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Relationship Manager Special Projects, focussing mainly on:- Providing affordable workspaces to young companies in the creative industry, located mostly in the Strijp-S redevelopment area;- Renting out the other commercial properties belonging to Stichting Trudo, all over Eindhoven;- Maintaining and managing all forms of customer relations.

Mid-sized housing corporation in Eindhoven (Noord-Brabant), known for innovativity and daring projects.- Testing and contentmanagement of Trudonet, their new intranet;- Creating, executing and processing surveys concerning the liveability and quality of life in "their" neighborhoods, and the quality of service by Trudo and its' subcontractors;- Preparations for their transition to the use of digital signatures on documents;- Solving puzzling problems and problematic puzzles when encountered.

Providing events services for concerts and festivals, mainly focussed on:- Acquiring, instructing and coordinating volunteers;- Financial services including cash registers and cash flow management;- Various other things, including coordinating the reception of guests and artists, and managing the backstage area.

Organisers of a.o. Paaspop festival in Schijndel and Speedfest festival in Eindhoven.My jobs there include(d):- Running the runners at Paaspop;- Coordinating a bar at Speedfest;- Coordinating the cash registers at Speedfest and other Klokgebouw concerts;- Instructing and supporting groups of up to 65 volunteers;- Recruiting groups of volunteers from all over the Netherlands;- Things that need doing.

Freelance Reviewer for the In Your Pocket series of international travel guides.

- Completely restructuring/rebuilding the membership administration and (together with the treasurer) financial situation after a prolonged period of neglect;- Membership administration and communications;- Setting the agenda for meetings and providing the minutes;- Writing for and editing of the magazine "Jong Belegen", and making sure it got printed and delivered;- Presentations to draw in new members;- Writing, editing and contact with printers for "RVB Kookboek", a cookbook made to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the RVB.

Free music festival in Utrecht, primarily programming regional bands who are on the verge of breaking through.Main responsibilities:- Terrain infrastructure and logistics, the hardware for the festival such as stage, tent, toilets etc.;- Licences and permits, complying with the municipal, environmental and safety regulations;- Enticing people from Utrecht to work at Paaspop and Speedfest festivals and coordinating/supporting them there;- Pursuing an additional sponsorship deal with the Bavaria brewery;- Contacts with the suppliers of hardware and catering facilities.

Research company originally founded (and funded) by the Dutch Ministry of Health, specialised in researching the quality of care provided by a.o. home care companies, retirement homes, nursing homes and revalidation centres.Co-developers of the CQ-index, nowadays the standard tool for companies in this line of research.

Monthly column in the magazine of the NVML (Dutch Society for Medical Laboratory Personnel) about how humans work - from the submolecular level to crowd behaviour.

Freelance writer, editor and translator (mainly to and from English and French). While a failure in the grand commercial sense, word of mouth led to a stable niche providing literary services to the underprivileged (migrants, elderly, poor) by handling their communication with government agencies and other institutions speaking legalese.

Mainly focussing on non-fiction works. Authors were free to label their work as non-fiction, so unfortunately enough this also included "How-to" guides on communicating with the elves that live in electrical appliances.