Experience

DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA)

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Partner, DASA Membership Programs, DASA Leadership Certifications

  • Dec 2020 - Present

• Managing Director

  • Nov 2019 - Nov 2020

  Key Areas:- Global Brand Building - Doubling Online Presence to 22K Followers in 12 months- Launched Enterprise Leadership Forum - connecting 100's enterprise clients around the world- Confirmed 30 thought leaders as experts of DASA's Global Influencer Network- Introduced the world's first DevOps Coach and DevOps Product Owner Certification- Enabled partners to shift their offerings to Virtual-Instructor Led offerings rapidly- Returned to pre-COVID performance in 7 months- Reaching new audiences by hosting & organizing DevOps Voices Podcast- Developed an active community of Reference CustomersDevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) is an open, global community for DevOps and Agile skills development. DASA started in April 2016 and has become the leading international Industry body in vendor-neutral DevOps competence development supported by more than 300 partners worldwide and 1000's organizations working with DASA to fuel their DevOps journeys. DASA focuses on developing high-performing DevOps teams with T-shaped professionals with the necessary skills to build and run systems independently. In 2017 DASA released the DASA Competence QuickScan to help individuals determine their DASA DevOps "fingerprint." DASA has become a global movement and is proud to work with Ambassadors, Influencers, Forerunners, Training, and Consulting Partners worldwide. DASA's enterprise customers come together to share how they solve DevOps and Transformation problems in DASA's Enterprise Leadership Forum.I am a frequent speaker at conferences and virtual meetups.I am teaming up with a select group of partners to organize DASA Meetups worldwide and engage with decision-makers in IT training and Consulting organizations - support them by leveraging the DASA solutions and enable them to tap into the sizeable and fast-growing DevOps training domain. Show less

• Founding Member & Chief Evangelist

  • Apr 2016 - Nov 2019

  Driving the rapid global adoption of DASA.



Virtalis

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chair Virtalis Leadership Network

  • Nov 2021 - Jan 2023

  Building better collaboration between Virtalis customers. I conceptualized and set up the Virtalis Leadership Network. The VLN evolved into a global network of 50 VR/XR experts from various industries. The objective: to connect, share, and learn to help their organizations and careers advance. Why join the Virtalis Leadership Network?Developing a VR/XR strategy and driving innovations based on extended reality has never been this challenging. The complexity stems from many moving targets. First, we see enterprises and their ecosystems rapidly evolving. At the same time, we see XR and VR accelerating at an incredible pace, providing new possibilities every day. ​ How do you make sense of these developments? How do you seize the opportunity with some certainty that you are moving in the right way? To help VLN members navigate what is happening in the AR/VR/XR world, I set up a knowledge and learning network with experts from our global customer and partner base. This network helps members advance, grow their network, and accelerate the projects and initiatives they work on.​I worked closely with Virtalis customers and external experts to build a global community of experts. Show less

• Chief Marketing Officer

  • Dec 2020 - Oct 2021

  I designed and established a brand-new marketing function, including strategy, growth plan, and recruiting the team members to execute the plan. I introduced new online engagement formats that boosted leads, product- and thought leadership. I led, drove, and presented globally recognized Industry Meetups and Webinar Series that accelerated visibility. LinkedIn followers and engagements are ten-folded based on monthly YoY comparisons. The team has become a sustainable engine that delivers predictable results. Virtual Reality improves how enterprises run their business by making processes and decisions faster and more effectively. It allows you to look, experience, engage and collaborate inside your digital models as if they were real. Enterprises are applying VR in various domains, from powerful training experiences to speeding up product development and improving workplace safety. Industry leaders like BAE Systems, Raytheon, Vestas, and Rolls-Royce trust their most complex Visualisation projects to run on Virtalis Software for immersive design reviews, virtual prototyping, factory simulation & planning, digital twins, and virtual operator training. Why? With VR design teams, their vendors and customers can explore, test, and evaluate different concepts quickly without investing in physical prototypes. VR enables higher quality products and faster go-to-market and drives down costs in subsequent phases of the product lifecycle, such as training service engineers to maintain the product. The need for VR has grown in pandemic times as enterprises need to bring together teams remotely and safely from anywhere. Immersive virtual spaces enable robust and remote collaboration for accelerated product development.Virtalis is an ambitious VR/XR player with decades of experience that set a new standard for Enterprise VR with Virtalis Reach, the leading software product for cloud-based XR collaboration. Show less



