Background
Life’s journey
Life in progress
Chapter III
Grown Up Life
Since graduating in 2017, let’s say
Founder
2024 – present (second phase)
A 3-minute pitch to about 100 attendees at Breda Startup (photo 2022).
Questlog is a multi-year passion project I’ve been working on since 2018, including three full-time years.
A startup rollercoaster, with highs and lows, failed co-founder partnerships, and many other challenges.
his journey shaped me into a true full-stack founder.
🧭 Strategy
Key ingredients in our strategy include network bonding, engagement loops, gamification, social, virality, and crowdsourcing.
🎨 Product Design
The app was designed with a modern, intuitive, and recognizable interface, enhanced with subtle, distinct twists where it matters.
💻 Software Development
The front-end is built in Flutter, for both the mobile app and the CMS. The back-end runs on Node.js, combined with MongoDB and AWS.
Part-time project manager
2024 (6 months, 2 days per week)
Part-time project manager
2024 (6 months, 2 days per week)
After a strong collaboration in previous years, I was asked to strengthen the DenG Solar team temporarily.
🏗️ Project Manager
From offer to final invoice; planning, logistics, safety, stakeholder communication, and training new teams.
🤝 Temporary Right Hand
Clearing years of backlog and creating structure where there was none.
🎯 Business Developer
Bringing order to chaos, from warehouse to digital systems, workflows, and process design.
Interim project manager & business developer
2023 (10 months full-time)
A project of 200 panels with the iFIX system in Soest (photo 2020).
Interim project manager & business developer
2023 (10 months full-time)
A project of 200 panels with the iFIX system in Soest (photo 2020).
After a strong collaboration in previous years, I was asked to strengthen the DenG Solar team temporarily.
🏗️ Project Manager
From offer to final invoice; planning, logistics, safety, stakeholder communication, and training new teams.
🤝 Temporary Right Hand
Clearing years of backlog and creating structure where there was none.
🎯 Business Developer
Bringing order to chaos, from warehouse to digital systems, workflows, and process design.
Founder
2023 (SIR market research)
Owner
2022 – 2023 (16 projects)
Founder
2023 (SIR market research)
Owner
2022 – 2023 (16 projects)
United States of America
California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona
2023 (5 weeks)
Founder
2018 – 2022 (first phase)
A day before Christmas, we went live with our MVP in Breda (photo 2021).
The first phase of Questlog was a search for the right people and form of the solution.
A period of learning, building, pitching, designing, and persevering.
Full-time from 2021 to 2022.
From idea to MVP with 380 users.
🔍 Market Research
Extensive research among roughly 400 students across the Netherlands.
Followed by sales validation with 12 companies and a successful €15,000 SIR grant application.
🤝 Co-founders
An intense two-year period with a total of 3 different technical co-founders.
What started with an unexpected 4,500-panel project grew into a nationwide installation company for the commercial market.
🛠️ Technology
Hands-on experience with a wide variety of rooftops and mounting systems, including iFIX, Blubase, Sunbeam, Van der Valk, and Sadef.
💛 Company Culture
Development of a true Viking mindset, embraced by our installation teams. Quality over quantity.
🔧 Repairs
Regularly called in to fix faulty installations done by predecessors.
Owner
2019 – 2021 (52 projects)
Proudly completed the first project from Solar Vikings (photo 2019).
Owner
2019 – 2021 (52 projects)
Proudly completed the first project from Solar Vikings (photo 2019).
What started with an unexpected 4,500-panel project grew into a nationwide installation company for the commercial market.
🛠️ Technology
Hands-on experience with a wide variety of rooftops and mounting systems, including iFIX, Blubase, Sunbeam, Van der Valk, and Sadef.
💛 Company Culture
Development of a true Viking mindset, embraced by our installation teams. Quality over quantity.
🔧 Repairs
Regularly called in to fix faulty installations done by predecessors.
