • Concept exploration
  • Functional prototypes
  • Business validation
03

Global product & transformation delivery

Connect business priorities, technical teams and adoption across countries through clear writing and facilitation.

  • Product ownership
  • Functional architecture
  • Executive workshops

Selected work

From global rollouts to working prototypes.

01 · EY Global Tax

One collaboration experience. More than 100,000 users.

Programme management, product expertise and training for a global document-collaboration rollout spanning more than 90 countries.

Reach100k+
Countries90+
ScopeGlobal

02 · EY Client Technology · now

Agentic AI for four global service lines

Designing and building AI and automation solutions from first idea through working prototype to deployment, and explaining them across the global business.

Role
Solution Architect & Product Owner
Stack
Claude Code · LangGraph · Azure

03 · EY Finance Managed Services

From AI ambition to an operational roadmap

Strategy, business cases and roadmap for AI-driven automation of end-to-end P2P, with agentic uplift across R2R and O2C. Reporting to the CIO.

Focus
P2P · R2R · O2C
Role
Product Owner, AI & Automation

04 · Nestlé · Dassault Systèmes · Biogen

Content that speaks every language

Globalisation and multilingual content management for global brands, from Documentum workflow in SAP to localisation repositories for marketing.

Where
Vevey · Paris · Cambridge, MA
Scope
Multilingual ECM

A full CV is available on request: robert@contenu.nl

Contact

Questions, ideas or a conversation?

I’m always glad to hear from people working on AI, product strategy, transformation or software.

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