Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands
I’m a driven leader and manager with extensive experience in projects and product development, with a proven record of building high-performing teams, optimizing execution, scaling organizations and delivering innovative products. I combine technical expertise, business acumen and strong communication skills to align engineers, customers and stakeholders. My leadership style is coaching-focused and results-driven, empowering teams to excel while delivering customer value. Experienced across domains such as Software Development, Cloud Infrastructure and AI-driven business process transformation. Proficient in best practices such as Scrum, LeSS, SAFe, CRISP-DM, PRINCE2 and Lean Startup.
Netinium is a product company providing an Head-End System (HES) called AMM+ to electricity distributors in Europe. AMM+ reads out and manages millions of smart meters for utilities. Our HES supports meters, gateways and data concentrators from any vendor, offers the best performance in the market, and significantly reduces the workload for administrators. As operations manager responsible for product management, development team and overall operations. As project manager managing the project portfolio for a couple of large customers.
Softarex is a US-headquartered IT services company (120+ staff) specializing in AI-driven business process transformation (Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Generative AI, IoT, Edge Computing and Robotics). In addition to client projects, the company develops its own FinTech and e-commerce products. Responsible for the full portfolio of customer projects and product development: monitoring the performance of each project, managing stakeholders, coaching project and product managers, intervening when projects are at risk, and contributing to pre-sales engagements. - Introduced KPI dashboards to monitor project status across the portfolio. - Introduced Lean Canvas and Lean Startup methods. - Optimized the CI/CD pipeline. - Defined and rolled out a new services strategy. - Contributed to SOC 2 certification. - Improved overall project performance, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and retention. Customers: Chick-fil-A, Welkin, ReadyTech, BeWell, Waitbusters, Wisdom Technologies: Keras, TensorFlow, OpenNLP, Python, Java, C++, RabbitMQ, Kafka, WebRTC, React, Angular, React Native, Flutter, LangChain, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Cloudflare.
ReadyTech is a US-headquartered SaaS vendor (80+ staff) providing online training solutions. Responsible for the full portfolio of products: monitoring performance of each product project, coach product development managers, define platform product strategy, stakeholder management, people management, and align processes with other departments. - Introduced KPI dashboards to monitor project and product portfolio. - Organised partnerships with AWS, Azure, and GCP. - Lean Startup was introduced. - LeSS was used to optimize the process over different products of the platform. - Contributed to achieving ISO 27001 certification. - The department grew from around 30 to 45 FTE. Customers: Esri, Adobe, MathWorks, BMC, Pega, Google, Hyundai, Opentext, Homeland Security
Responsible for defining, creating and launching new products. - Created a SaaS platform for scheduling training events. Virtual Machines were provisioned based on the schedule in Azure, GCP or AWS. The product has become very successful with thousands of active students each day. The platform revenue grew 20–30% annually. - Created and launched other products like an API gateway and system agent services. - Introduced Scrum & Kanban in the organization. - Strongly improved the CI/CD pipeline for the organization. - Championed the expansion of test automation coverage within the organization. Technologies: Java, Python, C++, Angular, RabbitMQ, WebRTC, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Docker, Cloudflare.
Software vendor (80+ staff) of the Enterprise Content Management product called Hippo CMS. Organizations can create an AI-driven, personalized and multichannel environment with this platform. Offices are located in Amsterdam, Boston and Vancouver. Responsible for the success of Professional Services: monitoring performance of customer projects, consultancy assignments and pre-sales support, define services strategy, financial results, align processes with other departments, customer stakeholder management, people management, and recruitment. - Scaled the team and processes to accommodate the rapid growth of Hippo. - Accelerated the professional growth of employees. - Increased the customer and employee satisfaction. - The department grew from around 25 to 40 FTE. - Revenue increased from € 2M to € 3M. Customers: Weleda, Walt Disney, Dolce&Gabbana, British Telecom, Randstad, Dutch Police, SURF, Hammerson, Dutch government, SDU
Responsible for managing several Hippo projects for customers. - Successfully managed Hippo projects, delivering websites and e-commerce integrations for customers. - Initiated the adoption of Scrum & Kanban within the organization. This resulted in more efficient software development and an increase in employee satisfaction. Technologies: Java, Angular, Solr, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, MySQL, Cloudflare
An IT service provider (+350 staff), organized into several units based on technology expertise such as Oracle, Microsoft, Java and Sitecore. The company offered both staffing and project-based services. Responsible for the Oracle unit (development, business intelligence and database management): defining strategy, ensuring financial results, overseeing marketing and planning, managing people and recruitment, and supporting pre-sales. I also managed a customer SaaS project as project manager. - Defined a new strategy focused on Oracle APEX, an emerging technology at the time. The team rallied around this vision, and a structured plan was executed. - Established the unit as the recognized Oracle APEX experts in the Netherlands, leading to outstanding financial results and increased employee satisfaction. - Accelerated the professional growth of employees. - Grew from around 30 to 40 FTE, and increased annual turnover from €3M to €4M. Customers: Dutch Government, Van Oord, BMW, ICTRO Technologies: Oracle APEX, Oracle Database, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Designer
Focused on delivering fixed price/scope/time projects. Extensively applying the Theory of Constraints (ToC) method to achieve this. I worked as Project Manager for various customer projects and was also involved in pre-sales activities. - For Samsung, created a web application (Java) that allowed employees to register for and apply to training courses, using Scrum. - For Caesar Group, developed a web portal (.NET C#, SharePoint, Sitecore) that improved collaboration among employees, partners and customers. - For ICTRO, managed infrastructure projects such as Windows workstation migrations, RBAC implementation and software distribution, applying PRINCE2.
Worked as Architect and Technical Project Manager for various customer projects, while also participating in pre-sales activities and training of Infrastructure engineers. - For Euro Pool System designed and guided the creation of a geo-redundant infrastructure (Cisco, VMWare, Windows, Citrix). Responsibilities included architectural design, managing tender process and guiding the implementation. - For Direktbank (part of ABN AMRO) designed and managed the implementation of a new infrastructure (Cisco, VMWare, Windows servers, workstations). - For OTS Group and SHBU designed and migrated a heterogeneous to a homogeneous infrastructure (Cisco, Windows Servers, Novell servers).