From March 2025
Program manager and strategic advisor at Faculty Board, Faculty of Education, Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)
October 2013 - February 2025
Head of the Department of Language Teacher Education at Faculty Board, Faculty of Education, Hogeschool van Amsterdam (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)
March 2007 - September 2013
Educational project manager at the Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), Leiden University
March 2007 - now
Coordinator of the National Centre for Modern Languages (Expertisecentrum moderne vreemde talen)
1996 - 2009
Consultant and project manager for ICT in education and language teaching, Faculty of Arts, Leiden University. Some relevant projects:
- Leiden University coordinator for the web-based language learning application Ellips (a Dutch collaborative cross-university project, started in 2003)
- deputy coordinator of the Intuit project (2006-2008), aimed at integrating ICT in the teaching of English in higher education
- coordinator of the Faculty application for digital images Digibeeld
- European projects: LANQUA (2007-2010; deputy coordinator of the subgroup on language learning). Member of the European Language Council Thematic Network Project II (2000-2003) and Thematic Network Project III (2003-2006)
1997 – 2007
Freelance consultant, project manager and teacher trainer in the field of ICT in language teaching, among others for
- the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (Lingua IMICTLL project, Comenius ECNTLT project, development of a postgraduate diploma course about Internet in language teaching)
- the Dutch National Bureau on Modern Languages (NaB-MVT); among others, coordinator of the TalenQuest consortium (TalenQuests are WebQuests specifically meant for foreign language learning).
- the Amsterdam Maastricht Summer University (AMSU), for the AMSU summer courses
- the Taalunie (2005, training course in Jakarta about ICT in language teaching for teachers of Dutch as foreign language)
- CINOP (2005-2006, development and tutoring of an e-learning course for the language team)
1989 – 1999
Coordinator editorial work for a databank of the Italian language and of a bilingual dictionary Italian-Dutch/Dutch-Italian (a computer-based lexicographic project of the Italian Department at the University of Amsterdam, in cooperation with Van Dale)
1989 – 1997
Teacher of Italian as foreign language and language material developer for different institutions, among which the Faculty of Arts at Leiden University (1994-1995), the University of Amsterdam (1994-1995), the secondary school Keizer Karel College in Amstelveen (1994), the Gymnasium Felisenum in Velzen (1995), the school for translators and interpreters SOMA in Utrecht (1991-1997), the Dante Alighieri association (1989-1993) and the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam (1993), TELEAC (co-developer of the language course Giro d’Italia, 1998-1999).
1988 – 2007
Free lance translator Dutch-Italian and English-Italian
1988 – 1989
Researcher in the field of ancient Greek at the Department of Classics, University of Amsterdam, with a grant of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1988
Editor at publishing house Loescher (Torino), for a new edition of the Italian monolingual dictionary “Palazzi”.
1988
Teacher of Latin, Italian and Greek at different secondary schools, Torino.