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Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

The Hague, Netherlands, Nl

Based on a corporate communication strategy that I wrote for the Directorate Information policy of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, I centralised communication activities into one central team. Currently, I am establishing external communications to position the ambitions of the directorate in the field and implementing communication strategies for EHDS and HDAB. For the latter, I setup and am leading a communication team with communication professionals from various partners.

Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nl

I am responsible for the communication about the Information Council Healthcare (Informatieberaad Zorg). I am employed at the Dutch Ministery of Healthcare (Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport)

Brussels, Be

At EIT Digital, a European organisation for education, innovation and scale-up acceleration, I am responsible for developing and implementing the communication strategies for the corporate communication in the Dutch and Belgium market and for the education pillar in the pan-European market. With these activities, I am a sparring partner for the Chief Education Officer, the heads of the Master, Doctoral and Professional School, the CEO in the Netherlands and for the head of Communications.

Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nl

In this centre of expertise for standardisation and eHealth, I have advised the management about strategic communication management. One of the communication goals was to make the organisation more communicative while following a thought leadership strategy. The execution is partly my responsibility. I was also responsible for the external communication, for branding Nictiz as well as the online magazine TrendITion in collaboration with a media partner.

Utrecht, Nl

Artsennet was a portal site of the Royal Medical Association (KNMG) in which more than 25 medical organisations hosted a website in the same content management system. I was responsible for the business plan, strategic communication management, brand management, customer management, customer acquisition, stakeholder engagement, technical support and the content on the portal site. I led a team of web editors, web managers and freelancers. I established a formidable brand reputation and a strong physicians community (Brand Ambassadorship). In 2010 Artsennet wins, together with Medisch Contact, the LOFprijs for professional information. I persuaded about hundred physicians, professors and politicians to write blogs on Artsennet, turning them into ambassadors of the Artsennet brand. I also installed the first app database in the Netherlands and together with a business partner, I invented and organised the Health app award 2012, 2013 and 2014

Alongside my photography work, I wrote about ten books about the Internet, Photo-editing, and e-commerce. My core business was writing. I wrote background articles, news items, and interviews with all kind of people, from CEO to entrepreneurs for:- ICT Magazines covering stories about new software, internet, innovation and technology, e-commerce and e-business. - business magazines stories about entrepreneurs, doing business- news papers- photo magazines- human interest magazines- commercial assignmentsAlongside the writing, I also took care of matching photography.Some of the titles of the magazines are: PC Active; Foto@beeld; Zibb.nl; Brisk Magazine; PCM, Bureau M; InfoWorld; DataNews; ComputerPartner; Netmagazine; RetailPartner; HEO-ICT.nl/Espelon; Tips & Trucs; ExpatPlus; Computer!Totaal; Emerce; Plus!; Viva; Viva&Co; Assurantie Magazine; Ouders van Nu; Bak en Bakker Journalisten c.s; Alkmaarsche Courant; IIsselstreek; Horeca-Entree; Bierblad (Heineken); Algemeen Dagblad | Utrechts Nieuwsblad; fotoscene.nl; DogMa; TNT Mail; Wolkenridders (KLM); Fotografie.nlFor the LOI I developed the course Writing for the Web and I published about nine books.

As editor at the newspaper, I was responsible for the choice which articles to present on which place in tomorrow's newspaper and how they would appear in collaboration with the photo editor and designer. I also made sure the articles were readable by proofreading and correcting the grammar and when needed shortened the articles. I also made catchy headlines.

HEO-ICT was a project of the Dutch Council for Higher Education. The goal of the project was to enrich the curricula of the economic programs of the Universities of Applied Science with future-oriented material. My responsibility was to get new course material on E-business in the curriculum. I, therefore, managed a project where I put together a company and teachers from different Universities to list requirements and develop the course. In so doing, I set up a community. I also organized events, seminars, and masterclasses. I was responsible for project management, planning and budget. The result was a new course called E-Business Begrepen that had been used in over ten universities.

Master'S Degree, Business/Corporate Communications

Strategisch Communicatie Management (Beroepsniveau D), Strategisch Communicatie Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs

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