My career in IT started in 1977 at the age of 20. In fact I was studying geography but there was a strike on my campus (yes, the roaring and left 70's :) so achieving decent results was difficult. I needed some money and decided that I had to work for a while and wait until the strike was over. I responded to an ad where a company was explicitely looking for people who did not finish their study but were motivated to do something else. Weird, but not in those days ;-).

Although I kept myself a geography student for a year or 2, the IT-profession caught me and touched my heart. So I decided to stay and started to study informatics both with a pretty tough internal and role-focussed training as well as an external and  more general IT college program.  

The first 10 to 12 years I ran through the classic path from programmer to designer and projectleader. Most of the time engineering applications in an IBM environments. Most of the clients were in the manufacturing business so I designed and developed various CRM, PDM and ERP applications.

In 1987 I was asked to become a unit manager, usually of groups of about 100 professionals with a revenue of 10 to 25M Euros. I have done that ever since until December 2007. The role developed from a pure peoplemanagement function towards full size business-unit management including own route to market, service & capability development and profit & loss, both locally and internationally. Obviously, my skills were best used when creating new or rebuilding existing businesses. Additionally, in the second half of this 20 year period I usually was asked for the leading role in a team of comparable business-unit managers, encouraging collaboration and joint business winning.

Since 2008 i was a member of the delivery team with Strategy as focal point. The design and setup of a large Dutch Project Centre (100M), advanced industrialization innovation, long term "pyramid management", the design of the IT-Consultant of the future (the "Universal Professional") and an innovation centre to train young people in the latetst developments are some results to be proud of.  

Businesses: IBM, DEC and Oracle technologies, Software Factory & Agile Develoment, Technology Consulting, Network Infrastructure Solutions, Application Packages & Development in Public, General Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Telco markets.

IT Roles: programmer, software architect, designer, analyst, projectmanager, software process consultant, enterprise architect and many years as business unit manager

Technology environements and programming from the old ages until now: RPG, Cobol, Pascal, Basic, 6502 assembler, Rexx, Natural, PHP, a couple of other scripting languages and of course recently some Objective-C, Swift and (Mac)Ruby and self designed languages SLANG and HOMYLON.

If you want to know it all: here is my full size resume ... or a short one in English ... in Dutch ... and even on One Page :)