Education
Delft University of Technology.
Delft University of Technology.
He obtained his master of science degree in 1986 in electrical engineering (with honors) at the Delft University of Technology. Since 1991 he worked for Ericsson, first in United States of America between 1991 and 1993 and later, between 1993 and 1997, in Sweden. While working for Ericsson Mobile Terminal Division in Lund, he developed Bluetooth specification.
Later, in 1997 he moved to Ericsson division in Emmen.
Between 1997 and 2008 he was a part-time professor at University of Twente, teaching mobile radio communications systems Currently, he"s a wireless expert at Plantronics.
After a brief period at Siemens in The Hague and Philips in Eindhoven, he continued his studies and in 1990 obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Delft University of Technology (also with honors) defending the thesis titled Programmable surface acoustic wave detection in silicon: design of programmable filters.