I started my career in a support job with KPN, the Dutch phone company, in 1992. After that I decided to go to college but in 1995 I ended up in the budding internet service provider business. In 1997 I started my own ISP/consulting business with four others. I was contracted out to UUNET Netherlands as a Senior Netowrk Engineer for a while, and in 2000 I started a new business on my own. In 2001 I became involved with the Internet Engineering Task Force, mostly the multihoming in IPv6 working group (multi6), which has been superseded by the shim6 working group.