About me...

While I was in high school, in my mother country the Netherlands, I chose to attend the University of Technology in Delft, to study architecture/building engineering. During my years at that university, I realized that I did not want to work as an architect. I did graduate, had several temp jobs to figure out what interested me, went to school at night to get a diploma in accounting, and then found my dream jobs in property management. I took a break from my career to move to California with my husband, Juul, who had the opportunity to work in Silicon Valley as software engineer for -what we thought to be- three to four years. I arrived seven months pregnant, our daughter was born here in the USA, followed by our son three years later. We never moved back to the Netherlands because we fell in love with the space and beautiful nature that this country offers.

For more than twenty years we have lived in the Bay Area. In 2017 we were fortunate being able to move to Marina. We love living at the coast!

As a 19-year-old architecture student, I spent a summer working at a building site in Sweden, where timber frame homes were constructed, unlike the brick/concrete that's used in the Netherlands. I love seeing and hearing home construction here at the Dunes, and at Sea Haven, where I've worked the last three years as Community Association on-site manager.