Mission log

From the helpdesk to the cloud platform.

From fixing outages on the phone in 2012 to Technology Officer of a cluster of 46 cloud professionals today. This is the route, stop by stop.

  1. 2012 – 2016

    01Helpdesk · Repair engineer · Service desk

    First line

    It started on the KPN helpdesk, fixing internet and phone outages one call at a time. At Aragorn I moved to the bench, assembling and repairing computers and servers, and then to the service desk, where every ticket could be a network problem, a server problem or both.

    • Hardware
    • Windows Server
    • Active Directory
    • Networking

  2. 2017 – 2019

    02Network & systems engineer

    Networks, systems, security

    As network and systems engineer I built, migrated and ran IT environments for businesses from 5 to 400 workstations. Security was never an afterthought there: firewalls, VPNs and intrusion prevention were part of every design. In 2017 I finished my bachelor in ICT Management & Security.

    • Firewalling
    • VPN
    • IDS/IPS
    • VMware
    • Office 365
    • Intune

  3. 2019 – 2021

    03Cloud engineer

    Cloud, as code

    At Mosadex E-Health I moved to Azure as Cloud Engineer, and automation came with it. Terraform and Azure DevOps YAML pipelines deployed the environment. Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud and PIM were set as code. That made the controls provable for an ISO 27001 recertification, with Sentinel keeping watch.

    • Terraform
    • Azure DevOps YAML
    • Azure Policy
    • Defender for Cloud
    • Sentinel
    • PIM

  4. 2021 – 2022

    04Cloud consultant · Interim tech lead

    Enterprise scale

    I joined Rubicon, now BBTG, as Cloud Consultant and landed in a large financial enterprise: around 500 workloads and 15,000+ workstations moving to Azure. I designed the cloud network and security architecture, automated the migration of network components and coached new tech leads. Between 2021 and 2022 I passed nine Microsoft certifications, from Azure Administrator to Cybersecurity Architect Expert.

    • ExpressRoute
    • Azure Firewall
    • Private Link
    • PowerShell
    • Azure DevOps

  5. 2022 – now

    05Cloud consultant · Platform architect

    Platform & automation

    On a multi-tenant Azure platform for government I lead the platform team as architect: enterprise-scale landing zones, hub-and-spoke on Azure vWAN, privileged identity and a DevOps security baseline. Platform provisioning is automated end to end. From a pipeline, not a portal.

    • Bicep
    • PowerShell
    • Azure DevOps
    • Azure vWAN
    • Entra ID

  6. 2025 – now

    06Cloud Consultant & Technology Officer @ BBTG

    Technology for the cluster

    Next to my consultancy work I was cluster lead for Cloud Automation at BBTG from 2025. Since October 2026 I am the cluster's Technology Officer: 46 cloud professionals, and my part is presales, the competences we build and where we go next with AI. I keep my own hands on it: GitHub Copilot certified and three Microsoft Applied Skills in September 2026, with AI-103 next.

    • Leadership
    • Presales
    • Competences
    • AI adoption
    • GitHub Copilot

Next stop

I write about what I build along the way. Want to talk platforms, automation or how to grow a cloud team? Find me on LinkedIn.

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