About Me

Principal Sales Engineer | Endpoint Security & Endpoint Management Expert | Speaker | Works Council Member | Volunteer | CISSP

As a Principal Sales Engineer at Ivanti, I help organizations in Finance, Healthcare, Government, and Manufacturing sectors strengthen their cybersecurity posture and modernize endpoint management. With over 17 years of experience, I combine deep technical knowledge with strategic insight to support customers and partners in achieving secure, automated, and resilient IT environments. My work emphasizes risk-based vulnerability management, identity and access management, automation, and digital employee experience (DEX).

At Ivanti, I collaborate with teams to deliver tailored solutions designed to create secure, automated, and resilient IT environments. My contributions are rooted in being a trusted advisor and leveraging my deep understanding of unified endpoint management, endpoint security, and NIS2. Recognized with multiple awards, I remain committed to empowering organizations through technology that simplifies and secures their operations.

“Technology should empower people, not complicate their lives.”

Personal Mission: To bridge the gap between technology and people by delivering secure, intuitive, and future-ready IT solutions that make organizations stronger and users more empowered. I strive to be a trusted advisor who brings clarity to complexity, and who helps teams navigate change with confidence and purpose.

⚡ Core Specializations

  • Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) & Security
  • Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
  • Identity & Access Management (IAM)
  • Automation & Hyperautomation
  • Digital Employee Experience (DEX)
  • Cybersecurity Governance & NIS2 Compliance

🏆 Awards & Recognition

  • 🥇 Ivanti Sales Engineer of the Year 2025 — Ivanti
  • 🏆 Ivanti EMEA Best Technical Win of the Year 2024 — Ivanti
  • 🌟 Ivanti Year’s Best New Logo 2024 — Ivanti
  • 🥇 Ivanti EMEA Sales Engineer of the Year 2018 — Ivanti

💼 Professional Experience

Ivanti LogoIvanti

Total Duration: 9+ years | 📍 Amsterdam / ‘s-Hertogenbosch
📌 Note: LANDESK and HEAT Software combined to become Ivanti in January 2017. RES Software was acquired by Ivanti in July 2017.

  • Principal Sales Engineer — Endpoint Security & Endpoint Management
    🗓️ August 2025 – Present | Amsterdam
    Principal Sales Engineer at Ivanti, focusing on Endpoint Security and Endpoint Management. Ivanti is driving a transformation in the way today’s organizations manage and reduce the cost of their PC populations. Designed for physical or virtual desktop platforms, Ivanti Software enables IT professionals to centrally manage, automate and deliver secure, personalized and more productive desktop experiences for any user.
  • Lead Sales Engineer — Endpoint Security & Management
    🗓️ May 2022 – August 2025 | Amsterdam
    Technical demonstration, guiding proof of concepts and technical assistant in sales of Ivanti endpoint security and endpoint management solutions, such as Ivanti’s patching solutions, risk-based vulnerability management, device and application control, endpoint management, user workspace management, zero trust, identity management, DEX and hyperautomation.
  • Technical Architect
    🗓️ January 2021 – May 2022 | ‘s-Hertogenbosch
    Supporting the sales team with their sells, answering RFP/RFI, and creating great demo’s from usecases. Supporting customers and prospects with Proof of Concepts, technical questions, trials, finding a solution for their technical problems, finding ROI/add value to their businesscase and helping them bringing their vision to reality using the total Ivanti UEM, ESM and Security stack.
  • Senior Sales Engineer 🗓️ (February 2019 – May 2022 | Den Bosch)
  • Sales Engineer 🗓️ (July 2017 – January 2019 | Den Bosch)

RES LogoRES Software

Total Duration: 1 year 3 months | 📍 ‘s-Hertogenbosch

  • Sales Engineer
    🗓️ May 2016 – July 2017
    RES Software, the proven leader in user workspace management, is driving a transformation in the way today’s organizations manage and reduce the cost of their PC populations. As a Pre-Sales I’m supporting the Account Managers and RES Software Partners in their business in the Finance, Health Care, Government and Manufacturing sectors.

