{"id":505,"date":"2017-08-10T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T07:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taraxacum.nl\/wordpress\/?page_id=505"},"modified":"2021-04-09T17:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T15:05:35","slug":"hans-van-loenhoud-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.taraxacum.nl\/wordpress\/en\/who\/hans-van-loenhoud-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans van Loenhoud"},"content":{"rendered":"

After obtaining my masters degree in Biology, I worked as scientific researcher at the Hugo-de-Vries laboratory of the University of Amsterdam. There, I studied the ecology of Dandelions, in Latin called Taraxacum – that’s why… While elaborating my research data, I was caught by the field of automation, as it was called at that time. So, in 1980, I switched to the IT domain.<\/p>\n

\"\"I started my IT career at the Volmac subsidiary G&D Software (which later became part of Sogeti<\/a>) as a COBOL programmer. Over the next decade, I became analyst, designer, project leader and consultant through assignments to development projects at all kinds of clients: banks, insurers, oil, catering, government. Also, I got a function as HR manager.<\/p>\n

Next, I was asked to become Manager Operations at another Volmac subsidiary, Brainforce, which was in a management crisis at that time: a medium sized consultancy firm that specialized in data and information management. When Brainforce was on track again after one year, I combined my management function with external roles as account manager and consultant.<\/p>\n

\"\"In 1992, Brainforce was incorporated in Volmac. I was assigned to the newly formed department of Quality Management, which at that time focused on quality management systems. As a quality manager, I have helped several internal and external organizations to acquire the ISO 9000 certificate. After the merge with Cap Gemini<\/a> I became the internal Quality Manager of the division Public.<\/p>\n

\"\"However, my passion for external services remained. Together with four colleagues, in 1995 I founded INQA<\/a>, primarily focussing on quality management, and soon extended with project management and service management. With the Y2K hype, test management got in sight, a field that highly appealed to me. I have been involved in several substantial test projects. I also got involved in TestNet<\/a>, the Dutch association for software testers, where I fulfilled content and management functions for many years.<\/p>\n

\"\"When the market for quality management decreased after the 2008 crisis, I decided to specialize in software testing. In 2011, I joined Polteq<\/a>, for which I did all kinds of test management and consultancy jobs at a wide range of clients at home and abroad.
\nAlso, I became involved in developing and giving test trainings. In that context, I was asked to develop a training about requirements, as requirements are the basis for all testing. I started studying requirements engineering and discovered a new challenge there through contacts with IREB<\/a>, the International Requirements Engineering Board, where nowadays I am a board member of the Executive Committee.<\/p>\n

\"\"In order to fully focus on requirements engineering, I left Polteq in early 2017. Ever since, I offer services in that field (and adjacent, quality related domains) through Taraxacum: independent, but not alone!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I enjoy sharing my knowledge and experience in the IT field with professionals who need it. That is why I have been teaching with great pleasure at the part-time HBO-ICT course at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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