My hobby: Temptation Sport is the most alternative dance school in the Netherlands. Our classes are for women and men of all ages. During our lessons you will train your strength, agility and condition. Everything is about exercise, inspiration, setting new limits in a way that you feel comfortable with. You can subscribe to the lessons on www.temptationsport.nl or by e-mail: info@temptationsport.nlWorkshop requests can also be done by e-mail or on the website.

As a Product Owner within the Digital Factory at VDL, I lead a dynamic international team of 12 professionals, including backend developers, frontend developers, UX/UI experts, a Scrum Master, and a Business Analyst. In this multifaceted role, I also serve as the Team Manager, overseeing all aspects of team performance.Key Responsibilities:Product Coordination: Skillfully coordinate the development of four distinct products within the APPS team, ensuring that all products align with business objectives and deadlines (e.g. OrderOn.com, DigitalTwin Portal).Product Vision: Define a clear product vision and roadmap, guiding the team towards delivering valuable and innovative solutions.Team Leadership: Effectively manage a diverse team of 12 professionals, fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment with the organization's goals.Recruitment: Successfully identified talent gaps, wrote job descriptions, and led the recruitment process to bring on board the right professionals to strengthen the team. Additionally, through the scaling of external seconded team members, I achieved a cost reduction of 350,000 euros in the first year.Process Optimization and Agile Implementation: Introduced process improvements that reduced development cycle time by 15%, resulting in faster product delivery and a more responsive team (e.g.: automating repetitive tasks, implementing monitoring systems to track team and project performance in real-time).Business Analysis and Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborated with the Business Analyst to translate business needs into actionable requirements, ensuring the alignment of technology solutions with strategic goals.

Als Product Owner Innovation bij Dutch Rose Media heb ik een cruciale rol gespeeld in het creëren van betoverende en magische mobiele ervaringen met Augmented Reality (AR). In mijn rol heb ik concepten aangedragen, ontwikkeld en geïmplementeerd voor een breed scala aan klanten, waaronder Efteling, PSV, Center Parcs, Philips, Afsluitdijk, Prehistorisch Museum en meer. Ook was ik verantwoordelijk voor het adviseren en ondersteunen van klanten, projectmanagement, budgetbewaking en strategische planning. Daarnaast begeleidde ik stagiaires om hun bijdrage aan het team te optimaliseren.

As part of the team at ISAAC, I played a significant role in serving multiple clients, including IGM Holding and Winkelstraat.At IGM Holding, I worked on developing an omnichannel platform focused on driving traffic to physical stores and directly selling bathroom products. Additionally, I was involved in further developing a Magento multishop commerce platform for Winkelstraat.nl, a unique multishop concept for luxury fashion items with over 150 exclusive boutiques within one platform.Key Responsibilities:Project Planning: Creating and meticulously monitoring detailed project plans, including defining objectives and milestones, to ensure projects stay on track and are completed within budget.Client Guidance and Advisory: Guiding and advising clients to better understand their needs and goals, and providing them with customized solutions that add value to their businesses (e.g., online solutions).Agile Team Collaboration: Supporting Agile project teams by serving as a Product Owner and ensuring the team can work effectively on solution development, including managing priorities and the backlog. Working in an Agile manner, acting as a Product Owner, allowing me to define the project's vision and priorities, enabling the team to quickly and flexibly respond to changing needs.

Greenhouse Group is a leading organization that encompasses multiple innovative digital marketing agencies. As a Product Manager within the Innovation Department of Greenhouse Group, I was responsible for developing a strategic vision and outlining an effective strategy to create and utilize the right products. I acted as the bridge between the technical departments, various media agencies within Greenhouse Group, clients, and the market.Key Responsibilities:Market Research: Conducting comprehensive market research to identify and understand market needs related to video advertising. This involved analyzing trends, competition, and industry opportunities.Make-or-Buy Studies: Creating make-or-buy studies to determine whether it was feasible to develop the necessary products internally or procure them externally. This required a thorough evaluation of costs, benefits, and risks.Roadmap Development: Charting a strategic roadmap to acquire the tools and knowledge needed to maintain our leading position in the field of online (video) advertising.Internal and External Collaboration: Collaborating with technical teams, various media agencies within Greenhouse Group, and external partners to realize the vision and strategy.

Getting the best outcome for the business means finding new approaches. Therefore, as innovation product owner I focus on effectivity and develop and present proposals to senior management including ideas to improve productivity and performance, new product suggestions, risk mitigation and action plans. This role necessitates understanding and translating consumer needs into clear product requirements.Preparing complete project and product requirements along with task-level project plans, I ensure that cross-function teams are meeting the set deadlines. Applying Agile and Scrum daily and working on a sprint based software development I am responsible for project budget and scope. Through a continuous collaboration with project teams members, business sponsors and stakeholders I create the environment in which we are all able to deliver the very best results.Projects: Personalized video, Whatsapp Portal, enz Clients: KPN, Vodafone, Graydon, Hollandsnieuwe, Onlinepakketdienst.

