Merlijn Van Minderhout

Software Development Catalyst

Boxtel, North Brabant, Netherlands

About

I am a Seasoned consultant who likes to operate in the area where business, technology and organization meet. My skills have been gained while developing products covering the full life-cycle from initial conception to completion (“from cradle to the grave”). I have extensive experience as Team Lead, Project Leader, Agile Coach, Software Architect, Consultant, Scrum Master, Product Owner and Software Engineer. My fields of expertise include Medical Devices, Embedded Systems, Business Applications and Web Applications in industry and finance. I am particularly interested in architectural strategy, agile organizations and process improvement. As a person I work structured, am pragmatic, have strong people and leadership skills and am able to communicate on all levels of an organization. I developed an understanding of managing expectations with high demanding customers. You can rely on my dedication, business sense and team focus to meet and exceed business goals.

Experience

  • Independent Consultant @Mind 72 BV at Mind 72 B.V
    Feb 2008 - Present · 18 yrs 5 mos

    Mind 72 provides services in the area of project and team management, software architecture and development, process improvement, training and coaching. Specific expertise includes the effective use of agile methodologies.

  • Software Development Team Lead a.i. at ELEO
    Mar 2024 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Interim Leader of a 10+ people software department that develops and maintains Battery Management Software (BMS) and related tooling. Goals: Profesionalize software development activities and define the software organization as preparation for caling up. Main activities: People management, software development strategy and process and overal coordination of software development activities.

  • Software Development Team Lead a.i. at Additive Industries
    Jun 2020 - Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Leader of a 15+ people software department. Responsible for leading the software work for a 3D Metal Printer. Focus on people management of the software team, software development process (Agile, compliant with internal Product Creation Process) and overall coordination of software development activities.

  • Product Owner at ASML
    May 2017 - Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Product owner for 2 - 4 Scrum teams that realized reports/insights based on machine and process data for the various business departments within ASML. A large part of the job was stakeholder management and bringing people together to discover and realize the desired insights.

  • Philips Healthcare Incubator (8 yrs)
    • Project Leader
      Apr 2009 - Mar 2017 · 8 yrs

      Leading the software team in the development of application software for a hand-held POC analyzer as part of a new Philips Healthcare venture. Multidisciplinary environment (Software, Hardware, Biochemistry, Plastics, Industrial design). Development in C#/.NET for WinCE OS. Also responsible for requirements and workflow specifications and outsourcing.

    • Manager Software Development
      Oct 2014 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos