After a carreer of 14 years at PTT (later to become KPN) in various functions in (digital) transmission I joined Philips in 1986 to work with the Corporate Communications Group in the field value added services (Telex and subsequently E-mail). This Group merged with Philips Communications and Processing, which later formed a part of Origin. In Origin I changed my area of interest to Telephony in 1992. I worked for Origin from the beginning of the nineties upto 1998. In that year I rejoined Philips to work for Corporate IT in the field of VoIP and IP-Telephony. In 2005 I went in pension. In 2013 I rejoined Philips to work as volunteer guide at the Philips Museum in Eindhoven. Hobby: local history. Remark: From 1989 to 1998 I put a lot of effort in the workerscouncil of Origin.