As of 1/1/2015 I continue my development work under a new company name.

I started this company together with my brother late 2003. We are an internet / markteting / communication company, from concept to creation. We work with many international clients, on projects in all of Europe and in the United States. Some of the companies we've done work for include Joost Technologies, Bobby Goldstein productions (Cheaters tv show) and Walt Disney.

As of early 2002 it has been hard to find a job in advertisement or communication. Because I did not like sitting still I started looking for a job as engineer / developer. I found a position at IPTower in Rijswijk. I started this job as an imode developer on an erotic imode site for Planet Internet (‘Planet Erotica’) which made me the first european imode developer with more than one project on it’s name (according to KPN). After that I have designed and built many new projects like Appie.nl (a whitelabel ringtone and logo site), Maxx-XS.nl (a broadband portal, streaming content subscriptions and pay per view), easyMMS (an mms based photo-weblog), Pgen (a multi-portal generator), Kprox (telecom based Internet Payment system based without need for a dialer) and VSR (a streaming media VCR service). All these projects include creating the neccesary maintenance and administration modules. I have also done many small maintenance and extention activities.

After Magicminds went bankrupt I have done some small scripting jobs for Tutch, in return I could make use of the facilities in their Amsterdam office. After all, this is the scene for many potential employers. In this period I created the Tutch For Tones imode website, one of the first fully operational imode sites on the dutch imode portal, selling polyphonic ringtones for imode enabled phones. This site is fully database driven with a subscription system that can operate outside the imode platform and it has maintenance modules that give them complete controle over the content, templates and the site structure.

Late 1999 I started at magicminds as an internet Developer and Community Specialist. However, the last year and a my title changed to Format Director, focussing not my technical but my conceptual and advertising skills. In this period not only my work changed but with the creation of my department the company (which used to be a multi-media production house) shifted it’s activities and became a (major) communication and advertising agency with an inhouse production studio. I have worked on projects like communities, games, multichannel projects, portals, tv programmes and even a retail formula, for big names like Feyenoord, EMI, Bart Smit, World Online, Stokvis Productions, PCM. I have done advertising concepts for Amstel Beer (a campain that later earned 3 mayor dutch communication awards!), Mora, Tele2 and Marco Borsato (popular dutch singer, we did the concept for one of his albums). In my 2 years at mm I acquired many new technology skills like DHTML and Flash (4) Actionscript.

For Clockwork I did many projects, like AND (online route planner), Shop.nl (First dutch online shop), Scaramea (two projects), Winkel Beleggingen Nederland (Shopping malls), LPGas, KNVB (dutch soccer association) en Regemail. I also created the first Clockwork intranet and many internal administration and maintenance modules. I used many technologies like iCat (electronic commerce suite), Intershop, Perl, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, HTML, Java, WebObjects, BroadVision en ATG Dynamo

In 1997 I started for Origin as an intern. My assignment was to built a mainainable intranet site. After succesfully completing that part of my study I also fulfilled my graduation assignment there: researching the applicability of new web based technologies for the creation of company critical client/server systems. After my graduation I accepted a three month assignment for Origin, implementing a web-based resource management system that I designed myself, which i integrated into the intranet I had built earlier.