Reviva Group offers fraud and risk prevention, the best possible conversion and the highest customer satisfaction in an e-commerce environment. I was involved in several innovation projects near other daily customer requests. Keeping an eye on the detail of the objectives of the project, the KPI, the timelines and the criteria for acceptance were some of my daily tasks, together with defining user's requirements and solving priority conflicts.Projects: Paperless Secure Delivery System, Reviva Transport System. Several clients: KPN, Tele2, Hollandsnieuwe. In my role I made a crucial contribution to optimizing the IT department and coordinating fraud prevention projects for external customers. I also led the internal transition to a new working method, using the Paperless Secure Delivery System.Main responsibilities:Drawing up thorough business cases, project definitions, requirements and project plans to ensure that projects are clearly structured and meet the set objectives.Customer Focus: Act as the primary point of contact for customers and are ultimately responsible for ensuring the highest customer satisfaction. This included understanding customer needs and delivering solutions that met those needs.Leadership and Motivation: Directing and motivating IT professionals from different countries to implement innovative software solutions and supporting them in achieving project goals.Interim Position: Temporarily fulfilling the role of team leader for the "system administration and DBA" team for 6 months, where I was responsible for the effective management and performance of the team.Fraud prevention projects: Defining and coordinating fraud prevention projects for external clients, ensuring streamlined execution and closely monitoring the results achieved.Internal Transition: Leading the internal transition to a new way of working, with a specific focus on the Paperless Secure Delivery System, to improve operational efficiency and minimize risks.

In my role as Project Manager at GrafiData, a leading graphics and IT company that offers efficient solutions and services for the automatic and cross-media publishing of publisher content, I have used my expertise in the field of automation to start up optimization projects and provide guidance for external customers.Main responsibilities and duties:Project Lifecycle Management: From the quotation stage through to the implementation stage, I have been responsible for managing projects, closely monitoring schedule, quality and budget to ensure projects were completed within stated goals.Team Coordination: I coordinated and managed the software development and testing teams, ensuring that team members worked together effectively and that projects ran smoothly.Business Process Optimization: My role also included identifying and implementing optimizations in business processes and project management techniques to increase efficiency and improve overall performance.Training and Documentation: I provided training for customers in the software provided by GrafiData. This included developing course materials and writing manuals to support customers in using the software effectively.

In my role as Project Manager at Business Media, an internet production and consulting agency with a focus on e-marketing, e-communication, and e-commerce, I was responsible for managing the entire IT department in the Netherlands and overseeing various software development teams outsourced to India and Romania.Key responsibilities and tasks:Project Management: I was responsible for concretizing, defining, and realizing various projects, ensuring that these projects were completed within the set objectives.Quality Assurance: Ensuring the quality of delivered services and supervising testers while preparing test cases to ensure that software products met the specified requirements and standards.Outsourcing Risk Analysis: Conducting risk analyses when selecting software development vendors with the aim of assessing the suitability and reliability of potential outsourcing partners.Stakeholder Communication and Expectation Management: Effective communication and expectation management with various stakeholders to ensure alignment among all parties involved.Customer Support: Providing support to customers regarding the delivered software, answering questions, and resolving issues to maintain a positive customer relationship.Additional Work Quotes: Preparing quotes for additional work involving extra services or features that fell outside the original project scope.Conducting training sessions on the Content Management System (CMS) for both customers and internal staff.Event Organization: Assisting in the organization of trade shows and events to promote the company and its products.Clients: Intersport, BakkerBart, Multivlaai, KNB, OnzeSaar, etc

In my role as an IT Consultant at Accenture, a global consulting firm that supports clients in various industries, I assisted various clients in setting up and managing complex applications.Key responsibilities and tasks:Nuon Nijmegen: Administrative Team Training and GuidanceTraining and guiding the administrative team to maintain customer contracts in SAP and Siebel systems and perform mutations as efficiently as possible.Resolving various issues related to invoices and advance payment plans.Improving the department's performance with an impressive increase of 20% within 3 months.Essent Den Bosch: SAP Training and WorkshopsConducting SAP training sessions for employees to enhance their skills and knowledge.Organizing workshops and creating assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of the training.Various Projects for NRE, Vitens, PWNMapping existing processes and workflows to gain a deep understanding of the current situation.Developing presentations and recommendations for process improvements.Assisting back-office staff in using SAP and other IT tools to optimize their daily tasks.

Short description: Jacobs Koerier Aachen Germany is an international and multinational company that provides fast transport of packages all over Europa, having clients in more than 12 European countries. Tasks : Keeping contact with existing clients and finding new clients, making sales presentations and advertisement announcements, uphold international perspectives, making travel arrangements and prepare itineraries. Coordinating the team and planning the projects. Evaluating the projects and optimize the company processes.

Short description: Concordia Romana is a pension and mortgage company which delivers services for two institutional investors (pension funds and insurance companies) and other banks and brokers. This almost complete automated core services are better, faster and cheaper, giving the clients the possibility to calculate the budget possibilities and order easily several packages and services. Tasks : Maintaining liaison with project staff, suppliers and contractors, maintaining contact with clients and preparing the agreements. Coordinating the improvement of the mortgage system and helping the clients to use it. Coordinating and managing the information desk, the call centre team and the development team. Organising and coordinating brainstorm sessions with the project members.

Short description: S.C. 1 IUNIE S.A. has a tradition of more than 75 years in the textile product industry, of which 40 years in the export production. The business produces products in clothing (based on cotton) that can be found in different European warehouses. The external markets of reference for the goods of the business are: France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Italy Tasks : developing databases in Fox Pro and Dbase 4; being responsible for the integrity of the data and the efficiency and performance of the system.