Northern Scandinavia
Norway, Sweden, Finland
2019 (4 weeks)
Entrepreneur
2016 – 2018
Grand plans, stored on 20 square meters of home turf (photo 2017).
Disc Golf Adventure was my first real taste of entrepreneurship.
With this company, I aimed to introduce disc golf in the Netherlands as a recreational activity.
🥏 Consumer
A versatile offering with a webshop and regular clinics and events to introduce people to the sport.
🎨 Course Design
Rental of equipment and permanent disc golf course installations, always built around experience and storytelling, in collaboration with designers from the theme park world.
Installer
2017 – 2018 (part-time)
Southern Scandinavia
Norway, Sweden, Denmark
2018 (4 weeks)
Chapter II
Student Life
Lecture halls, side jobs, and development
Tourism & Recreation (HBO)
2013 – 2017
Presentation concept experience garden for people with intellectual disabilities (photo 2015).
I completed the university degree of arts with specialization as a Manager Recreation Company.
To gain broader knowledge of the entire tourism and recreation market, I had chosen to start from the propaedeutic level.
📒 Minor Entrepreneurship
An in-depth minor focused on testing ideas and building valuable propositions according to The Lean Startup principles.
📑 Thesis Lean Startup
Graduated with my own venture Disc Golf Adventure, in which I put the principles of Lean Startup into practice.
🎤 Speaker
After graduation, I remained involved as a guest speaker and sparring partner within the program’s entrepreneurship program.
Team Leader Recreation
2015 (fall break)
Private Chauffeur
2015 – 2016
Team Leader Recreation
2015 (fall break)
Private Chauffeur
2015 – 2016
An adventurous internship at an outdoor recreation company in the Scottish Highlands.
I was involved in setting up systems, providing structure and reducing dependency on the owner.
📘 The E-myth
The work was inspired on the book The E-myth by Michael E. Gerber.
🔍 Market Research
It began with a thorough analysis as a foundation for the choices that followed.
🧩 Working On The Business
We then took the first steps toward less dependence on the founder.
Intern Business Development Manager
2015 (5 months)
Ace Adventure’s USP: white water rafting on the Findhorn River (photo 2015).
Intern Business Development Manager
2015 (5 months)
Ace Adventure’s USP: white water rafting on the Findhorn River (photo 2015).
An adventurous internship at an outdoor recreation company in the Scottish Highlands.
I was involved in setting up systems, providing structure and reducing dependency on the owner.
📘 The E-myth
The work was inspired on the book The E-myth by Michael E. Gerber.
🔍 Market Research
It began with a thorough analysis as a foundation for the choices that followed.
🧩 Working On The Business
We then took the first steps toward less dependence on the founder.
Actor
2015 (32 shows)
Service Representative
2013 – 2015
Actor
2015 (32 shows)
Service Representative
2013 – 2015
Head of Animation
2011 – 2013
Of course, also playing a theater character myself (photo 2012).
After completing my MBO studies, I joined Bungalowpark ‘t Hooge Holt as Head of Animation.
🤝 Leadership
This is where the first real trials in a leadership role arose, with the departments of recreation (11) and swimming pool safety (4).
⚽ Recreation Activities
Activities were organized throughout the year with innovative entertainment programs and theme weeks.
📈 Operational Management
I oversaw the annual budget, made the year calendar, work schedules and, of course, unleashed my own creativity.
Team Leader Recreation
2013 (summer break)
Leisure & Hospitality (MBO)
2008 – 2012
The internship team in the third year of training (2011 photo).
Hands-on training (Level 4) in the recreation field with the central themes of hospitality, organizing and team collaboration.
📒 Creating Experiences
Designing experiences and organizing activities for different audiences.
🎤 Stage Experience
Theme nights, shows and theater performances with audiences up to 300 people.
Team Leader Recreation
2011
Front Office & Recreation
2010
Team Leader Recreation
2011
Front Office & Recreation
2010
Recreation Worker
2009
Game Designer
2007 – 2008
Recreation Worker
2009
Game Designer
2007 – 2008