ITpreneurs

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder, Board Member, Director, Shareholder ITpreneurs Group

  • Feb 2001 - Dec 2020

  ITpreneurs Japan, a wholly owned subsidiary of ITpreneurs Group, was acquired by BBT - a Tokyo-based publicly listed company and the most prominent online university in Japan, in July 2019.ITpreneurs Japan is the leading provider of competence-building services and solutions within IT Service Management, IT Governance, and Agile/DevOps domains in Japan.ITpreneurs provide skilling solutions to support the digital transformation journeys of organizations. With customers in over 80 countries and 20+ years of track record in creating successes for and long-term relationships with our customers and suppliers, the ITpreneurs team continuously strives to innovate, reinvent and lead the IT skills development segment. With thousands of titles available ‘off-the-shelf’ (covering domains such as Agile, DevOps, Cloud, IoT, Big Data, Service Management, etc.) and a full range of support services, ITpreneurs serve corporates and training providers in upskilling and reskilling their employees and customers, leading to more engaged and capable employees. www.itpreneurs.com Show less

• Vice President Global Alliances

  • Jul 2005 - Jan 2008

  ITpreneurs ranked in the Deloitte Fast500 4 times in a row.

• Vice President of Growth

  • May 2003 - Jul 2005

  The company created a new position for itself in the value stream of the IT Training Industry, a focused global publisher of IT training content, offering its customers a unique and agile way to run their businesses. Classroom, eLearning, and blended course learning solutions are delivered to thousands of Training Companies and Enterprises worldwide in over 50 countries and many languages. * Expanding ITpreneurs business around the globe.* Set up Offices & Teams and Customers in Japan, Dubai, U.S. Show less



Cloud Credential Council (CCC)

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer

  • Dec 2012 - Nov 2019

  * Conceptualize, set up, and co-found the Cloud Credential Council (CCC). * Closed ING Bank deal, CCC's first Enterprise Account * Delivered success as at ING roll-out as head of the Steering Committee. * Upskilled and certified thousands of ING employees in the then-new world of Cloud Computing and Virtualization. * Recruited a Managing Director * Supported CCC's business growth and global partner base. The CCC has become a leading vendor-agnostic certification and accreditation body and has now become the Home of The Digital Professional, focusing on Digital Transformations. CCC Certifications: AI, Big Data, Blockchain, Cloud & IoT. * Blockchain Foundation * Artificial Intelligence Foundation * Big DATA Foundation * Cloud Technology Associate (Foundation) * Professional Cloud Service Manager * Professional Cloud Developer * Professional Cloud Solutions Architect * Professional Cloud Administrator Show less



Leapest (IT Training Content Marketplace acquired by Edcast)

• Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• Co-Founder

  • Sep 2016 - Feb 2019

  EdCast acquired Leapest in Jan 2019. Leapest was among the first IT content marketplaces for the B2B training industry. It was established in September 2016 as a subsidiary of ITpreneurs and was managed as a startup. Leapest was sold to EdCast in January 2019. Leapest is a B2B marketplace that caters to the professional training industry. The sellers on Leapest include educational publishers, certification bodies, and contract instructors, while the buyer community consists of enterprises and training companies from around the globe. Besides facilitating transactions, Leapest provides many free publishing and delivery tools to benefit sellers and buyers on the platform. With 1500+ business buyers, Leapest represents a significant opportunity for publishers and instructors to create a global reach. EdCast is a Silicon Valley-based company offering the Global 2000 companies an AI-powered knowledge cloud. Leapest is now known as Edcast Marketplace. Show less



Metricus

• Australia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Shareholder | Board Member

