Director of Data Science at adidas, responsible for all Trading Sciences global products with focus on our digital channels.

Lead Data Scientist of a team of 14 people in VodafoneZiggo.

I started and built the AI department in the company.

Part of the core development team of the keras preprocessing component of the Keras framework.

As a consultant from GoDataDriven working as the data lead for Schiphol Royal Group.

As a consultant from GoDataDriven working as a lead data scientist for the Nspire project in KPN.

As a consultant from GoDataDriven working as a senior data scientist for Unilever.

As a consultant from GoDataDriven working as a senior data scientist for biggest telecom company in The Netherlands, KPN.

As a consultant from GoDataDriven working as a data scientist for the Dutch energy company (Nederlandse Energie Maatschappij).

As a consultant from GoDataDriven working as a data scientist and data engineer for the Knab bank.

As a consultant from GoDataDriven working as a data scientist for Bakkersland.

Started working as a data scientist for GoDataDriven.

As a consultant from GoDataDriven working as a data scientist for a joint project between Lieden University and Infostrada.

Started working as a data scientist for Qualogy.

Went over the Hogan assessment to recognize my strengths and weaknesses with the intention of shaping my teams and environment to suit my strengths and start a path to address my weaknesses.

Took an intense 6 months course to become inspirational and inclusive leader in my day-to-day role. DDE focus on enabling the execution of strategy and driving a winning culture by building and leading high performance teams.

Hired a career coach to focus on the development of my people and leadership skills.

Took a 2 day course of Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning in San Francisco.

Took the advanced Python mastery week course with David Beazley in Chicago.

Took a 2 day course of advanced deep learning with Python & Tensorflow in San Francisco.

Obtained a PhD in theoretical physics from Delft Technical University.

Presented deep learning, the engine of the AI revolution.

Gave a free 3 hour workshop about transfer learning.

Presented Operation Tulip: Using Deep Learning Models to Automate Auction Processes.

Gave an advanced deep learning workshop with a focus on RNNs and LSTMs.

Gave a deep learning introductory workshop to Keras.

Gave a deep learning training to Deloitte with a focus on RNNs.

Gave a nonprofit Python masterclass to Restart Network which supports refugees in The Netherlands.

Gave an advanced deep learning training to bol.com, Albert Hijn, Delhaize and AHOL group.

Gave the 2 days data science with Python training to ATOS consulting group in Belgium.

Gave a free 3 hour workshop about deep learning.

Presented for Master Science, Business & innovation students the story and experiences of going from a PhD to data scientist for GoDataDriven.

Gave a face recognition workshop with opencv and tensorflow.

Presented predicting Sports Outcomes based on Rankings.

Presented building a face recognition system with OpenCV.