He has extensive experience in solving IT challenges for Dutch local government and large community colleges. He also leads an effort to create building blocks and reference designs to increase adoption of virtualization and cloud efforts for SMB-sized customers. To record and share his personal experiences with the VMware stack, he started his blog VirtualLifestyle.nl in 2008 and began using Twitter. He is a VMware vExpert 2009, 2011 and 2012 for his continued efforts in the community and is a member of the Dutch VMUG Customer Council.