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Amsterdam, NH, NL

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Developed AI strategy and products, led risk-mitigation initiatives, and advised C-level clients.* Initiated Aida, LLM tool, reducing documentation time by 95% and saving 120 hours per sprint, generating €250K/team in annual savings. Piloted with a Fortune 500 firm. Led a dev team of 9. * Spearheaded Seia, ML risk assessment platform featured in Business.

Worked together with a large financial institution to: * Set up the initial stage for a GPT-4o voice assistant project, automating 1.9M calls annually, reducing handling time by 10%, and saving an estimated €4M annually.* Design modular guardrails and led the red-teaming efforts for the voice assistant team.

Worked together with a large financial institution to: * Unify 392 disjointed experiences into 16 consistent UX flows, reducing design and development efforts by 40%. * Define bank-wide modular design principles with senior business, design and technical stakeholders.* Develop modular concepts for hyper-personalized loan approval and financial coaching.

Managed digital transformation to streamline operations and enhance efficiency of a Fortune 500 energy company.* Developed microservices, cutting manual processing time by 98% across partner and e-commerce applications. * Reduced partner onboarding process time from 100 days to 10 minutes.* Coordinated cross-functional alignment with tech and business.

Delft Area, Netherlands

* Developed a theoretical model describing the connection between different types of reasoning* Focus on common-sense reasoning (i.e., abductive reasoning) * Developed a framework for responsible AI development* Taught Strategy, Methodology, and Design courses, receiving 4.9/5 student ratings.

Netherlands

Consulting organizations on how to build adaptive innovation practices and organizational structures

Delft Area, Netherlands

Researching the opportunities to apply principles of design cognition to AI algorithms

Kortrijk, Belgium

Worked with senior and mid-level management on improving the innovation capabilities of the firm across different business unitsDesigned an innovation practice and trained one of Barco's corporate startups to implement itDeveloped a theory on organisational behaviour conductive to fast-paced innovation featured in three conference papers

The X-Gates - The First Airline Innovation Hub

Worked together with senior management and operations employees to: * Establish agile practices to promote continuous improvement.* Set up a live experimentation environment at Schiphol, facilitating real-time service improvements.* Featured in Google Venture’s Sprint Stories for leading KLM’s shift to innovative service design.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Worked with mid-level management on optimizing cross-disciplinary and cultural collaboration during the early stages of innovation across the different units of PhilipsMy work was also presented in two conference papers

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Lincoln, United Kingdom

Master'S Degree, Strategic Product Design, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Honours ProgrammeHonours programme graduate (focus on implementing innovation strategies in large international.

Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, English, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Participant in the Ben Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Conference in 2009;Graduated with Honors; Part of Special.