In addition to doing design projects for its customers, Technolution invests in its own products. To strengthen the product-based business of Technolution, a new business unit has been formed to develop, market, sell, manufacture and service Technolution's innovative products.The BU has focussed on the developement, marketing, sales and delivery of SigmaXG: lossless and near-zero latency distribution of video over 10Gbps Ethernet. The product has been designed for applications like video-switching in operating theaters, in which perfect video quality and optimal hand-to-eye coordination are vital.Contracts for world-wide distribution and integration in digital operating rooms have been closed with Advantech, EIZO and Inter Visual Systems.See www.SigmaXG.com for an overview of the product.

Project manager for various projects, for a range of clients. Managing technology and innovation projects for Technolution

Gemeenteraadslid voor het CDALid van de Commissie BestuurVoorzitter van de Financiële Audit CommissieLid van de Drechtraad (tot 2010)Van 2010-2014 fractievoorzitter CDA-Alblasserdam

Responsible for the definition of the development program (alignment with technology roadmaps and the roadmaps of our customers) and for the execution of the development program.In addition to the development program, also responsible to the life cycle management of the delivered products (software and hardware)Managing a development group of approximately 125 software and hardware engineers (in Best and Bangalore)

Technology Roadmaps for the Cardiovascular X-Ray Systems.Member of Roadmap team. Alignment of technology roadmaps with product roadmaps.Translating new technology opportunities into customer value and vice versa.Definition of system architecture roadmaps.Member of the Development Management Team.Linking technology trends to staffing plans and competency development (for which line management was responsible).Representing the Development discipline in our alliance program: setting up new co-operation projects with 3rd parties.Acted as system architect in (the initial phase of) several projects with 3rd parties (e.g., the integration of the Allura system with the Niobe system).Member of the X-Ray Architecture Core team, which has defined the reference architecture for the X-Ray systems of Philips Healthcare. Main focus area in this team on the Cardiovascular Systems and the Backend (user interface) of the X-Ray product range.

Responsible for system specification and top-level system design.Co-development with Hitachi Medical Systems and Analogic.Focus on the BackEnd development activities (software) we ran in Best and the integration of the BackEnd with a series of FrontEnds developed by Hitachi and Analogic. Technical focus on interface definition.Contributing to "respectful and open communication" with our partners.

Design and specificaton of the user console (BackEnd) of Philips CT Scanners (the Secura and the Aura system). These systems have been developed in close cooperation with Hitachi and Analogic.We designed a user console with a well-defined interface to the scanner system, that could be used for the scanner famlilies from our two partners.

Software Development and Achitecture of Image Viewing Software (EasyVision).

1992 - 1993: Development of Cleopatra - a tool for automatic conversion of PL/1 to Cobol1993 - 1994: Development of Mainframe software for information exchange at the Sociale Verzekerings Bank