CV

Personal information

Born July 19, 1970 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Married, three children

Lives in Bemmel, Gelderland, the Netherlands


My education

1982-1988: VWO (Athenaeum B), Hertog Jancollege, Valkenswaard.

1988-1993: MA English Language and Literature, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; specialised in Syntax en Semantics (theoretical linguistics); judicium: Cum Laude.

1993-1994: MA Linguistics (mostly applied linguistics), University of Wales, Bangor (funded by the Harting Scholarship scheme).

1998-2003: Part-time PhD project, University of Tilburg, later relocated at Radboud University. Field: Computer Science. PhD defence on Dec 10, 2003, Promotors prof. dr. Erik Proper and prof. dr. Mike Papazoglou, co-promotor dr. Hans Weigand. Thesis: Freezing Language: Conceptualisation Processes across ICT-Supported Organisations.

 

Employment record

1994-1996: Freelance “Specialized Reader” for the Oxford English Dictionary (historical lexicography).

1995-1998: Researcher at CentER Applied Research, institute for applied economic research at Tilburg University. Two projects: Grammalizer and TREVI (see “projects”)

1998-2000: Research consultant at the Ordina Institute for Research and Innovation (ICT industry), combined with PhD project (then at Tilburg University). Included coordination and teaching of several professional courses.

2000-2005: Lecturer and researcher at Radboud University, Information Retrieval and Information Systems dept. of iCIS; intensive involvement in initial organization of the Information (Informatiekunde) curriculum; teaching. Also, member of the ArchiMate team that conceived and implemented the ArchiMate Language for Enterprise Modelling (now a worldwide Open Group standard), resulting in a successful Springer Verlag book. Continuation of PhD project, resulting in successful defence of thesis in December 2003.

2005-current: Assistant Professor, iCIS (Radboud University), consecutively: Model-Based System Development dept. , Software Science dept., currently Data Science dept. (one day a week as of August 15, 2012).

2012-current: Lector (Professor of Applied Sciences), Model-Based Information Systems research group, School of IT and Mediadesign, HAN University of Applied Sciences (four days a week as of August 15, 2012).

Research 

Publications

130+ publications (peer reviewed); Hirsch-index 27 based on publications known to Google Scholar. See here for the complete list. 11 highlights:

Major projects (applied research; selection)

After 2018, I've been less personally involved in project work & project management; for a selection of recent projects in my research group, see here.

Further research activities:

Co-promotor of:

PhD manuscript committee: 

PhD promotion committee:


Work in Education 

Supervision of 80+ master’s theses and 20+ bachelor's theses at Radboud University (as primary supervisor), mostly in the Master Information Science.

Member of the national Graduate Committee of the Pilot Professional Doctorate for the domein 'Technology & Digitalization': central coordination and quality committee, evaluation and admission of PD candidates/proposals. Special task: organising the national Graduate Network for the domain.

Received a BKO (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs - Basic Qualification for Education) certificate from Radboud University, portfolio-based, in 2011.

Professional education courses presently taught:

Academic courses presently taught:

Past, professional education:

Past, academic education:

Professional courses taught:

Academic Teaching Qualification (BKO): received certificate of Radboud University in Januari 2012 after a one year evaluation track centring on the writing and gathering of an educational portfolio concerning my nineteen years of academic teaching experience at that point.

Numerous Public Relations activities at Radboud, structurally including 4VWO dagen, plenary presentations at Bachelor Voorlichting, HBO voorlichting, campusdagen, Pre University College lessons and masterclasses at secondary schools in the region, proefstuderen, 'Nijmeegse Tweedaagse'; also PR activities for the Master of Information System Design at HAN (2012).

Past curriculum design: part of the team designing the original Informatiekunde (information sciences) curriculum, in effect 2003-2012. To this day: regular close cooperation with educational coordinators concerning vision, design and operationalisation of the curriculum taught.

Intensive involvement in the curriculum and organisation of the Master of Information Systems Design (MISD), HAN University of Applies Sciences, 2012-2013.

Participation in a number of visitations/assessments of Master programmes in higher education, including all external assessments of Information Science at Radboud University (as a participant, and as a member of the ‘proef-visitatie’ committee in 2017)


Valorisation (consultancy and work with industry; selection)

2019 Two-day workshop 'Business-IT Integration and BPM' at Luminor Bank, Riga, Latvia 

2017-2018 Hydra: Canonical Data Model. Facilitation, contracted advice and consultancy concerning the enterprise-wide creation of a core set of data concepts as the basis of the HAN Data Governance effort.

2015 Member of the two-person 'Assessment Committee of the Caesar Programme', together with Denis Hageman, assigned by the Director of the Statistics Division of De Nederlandsche Bank (Dutch National Bank), concerning the assessment of a five-year programme at DNB to introduce and implement a data-driven way of working, including IT, architectural, data management and organisational aspects. The final report directly addressed the Board of DNB.

2014 Design, facilitation and organisation of a series of 9 scenario-oriented strategic workshops involving key employees at HAN, gathering input for the HAN IT Strategy 2015-2020.

2007: Research consultancy at Everest B.V., den Bosch (one day a week, contracted).

2006-2007 Member of the Business Rules focal group of the Dutch National Architecture Forum.

2008-2009: Member of the Simulation and Gaming focal group of the Dutch National Architecture Forum.

2007 Co-translator to Dutch of the internationally influential Business Rules Manifesto, and of the RuleSpeak method for structured verbalization of business rules (with Silvie Spreeuwenberg of LibRT B.V.).


Management experience 

Head of the Data & Knowledge Engineering research group ("lectoraat") at HAN UAS, Faculty of Engineering; 2012-present. Formerly named 'Model-Based Information Systems', 2012-2022.

Head (primus inter pares, formal responsibility) of the HAN Center IT+Media, the 3 joint research groups of the Informatica Communicatie Academie (HAN UAS), 2015-2020. 

Core member of the advisory board of the focal area 'SLIM' at HAN UAS

Management work for iCIS (until 2012): PhD Coordinator of iCIS (involving a group of around 50 PhD students). Official task description:

2001-2002: member of the OC Informatica en Informatiekunde (education quality committee). 


Awards

Harting Scholarship (English Language and Literature), 1993-1994

Book of the Year award from the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (IIAS), 2004. For PhD thesis “Freezing Language, Conceptualisation Processes across ICT-Supported Organisations”

NAF Architecture Award 2008 (Netherlands Architecture Forum) for the ArchiMate team, of which I was a core member

Global Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow, Silver Medal for Europe, 2009. For article: “A BPM Tale from the Financial Crisis Front Lines” (with Eric D. Schabell)

Best paper award at the 5th IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM 2012, Rostock, Germany, Nov 2012) for the paper "Challenges of Identifying Communities with Shared Semantics in Enterprise Modeling", by Dirk van der Linden and Stijn Hoppenbrouwers.