A short detailed description of my person's life.
As a designer, I’m passionate about solving tough customer problems by combining thoughtful research, clever technology and beautiful design. My passion for graphic design and user experience is reflecting in every delivery, resulting in state-of-the-art projects. Characteristic qualities are precise and focused as well as good communication skills with a can-do mentality.
I have walked a long, creative and intense career path. Let me break it down for you:
Graphic Designer
Since childhood graphic design has been my passion and I successfully completed my MultiMedia and (Bachelor) Graphic Media Degree. I started working as a Graphic Designer. For startups, scale ups, big national companies I created mockups, logo design, corporate identity, brand identity, Stationary... Whatever can be printed I have designed it.
From the early 2000s when the internet bubble bursted, I started designing and building dynamic websites as a Webdesigner. I worked with Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and Actionscript. These were the good old days, Internet Explorer, no mobile website, no responsive websites.
Webdesigner
Front-end Developer
After a few years it was time for the next step. I was looking for bigger challenges and more complexity. For some big consultancy companies I worked as a Front-end Developer. For over 10 years I have been coding in multidisciplinary teams on several international projects and worked with javascript frameworks like AngularJs, Angular2+ and ReactJs.
Finally, i found my passion working as a UX/UI Designer, I’m love solving tough customer problems by thoughtful research and beautiful design. I specialized myself in UX Design and User Design Thinking and I'm responsible for creating digital products that are easy to use and visually appealing. Also i've been working on creating Design Systems.
UX/UI Designer
I create wireframes or prototypes that aim to address those goals. These designs get turned into visual interfaces, sometimes with subtle motion effects, to be prototyped and tested with real people. I ask a lot of questions to understand the problems my clients want to solve and the goals they want to achieve.
I’ve worked for big-name companies, and worked on international projects with multidisciplinary teams in different time-zones. I have gained extensive experience at different organizations within various sectors such as Chemical, (Semi) Government, Education, Energy and Healthcare.
I’m a big sports enthusiast, but soccer is where my heart truly lies. As a proud Rotterdam local, you can definitely call me a die-hard Feyenoord supporter.
I never make decisions on an empty stomach, so good food is essential to me — nothing beats a hearty homemade Surinamese-Javanese meal. That said, I do love to spoil myself with a perfectly grilled T-bone steak now and then. Beyond sports and food, music is another big passion of mine.
My playlists are filled with Old Skool hip-hop, smooth 90s R&B, and of course, the legendary Carl Cox — oh yes, oh yes, oh yes!
I have an inbox zero rule so I’ll see your message for sure and, I’ll reply with at least one smiley. I promise.
