As part of the Leadership team, I'm responsible for Qindle's overall strategic capability and growing our "Creative Intelligence" proposition.

Working closely together with C-level stakeholders in large corporates; shaping strategies and bringing (creative) vision to life.Forming Qindle's creative intelligence proposition one challenge at a time, from boardroom to brand.

Working on-site as creative consultant for C-level in the semiconductor industry.

Worked on defining, evangelising and implementing a singular approach to disruptive innovation for ABN AMRO.

Agile practices are gaining interest and adoption far beyond small co-located software development teams. However, scaling agile practices brings along many new challenges. One area that has received little attention in the scaled agile literature is the management of innovation. How do you effectively manage innovation when you scale agile to the entire organisation? A question that has and will keep me busy the for the next couple of months at ABN AMRO.

As Product Owner Intern I experienced the agile way of working within this fast-pace, mobile-led agency. I worked on real projects with big clients ranging from national rail operators to global banks. More specifically, I've had a first-hand experience on what agile practices actually are, and learned to work with frameworks such as Scrum and KANBAN through which agility is applied. Some of my responsibilities and tasks included:• Writing up "User Stories", prioritising them and… Show more As Product Owner Intern I experienced the agile way of working within this fast-pace, mobile-led agency. I worked on real projects with big clients ranging from national rail operators to global banks. More specifically, I've had a first-hand experience on what agile practices actually are, and learned to work with frameworks such as Scrum and KANBAN through which agility is applied. Some of my responsibilities and tasks included:• Writing up "User Stories", prioritising them and kicking them off with the team making sure that every new story tackled is understood by everyone. • Looking after team-performance through monitoring and updating project statistics for example "Velocity" and "Burn-Up Charts". • Doing Competitive Audits on different industries that help in shaping; the product design, the product Roadmap and the product Vision. • Work on product vision statements together with a team and continuously (re)align this vision statement with the clients wishes. • Organise and facilitate a sprint retrospective that helps in reflecting on a sprint, things that went well, things that didn’t, and defining actions that attempt to improve the upcoming sprint.• Facilitate daily-stand ups with the team that align all team member and highlight any possible blockers so that we can swarm on things that need resolving, together. • Managing and prioritising the backlog making sure the most important features are finished first and are handed to the team at the right pace. • Presenting progress to the client during ad-hoc conversations, Sprint reviews, and planned demo sessions. Making sure the client is happy with the product and incorporating/translating their feedback into concrete alterations of the backlog/user stories. Show less

Learned my way in the world of cloud computing and defined new opportunities in using cloud computing for start-ups and researchers. Worked on the mission to digitally transform the educational system in many different ways. Some of my key tasks and responsibilities included:• Organised and managed an event that marked the start of a "mixed-reality" in education-community, bringing together relevant parties that could drive the new technologies' success.• Created, Organised, and… Show more Learned my way in the world of cloud computing and defined new opportunities in using cloud computing for start-ups and researchers. Worked on the mission to digitally transform the educational system in many different ways. Some of my key tasks and responsibilities included:• Organised and managed an event that marked the start of a "mixed-reality" in education-community, bringing together relevant parties that could drive the new technologies' success.• Created, Organised, and facilitated a "future vision"-workshop with the Microsoft NL EDU team, which led to a new vision for the future for Dutch education. • Shadowed multiple elementary and high-school teachers to gain a better understanding of the Microsofts' market and their target markets' problems/opportunities. Summarised these findings into a presentation I held for the EDU NL team internally. • Organised Microsofts' attendance at an entrepreneurial-student event at which I facilitated a "Big-Data"-workshop. • Worked on a concept that enabled technical students to have their University desktop available 24/07 from any location, so that they could have access to the computing power they need for 3D visualisations for instance. Which seriously improved my knowledge on cloud computing. • Managed and created all marketing and communication surrounding an event that aimed to bring together decision-makers in education and government to think about the future of education and what role technology plays in it. Show less

My main objective at Mirabeau was identifying interesting future applications of Virtual Reality within the commercial aviation industry. This included doing research into both the VR and the Aviation-industry, gauging the competitive landscape of VR in Aviation and defining opportunities between these two. Some of the key activities and outcomes of the internship included:• Creating, organising and facilitating a set of creative workshops to explore new applications of VR in the… Show more My main objective at Mirabeau was identifying interesting future applications of Virtual Reality within the commercial aviation industry. This included doing research into both the VR and the Aviation-industry, gauging the competitive landscape of VR in Aviation and defining opportunities between these two. Some of the key activities and outcomes of the internship included:• Creating, organising and facilitating a set of creative workshops to explore new applications of VR in the aviation industry. • Using the outcomes of these workshops and the research to write an article about the promise of VR for aviation. • Presenting my findings of the internship in a workshop-format for the visual design team of Mirabeau solely focussing on VR and how the designers will need to shift their mindset to fully exploit the possibilities of the extra dimension that VR offers. • Writing an article that states a clear opinion on VR as a medium and it's future. This article will be published in Mirabeau's magazine serving as the companies' stance towards this medium. Show less

For the completion of my Bachelor's Degree of Science, I did a project for ZENS, which involved designing a new way to experience tea. The final design was a high quality Tea mug which allowed for on the go preparation of tea. Some of the activities included:• Doing market research to find feasible opportunities.• Designing a new product that fitted this opportunity.• Writing a market implementation plan for this new product.