Education & Achievements

Always an avid learner

Deepening or widening knowledge and skills to stay relevant, and to keep things interesting. I learn through collaboration, courses, books, documentation, communities, self-paced modules and practical exploration.

Online resources and communities

Reforge, Foundr, ConversionXL, DeepLearning.ai, FrontendMasters, Innov8ers, SuperPath, Product Led Growth, Traffic Think Tank, Foundation, Udemy, GitBooks, Documentations, Chrome Developers, Conference talks, Qwiklabs, Laracasts, StackOverflow, CSS-Tricks, and many more.

Bookshelf

Ask Your Developer — Backable — Blitzscaling — Business Model Generation — Crucial Conversations — Empowered — Enterprise Design Patters — Escaping the Build Trap — Good to Great — Hacking Growth — HBR Entrepreneur’s Handbook — HBR Leaders’s Handbook — HBR Leadership — HBR Manager’s Handbook — HBR Managing People — HBR New Managers — High-Impact Tools for Team — Innovation Capital — Inspired — Kapferer On Luxery — Loonshots — Made To Stick — Making Websites Win — Mastering In-House SEO — Our Iceberg is Melting — Pirates in the Navy — Product Roadmaps Relaunched — Product-Led Growth — Product-Led Onboarding — Radical Candor — ReWork — Scaling Up — Screw Business as Usual — Secrets of Sandhill Road — Selling Luxery — Shape Up — Sprint — Start with Why — Testing Business Ideas — The Brand Gap — The Business Model Navigator — The Content Trap — The Creative Curve — The Culture Map — The Founder’s Dilemmas — The Four — The Hard Thing About Hard Things — The Invincible Company — The Phoenix Project — The Lean Startup — The Luxery Strategy — User Story Mapping — Value Proposition Design — Venture Capital Deal Terms — Zero to One — Cracked IT — Bullitproof Problem Solving — The SaaS Playbook

Formal Education

• Bachelor of Science (Bsc.) Information Technology
  Graphic Media Technology
  Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (2005)
• Highschool in The Netherlands (2000) and U.S.A. (2001)

Certificates

• Google Search Ads & Analytics
• Google Tag Manager (DataDrivenU)
• Concrete-CMS Development
• MsSQL

Awards

• SpinAward
• The Webby Awards Honoree
• Helloprint Innovation Award
• Helloprint Leadership Program
  Main Prize: Achieving Results Award

Personal Interests

• Innovation & Technology
• Society & Cultures
• Travel & Nature
• Diving
• Skiing & Snowboarding
• Board Games

Languages

• Dutch (fluent)
• English (fluent)
• German (average)
• Spanish (beginner)