E.V. Zegers BSc
| Emil Valentijn Zegers St. Annastraat 397, 6525ZG Nijmegen, The Netherlands +31 (0)6 19929703 25-11-1971, Dutch citizenship Driving license A and B emil@basaltaura.nl e.zegers@upcmail.nl | Dutch – native speaker English – fluent spoken and written French – moderate spoken, basic written German – moderate spoken, basic written http://nl.linkedin.com/in/emilzegers https://www.basaltaura.nl/ |
| Summary |
| Working fulltime as Senior Sales Engineer in the Solace Benelux team and freelance developing a commercial service to monitor unstructured data with Dataether via Basalt Aura (owner). As a result-oriented and business-focused solution consultant I have a proven track record of initiating, maintaining, and expanding relationships with both technical and commercial counterparts. I’m able to analyse customer needs and translate into solutions that deliver value and demonstrable returns. My customer focus and communication skills allow me to effectively present and sell complex solutions to a wide range of audiences. I have extensive experience in technical software development and integration, multi-tiered architectures and solution design, pre-sales, post-sales, and consultancy jobs. My specialty is to use Data Integration, Digital Transformation, Application Performance Monitoring, SQL/NoSQL, Big Data, Microservices design, Cloud architecture and migration, Enterprise Operational Data Platform, Event-driven Architecture, Multi-purpose databases, Location Intelligence, Information Quality, Business Intelligence, GIS, Training and workshops, Knowledge transfer, Project management and more to deliver customer success. |
| Employment History | |
| April 2023 – Now | Senior Sales Engineer Solace https://solace.com/ Develop long term sustainable relationships with customers, prospects and partners in the Benelux region with customer success as the main driver to create business value for companies on their journey of adopting Event-Driven Architecture in business-critical high-demanding hybrid environments in order to accelerate digital transformation. |
| May 2020 – Now | Self-employed Solutions Architect Dataether https://www.dataether.nl/ & https://www.basaltaura.nl/ At Dataether we are building DataFitness, a full-service cloud solution offering data household services for your files. DataFitness offers intelligent data governance through automated data engagement. Think of it as IQaaS Information Quality as a Service. Development of DataFitness is in start-up phase, initiated by Arnout Arntz and me. |
| Jun 2020 – March 2023 | Senior Solutions Architect MongoDB https://www.mongodb.com/ Responsible for guiding our enterprise customers and users in the Benelux and Nordics region to design and build reliable, scalable systems with the rapidly expanding MongoDB product suite: MongoDB core database server and MongoDB Atlas, the fully managed multi-cloud Developer Data platform. Working on multi-cloud deployments on AWS, Azure and GCP. |
| Sep 2020 – April 2022 | Freelance Senior Solutions Architect Healthplus.ai https://healthplusai.com/ In cooperation with CTO responsible for every technical aspect to productize Periscope and other AI products in the field of artificial intelligence software services in healthcare. Working with EHR data. Setting up structures for development including solution selection and actual implementation both on office equipment and in GCP using Terraform, Docker, SQL Server, Atlassian and more. Implementing information security policies. |
| Sep 2017 – Jun 2020 | Principal Solutions Engineer MarkLogic https://www.marklogic.com/ Presales consultancy and support for the MarkLogic business in the Benelux and Nordics regions. Answering RFI/RFP, solution presentation and demonstrations, hands-on POC setup and execution for enterprise NoSQL projects on Windows, Linux, VMWare, and Docker environments. Data engineering with XML, JSON, binaries, relational data and more using various tools and languages like XQuery, server-side JavaScript, Gradle. Opened new accounts and expanded at existing customers in verticals like Finance, Public, Media and Logistics. |
| Mar 2014 – Aug 2017 | Application Performance Management Consultant, Dynatrace https://www.dynatrace.com/ Pre-Sales consultancy and support for the APM business in the Benelux region. Answering RFI/RFP, solution presentation and demonstrations, hands-on POC setup and execution for APM projects in enterprise environments like Ahold, Rabobank, Ziggo, Vodafone. |
| Oct 2012 – Mar 2014 | Senior Sales Engineer MarkLogic https://www.marklogic.com/ |
| Aug 2012 – Nov 2012 | Senior System Engineer SpeerIT https://www.speerit.nl/ |
| Jun 2008 – Aug 2012 | Pre-sales consultant/Senior Systems Engineer MapInfo Pitney Bowes Software https://www.precisely.com/products/locate |
| Oct 2007 – May 2008 | Software Engineer GX https://www.gxsoftware.com/ |
| Jan 2005 – Sep 2007 | Software Developer Knowmax https://knowmax.nl/ |
| Sep 2002 – Dec 2004 | Internet GIS specialist Syncera De Straat MilieuAdviseurs https://www.roxit.nl/ |
| Jan 2001 – Aug 2002 | Technical Specialist Internet Implementations Services Esri Nederland https://www.esri.nl/ |
| Oct 1997 – Dec 2000 | GIS Specialist Bureau Kartografie & GIS Provincie Zuid-Holland https://www.zuid-holland.nl/ |
| Volunteer History | |
| Sep 2017 – Now | Technical Consultant focusing on data platform and geospatial topics https://www.sensingclues.nl/ Helping Sensing Clues team with geospatial topics and further development of the data platform. |
| Aug 2015 – Now | Volunteer at Nijmeegsche Mixed Hockeyclub “Nijmegen” https://nmhc.nl/ Team manager, trainer/coach, coordinator/chair ‘youngest youth’ commission, IT. |
| Education |
| BSc Thesis “Mabuhay GIS in Negros” A pilot study on Land Use and Natural Resources Inventory with the aid of Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing Techniques to develop a Land Management Database for Community Based Land Use Planning in the SIAD-Negros project area, 1997. (NCPD/SNV/IAHL, Bacolod, Negros, The Philippines) International Land and Water Management, Larenstein International Agricultural College, Velp |
| Propedeuse Tropical Land Use, Wageningen University, Wageningen |
| VWO, Kruisheren Kollege, Uden |
| Professional qualifications | |
| 2022-2011 | |
| 2010-1999 | |