Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals

Prince2 Practitioner

Microsoft Certified: Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate

TOGAF 9.1

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Cloud Certified Professional

DEV205Bx: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions

Facilitating round table discussion around cloud governance and operating models.

Speaker at the Infrastructure Dialogue Benelux 2016

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

- Managing Infrastructure team for Siemens Building Technologies (400 seats)
- Managing Novell to Windows migrations.
- Managing Microsoft Exchange Migrations
- Managing Windows and Novell Infrastructures for external customers (>100 seats).
- Technical Project Manager for the Office XP to Office 2003 migrations for 2200 seats.

Hired as Systems Engineer/Technical Consultant

- Designing and developing Logistic systems
- Programming in Clipper, Basic.
- Support for Novell 3.12 and 4

Systems Analist and Programmer

Supported products:
- Exchange 2003 migration to local storage,
- Participation in a global Exchange 2007 migration
- Symantec Enterprise Vault Global Architecure and Engineering
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server Global Architecture and Engineering
- Symantec Anti-Virus Support and Engineering.

Mail & Mobility Architect and Engineer

Mail and Mobility Technical Specialist.
Cross Regional Services.
Our team is responsible for engineering and architecture of the global messaging infrastructure including Internet access, Anti Virus, Message Archiving and Electronic Faxing.

Technical Specialist

Led the engineering function responsible for infrastructure solution design across cloud, compute, storage, network, database and middleware, acting as system integrator for the global bank.
- Managed a multidisciplinary engineering team and the delivery of value added infrastructure solutions in a heavily regulated financial environment.
- Member of the global infrastructure architecture board.
- Drove adoption of converged infrastructure, containerisation, Azure and data centre consolidation, alongside the early data and analytics platform.
- Regulated sector grounding: change control, segregation of duties, auditability and continuity, the same disciplines that govern data platforms today.

Manager Engineering, Data Centre Technical Services

Cloud and data architecture for large Dutch enterprises, moving from infrastructure design into data and analytics platform ownership.
- Domain Architect Cloud Data, Analytics and Machine Learning at a top tier insurer, setting the target architecture for the group analytics platform on Azure.
- Platform Architect for that insurer's Azure analytics platform, from landing zone and security design through to data ingestion and ML workloads.
- Product Owner of the Cloud Foundation team, delivering the landing zone, guardrails and platform services that application teams built on.
- Solution and infrastructure architecture for clients in mortgage services and marine construction, including cloud migration and hybrid connectivity design.

Infrastructure & Cloud Architect

Working as a C++ Programmer on System Development Workbench (SDW)

Hired as C++ Developer

Engineer within the Production Integration team.
As an Infrastructure Engineer I work closely together with the Application Architects to design the infrastructure that best suits their needs.

Senior Global Engineer

Developing in RPG400 and CL.
Windows System Engineer
Outsourcing Consultant

ICT Consultant

Lead architect for enterprise data platform and data governance engagements across government, energy, healthcare and public sector clients. Accountable for target architecture, technology selection, delivery assurance and the data operating model that surrounds it.
Platform architecture:
- Designed cloud data platforms and lakehouse architectures on Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks and Snowflake for enterprise clients, covering ingestion, medallion modelling, semantic layer, BI and self service consumption.
- Led data mesh readiness assessment and federated data product architecture for a national energy utility, defining domain ownership, data product contracts and the platform capabilities required to support them.
- FinOps, compute cost optimizations on Fabric and Databricks, including migration paths off Synapse and legacy warehouses.
Data governance and Microsoft Purview
- Delivered multiple Microsoft Purview data governance implementations across government, healthcare and en

Lead Data Architect

Vibe coder, Data Architect and Context Engineer.

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