Career

Since 2020 I’ve worked as an ICT consultant at KNS Automatisering, where I split my time between third-line/consultancy work and still regularly help out on the support desk. My favorite kind of work is project-based: helping clients with automation and security challenges, from analysis through to a concrete, working solution.

A good example is a project I also wrote about for KNS: implementing Microsoft Power Automate for a client that needed ISO certification for how they handle confidential research data. By automating the process — from project setup to permission structures and enforced multi-factor authentication for external participants — we not only saved time but guaranteed that every project was set up consistently and securely. That’s exactly the kind of work that energizes me: solving a recurring problem in a way that requires no further thought afterward.

Before joining KNS Automatisering:

• ICT Consultant at NVBIT (Alkmaar), 2018–2020 — first, second and third-line support, advising on network, server and cloud environments, projects ranging from full server environment builds to workstation replacements.
• ICT Consultant at De Ruiter Network Company (Noord-Scharwoude), 2016–2018 — similar consultancy and project work for SME clients. My foundation in IT lies in the datacenter world: from 2007 to 2015 I worked at TelecityGroup Nederland in Amsterdam, first as a Network Engineer on the datacenter support team, later more broadly as an IT/ICT staff member handling systems, workplace and network management. Before that, starting in 2000, I began as a data and telecom network installer — laying and certifying the physical infrastructure everything else runs on. That foundation — understanding how things work at the bottom of the stack — still shapes how I think about automation and security today.