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Martien van Steenbergen, a.k.a. The Rock—Résumé

Ambition and drive

My primary ambition is to lead, facilitate, develop and evolve individuals in balance with managing the processes to meet and exceed the business goals in a chaordic and inspirational environment. My main drive is to create an environment that gets the best out of people around me, to appeal to their intrinsic motivators so that the teams go the extra mile with a smile and compassion. I am there for them, not the other way around. Spotting, developing, growing and harvesting fertile growth opportunities, both in humans and in business, thrills me. You will always find me networking as a professional ambassador, aligned with the corporate vision, mission and values, and a clear focus on measurable bottom-line results. The value of a network grows exponentially with the number of links. Relationships are the currency of the networked economy, creating tomorrow's wealth.

Organizational wholeness

I add the most value in an environment where I am valued more for my creativeness, non-conformistic thinking, vision and leadership talents. My ambition is to excel in a leadership role, using leading edge and extreme quality people, blending my architectural and organizational talents into creating and growing multi-disciplinary teams of excellence that in some way help make the world a better place by using state-of-the-art resources. I thrive in flat, networked organizations. I like working with people, help find and cultivate their talents, and always strive to make the total much greater than the sum of the parts. Wholeness.

Inspiring & energizing

I get my energy from working in a state of flow with sharp and focused teams. I invoke energy in my role as Wise Fool. I get my inspiration and passion from people like Christopher Alexander, Tim Berners-Lee, Jesus Christ, Arnold Cornelis, Stephen Covey, Bill Gates, James Gosling, Steve Jobs, Bill Joy, Stewart Kauffman, Kevin Kelly, Steve Krug, Dalai Lama, Scott McNealy, Geoffry Moore, Jakob Nielsen, Donald Norman, Alvin Toffler, Bruce Tognazzini, and Kees van Zijtveld. Their collective intellect help me see at least two years ahead of the curve.

Don't just take my word for it

Others see me as fresh, lively, charming, passionate, amusing, practical and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to my head. They also see me as open, integer, loyal, committed, dedicated, kind, considerate, and understanding; as someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out. People often say they have new energy after meetings with me. And last but not least, they see me as someone with vision, with a clear picture of the techno-social future.

Employment

Leadership Skills

• Initiating, co-founding and leading AardWorks, a small swarm of experts in Agile Development and extreme Programming to develop an advanced pure peer-to-peer client application that connects people's passion for historic information. This project was awarded by DVG (Digitaal Genootschap van het Verleden) in the context of the Electronic Highway program from the Ministerie van Economische Zaken.
• Leading Aduna, an advanced semantic web technology company, by creating, executing and embedding the vision and strategy. Turning Aduna around from an inwardly-focused, technical-oriented group of people to a professional, externally and client-focused 10-person team in one year. Defining and executing the business plan, moving from investment mode to profitability, projecting €20M+ upside potential revenue in two years. Setting up a comfortable and predictable quarterly product release cycle. Boosting market awareness while realizing the ingredients for a solid brand, a brand with an attitude (2003);
• Starting up, leading and managing the Dutch Sun Java Center from scratch, and profitably, for three consecutive years by recruiting 11 best-of-breed senior Java Architects and Consultants (1999-2002); responsible for €1.2M+ revenue, spendings, utilization (non-idle time), profit, margin, as well as personal and professional development of a team of consultants; member of both local Dutch and international corporate management team; quarterly worldwide management team meetings; teaming up with sales organization;
• Leading and managing both the Sun Java Center and the Internet Service Provider team (20 senior technical consultants) at Sun Professional Services (2000-2002);
• Organizing, hosting, moderating and chairing many large scale (audience >100) events, seminars and conferences (various Java conferences, Idea Machine (Evoluon), JavaONE customer trips, Aduna launch event);

Professional Skills

• Good facilitating and hosting skills;
• Creative, strategic, and pragmatic;
• Creating business plans and executing them accordingly (responsibilities include profit & loss, headcount management, revenue, margin, contribution, management reporting);
• Extreme focus on clients (focusing on their numbers, rather than mine);
• Excellent presentation and communication skills (thousands of presentations for tens of thousands of people);
• Good writing skills (English, Dutch);
• Active listener, seeking first to understand, then to be understood;
• Deep understanding of technology and its strategic impact;

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