  • Jun 2008 - Oct 2017

  Metricus was acquired by an Australian Private Equity (Allectus Capital) in Oct 2017. Metricus transforms your IT data into value for your organization. A suite of cloud-based services provides the framework for targeted IT Data Analytics solutions; delivered fast, cost-effectively, and with proven ROI. Core solutions include IT Performance Datamarts, IT Data Visualization, IT Performance Measurement, Predictive Analytics, and Artificial Process Insights for Service Management. Metricus has enterprise customers on all continents worldwide, from international banks such as Toronto Dominion in Canada and Al Rajhi in Saudi Arabia to world-class universities such as Yale University and the University of Western Australia. Metricus understands the value of IT data and can help your IT organization drive improvements in service delivery, control costs, and effectively measure your performance. Key Customers: McDonald's, Yale, Arla, Philip Morris, and Santander. Show less



247leren, onderdeel van ITpreneurs

• Netherlands
• Book and Periodical Publishing

• Co-Founder & CEO

  • Aug 2005 - Mar 2017

  247leren was sold to KleurRijker in March 2017. 247leren (247learning) designed, developed, and marketed blended learning interventions to solve societal issues of vulnerable target audiences in Dutch society. A breakthrough in Dutch Integration (Inburgering). 247leren was the first to market with an innovative, tech-enabled education program for immigrants to learn the Dutch language, traditions, and culture. These blended learning programs were based on TV/Video, eLearning, Classroom Instruction, and real-life Practice. This program resulted in high pass rates for the Dutch integration exams. Blending these four pillars was disruptive at that time as it boosted the efficiency of the learning process. The traditional publishers lost market share and, within nine months after introducing the 247learning products, became the market leader in this Industry. 247leren developed interventions for High School Drop Outs (back to your future), Loneliness, and Healthcare and worked with training organizations (ROCs) to bring them to market. 247Leren won the European Union e-inclusion award. Show less



𝙋𝘿𝙈 | 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚

• Netherlands
• Business Consulting and Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Jan 2000 - May 2001

  PDM iTechnology (PDM Group company) a consulting company with core customers in the Process, Oil & Gas Industry. * End-to-end responsibility, with full (P&L) responsibility * Developed and successfully executed a new strategy. * Positioned the organization as the leader in SAP Plant Maintenance & SAP Service Management * Company operated as a high-value/high-end niche player, partnering with leading organizations * Organization was loss-making, and showed monthly profits as of the 4th month * Nurtured the employees into a high-performing team of consultants. * Developed a strategic alliance with SAP * Developed alliances with the four biggest SAP consulting companies * Secured a sizeable global contract with Heineken that provided multi-man-year consulting revenue. Show less



SAP

• Germany
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Unit Manager

  • Jan 1998 - Dec 1999

  Managed a team of Consultants and Business Managers for SAP Sales in the following verticles: High Tech, Manufacturing, and Construction* Youngest Business Unit Manager in rank* Closed the 3rd largest contract in Europe * Successfully penetrated new markets (e.g., building & construction market), which used to be dominated by Dutch solid local Software competitors

• Sales Manager

  • Jan 1997 - Dec 1997

  * Complex and large software sales deals* Enabling new SAP customers on their transformation journey* Exceeding Targets* Succesful entry into new markets for SAP

• SAP Consultant / Pre Sales Consultant

  • Jan 1995 - Dec 1996

  * Providing SAP consulting to customers* Providing Pre-Sales support to SAP Sales Teams.* Focus on Plant Maintenance, Service Management. * 98% deal score when involved as pre-sales* Supported winning large contracts, including Shell, ASML, and Coty.



Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors

• Rotterdam, Singapore

• Consultant/Inspector Technical Department

  • Dec 1992 - Dec 1994

  HAM Dredging (through various mergers, now part of Van Oord) used to be one of the market leaders in Dredging & Marine Works. Parent company HBG ranked Top 10 construction companies in Europe. * Optimized maintenance & repair process, resulting in recurring savings of 1MM euros p.a. * Selected and Implemented maintenance management system * Supervised 3 MM Euro docking repair in Singapore * Developed and rolled out Maintenance Best Practices across Asia * Project support and reporting methodology for Hong Kong airport * Lived and worked in Singapore and Hong Kong for three months each Show less