Curriculum vitae/Utrecht

Eight years of product design, and how I got here.

I work from customer insights and product data to find what actually blocks people, prototype to test my assumptions, and partner with product managers, engineers and researchers to ship solutions that move the business.

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8+
Years designing products professionally
19
Years since my first design training, in 2007
4
Companies — six titles, two promotions
3
Languages — German native, Dutch fluent, English professional

Timeline

  • Role
  • Education
  • Training

Now

Feb 2022

4 yrs 8 mos

Temper

Job marketplace · Amsterdam, NL · hybrid

  1. Senior Product DesignerPromotedFeb 2023 — present
  2. Product DesignerFeb 2022 — Feb 2023

I own the design for the flows that get workers matched with companies on a trust-sensitive job marketplace, driving the platform's core metric: filled shifts and worked hours. Dual-track agile — discovery and delivery in parallel, hypotheses before Figma, shipping continuously to learn fast.

Client platform case study Worker app case study

2025

Mini-MBA · Future London Academy

Communicating design decisions in business terms — ROI on design, pricing models, go-to-market, competitive differentiation.

2023

Mastering Product Management · Reforge

Frameworks for identifying the features with leverage, and getting buy-in on product strategy.

2017—22

4 yrs 3 mos

Accenture Song

Design consultancy · Amsterdam & the Randstad, NL

  1. Senior Product DesignerPromotedJun 2021 — Jan 2022
  2. Product & Service DesignerNov 2017 — Jun 2021

Design consultant across industries: the Basic Fit mobile fitness app from scratch, the loyalty and checkout experience of Unilever's B2B e-commerce platform, and Shell's equipment tracking platform. Facilitated design sprints to discover a problem space with stakeholders and experts before generating ideas to test.

  • Basic Fit
  • Unilever
  • Shell
  • Arcadis
  • APG/ABP
  • Heineken
  • Rabobank
  • ING
  • Starbucks
  • and more

2022

UX Certificate · Nielsen Norman Group

Analytics and UX, omnichannel journeys, mobile UX, design tradeoffs, stakeholder buy-in, design systems and pattern libraries.

2016—17

11 mos

UX Design Graduation Intern

Pontes Medical · UMC Utrecht, NL

An app that hands patient data from the ambulance into the emergency room — linking multiple apps along a care chain for a seamless workflow across paramedics and clinicians.

2014—17

2 yrs 7 mos

MSc Design for Interaction

TU Delft

A human-centred design master's on the relationships between people, technology and the designed world — understanding people through psychological, cultural and social lenses, and grounding design choices in academic research.

2014

6 mos

Product Design Intern

Fluid Design · Munich, DE

At the intersection of industrial design and UX, from medical products to consumer electronics — Bosch, Fujitsu, Melitta, Sanofi and others.

2009—14

4 yrs 7 mos

BA Integrated Product Design

University of Applied Sciences Coburg

A holistic industrial design programme spanning engineering and manufacturing, ergonomics, prototyping, CAD, sketching and interaction design — applied through projects with German industry.

2007—09

1 yr 11 mos

Design Apprentice

Academy for Communication, Stuttgart

Starting at 17 — software tools, physical prototyping across materials and technologies, design history, graphic design, ergonomics and hand sketching.