Jurgen Appelo

Current

Business Unit Manager at Sociotoco
CIO at ISM eCompany

Past

.NET Software Architect at Ordina
Senior Development Manager at eVentures
Owner at Millidian

Technical Director at Broekhuis Solutions
Freelance Teacher/Courseware Developer at Broekhuis Training

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Education

Technische Universiteit Delft
De Ark

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Jurgen Appelo’s Summary

Jurgen is a writer, speaker, developer, entrepreneur, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… Dutch guy.

After studying Software Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and earning his Master’s degree in 1994, Jurgen Appelo has busied himself starting up and leading a variety of Dutch businesses, always in the position of team leader, manager or executive.

Jurgen’s current occupation is Business Unit Manager at Sociotoco, and Chief Information Officer at ISM eCompany. With 200 employees it is one of the leading e-commerce solution providers in The Netherlands. As a manager, Jurgen has experience in leading a horde of 100 software developers, development managers, project managers, business consultants, quality managers, service managers and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally.

At this time Jurgen has his full focus on the development of a new business unit within the mother company, which deals exclusively with social media and social CRM. His current responsibilities make him an entrepreneur-within-a-company, with a small but dedicated team of professional software developers.

Jurgen is a speaker, being regularly invited to talk at seminars and conferences about agile software development, project management, process improvement, and development management.

However, sometimes he puts all writing, speaking and managing aside to do some intensive programming himself, or to spend time on his ever-growing collection of science fiction and fantasy literature, which he stacks in a self-designed book case, which is 4 meters high.

Jurgen Appelo’s Specialties:

Jurgen is primarily interested in software engineering, quality improvement and complexity theory, from a manager’s perspective. As a writer he has published a number of papers and articles in several magazines, including Dr. Dobb's, Software Quality Professional, Methods & Tools, The Software Practitioner, StickyMinds, Software Development Network, Computable and Automatisering Gids.

Jurgen Appelo’s Experience

Business Unit Manager

Sociotoco

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)
CIO

ISM eCompany

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2003 — Present (6 years 1 month)
.NET Software Architect

Ordina

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ORD; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Senior Development Manager

eVentures

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2001 — August 2002 (1 year )
Owner

Millidian

(Information Services industry)

August 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 1 month)
Technical Director

Broekhuis Solutions

(Information Services industry)

August 1997 — August 1999 (2 years 1 month)
Freelance Teacher/Courseware Developer

Broekhuis Training

(Information Services industry)

February 1994 — August 1997 (3 years 7 months)