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Amsterdam, Nh, Nl

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

We are SparkOptimus – Europe’s #1 digital strategy consultant. We make disruption work for you. Digital is not about digital for digital’s sake. It’s about using technology and data to serve customers and consumers better, faster and cheaper. Over the past decade we have gained unparalleled experience in the ‘how to’ of digital transformation. We started out working with digital natives, but soon were applying our insights to global companies. To this day, we’ve worked on more than 900 projects in 25+ countries for large multinationals such as Nestlé, Nike and Ikea. We support our clients with digital strategy through to hands-on execution and build their capabilities in the process. We develop new ways of working and organizing as well as improving technology and data systems. We bring ideas from concept to test to proven business operations that deliver value for customers at scale. If organizations want to thrive in the future, they will have to be data-driven, have the highest speed of learning of their industry, and be human-centric and sustainable by design. We help our clients get there. We are active on all continents from our office in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Available for freelance work in a broad range of growth-related topics.

I design and facilitate in-class training sessions and provide coaching in smaller setting on various growth related topics during the Growth Hacking Traineeship of The Talent Institute. Rated with 8,6/10 by the trainees.

De firma kaas was a great example of innovation with a traditional Dutch product: it sold (real) Dutch farmers cheese online and delivered through the mailbox.At de firma kaas I started out as Growth Marketeer with a focus on SEA and SEO, but quite soon started to take on more tasks. After about a month I got a more responsible role within our 3-month accelerator program that resulted in several validated new propositions, one of which eventually became our main source of one-off sales.After 6 months I became Growth Lead and my focus shifted toward a more strategic and leading role. This led to the decision to build a new webshop that was completely built and designed by one colleague and me. Moreover we revisited our business model and redesigned the subscription model and changed the pricing strategy. Unfortunately, our main investor decided to pull back, which is why the project was stopped before we could completely validate our new subscription model.During my time at de firma kaas I strongly developed my skills in customer development, strategic thinking, UX/UI design, reporting & analytics and (lean) innovation.

At Scribbr, I was responsible for growing the Dutch market. During my time as the Marketing Lead I've conducted extensive market research, built a new landing page for our services from scratch, experimented with new on-site advertising to increase conversions and wrote an extensive e-book which is downloaded over 3000 times per month. Next to this I managed day-to-day marketing activities, such as paid advertising, linkbuilding, updating the website and managing the content-team that published 1-2 new articles each week.

Responsible for online marketing of the Dutch market through content marketing and data-driven experiments.

Securing 100% customer happiness and communication within the team.

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

Currently attending the Growth Hacking Traineeship at The Talent Institute, part of the WeEmpower Innovators network. An Intensive 6 month program where I equip myself with the skills, tools & mindset to become a full-stack Growth Hacker (Data Driven Marketeer).The curriculum consists of: Lean-Startup | Growth-Hacking Framework (AARRR) | ExperimentDesign | (Google) Analytics | SEM | A/B-Testing | CRO | UX/UI | Principles | HTML/CSS | SocialMedia (Ads) | E-Mail Marketing | A.I

Responsible for all the administrative and tech work within Have a Seat.

Eventually graduating from a BSc in Information Science with a thesis on Disruptive Innovation.

I started out at the lowest level of administrative work and started to take on more and more responsibilities. This eventually transformed into IT project management for the new reservation system iPublisher. I was partially responsible for managing issues with the software and communication with the developers.

Master'S Degree, New Media & Digital Culture

Minor, Sustainability: Management And Innovation

Minor, Entrepreneurship

Bachelor'S Degree, Informatiekunde

30 Ects, Erasmus Exchange

Gymnasiumdiploma, Voortgezet Onderwijs (Vo) / Middelbaar Onderwijs