Owner at Sygmoid
Amsterdam,
Netherlands
www.sygmoid.nl
May 2011-Present

Sygmoid provides Agile consultancy, training & coaching.

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Head of Scrum Product Owners at Spil Games
Hilversum,
Netherlands

May 2010-April 2011

Head of the Scrum Product Owners team within the Spil Games Technology department, responsible for all development done on the various Spil Games portals (receiving 130 million unique visitors per month worldwide). Responsible for recruitment, management and mentoring of the team members. Provided the internal Scrum training to the different departments throughout the company. Advised other departments on rolling out Scrum, as well as usage of Scrum tools.

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Team Leader at TomTom
Amsterdam,
Netherlands

September 2008-April 2010

Team leader of a group of product owners, involved in multi-million euro projects for rolling out and maintaining services worldwide for TomTom personal navigation devices as well as business-to-business and business-to-government customers. The team interacts with various different departments across the world and is responsible for all aspects for the service development: from vision definition to development and day-to-day issue investigation. In his role as team leader he is responsible for both the work delivered by his team as well as for HR-aspects and personal development. Further responsibilities: -Setting up internal company training on Scrum software development methodology: defining course outline and targets, writing the course material, delivering the course and training other trainers. -Acting as project leader / Scrum master for several software development projects. -Aligning with Marketing and Sales: providing input and departments on marketing campaigns and sales activities. -Liaising with the Operations department: coordinating system updates, investigating and solving production issues and improving work processes for the Operations department.

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Solution manager at TomTom
Amsterdam,
Netherlands

December 2007-September 2008

Was responsible for managing software projects and developing innovative technology with the goal to introduce new services and improve existing services. Served as project leader during all project cycles: analysis, requirement engineering, development, testing, implementation.

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Requirements Engineer at TomTom
Amsterdam,
Netherlands

June 2007-November 2007

Worked on requirement analysis, aligned requirements and timelines between different projects within the whole company.

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Consultant at Capgemini
Utrecht,
Netherlands

August 2001-May 2007

Worked as a consultant for various customers throughout the Netherlands. Customers ranged from market segments, such as social security, airlines, logistics, software development to chemical industry etc.

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Knowledge Engineer at Bolesian
Den Bosch, Select a State
Netherlands

January 2001-July 2001

Working as a specialist on knowledge based systems on various internal and external projects.

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