My journey so far
Vion Food Group
Data Analytics Lead
Oct 2021 - Current
- Managing the Analytics Competence Center team, responsible for use case identification and prioritization, and connecting with key stakeholders from 4 different Business Units. Currently, most use cases relate to the finance domain.
- The Analytics Competence Center is a central team that focusses on delivering data analytics products (e.g. dashboards, data sets) and supporting Business Units in deriving the right insights from data. To leverage data as a strategic asset, an Azure cloud-based data platform for data collection, storage, processing and analysis is used.
- The team consists of Data Engineers, an Azure Cloud Architect, Data Visualization experts, Business Analysts, an IT Application Manager, a Data Architect and an Integration architect.
Vijzelaar.com
Financial Data Analytics Consultant
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
- Support organizations in the field of (Financial) Data Analytics in the form of pilots, proof of concepts, projects and ad hoc analysis. Using amongst others: Python, SQL, and Power BI.
- Clients: Meelunie and WPG Uitgevers.
- Translate opportunities related to both business and Finance into Data Analytics use cases (Analytics Translator role).
- Organizing sessions with several medium to large sized companies to brainstorm about the possibilities of Financial Data Analytics.
- Giving presentations about Financial Data Analytics.
- Software development by using Python (several generic tools that can be used at client companies).
- Helping set up Vijzelaar.com Data Solutions (part of Vijzelaar.com), such as developing the website, presentation slides and documentation.
KLM
Data Analyst - Advanced Data Analytics
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
As a Data Analyst at KLM I worked closely together with Data Scientists and Data Consultants
in a dedicated (Agile) Product Team. As a team we mainly focused on finance related subjects.
For example: EU claims (EU261 claims), fraud detection and determining quotes for KLM
Engineering & Maintenance (part of the predictive maintenance program).
Focus areas:
- (Big) Data Analysis
- Building Data Models
- Machine Learning
- Process Mining Analysis
Find out more about the projects I have done at KLM:
In the period December 2017 - April 2018 I worked together with two Data Scientists from GoDataDriven. We worked together on several projects, for example the project "EU Claims Forecast Model". See the casestudy Mastering Financial Information for more information on the collaboration between KLM and GoDataDriven.
Transavia
Business Controller IT & Corporate
Aug 2015 - Nov 2017
As a Business Controller at Transavia I focussed on the Overhead Departments
and the Innovation Portfolio.
Main activities:
- Directly reporting to the management group (i.e. CEO, CFO and VP's)
- Planning and Control cycle (forecasting, budgeting, monthly closing)
- Monitoring the (IT) innovation portfolio (Transavia Agile Framework, business cases, Capex/Opex, linking the innovation portfolio to the OGSM model framework)
- Business and data analysis (e.g. ground staff CLA what-if analysis)
- Creating interactive Power BI dashboards (e.g. route profitability dashboard, management dashboard, finance dashboard)
- Business improvement (proces optimilization, Lean)
- (Redesign) Transavia Control Framework (internal control framework)
In addition to the regular activities, I also worked on several projects. Find out more about these projects:
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Economics
2009 - 2013
- In addition to obtaining my Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Business Economics, I also obtained a certificate for the academic minor of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in July 2013
- Graduated in July 2013
Find out more about some activities I have done during my study Business Economics:
Skills
Languages
Dutch
English
Professional skills
- Data Analysis
- Business Intelligence
- Business Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Business Control
- Financial Analysis
- Data Modeling
- Machine Learning
- Process Mining Analysis
Computer
DATA VISUALISATIONS
DATA ANALYTICS / DATA SCIENCE
Python
Spark
SQL
Jupyter Notebook
MS Excel
MS Azure
MS SSMS
WEB / API DEVELOPMENT
OVERIG
Courses
Unsupervised Learning Clustering t-SNE Hierarchical Clustering Dimension Reduction
Supervised Learning Scikit-learn Classification Regression Hyperparameter Tuning Preprocessing Data ML Pipelines
DataCamp
Importing Data in Python
2019
- Importing file types such as pickled files, Excel spreadsheets, SAS files, Stata files, HDF5 files and MATLAB files
- Working with relational databases in Python
- Importing data from the Internet
- Interacting with APIs to import data from the web
- Diving deep into the Twitter API
Python SQL API Twitter API
Python Data Science
Python Data Science
Microsoft Virtual Academy
Introduction to Programming with Python
2017
- Basic syntax (e.g. data types, variables)
- Working with dates and times
- Decision statements (if/else and and/or statements and nested if statements)
- Iteration statements (e.g. for loop, while loop)
- Lists, dictionaries and tuples
- Handling errors
Python Programming Language
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Microsoft Virtual Academy
C# Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners
2016
- Working with code files, projects and solutions (Microsoft Visual Studio)
- Decision statements (if/else and and/or statements and nested if statements)
- Iteration statements, enumerations and the switch decision statements
- Understanding arrays
- Defining and calling methods
- Understanding and working with classes
- Understanding namespaces and working with the .NET Class Library
- Creating and adding references to assemblies
- Working with lists and dictionaries
- Working with LINQ
- Handling errors
C# Programming Language Visual Studio
Finance Business Intelligence Finance at Microsoft
Microsoft Virtual Academy
Reimagine Finance
2015
The course consists of two parts:
Managing Controls and Compliance
- The evolution of Controls & Compliance at Microsoft
- Controls & Compliance tools in action
Finance BI for Sales Organizations
- The evolving role of Finance at Microsoft
- Transformational technology in action
- Understand the (on-premises and cloud) solutions that support this transformation
Finance Controls & Compliance
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Hobbies
Programming
In my spare time I like to develop (small) apps or automate things (e.g. Smart Home).
Cycle Racing
I have a Pinarello Marvel and like to do High Intensity Interval Trainings (HIIT).
Reading
I like to read both thrillers and books about programming and Data Science.
Data Science competitions
Recently I have started to participate in Data Science competitions.