Experience.

LEARN BY DOING.

Acquired skills

  • User Research • User Experience Design • User Interface Design • Visual Design
  • Interaction Design • Design Thinking • Wireframing • Prototyping • User Testing
  • Usability Testing • A/B Testing • Google Analytics • Hotjar • HTML • CSS
  • Agile Methodologies (SCRUM) • Sketch • Invision • Invision Studio • Zeplin • Figma

Junior UX Researcher - WARP (2020 - current)

  • Preparing and facilitating Design Sprints
  • Planning and doing User Research (such as interviews and user-testing)
  • Writing reports and research proposals
  • In-depth analysis and progressing of complex data
  • Website

Freelance UX Designer - Studio Hotpot (2018 - current)

  • User research through field research and online tools
  • Creating mid-fi prototypes, copywriting and building WordPress sites
  • Sales pitches, customer relations and support
  • Advising on overal marketing strategy combining on- and offline branding
  • Soft skills: independence, creativity, innovative, user-focus
  • Website

Freelance Health Coach - Menselijk Fundament (2020 - current)

  • Coaching clients with complex problems by combining elements from physics, biology, philosophy, psychology and sociology
  • As with UX it is important to truly understand a problem before being able to provide an effective solution
  • Website

Brand representative - BioTea (2018 - current)

  • Support for B2B and B2C questions regarding BioTea (small Italian company)
  • Build the Dutch e-commerce site and social media from scratch
  • Graphic design of packaging, banners and other media
  • Website

Assistent Store Manager - Lidl (2018 - 2019)

  • Managing (and coaching/supporting) employees and workflow
  • Resolving client issues, incidents and administrative responsibilities
  • Soft skills: mediation, leadership, overview, multi-tasking

Freelance Gamification Consultant - Next Level Gamification (2014 - 2017)

  • Collaborating with graphic designers and building websites
  • Presenting and consulting for clients
  • Setting up and coordinating start-up projects

Sales Advisor - iCentre/Amac (2014 - 2017)

  • Medior sales-advisor (working with Apple’s ACE methodology)
  • Hosted workshops, offered technical support and took over store manager tasks
  • Soft skills: active listening, problem-solving

Company Director - Drukkerij de Lithograaf (2015)

  • Responsible for recruitment and associated administration
  • Handled customer relations and acquisition
  • Soft skills: adaptability, sharing a strategic vision

Other (2005 - 2015)

Owner Step Up Promotions & Modelling (2009-2013). I directed teams in promotions and hospitality. Administration, recruitment, managing, acquisition, etc. • Senior Project-lead at NLworkXX • (S)HRM Master-internship at the HR department of Zeist municipality • Captain of dancing group Sairanzensen • Management Assistent at Poncius • Project Internship at Kuraĝo Business-consultancy • Assistent pastry chef at Top’s Edelgebak • Several side jobs in the catering industry.

EDUCATION

Education.

I ENJOY LEARNING NEW THINGS.

Ironhack: 9-week intensive Bootcamp in UX/UI Design

  • User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Visual Design, Interaction Design
  • User Research, Design Thinking, Wireframing, Prototyping, User Testing, Usability Testing
  • A/B Testing, HTML, CSS, Agile Methodologies (SCRUM)
  • Sketch, Invision Studio, Invision App, Zeplin, Figma

Interaction Design Foundation

  • Design thinking
  • Conducting usability testing
  • The practical guide to usability
  • Psychology of e-commerce
  • Web-design for usability
  • UI Design patterns for successful software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Gestalt Psychology
  • User Research – methods and best practices

Bachelor and Master Work- and Organizational Psychology

  • Strategic human resource management, organizational development, work psychology
  • Finished my minor following courses at Kyoto University in Japan
  • Soft skills: research, coaching, consulting, mediation, cultural awareness

Coursera - Online University classes

  • Classes in Management and Gamification

Google Adwords Certified Individual (2019)

Self-study (personal interests)

  • Gamification, behavioral economics, branding, neuro- (and e-)marketing
  • Copywriting, customer experience (UX), adwords/SEO, analytics, lean, public speaking
SPECIAL

Special.

OR JUST FUN TO KNOW.

• I challenge myself to ‘talk like TED’
• During university I followed classes in acting, photography and dancing
• People that inspire me include Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Ricardo Semler, Derren Brown and Elon Musk

LANGUAGES.

  • Dutch, native
  • English, near-native
  • Japanese, basic conversational

WANT SOME TESTRESULTS?

I have completed assessments, among which the ‘Rapport Verify capacity test’ of the CEB and the capacity/intelligence test of Randstad. I also have the results of the ‘AEM-Cube’. These results can be shared on request.

PUBLICATIONS.

  • Several blog articles on Medium and Linked-in.
  • Several blog articles for Gamification World Netherlands.
  • Master Thesis: Aiming for the right job.
  • Book (fiction): Elementum Chronicles – Fifth Element.
  • High school Thesis: Closed Artifical Ecosystems.

HOBBIES.

  • Cooking (Asian) food
  • Going to the gym
  • Playing management/strategy games
  • Spending time with my girlfriend

Contact.

LETS GET TEA (OR COFFEE).

I am always down for a good conversation and new chances, so don’t hesitate to send me a message! A cup of tea (or coffee) never hurt anyone.