II am half Dutch and half Norwegian and grew up speaking English. I currently live in Oslo, Norway. In addition to 2-and 3D, I love to cook, pets, reading, photography and gaming. I am an ex horsey girl who wants to get back into the saddle.

I am a nerd; I game, do simple coding of my own, have a few obscure hobbies, and love the escape and sometimes mental challenges good scifi and fantasy bring. Like most other people, I love music and listen to anything from pre-Renaissance to Black Flag to Imagine Dragons. Or white noise when I need to focus in a noisy environment. Oh, and tea. As long as I have a cup of good tea, I can go on forever!

I 'm passionate about what I do, be it my renders, writing or software projects. Sometimes a little too much. Sometimes I pull too many hours and fret too much, but I believe that you do need that spark, that something that fuels and drives you to do a good job

I also think that when that spark, that passion leaves or fades, it's time to say goodbye if you can. Otherwise, it just turns into a demotivating grind.

This is why I believe in being open and honest. It's so easy to deceive people, or try to make issues go away by ignoring them.

Part of passion in a team also means you care about and how you treat other people. Passion is defined as a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something - as long as people have that in your crew, you should do your best to maintain it within yourself and them. My experience is that it will make performance soar. 

I have been an enthusiastic workplace juggler ever since I attended Westerdal's School of Communication. Or, to be precise, dropped out just before my final exam sometime last century. Somewhere along the way, I became what one of my AMD bosses call their human Swiss Army knife; I am a mix of startup enthusiast, hired tech-industry-gun, as well as a vertex and pixel-slinging writer and render jockey. I mostly blame this on Westerdals. They introduced me to the lifelong love affair I have with computer technology. Their Macs opened entirely new doors and universes for me. This is how and why I jumped ship into a world of better money and worse hours by rebooting my career into IT, starting out as a SysAdmin - with Novell and Windows certifications from the dark ages.

I moved up and along into software development as a tester/test manager. I took my first Project Management class in '98 as the junior in the classroom.
I have since taken courses and certifications in anything from Public Acquisitions to a starter in Escenic, am a SCRUM-mistress, and recently worked towards a bachelor's in Project Management from BI – The Norwegian School of Business. 

I've started some generic Product Management classes via a bundle at Entrepreneur.com and recently started updating my CG skills - all the test rendering made me a little rusty, so I am updating my Zbrush and Max skills with some Udemy and ArtStation classes. Hopefully, I will finish my Prince2 Foundation and Practitioner certification run winter 21/22. I should say I am working towards a PMP, but I am not really motivated to do CV fodder like this; I've seen so many paper PMPs, I lost faith in the certification.