I was born and raised in the Netherlands.  I obtained a B.S. in Nursing in the Netherlands following attending three years of business school.  For the first thirteen years of my professional career, I was a Medical Technician in Acute Cardiac Care in the Netherlands with a focus on installing pacemakers and inserting catheters, which enabled me to develop my technical skills. In addition to my work in the hospital, I was a Swimming instructor for many years teaching people of all ages (5+,14+ and 50+).

After moving to San Francisco in 2005, I began working on a certificate in Web Design and Programming at City College in San Francisco. While attending school I immediately started working independently for non-profits to gain more experience. In January of 2008 I started as a QA Engineer in a team of two at a software development startup where I have been able to execute all of the assets of the QA process. I thrive in a dynamic environment as well as an established one. I have worked for a startup of 20 and have experience in a company of a 1000 employees.
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I am good with multiple programs and computer languages, and I have the aptitude
and willingness to learn anything new that might be needed for your project.

As medical technician I also did initial tech support on our outpatient cardiac ward and cardiac cath.Lab (OR).
I always have had an passion for technology, design/art and photography.

I’ve been working with Photoshop since 1995 starting with PhotoShop 3.0
and now using CS5.
All the other programs came after that.
In the last several years I've adapted myself in using programs like Dreamweaver, flash and FinalCut.
I'm very comfortable with HTML code and can easily maneuver through a UNIX environment.
I can create custom online forms in PHP and Perl.

If you would like to know more information about this or you would like me to use a specific program, you can contact me though the information on my contact page or you can just send me an e-mail.