Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
▪ End-responsible for the technical integrity of the developed products within the Innovation department of JBT Marel Poultry. ▪ Leading a multidisciplinary team of ~60 Mechanical, Software and Hardware engineers and System Architects in system development project execution from prototype to free-for-sales. ▪ Responsible for coaching and mentoring of employees and the development and execution of a long-term strategic workforce planning. ▪ Internal and external stakeholder management, especially towards Supply Chain, Product management & Lay-out engineering.
Developed novel technology and proved feasibility in computer vision applications. Strengthened the business’ intellectual property using a variety of optical, mechanical and software skills.
▪ Responsible for the technical program within the emerging agriculture business which aims to automatically sort and pack fruits and vegetables using computer vision, robotics and AI technology. ▪ Internal and external stakeholder management. Translate stakeholder requirements into technical specifications. ▪ Lead teams of engineers in program / project execution.
Performed finite element analysis to study the temporal mechanical behavior of human heart valve tissue. Developed a novel experimental setup to verify the computational model against lab- grown heart valve tissue.
Developed a computational model to study the mechanical behavior of the human heart valve. These new insights formed the basis of prosthesis design criteria and the initiation of a clinical trial for validation purposes.