Michael Franken Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Michael Franken (1966) is an experienced Agile coach and software developer. As CEO of Zilverline he and his team helps customers create great teams and great software. Michael has been CTO of multiple companies and has been active in E-Commerce and web-development since 1997 when he joined Netscape. Michael has worked with many influential people in the Agile community including Jeff Sutherland, and has been key in introducing Scrum in the Netherlands where he became the first Certified Scrum Trainer in 2009.He is the founder of AgileHolland, author of ‘Scrum for Dummies’ (in Dutch and German) and currently coaches Ahold, Achmea and RTL. In between coaching he builds apps for iPhone in Swift.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Thinka is a Home Automation solution. Smart Home control with Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa and Google Smart Home.

AgileHolland is a Dutch community that promotes use of Agile practicesAgileHolland is dé Nederlandse Agile Community

Formerly known as DSDM Consortium Benelux

Responsible for Xebia's technical direction. Defines company's vision on technology. Internal and external communication of Xebia's technology. Sales support on key accounts. Coaching of business units and expertise groups. Technical review of key deliverables.Introduced Agile and Scrum principles and practices, as well as high quality Software Engineering practices and the offshoring model with the office in India.As technical director responsible for hiring skilled java architects and developers, training and coaching professionals on the job.Senior consultancy on J2EE architecture and development. Strategic, technical consultancy for and at top 100 Dutch companies, such as KLM, KPN, Wehkamp, ProRail, Amsterdam.

Responsible for design, development and shipment of core J2EE product. Initiator of new .NET product line for midsize market. Reports to CEO.

Responsible for creation of one of the very first Application Service Provider propositions in Europe. Responsible for hiring great team and the development of the IQ framework which consists of CRM, ERP, Document mgt. services integrated in J2EE Portal environment.

Projects and Responsibilities• Internet and Electronic Commerce Consultancy and Project Management (1997)• Project Leader and architect for an Electronic Commerce Project for KPN MultiMall, one of Europe's first e-Commerce development projects. (1995-1996)• Initiator of Cap Gemini’s Internet Competence Center. Including business case assessment, proposal writing, project staffing, project management and account management. (1994-1995)• Technical manager of an international research project on Software quality management relating to OO design and architecture (1993-1994)• As a research engineer at Cap Gemini Innovation I designed and implemented a ‘One-of-a-kind’ production business model: reusable C++ classes for Windows and Unix platforms. Writing parsers to generate code (C++, CORBA IDL) and documentation from OMT (UML) modeling language and reverse. (1992-1993)

Master’S Degree, Math And Computer Science

Certified Scrum Trainer