Does your company run on spreadsheets, retyping and "only Henk knows that"?Then I'll build an app for it. Custom-made.Does it work at half past four on a Friday afternoon? Then it's finished.I know how organisations really tick.Listen first, build later? Revolutionary, I know.Midrange, interfaces, EDI links, data migrations. Yes, I get them.I've rolled out worldwide. Your company will be fine too.That one spreadsheet the whole company depends on? Let's rescue it before Henk retires.Did the IT manager run away screaming? Don't panic: as an interim I'll bring calm and order back.Helicopter view? Fine. Then somebody lands and does the work. That's me.IT professional, 30+ years at international companies.No airs and graces, just results.A manual for the app? Optional. If all goes well, you'll get it right away.A meeting about the meeting about the planning? I'd rather just deliver a working app.A quick offline brainstorm? I'd rather be online, and done.That integration that's been 'temporary' since 2009? Happy to take a look. With coffee.Already tried three IT professionals? Then you've finally landed in the right place.I'm a people person: technology isn't done until people can work with it.Support that puts out fires every day? As an interim I'll put a process under it. The fire brigade can go home.Stress-proof: the harder it storms, the calmer I get.Got bandwidth? I mostly have results.It can be done in three sprints. It can also just be done.From AS/400 to Salesforce: I speak old and new.No synergy, no stakeholder alignment. Just an app that works.First get everyone pointing the same way, then embed, then roll out. I skip the talk and deliver.Has your migration project been "almost done" for months? As an interim I'll push it over the line.App Store? Fine, not required. Outside the App Store works too.Need an interim with 30+ years of experience and a nose for trouble? You're in the right place.Excel is not a database. I say it with love.Under pressure I work calmly. When it storms, I make coffee.We shouldn't reinvent the wheel. I'll just build it into an app.An inbox where everything ends up? Double administration?My 'quick win' takes a little longer than fifteen minutes. But it does work.Agile transformation? I do delivering.Down to earth: no jargon, no PowerPoint circus, just do what works.Mac, iPhone, iPad or all three? All possible.People manager: I lead teams with attention, not with a stopwatch.Three weeks and forty pages of quotation for a form? With me, you get the form first.'final_v7_REALLY_final.xlsx' is not version control.Circle back, low-hanging fruit, quick win and deep dive? Or may I just build?I'm available from 1 December 2026.

Blog

This is where my articles, observations and other things I occasionally feel like sharing will appear.

How a fox keeps an eye on my servers New

20 October 2026

Managing four websites by hand works fine, until you do it for three weeks. So I built Foxhold, a dashboard with one big button, traffic lights and a warden that beeps when a mail is missing. About what it does, what went wrong and what I learned from it.

We're live! Foxifier is in the Mac App Store

14 October 2026

We did it: Foxifier is in the Mac App Store. A mail notifier with a little fox, started as a joke and grown into a learning journey in building software and in the whole process on Apple's side. About what it is, what could go wrong and why it was worth the effort. And meanwhile Declaruur is on its way.

From Nieuwveen: the foundation is in (and so am I)

11 October 2026

At the end of November I wrap up my time as a Salesforce technical architect. What will I do after that? Build Apple software, starting with Declaruur, an app that lets freelancers keep track of their hours. The foundation is in, the roof isn't on yet and the window frames are still in the van. A look inside the app, what still needs to happen and what you can hire me for.

👷🏻‍♂️ Work in progress

8 September 2026

Building your own website looks easy: a bit of HTML, a little CSS, a pinch of Jekyll and done. Until one weekday evening you are seriously wondering about 1.35 or 1.4 rem, a little fox turns out to have become an official signature element, and PageSpeed with four hundreds looks over your shoulder like a strict schoolmaster. This test blog therefore has an important job: proving that everything keeps working while things are being built, tested, backed up, dry-run and deployed behind the scenes. And if this text is still online in ten years, we will simply declare it digital heritage.