Resume & Experience

In this role I am designing and building a new student tracking system on top of an LMS we use in the K12 school to measure how our students are progressing. Next to that I am building out the data and performance framework the organization needs to improve business results. This has been built from the ground up using multiple platforms and tools.

I've been running my own analytics company again ever since I left Qlik.

Here I built and redesigned dashboards and UX flows for the Ikea customer experience departments. The solution - PulseCX was an app covering all physical and online shops of Ikea to measure the customer journey and the experience customers shared with us.

I started here after applying internally for a corporate role into our internal team building management and data apps for Qlik internally. Here I also developed a lot of content and frameworks on how to work with data and apps. Working on this international team covering all time zones was a really nice experience. We worked in a scrum team led by a scrum master. I liked this approach for building out data architecture / business logic and apps for different departments and decision makers.

I got promoted to a senior role and got more responsibilities within the team. I was appointed spokesperson for the visualization practice in the EMEA region. Collegues from all over the world contacted me to help out with visualization use cases. I also became the new visualization expert in the Benelux. This meant I had to demo / present a lot of content to customers on how to make visualization work in their environment using best practices. During summits and customer events I always had a few sessions in which I shared these practices as well.

At Qlik I had a big chance to learn about data from the pros. A lot of exceptional co-workers here that learned me a lot about the data domain. As a solution architect I was responsible for the technical knowledge needed within account teams. Building proofs of concept and creating prototypes was something I really enjoyed doing.

I left Cendris in a re-organization and took the chance to start my own analytics company. The aim here was to build data products to serve customers with. I spend a year writing my business plan and started building a data product on top of ERP software for daycare companies. After a year Qlik reached out to me asking me if I wanted to join their team as a Solution Architect. I could not refuse.

I switched into this role becoming more technical and with new BI tooling like Qlikview. We had to rebuild all management information and reporting products into a completely new environment. From bringing all the data into a datawarehouse and building out all the logic we needed to build data apps for our business users and higher level management.

I got into this role by refferal of a colleague I met prior to this. The role got me into reporting and consolidation of multiple subsidiairies within this holding company. The team in which I worked grew more into the internal management information that was needed to manage the company. Not too long into this role we discovered we were running into a lot of limitations with the amount of data we had to process each month to serve all the management information we had been building up from the ground.

In this role I broadened my finance knowledge by assisting with annual reports for various clients. I also deepened my understanding of the relationship between financial statements and cash flows. This effort substantially improved my finance skills.

I started my career as an assistant controller after getting my Bachelor of Business Economics. It was a nice chance to learn what it is to work at a company helping out with keeping the books for a lot of different companies.