As a child I loved the craft club, but was also curious, in languages and in technology. Very motivated to read jar labels at breakfast, I could read before starting school. After high school, I chose Chemical Engineering, which combines all great fields of science: mathematics, physics and chemistry. I wanted to understand the immense universe and the incomprehensible small particles on Earth. How is it possible that the moon, the ocean and barbecue smoke are all made up out of the same building blocks!

Learning languages was a constant interest, such as during my study at the Delft University of Technology, I learned Italian as a welcome variation on topics like Physical Transport Phenomena, with the bonus of doing practical internship in Italy. Also for holidays, I would study a bit beforehand, such as Swahili for a camping safari in Tanzania and Farsi before Iran.

Photography I started around 12 years, developing my own black&whites, has expanded to a continued interest especially when traveling and even selling my best photos on Stock websites. Later I added painting and drawing which is recently rekindled, both on paper and digitally by learning Indesign.

Literally I stepped out of my comfort zone on stage in cabaret, mime and improvisation. Highlights are short feature films such as “Een Haagse Erfenis” which we made from scratch to premiere with a group of friends and shorter projects such as Pleasuresealand.

Also in geographic sense I like to cross borders to visite interesting, both on holiday and sabbatical trips as well as during working visits as an inspector for OPCW.

Also in geographic sense I like to cross borders to visite interesting, both on holiday and sabbatical trips as well as during working visits as an inspector for OPCW.
Between traveling I was introduced to the powerful software program Articulate Studio to create elearning with graphical interactions. This appealed to me so much that I started making modules for my colleague inspectors. Our military manuals for using chemical detectors were so montonous and boring that it motivated me to make learning more fun. ELearning is an ideal medium and platform to demonstrate technical procedures and complicated devices with photos and videos.

Creating such interactive training combines beloved topics as technology, photography, writing and helping to explain. That is why I started my enterprise Spice up Learning with 22 years of various employment experience in my backpack.

My mission is to make learning more fun! If your instruction materials can use a SPICE UP, let me add some peppers and safeguard your expertise in a durable form, while achieving higher knowledge retention for your customers.