After working as an I.T. professional in the Netherlands for corporate companies (I.C.I. mostly and for Atos Origin as a contractor for Shell, AKZO, NAM and Philips on several projects) I decided to change career and went to South America for half a year working as volunteer for a Dutch based NGO, learning Spanish in Quito, and travelling in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. For the next 5 years I worked as a tour guide in Kenya and mostly Tanzania for Dutch based companies Summum and Baobab and traveled to Asian countries or Europe when not working as a tour guide. Also gained some experience in lodge management in between. I stranded somehow in Tanzania and from October 2005 I ended up in I.T. again at Coastal Aviation. I developed their first online booking system and maintained it for the next 10 years amongst some other functions. Then implemented and configured AeroCRS (a cloud based system for managing and operating travel operations) and after 5 years running this system Covid-19 ended my marriage to Coastal rather abruptly. After keeping myself busy with some courses in full stack web development, s.e.o. copywriting, social media marketing, data analysis and hospitality management, I currently work in Berlin as a social media content moderator, meanwhile looking for new opportunities, preferably tourism and/or Tanzania related but open for anything interesting coming along.