Help companies organize their IT, and outsourcing of development to India.

Responsible for all Developers in Testers in Mindcurv (around 150 in 2024), across all locations (India, Germany, Spain, Netherlands). Including staffing roles, performance reviews, coaching, staffing, training, salary reviews, etc.

Technology Practice Lead at Mindcurv, specialist in e-commerce, cloud, development, quality assurance and DevOps. Architecting solutions for individual customers, designing services for customers as well as setting up solution implementation teams. Doing hands-on work as needed.

Hands-on E-commerce project lead and implementation architect on a multi-million E-commerce implementation project.Responsible for co-designing the E-commerce platform from a high-level architecture perspective, taking strategy, sustainability, operational, development- and security-requirements into account, in cooperation with architecture-representatives from external partners.From Development Lead role responsible for co-implementing that same platform, leading front- and backend developers (on- and offshore), providing guidelines, coaching, and performing code reviews.Introduced E-commerce Architecture Vision, NFRs, Agile development processes, Responsive Web Design and Continuous Delivery.Filled various roles as necessary, including Developer, Graphical Designer, UX Designer, Project Lead, Technical Architect, Release Manager, etc.At Deli XL I learned a lot about the combination of waterfall and agile, about progress reporting, budget management, alternative agile development approaches, collaboration with an offshore development team, etc.

Led the team of 15+ Java/ATG-developers continuously improving and extending the bol.com webshop and satellite applications.Responsible for day-to-day HR, recruitment, coaching and leading quality improvement efforts.Member of the Scrum Process Optimization Team, analyzing and optimizing the agile processes across 10+ Scrum teams.Supported the migration from ATG 2007 to 9. Developed application architecture vision, for improving quality and sustainability.At bol.com I learned a lot about Scrum/agile, managing a large local team, E-commerce (mostly B2C) technologies, etc.

Ports committer in the FreeBSD project, focusing on porting Java applications to this UNIX operating system. See http://www.freebsd.org/.Developed the original bsd.java.mk which allowed Java-based ports to be written in a more simple and structured manner, with advanced features like automatic JDK selection.

Developing a brand as well as a web application from top (architecture, graphical design, functional requirements, sales) to bottom (technical documentation, HTML, XSLT, Java).I had 20% shares in this company.

Developed (part of the) software architecture vision for the company, reactively design the architecture for projects and pro-actively propose architectural improvements. Advise and initiate within the company, but also involved in alignment with external companies, including the mother company (France Telecom) and external partners.Led the Architecture Group, a virtual team of architects. This group's responsiblity included reviewing and approving architecture.Worked with the architecture stakeholders at Orange Mobile during the merge of Wanadoo and Orange.Represented the Development department within the Security Group, acting as the linking pin between architecture and security.Until early 2006, I fulfilled this role part-time. As of April, it changed to a full-time role.Note: In April 2006, the name of the company changed from "Wanadoo" to "Orange Breedband." Afterwards the name changed to "Online", see https://www.online.nl/.

Led a team of around 7 software developers. Responsibilities of the team included the maintenance and development of front-end applications and of interfaces (APIs) connecting these front-end applications to back-end applications.Unified programming languages from a mixture of Perl, PHP, JSP, servlets and ColdFusion to a more consistent approach with only Java servlets, XSLT and PHP.Developed a framework for web services and front-end applications (XINS), heavily based on the contract-first principle, and made it free and open-source.Worked together with other development teams, the operations department and project managers. Aimed to constantly improve the way of working, increasing productivity, operational manageability and fun.

Freelance Java Developer. This included an R&D project in the telecom-sector and the design and development of a J2EE (EJB, JSP, XSLT) application. Subcontracted to Developers in Moldova and Australia.

Design and implementation of a customer-facing website for a startup company, using BroadVision. UML design using Rational Rose. Implemented using a combination of server-side JavaScript and C++. Worked with Sun Solaris and Oracle.The team was just small, consisting initially of 5 people for operations and development and 3 additional staff (management, content editing).

Was involved in the development of a framework for educational applications for both companies and educational institutes. Responsibility included part of the design (UML) as well as part of the implementation (Java, XML).

Developed a small financial application using Borland Delphi, in a team of 3 developers.This was during my Computer Science study.

Accompanied a number of Computer Science students with database-related subjects, including information analysis (FCO-IM), relational database design and implementation using Microsoft Access.

Helped implement a financial application for the school I was studying at. Responsibilities included data- and process-analysis, form design and implementation using Microsoft Access.This was during my study Computer Science, at the same school.