Career Timeline

18+ Years in Enterprise Technology

From system administration and Cisco engineering, through ERP consulting and SAP development, to cloud architecture and enterprise architecture leadership.

Aug 2025 – Present
Principal Architect
OpenText

Leading enterprise cloud, data and AI architecture across SAP-centric landscapes; translating strategy into secure target architectures, migration roadmaps and ROI/TCO-backed investment decisions.

Sept 2024 – Feb 2025
SAP BTP Center of Excellence Lead (Freelance)
FrieslandCampina

Defined a strategic vision for SAP Business Technology Platform, established governance and prepared the organisation for scalable BTP adoption.

2020 – 2024
SAP Technical Architect → Chief Cloud Architect SAP
Atos / Eviden

Promoted to Chief Cloud Architect in 2021. Led SAP BTP strategy, cloud-transformation programmes across AWS and Azure, and global BTP capability-building.

Dec 2017 – Dec 2019
SAP Consultant & Fiori Factory Lead
SOA People

Introduced SAP Cloud Platform, IoT enablement, integration and workflow to clients; created the “Fiori Factory” delivery methodology.

2015 – 2017
SAP Consultant
CONTAX

Built applications on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud Connector and SAP UI5 for manufacturing clients.

2014 – 2015
Co-founder
Purple24

Peer-to-peer mortgage and real-estate financing platform exploring crowdfunding and blockchain models in the Dutch mortgage market.

2012 – 2015
Consultant & Partner
Bista Solutions

Advised small and medium-sized businesses on Odoo ERP implementation across presales, analysis, project management and delivery.

2010 – 2011
Cisco Engineer
AdVo ICT

Network engineering and infrastructure administration.

2008 – 2009
System Administrator
AdVo ICT, at Wegener

At 17, covered day-to-day system administration for an IT environment of ~150 employees for approximately four months.

Education & certifications

  • Leadership Programme, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge (run with SAP)
  • SAP Design Thinking (2019)
  • Professional Scrum Master I, Scrum.org (2018)
  • Business, IT & Management — NCOI/EVC Centrum & Haagse Hogeschool
  • ICT & Cisco CCNA — ROC van Amsterdam

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