The map so far
product owner, Sanoma Learning
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In a hurry? The plain resume
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A free study app I built and have run since spring 2025. Pick a place, start the timer, and work alongside whoever else is in there. On a normal day that is ten people or more.
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A peer-reviewed paper in Perception (2024) on how finely we feel touch on the back, for wearables that talk through vibration. Read it
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Chapter I · 2013 – 2019
A bachelor's in ICT & Technology at Fontys University of Applied Sciences, on the innovation routes ICT & Lifestyle and ICT & Smart Mobile. A lot of building things, and then finding out whether they worked for the people they were for.
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General studies at Medicine Hat College in Alberta in the fall semester of 2018, as the minor abroad of my bachelor's. I took psychology, sociology, organisational behaviour, management theory and English literature.
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A feasibility study into automated guided vehicles (AGVs) for Edulab, evaluating hardware and software ecosystems to define what an implementation would need. It included a two-week engineering bootcamp at Kollmorgen in Sweden.
Graduation internship. I built a proof of concept for burnout prevention, pairing a heart-rate sensor with a desktop application that gave stress advice in real time. Literature research and surveys set the functional requirements for the stress-detection algorithm.
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Chapter II · 2020 – 2023
A pre-master and then the MSc in Human-Technology Interaction at Eindhoven University of Technology, which applies psychology, research methods and design to how people use technology. It comes with the Dutch engineering title, Ir. (engineer).
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The thesis · 2023
Students in two TU/e courses got a learning dashboard on their own Canvas data, built in Power BI. It came in three versions, with no prompts, with prompts to reflect, or with prompts pointing to course material. 39 students took part in a three-wave survey study, and 31 completed all three waves.
The prompts made no measurable difference. Autonomy did. Students who felt in control of their learning were more engaged.
MSc Human-Technology Interaction, 2023. Supervised by Uwe Matzat and Chris Snijders. Full thesis, PDF
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In print · Perception, 2024
My master's project. How far apart two vibrations on the back need to be before they feel like two. People tell them apart more finely horizontally across the back than vertically, which matters for wearables that communicate to you through touch.
Plaisier, M. A., Vleeshouwers, C. S. J. M., Boonstra, N., Shi, Y., van der Velden, S. J. J., Vos, W. K., & Kappers, A. M. L. (2024). Vibrotactile spatial acuity on the back. Perception. Read it
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Chapter III · 2019 – 2020
Between Fontys and TU/e, a year as software engineer at TravPRO Mobile, on an e-learning and virtual events platform built with React for the web and React Native for mobile.
I built chat, learning modules and virtual expo halls, and improved them in small rounds from user feedback and support tickets. I did this as a freelancer under IT-Cahelle.
Still writing React today, since Focusverse runs on it.
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Chapter IV · 2022 – 2026
I joined Venderion in Eindhoven in October 2022 as a part-time commercial trainee, cold calling and finding leads. In September 2023 I went full time in a different job, as technical consultant.
The job was to sit down with engineers at tech companies, work out what is genuinely new in what they are building, and write it up for the Dutch R&D tax credit, the WBSO, in a way that holds up with the RVO.
50+ software and hardware clients with a WBSO grant secured
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Chapter V · April 2026 – now
Product owner at Sanoma Learning in 's-Hertogenbosch, on Bingel DC. Bingel is Malmberg's platform for Dutch primary education, used by around 100,000 teachers and 800,000 children.
Everything in the earlier chapters meets here, from education and research on how people learn to deciding what gets built next.
Certified PSPO I Scrum.org · February 2026 · verifyThis chapter is still being written.
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Chapter VI · 2025 – now
In spring 2025 I started building the study app I wanted myself, a room worth sitting in with a timer and a task list that work. It is free, runs in the browser, and has around five hundred locations across ten universes.
I do all of it myself, from the roadmap and the design in Figma to the React and Tailwind code on Supabase, Netlify and Cloudinary, down to the SEO and promotion.
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Requests come in through a form in the app and go on a public roadmap, with a direction but no fixed dates.
20+ people focusing at once, on a normal day
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The whole story is on its own page.
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Chapter VII
I teach weekly at the student sports centre in Eindhoven and fill in across other disciplines, after teacher training at Studio Skye. Most of the job is turning a move that is hard to see into steps anyone can follow, safely.
Dutch, my first language. English fluently. Some French and German.
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Chapter VIII
What I use, and where I picked it up.
from Fontys, Focusverse, Venderion and Sanoma
from TU/e and ALTEN
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from Fontys, TU/e and Focusverse
from TravPRO, TU/e and Focusverse
from Fontys and Utrecht
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About the author
Product owner at Sanoma Learning, based in Eindhoven. Thanks for reading this far.
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