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As a freelance consultant, supporting clients around the globe with architecting and building cloud solutions with security expertise. Main focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS Serverless), Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM), Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C). Certified as an IAPP Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT) in July 2022, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional in November 2023 & IDPro Identity Professional (CIDPRO) in June 2024.

Responsible for the whole B2C and B2B2C landscape.

Responsible for supporting clients based in Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg (BENELUX), focused on early-stage startups. Certified as an AWS Solution Architect Associate in October 2020, AWS Developer in November 2020, AWS Machine Learning Specialist in January 2021, AWS Security Specialist in March 2021, AWS Data Analytics Specialist in May 2021, and AWS Solution Architect Professional in July 2021. Member of the EMEA Security Technical Field Community (TFC) and Amazon Cognito SME & instructor.✔ Solution Architecture: Helping prospects and customers understand AWS's cloud platform and architecting successful cloud solutions. Primary focus on Identity & Access Management (IAM, SSO & Cognito), API security (GraphQL, REST & OAuth), encryption (KMS), serverless (Lambda) & DevOps (CI/CD); touching on various web and mobile development frameworks.✔ Evangelism & Community: Supporting, advising and mentoring startups in local programs such as Techstars, Startupbootcamp, Rockstart, Yes!Delft, BeAngels and European Business Angels Network (EBAN).✔ Strategic Projects: Responsible for the EMEA Early-Stage Scaling (ESS) initiative from the solution architecture team, focused on supporting early-stage startups on their journey to/on AWS through new innovative scaling mechanisms, such as the EMEA Startup Loft.★ Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an established cloud provider headquartered in Seattle, WA, United States, providing a wide range of cloud services.

Responsible for leading and building the solution architecture team supporting clients based in Europe, Middle-East & Africa (EMEA). Honored into the President's Club in February 2020 for outstanding work (inc. 2 out of the 3 eligible team members).✔ Team Leadership: Leading and building the solution architect team, consisting out of 6, of which 2 inherited, 1 transfer, and 3 new hires (no leavers), with high team satisfaction scores. Members based in UK (3), Germany (1), France (1) & Netherlands (1).✔ Sales Leadership: Advising on regional go-to-market strategy, key market verticals, segments & messaging, and feeding back any trends towards the executive team.✔ Solution Architecture: Helping prospects, customers, partners and regional sales teams understand Auth0's multi-tenant Access Management (IAM) cloud service (SAAS) and architecting successful IAM & API security solutions (fintech, media, retail, travel, cloud services, etc.). Primary focus on authentication (MFA & LDAP), identity federation (SSO, SAML & OIDC), access control (RBAC) & API/IoT security (REST/OAuth/FAPI), touching on various application, mobile & cloud technologies.✔ Evangelism & Community: Speaking at industry / community events, writing (PR) articles, on IAM. Organising the EMEA Identity & Security Meetups (ISM), with the team, to bring together local communities (London & South Germany).✔ Strategic Projects: Responsible for all competitive analysis of the IAM market and strategy recommendations towards the executive team, and the inception and development of the innovation lab, focused on providing a relevant, tangible and innovative customer experience, with IoT-partner Arduino.★ Auth0 is a developer scale-up headquartered in Bellevue, WA, United States, providing a multi-tenant Access Management (IAM) cloud service (SAAS) — originally Argentinian startup.

Responsible for supporting clients based in Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg (BENELUX), initially also Switzerland. Honored into the President’s Club in January 2017 for outstanding work. Certified as a ForgeRock Access Management Specialist in August 2016.✔ Solution Architecture: Helping prospects, customers, partners and regional sales team understand ForgeRock's Identity & Access Management (IAM) platform and architecting successful IAM solutions (government, telco, finance, manufacturing, healthcare, utilities, retail, etc.). Primary focus on authentication (MFA, LDAP & FIDO), identity management (SCIM, privacy & proofing), identity federation (SSO, SAML & OIDC), access control (ABAC/XACML& OAuth/UMA) and API/IoT security (REST/OAuth) and internet privacy (EU/GDPR); touching on various application, mobile and cloud technologies.✔ Evangelism & Community: Speaking at industry / community events, educational institutions, on the relevance of IAM with respect to security, privacy & business (gave 2 guest lectures on IoT security at the Artesis Plantijn College of Antwerp). Organising the Benelux Identity Tech Talks, with partners, to bring together the local IAM community (Antwerp).★ ForgeRock is an open-source scale-up headquartered in San Francisco, CA, United States, providing an Identity & Access Management (IAM) platform — originally Norwegian startup.

Responsible for architecting Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutions for clients based in Europe, Middle-East & Africa (EMEA), occasionally the United States. Received a Spotlight Award in December 2014 for outstanding work.✔ Solution Architecture: Helping prospects, customers, partners and the regional sales teams understand Verizon's IAM solutions and architecting successful IAM and network security solutions (government, telco, finance, manufacturing, healthcare, food, oil/gas, etc.). Primary focus on authentication (MFA, LDAP/AD & RADIUS), identity management (privacy & proofing) and identity federation (SSO, SAML & OIDC); touching on various network, application, mobile and cloud technologies.✔ Sales & Consulting: Prospecting and selling IAM solutions to customers, as well as providing professional consulting services and writing Statements of Work (SOW). ✔ Product Development: Assisting with the development of Universal Identity Service (UIS), a multi-tenant cloud service (SAAS) providing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), identity assurance (US/NIST) and server-side cryptographic signing.✔ Strategic Projects: Building and maintaining strategic partnerships in the field, like ForgeRock & SAFE-BioPharma, and participating in strategic identity initiatives, like Mobile Connect (GSMA), IDAP/Verify (UK) & eID/FAS (Belgium).★ Verizon is an established global telecommunications provider headquartered in New York City, NY, United States — in 2010 a new global identity unit was set up as an internal startup.

Responsible for leading and building the technology team, in charge with product research and development, while working closely with strategic partners such as the University of Eindhoven (TU/e) and Philips (Evoluon). Product was based off my work at the University of Leuven (KUL).✔ Business Leadership: Leading the business with a focus on technology, such as productivity tools, product research and development.✔ Team Leadership: Leading and building the engineering team, consisting out of 4, of which 4 new hires. Members based in the Netherlands (3) and Belgium (1).✔ Product Development: Developing an innovative application that allows users to find and meet interesting people at events, targeted on Android devices, and encompassing a website where users can get an overview of their meetings. Primary focus on server development (Java), algorithm improvements (WiFi location fingerprinting) and performance improvements (multi-threading & HTML5 WebSockets).✔ Product Research: Supervising a research project together with the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) on indoor positioning based on WiFi location fingerprinting.★ Qbengo was a new start-up based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, providing indoor navigation technology — in mid 2011 Neotrack Systems rebranded into Qbengo and was later sold-off.

Responsible for the development of a security solution.✔ Product Development: Developing a more secure and robust communication system based on public-key cryptography, similar to PGP, for exchanging sensitive documents between clients and company, written in C#.✔Internship: This project has been successfully executed as part of an internship that was part of the Master in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Leuven.★ Assusoft is a software vendor headquartered in Lier, Belgium, focused on auditing payroll systems & automation of payroll- related data exchange.