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• unFIX Coach, DHG Holding

  Jun, 2024 - Jan, 20257 months

  Helped DHG Holding organize the teams supporting the Mobido and Lease-e brands, using the unFIX method

  • Introduced unFIX patterns to the organization

  • Ran team canvas sessions, to help teams formulate their own goals and needs

  • Improved team communication by hosting workshops practicing healthy habits

  • Guided leadership team in effective communication

• Agile Coach, ThiemeMeulenhoff

  Jan, 2023 - Oct, 20241 year 10 months

  Worked closely with the development teams, product owners and stakeholders to improve the organizational flow and team performance.

  • Moved away from trying to do everything at once, to a more focused approach using mission goals and sprint goals to focus the teams on the most valuable work

  • Introduced the unFIX method to facilitate mission teams forming themselves around strategic focus areas

  • Introduced a functioning sprint review, where stakeholders are highly involved

  • Shifted teams from feature to value-driven approaches via strategic team missions

  • Pushed for technical excellence, automated testing and continuous integration, streamlining the development process as much as possible

• Interim Manager Educatieve Technologie, ThiemeMeulenhoff

  Nov, 2023 - Jun, 20248 months

  Led a team of 20, including product owners, business analysts, UX designer, testers, and developers, to drive the ongoing development of ThiemeMeulenhoff's educational technology platform.

  • Strengthened the new manager's position by engaging stakeholders and aligning teams with business strategy.

  • Repositioned the department to be more aligned with the business, while gaining a strong focus on the product

  • Cleaned up a 3 year old backlog of outdated wishes, removing 90% of the items

  • Guided the team efforts to move to a new architecture, while keeping focus on business strategy

• Agile Coach, Expereo

  Jul, 2022 - Dec, 20226 months

  Collaborated with CIO, architects, and engineering managers to enhance organizational flow and team performance.

  • Merged key individuals into a single mission team to improve platform team alignment

  • Introduced 'Team Valley' miro board where we identify and brainstorm solutions for team dependencies

  • Started agile community with members from each team, sharing challenges and best practices

• Product Manager, Dott

  Jan, 2022 - Jun, 20225 months

  Served as interim Product Manager for 3 teams, ensuring continuity and progress during extended leaves of in-house Product Managers. Introduced story maps and vertical stories to improve team focus.

  • Kept ongoing efforts going while in house Product Managers were on various extended leaves

  • Introduced story maps to bridge gaps between intermission, designs, and backlog

  • Introduced combined refinements to improve shared understanding

  • Introduced vertical stories to improve team focus

• Agile Coach, Independer

  Jun, 2020 - Jan, 20221 year 8 months

  Coached six development teams and their product owners on product development and agile best practices.

  • Introduced OKRs to the teams allowing them to become more impact driven

  • Developed an agile maturity dashboard for team performance insights from surveys

  • Helped organize the teams in a way to improve agility while keeping the budgetary constraints in mind

• Product Owner, PVH Corp.

  Jul, 2018 - Dec, 20202 years 4 months

  Technical product owner for the ecommerce platform of PVH ecommerce. Kick-started the headless movement for PVH ecommerce allowing the organization to reach next level agility.

  • Delivered the new API Gateway allowing fast API development and instant deployments

  • Guided the team to deliver the new Amazon EKS platform, making PVH ready to start building micro-services

  • Reintegrated the latest version of the content management system, exposing a content API ready to be consumed by frontend applications

  • Guided the team toward cloud (AWS) and devops

  • Organized agile planning workshops for stakeholders teaching them how it works

  • Helped the scrum master grow in his role

  • Helped the team solve organizational impediments too big to be handled by the scrum master

• Scrum Master, PVH Corp.

  Jul, 2017 - Sep, 20181 year 2 months

  Guided three teams at the same time in their agile transformation coming from a waterfall background

  • Having just delivered the first version of the platform the first couple of months were filled with fighting fires on all fronts

  • Found ways to communicate that worked for teams spread across various countries

  • Helped establish a sprint cadence that worked for all the teams and the organization once the platform was stable enough

  • Coached new scrum masters and product owners in their role

  • Helped the teams improve themselves using retros and workshops

  • Hosted many agile introduction workshops

  • Organized multi day team kickoff events with various teaching sessions and workshops

• Agile Coach, Braingineers

  May, 2018 - Sep, 20184 months

  Helped a startup in user testing and neuromarketing research to improve their development practices.

  • Taught agile basics to the company by giving a workshop to all employees

  • Coached the development team in scrum best practices

  • Helped the team combine research and production work more efficiently

• Scrum Master, RTL Nederland

  Feb, 2016 - Jun, 20171 year 4 months

  Guided the team in scrum best pracises.

  • Guided the team to better development practices and team organization, resulting in faster and better feature delivery

  • Improved our sprint planning sessions by focusing on fast work breakdowns and vertical story slicing

• Fullstack Developer, RTL Nederland

  Feb, 2016 - Jun, 20171 year 4 months

  Worked on the RTL XL platform, building new features and improving the platform.

  • Introduced Test Driven Development, improving code quality and reliability of the platform

  • Created devops deployment pipelines, improving time to market and development flexibility

• Senior Frontend Developer, Equens SE, European payment processor

  Nov, 2015 - Feb, 20162 months

  Built the frontend for an early days incubator project, aimed at providing a no-code flexible platform for business challenges.

  • Setup and executed Test Driven Development

• Senior Frontend Developer, Sanoma Learning

  Aug, 2014 - Sep, 20151 year 1 month

  Built the frontend for an award winning content management system for school material.

  • Setup and executed Test Driven Development

• Freelance Developer, Mytistics

  Feb, 2012 - Dec, 20131 year 10 months

  Built the backend for a startup, running on AWS

  • Built backend running on AWS

  • Organized the workload using kanban

• Freelance Developer, Two-Legs

  Oct, 2010 - Aug, 20143 years 10 months

  As freelance developer I worked on various projects and teams. Always in agile settings.

  • Aligned with clients and teams on their application needs, resulting in a more focused development effort

• Development Manager, Qelp

  Dec, 2007 - Sep, 20102 years 9 months

  Managed outsourced development team, located in India

  • Created a saas platform for mobile device support

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