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• Agile Coach, Expereo

  Jul, 2022 - Dec, 20226 months

  Worked closely with the CIO, architects, engineering managers and development teams trying to improve the organizational flow and team performance.

  • Aligned platform teams struggling to collaborate by merging key people into a single mission team

  • 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 practises

• Product Manager, Dott

  Jan, 2022 - Jun, 20225 months

  Interim Product Manager for 3 teams building operational tooling. In this role I took over product manager responsibilities for multiple people on various leaves.

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

  • Introduced story maps as a way to bridge the gap from intermission to designs and backlog

  • Introduced combined refinements to improve shared understanding

  • Introduced vertical stories to improve team focus

• Independer: Agile Coach, Independer

  Jan, 2020 - Jan, 20222 years

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

  • Created an agile maturity dashboard which gives insights into team performance based on team 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

  • Kick-started the headless movement for PVH ecom 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

  • Organized multi day team kickoff events with various teaching sessions and workshops when new teams were created

• 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

  • Gave many agile introduction workshops

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

  • In the end the teams had a steady three week sprint cadence with regular deployment cycles

• Agile Development Coach, Braingineers

  May, 2018 - Sep, 20184 months

  • Taught agile basics to the name 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

• Fullstack Developer & Scrum Master RTL XL, RTL Nederland

  Feb, 2016 - Jun, 20171 year 4 months

  • Guided the team to better development practices and team organization

  • Introduced Test Driven Development

  • Created devops deployment pipelines

• Senior Frontend Developer, Equens SE, European payment processor

  Nov, 2015 - Feb, 20162 months

  • Built the javascript frontend for an incubator project

  • Setup and executed Test Driven Development

• Senior Frontend Developer, Sanoma Learning

  Aug, 2014 - Sep, 20151 year 1 month

  • Built an award winning content management system for school material

  • Setup and executed Test Driven Development

• Development and Operations, Mytistics

  Feb, 2012 - Dec, 20131 year 10 months

  • Built backend running on AWS

  • Organized the workload using kanban

• Control Panel Application Developer, The Datacenter Group

  Apr, 2011 - Apr, 20187 years

  • Built and maintained customer facing datacenter control panel

  • Aligned with the business on the needs for the control panel

• Development Manager, Qelp

  Dec, 2007 - Sep, 20102 years 9 months

  • Managed outsourced development team, located in India

  • Created various frontend applications

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