 “As
Service Oriented Architecture gradually takes op acceptance
in the market, organisations are more and more faced with
the realities of semantics. One of our next challenges in
ICT will be to harness meaning as the essential part of the
overwhelming richness of information around ”
Arnold
brings over 33 years’ experience in architecture and design
of international telecommunications and information interchange
infrastructures and transformational issues to his role as
Global Architect in the Sector Products of Capgemini Netherlands.
Before taking up this role in July 2001, Arnold had a similar
role in the Sector Finance of Capgemini Netherlands.
During his tenure with the firm Arnold has focused on information interchange in all its facets both for international and domestic clients. He is a senior member of the international architecture community in Capgemini and a member of The Open Group UDEF Forum, and has been working in banking, insurance, automotive industry, chemical industry, high-tech industry, retail, logistics, public services an telecom industry in roles varying from consulting to interim management. He is an expert on infrastructure architecture and has been instrumental in setting up infrastructures both at commercial and governmental organisations. His roles cover strategic, technical, organisational and security aspects. He also is a qualified trainer in Capgemini's corporate architecture training program at the Capgemini International training centre in Les Fontaines (France).
Before joining Capgemini, Arnold was ICT-consultant and project manager at the NMB-bank, one of the founding organisations of the ING-group. At NMB-bank he contributed to the creation of the online payment and telebanking infrastructure in the Netherlands.
Born in the Netherlands, Arnold graduated in chemistry and numerical mathematics from the Leiden University in 1974. He is married, has three children, is a member of the UDEF Forum of The Open Group and board member of a public foundation that operates a group of (primary and secondary) schools in the Netherlands. |
