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Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

Utrecht, Nederland

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Working on projects for industrial products. Responsible for keeping the website and LinkedIn page updated.Training interns becoming better designers

Zoetermeer

Advising people in buying the right bicycle and accessories for their bikes, doing small repairs, and adapting the store's layout to optimize the work flow.

Swalmen

My job was to design a dispenser range that will be innovative and future proof for multiple contexts, while enhancing the interaction with clients.This resulted in a foldable dispenser range to decrease the box size during transport and thereby the environmental impact. Transport is the biggest contribution to environmental emissions in a dispenser's life. A second part of my thesis was dispenser wrapping. Wepa (Van Houtum) was looking for a suitable solution to their more expensive… Show more My job was to design a dispenser range that will be innovative and future proof for multiple contexts, while enhancing the interaction with clients.This resulted in a foldable dispenser range to decrease the box size during transport and thereby the environmental impact. Transport is the biggest contribution to environmental emissions in a dispenser's life. A second part of my thesis was dispenser wrapping. Wepa (Van Houtum) was looking for a suitable solution to their more expensive stainless steel line. By using a PE based wrapping, the look of stainless steel can be achieved whilst maintaining the costs and easy recyclability of the plastic dispensers. This also gives the opportunity to release limited editions and personalize the dispensers for individual businesses. Show less

Zoetermeer

Team BAKI is a long track speed skating team, that consists of seven pro-active members and is represented at Dutch national championships as well as international championships. For more information: https://www.facebook.com/TeamBAKI/ For this team, I designed the logo and clothing style and managed all creative and visual aspects. Keeping the Facebook page updated with news and accompanying it with visuals. Furthermore, I helped in recruiting sponsors by designing the team's brochure.

Zoetermeer

Advising people in buying the right ice skates and accessories. Also sharpen different kind of skates and preparing them, so they can be used in the most pleasant, and complete way.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Doing this, you train 7 times to sometimes 14 times a week. During this time I was part of the best long track speed skaters of The Netherlands within my age group, every year participating in Dutch National Championships. Almost every time ending up within the top 10. For this I needed to train on speedbikes, mountainbikes, inline skates, shorttrack, long track, running and specific speed skating training methods.

Zoetermeer

Providing childrens books with fun hand drawings to make the main character and context come alive for the kids reading the book.

Master’S Degree, Integrated Product Design

Activities and Societies: Graduation Porject for Wepa Netherlands Within the Integrated Product Design (IPD) master, I focused on concept.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Industrial Design Engineering

Activities and Societies: Automotive Design minor, taught by Elmer van Grondelle and Koos Eissen. Bachelor Final Project for BOSKA B.V..

Vwo, Influence Of Heat On Solar Panels

For my final research project, I (together with another class mate) researched the influence of heat on the efficiency of solar panels..