Experience

VDL ETG Technology & Development B.V.

• Netherlands
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Group Lead Electronics Development

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Lead the electronic development team and competence for high-tech equipment that pushes the limits of physics. Lead the electronic development team and competence for high-tech equipment that pushes the limits of physics.



Signify

• Netherlands
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sustainability Champion LED electronics

  • Nov 2020 - Dec 2022

  Kick start the sustainability program by defining organization structure and program required for LED electronics components to reach Signify's brighter lives better world 2025 ambitions. In 2022 this has resulted in appointing now a full time program manager in the organization solidifying it into the innovation core of LED electronics business.

• Head of Quality LED electronics

  • Jan 2019 - Dec 2022

  Head of global product quality team for LED electronics. Team based in four locations in the world. US, China, Netherlands and Poland. This team consists of advanced quality experts, compliance officer and field quality engineers. This team provides technical support to LED electronics OEM customers as well as embedding lesson learnt, via 8D methods, into the organization. Accountable for the advanced quality of all (150+) product releases globally per year.Part of the management team for LED and Lamp electronic component business (750+ Million Euro business).Proud of introducing advanced product quality planning to the development teams in LED electronics. Show less

• Global Business Lead and R&D manager

  • Sep 2017 - Jan 2019

  Build and lead a team to define value propositions and execute a product portfolio program to enter two emerging business segments in horticulture and emergency lighting. Applying as emerging business lead lean startup principles.Biggest achievement in this role is to have build a team that is up to today delivering succesfull innovations in the above mentioned segments.



Philips Lighting

• Netherlands
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Program Manager Smart Electronics

  • Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  Set-up and lead the development team, program to build electronic lighting component propositions using emerging wireless and cloud based software technology. Breakthrough was only possible by convincing the organization to set up first scaled agile release train (6-8 scrum teams) involving both hardware and software teams. Set-up and lead the development team, program to build electronic lighting component propositions using emerging wireless and cloud based software technology. Breakthrough was only possible by convincing the organization to set up first scaled agile release train (6-8 scrum teams) involving both hardware and software teams.



Philips

• Netherlands
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Product Manager LED Electronics

  • Sep 2013 - Mar 2016

  In this role responsible for the global product management of the LED driver portfolio. The LED driver portfolio is the major contributor to the turnover and growth of Philips Lighting component business (500M€+ business). In this role able to significantly grow the business with several major innovations in the market being SimpleSet, Xtreme and Sensor Ready products. In this role responsible for the global product management of the LED driver portfolio. The LED driver portfolio is the major contributor to the turnover and growth of Philips Lighting component business (500M€+ business). In this role able to significantly grow the business with several major innovations in the market being SimpleSet, Xtreme and Sensor Ready products.



Philips Lighting

• Netherlands
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Resource Manager Electronics

  • Oct 2012 - Jan 2014

  Resource manager of a group of 25 expert electronics engineers. I had the responsibility together with the other competence group leaders to shape the mid to long term development program for LED lighting. My contribution was to identify and implement the needed competence for electronic program. In this period was able to select and hire several expert team members. Together with the team we had strong contributions to the electronic product roadmap of several LED businesses. Examples here are the Philips HUE and T-LED innovations. Show less



Philips

• Netherlands
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technology Program Manager

  • Jul 2011 - Dec 2012

• Development Quality Groupleader

  • Nov 2010 - Jul 2011

  Leading a group of quality project leaders that ensure that the right products at the right quality are developed.

• Project Manager

  • Jan 2009 - Feb 2011

  Leading multi-disciplinary multi-site innovation team for Solid State Lighting products

• Project Leader

  • Sep 2002 - Dec 2008

  Leading technical product developement team, 2002-2005 in pre-development and 2005-2008 in factory development. Got familiar with Design For Six Sigma and applied in below projects.Enabled the best in the world ignition of beamer lampsReleased products for LCD backlighting on new manufacturing platformSuccesfully introduced longest life T5 fluorescent products in the marketSuccesfully introduced the most energy efficient T5 fluorescent product range

• Quality Design Engineer

  • 2006 - 2007

• Product Development

  • 2002 - 2005