Projects
CopyUp
2020 – present
Copywriting Services for E-Commerce
With CopyUp I’m providing a variety of copywriting services (product descriptions; blog articles; etc.) in Dutch and English to owners of e-commerce stores. Reach out if you’re active in online shopping and you’re looking for a copywriter.
Enter Network
2018 – present
Community for Entrepreneurs
With Enter Network I’m on a mission to connect 1 million entrepreneurs. We do this with meetups, peer support groups, and much more. See our website for more info.
Unrestricted
2019 – present
BLOG & Newsletter
I’ve written over 20 blog articles and issued over 10 newsletters on freelancing, entrepreneurship, happiness, and more. All on this blog (and the Unrestricted newsletter).
Lowland Living
2016 – 2017
E-commerce: Gummy Bear Molds
Lowland Living was a brand selling privately labeled gummy bear molds on Amazon. These were sampled and imported from China, to be sold in the US.
All About Chairs
2016 – 2017
Amazon Affiliate Website
The website allaboutchairs.com provided information to prospective (office) chair buyers — earning revenue as an Amazon affiliate.
Loopkracht
2016
Subscription box for runners
We created a subscription box with running essentials such as a heart rate monitor, energy drinks, gels, etc.
Work
Freelance Projects
2016 – present
Project & product manager (remote)
I’ve been working as freelance Product Manager, (Scrum) Product Owner, Project Manager and Content Manager on websites, web-apps and software.
I’ve worked for clients such as Jacobs Douwe Egberts (Netherlands), Custodigit AG (Switzerland), Sisu (United States), ENGEO (United States) and VZ Games (Latvia).
Infloat
2017 – 2019
Co-Founder
Built a profitable consultancy business focusing on blockchain technology for the financial industry – Gather and analyzed requirements from customers to improve these new products and was in charge of setting our company’s KPI and tracked these using a self-built Google Data Studio dashboard.
Finhash Network
2018 – 2019
Co-founder
I wrote a weekly newsletter on blockchain technology in the financial industry for nearly 600 subscribers — for 44 weeks.
Ministry of Economic Affairs
2015 – 2016
Policy Officer
Prepared a variety of bilateral meetings for the Minister of Economic Affairs at the Directorate International & European Affairs.
Education
Datacamp
2019 – 2020
Data scientist with Python track
- Learned some data science using Python and several Python libraries
Scrum.org
2019
Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO 1)
- Completed Product Owner training, and passed the scrum.org PSPO 1 exam.
Coursera
2018 – 2019
Courses in finance & financial modeling
- 4 Course Specialization: Business and Financial Modeling (Wharton Business School).
- Course: Financial Markets (Yale University)
London School of Economics
2014 – 2015
Master of International Political Economy
Courses in Economic Diplomacy, Entrepreneurship, Chinese, among others
Thesis: China as a New International Lender of Last Resort — Chinese State Loans in Latin-America
Sciences Po Paris
2013 – 2014
Master Of International Public Management
Courses in Business and Trade Law, Leadership, Statistics, Accounting (in French), French, Chinese (in French), among others
University College Roosevelt
2010 – 2013
Bachelor In International relations
Courses in International Relations, International Law, Rhetoric & Argumentation, Statistics, French
Thesis: Euroscepticism and the Eurozone Crisis
Other
Other pastimes
I enjoy making electronic music (techno, deep house) with Ableton
Languages
Dutch, English, quite some French, quite some Chinese, and a little bit of German
Currently Reading
Running Lean – Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Maurya)