Centric LogoCentric IT Solutions

Total Duration: 10 years 3 months | 📍 Moordrecht

  • Solutions Architect
    🗓️ December 2011 – April 2016
    Focus mostly on Application, Desktop and OS Delivery. Technical consulting and implementing on migration projects. Skills including XenApp 6.5, App-V, WDS, MDT, RES Workspace Manager, RES Automation Manager and Citrix Provisioning Server, XenDesktop and XenApp.
  • Technical Consultant 🗓️ (2010 – 2014)
  • Systems Engineer
    🗓️ February 2006 – December 2011
    Focused on applications and desktop. Work mostly exists of packaging of software en sequencing and implementing Citrix XenApp and RES Workspace Manager. Deploying with RES Automation manager and SCCM 2007. Working as systems engineer at Centric IT Solutions, I worked project based including migrations at RWE Netherlands and Woonstad Rotterdam.

📜 Earlier Roles & Technical Writing

  • Co-Writer — RESguru.com 🗓️ (February 2011 – January 2016)
    Blogging on the topics of RES Workspace Manager, RES Automation Manager and other RES related subjects.
  • (Re)Packager — ICT Assist 🗓️ (October 2004 – February 2006)
    Software packager and scripter, mainly with Altiris Wise Package Studio.
  • Service Disruption Representative — UPC Netherlands / Liberty Global 🗓️ (September 2002 – October 2004)
    Servicedesk 1st and 2nd line on the total range of consumer products of UPC Netherlands (Television, Digital Television, Telephony and Internet -Chello-).

🎤 Speaking Engagements

  • 🗣️ Ivanti Live (2026): “Surviving Patch Apocalypse”
  • 🗣️ DuCUG #28 (2026): “Autonomous Endpoint Management”
  • 🗣️ Axle-IT Jubileum Event (2026): “Welcome to the Autonomous Era”
  • 🗣️ Axle-IT Event (2025): “Ridderlijk beschermd: Exposure Management van het Cyber Fort”
  • 🗣️ Ivanti Live (2024): “New NIS2 laws are coming. Are you ready??”
  • 🗣️ Ivanti Solution Summit Dallas (2024): “Cyberhygiene as a Foundation” / “Ivanti Neurons and MS Intune – Embrace and Enhance”
  • 🗣️ CyberSec Netherlands (2023): “NIS2 Compliance: Building a Cyberhygiene Foundation”
  • 🗣️ Future IT Workspace (2022): “Is Workspace Management zoals we het kennen nog relevant?”
  • 🗣️ Ivanti Interchange Unplugged – Utrecht (2019): “The Great Migration: a well-managed Win10, Intune & Autopilot Estate”
  • 🗣️ Ivanti Interchange Madrid (2019): “Unifying IT: Optimizing Integrations through Automation” / “Secure applications based on Workspace Context“
  • 🗣️ Ingram Micro Wintercollege (2018): “Ivanti Workshop 2018: UEM”
  • 🗣️ Ivanti Interchange Dallas / Madrid (2018): “Deliver a secure context-aware Workspace with Automation and Identity”
  • 🗣️ DuCUG #9 (2016): “ICA vs RP”

🎓 Certifications & Education

Certifications:
CISSP, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, Masterclass Cyber Security Booster (“De essentiële basis en strategisch inzicht in NIS2”), Ivanti Certified ESM Sales Professional, Technical Sales Professional — Endpoint Management, Great Demo!, Workato Automation, MEDDICC, CVSS v4.0, ITIL 4, and Android Enterprise.

Education:
HAN University of Applied Sciences — HEAO, Bedrijfskundige Informatica (1998 – 2002)

🌱 Beyond Technology

  • 🏢 Works Council Member (Ondernemingsraad) at Ivanti: Actively serving on the Works Council, advising on organizational strategy, legal consultations, and representing employee interests.
  • ⛩️ Senior Crew at Animecon.nl: Supporting logistics and operations at one of the largest Japanese pop culture festivals in the Netherlands.
  • ❄️ (Hoofd) IJsmeester at Gorcums Winterfestijn: Ensuring ice quality and safety at Gorinchem’s annual winter event.
  • 🚑 Certified First Responder (BHV): Ensuring workplace emergency response and safety preparedness.

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