Work experience
Avans University
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Avans is an University of Applied Sciences located in 4 cities in the southern part of the Netherlands. We train future-proof professionals ready to enter the workforce. Continuously develop new knowledge for education and society. In partnership with companies, institutions and government agencies. Our students and employees engage in multidisciplinary collaboration and come up with creative solutions which benefit society as a whole. At Avans University of Applied Sciences, around 35,000 students study over 50 different courses. 3,400 employees work at 21 schools, 4 support services units and 1 centre for learning and innovation.Chief Information Officer (CIO)
July 2023 – now- Director of Support service unit ICT and Facility Management (~ 350 FTE)
- Member of Avans' Management Board
Sanoma
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Sanoma is a front running learning and media company impacting the lives of millions every day. Through a portfolio of modern, blended learning materials, material distribution and digital platforms, Sanoma Learning supports learning and teaching in primary, secondary and vocational education. Through our local companies, operating in eleven European countries, we contribute to some of the world’s best-performing education systems. In 2021 we supported about 20mio students with our products and services and had Sanoma Learning a net sales of € 637 mio.Chief Technology Officer (CIO/CTO) at Malmberg
June 2017 – March 2023- Member of Malmberg management team; Malmberg: 270 FTE
- Accountable for translating our business strategy into IT architecture and digital solutions
- Accountable for development and operational teams (~ 60 FTE) that create and manage Malmberg’s online learning solutions
- Oversaw the use of the technology budget for capital and operating expenditure
- Automated the application release and cloud infrastructure enabling the organization to push out new releases to production at any moment in time and optimized the TCO of our applications
Director Technology Management Services at Sanoma Learning
July 2021 – March 2023- Responsible for shaping and leading the Technology Management Services department supporting Sanoma's Learning Technology and Product Management departments (~ 700 FTE). The Technology Management Services include:
- Digital Transformation Management Office
- Organisation & Change: organisational strategy, (Agile) Ways of working, Agile Office, Knowledge management, Talent and workforce management
- Acquisition & Integration: Tech Due Diligence and Post Merger Integration planning & management
- Finance management: financial governance (planning, reporting, controlling), procurement governance and supplier relationship management
- Member of Sanoma Learning international Technology Board
Head of Regional Technology Services at Sanoma Learning
January 2022 – March 2023- Responsible for development and maintaince of digital local product portfolio of Sanoma Learning. Multi-disciplinary teams (~ 120 FTE) across five countries
- Strategy and budget planning
- Sourcing strategy (payroll, external, shared delivery center, near-shoring)
- Information Security and Data Privacy.
- Digital Transformation Management Office
- Organisation & Change: organisational strategy, (Agile) Ways of working, Agile Office, Knowledge management, Talent and workforce management
- Acquisition & Integration: Tech Due Diligence and Post Merger Integration planning & management
- Finance management: financial governance (planning, reporting, controlling), procurement governance and supplier relationship management
Lead Digital Facilities at Sanoma Learning
October 2018 – April 2022- Responsible for the technology enablement teams (~ 10 FTE) who enable all Sanoma Learning’s DevOps teams (~ 200 FTE)
- Services include Cloud infrastructure management, CI/CD, monitoring and support, collaboration tools and Agile Office
- Migrated all applications and its infra to new common (fully automated) cloud infra stack (AWS) and CI/CD pipelines This Cloud native strategy enables us to scale our services to new applications and business units faster
- Setup common processes for portfolio and software delivery management (SAFe) supporting the organization to oversee its digital portfolio and product roadmaps.
- Member of M&A project teams to work on technology due diligence
- Member of Sanoma Learning’s international Technology Board
Head of Application Development at Malmberg
June 2016 – May 2017- Responsible for leading software development teams of Malmberg’s and Sanoma Learning’s learning and editorial solutions (~ 50 FTE)
- Completed the transformation to DevOps teams boosting the quality of our services, including a shorter time-to-market and happier (and more skilled) developers
Product Owner at Bolster Safety
Nov 2015 – Oct 2016- Bolster Safety (formerly known as SAM Safety) was a new venture of Sanoma Learning to train safety knowledge and capabilities of employees in high-risk industries.
- As a member of the founding team I was responsible for the product concept, product backlog and brand identity.
Educational Application Consultant at Malmberg
August 2012 – May 2016- Working on the strategy of developing Malmberg's and Sanoma Learning online educational products
- Product Owner for Sanoma Learning's common educational product components and services
- Advisor for online product development (Agile scrum) teams and responsible for identifying new developments in the education landscape
SpringerNature
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SpringerNature is an international academic publishing company, publishing (online) journals, books and databases for the scholarly community around the globe.Project Manager Online Book Archives
July 2010 - July 2012- Responsible for Springer’s Online Book Archives initiative, world’s largest private book digitization project within STM publishing
- Managing international project team responsible for the digitization (scanning, tagging) of 100,000+ books, rights clearing, business model and marketing
Global eProduct Manager Protocols and Databases
April 2008 - August 2010- Responsible for product management and strategic direction of Springer's online databases: SpringerProtocols, SpringerImages and SpringerMaterials
Elsevier
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Elsevier, part of RELX, is a global information analytics business specializing in science and health.Senior Product Manager Scopus
November 2005 - March 2008- Product management for Scopus, world's largest scientific abstract and indexing database. Responsible for linking, access and entitlements, search technology, user interface, collaboration tools and integration
- Identifying product and business development opportunities, e.g. the launch of Scopus AuthorID to create unique author identities within the scholarly community
- Developing and managing the relationships with new integration partners
Publishing Technology Manager
October 2003 - Ocotober 2005- Technology management for usage analytics systems of ScienceDirect and Scopus.
- Responsible for analysis of business requirements, management of development team, innovation of the business intelligence platform used.
- Played an advisory role for business and IT in the resolution of production issues and contribute to general technological awareness within the Elsevier technology teams
CMG
System Developer – Testing & Quality Management
September 2001 - September 2003- IT consultant with a focus on software testing. Worked for several large companies as a test manager or test analyst responsible for the test strategy, planning and execution.
Education
Certificates
- BSc ICT Consultancy at TH Rijswijk - 2000 - 2001
- BSc International Logistics and Port Technology at Hogeschool Zeeland - 1996 - 2000
- VWO (pre-university college) at Canisius College Nijmegen - 1990 - 1996
Professional courses and trainings
- High Performance Leadership 2016
- Financial Management for the Non-Financial Manager 2014
- Moving on to Professional Leadership 2010
- Creativity for Innovation, MCE 2007
- Interpersonal Effectiveness, MCE 2007
- Agile Development Course - Scrum Master Certified 2007
- Effective Project Management 2004
- Professional Course Software Testing - ISEB certified 2002