The links next to this page present an overview of my base education and of the ICT related courses and workshops I followed.

Most of the courses were closely related to my daily activities.

Before starting my working life, my education consists of:

• 1973-1978: HAVO (diploma in 1978)
• 1978-1983: HTS Civil Engineering (diploma in 1983)

During my ICT career, I joined the following courses, most of them directly related to my day-to-day activities:

• 2008: WebSphere Application Server Administration, WebSphere Portal Server Administration, Tivoli Access Manager
• 2006: WebSphere MQ Security (SSL)
• 2003: WebSphere MQ Application Development; became WebSphere MQ Certified Solution Expert
• 2001: WebSphere Message Broker Administration (MQSI)
• 2000: became WebSphere MQ Certified Specialist
• 1999: WebSphere MQ Administration, WebSphere MQ Administration Advanced
• 1998: Workshop “SmallTalk VisualWorks” (SOOPS)
• 1996: C-programming, Unix shell-scripting (ATI)
• 1991: VAX/VMS environment: RDBMS, LSE, DCL, ACMS
• 1988: CSP (IBM), SQL/DB2, DB2/QMF
• 1987: Technical Design (Yourdon)
• 1986-1993: Ambi modules:
  T1, I1, B1 (basic knowledge procedural languages, ICT, data management)
  HE2 (organization)
  HS2, HS7 (system development)
  HP6 (data communication and networks)
• 1985: IMS DB/DC
• 1984: Structured programming in COBOL

Although technical development was more important for me, I followed some organizational courses. Most of them were tool related ITIL-courses.

Two others were EDS internal project management courses:

• 1998: Project management (execution & close down)
• 1997: Project management (startup & planning)