AD Internet consulting — Design in Business

How I work

Four ways to bring a senior architect into the room.

Every engagement starts the same way: a conversation about the decision in front of you. What follows depends on what that decision needs.

TransformationInterim leadBoard & AIReview

Engagements

Pick the shape that fits the decision

Before you commit

Architecture review

An independent, senior second opinion on an architecture, a programme or a platform decision, before the money and the years are spent.

You get

  • The real risks and constraints, stated plainly
  • Options, and what each one commits you to
  • A recommendation you can take to the board

Right when a decision is close and you want it pressure-tested by someone with nothing to sell.

For boards and leadership

Board & AI advisory

Counsel for boards and leadership teams on what technology, and now AI, changes in your architecture, your security and the way you deliver.

You get

  • Briefings in the language of the boardroom
  • A clear position on AI: where it helps, where it adds risk
  • A sounding board for the calls only you can make

Right when the questions are strategic and you need an architect, not a vendor, answering them.

Inside your organisation

Interim lead architect

Senior architecture leadership embedded in your organisation for a defined period, setting direction and standards while you build or hire your own.

You get

  • Architectural direction your teams can work to
  • Decisions recorded, with their reasons
  • A clean handover when your own architect arrives

Right when strong teams are missing a senior architect setting the course.

When the organisation changes shape

Transformation leadership

Architecture leadership for mergers, carve-outs, large cloud migrations and programmes that have stalled, including delivery across global teams.

You get

  • A target architecture and a route to it
  • The dependencies and risks that sink programmes, surfaced early
  • Steady architectural leadership through the change

Right when two estates must become one, or a programme needs restarting.

Areas of practice

Where the depth is

Enterprise & infrastructure architecture

Reference architectures, target operating models and the multi-year roadmaps that align technology with where the business is actually going. TOGAF-grounded, production-tested.

Cloud strategy & migration

Multi-cloud platform design and large-scale migrations across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, from greenfield platform builds to unblocking programmes that have stalled.

Security & identity

Identity and access management, network zoning and defence in depth, and cloud security aligned with ISO 27001, PCI and NIST.

Transformation management

Mergers, carve-outs and new ways of working: architecture leadership for the programmes where organisations change shape, including intercultural delivery across global teams.

Track record

27 years at enterprise scale

Architectural and transformational roles for multinational and national organisations, including Canon Europe as Head of Cloud Services, ING, Cochlear, Carrefour and Philips Domestic Appliances / Versuni, across banking mergers, retail cloud programmes, utility and public-sector roadmaps, and global datacenter transformations.

  • Languages English, Nederlands, Deutsch, Français
  • Based in Lummen, Belgium
  • Engaged through AD Internet Consulting BV
Full career history on LinkedIn

Next step

Not sure which shape fits? That's the first conversation.

Describe the decision in front of you and I'll tell you honestly whether, and how, I can help.

Start a conversation