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Curriculum Vitae
Written by T. Luijf   

Personal Information:

Family name
 Luijf
First name
Thijs
Date of birth
 20th of October, 1987

Education:

February 2008 - Present

International Business and Management - Bachelor of Business Administration - Hogeschool van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

  • President and Founder of the HES Investment Club.
  • International Financial Management minor during the third year.
  • Financial manager of own student company for the YoungEnterprise project in the foundation year.
  • Business advisor for YoungEnterprise. My responsibilities as a Business advisor for student companies at the HES Amsterdam are to give guidance to first year students in setting up their business.

From January 2010 till May 2010 - Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University in Montréal, Canada

Exchange programme between Hogeschool van Amsterdam and McGill University, courses followed are:

  • Investment Management
  • Capital Markets and Institutions
  • Sales Management
  • Organizational Policy
GPA after 180 ECTS credits: 8.12 out 10 (NL); 4.0 out 4.0 (US).

Propaedeutic certificate received in February 2009 with an average of 7.9 out of 10 with 60 ECTS study credits.
Expected to graduate in December 2011.

September 2006 - December 2007

Interactive Media, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Switched major after interest change, new major commenced in February 2008.

September 2003 - May 2006

Application Developer- Associate's Degree in Information Technology - ROC Flevoland in Almere, the Netherlands.

Specialized in PHP, JAVA, and SQL.
International Internship in Sri Lanka.

Graduated in May 2006.

Extra Curricular

Founder/President - HES Investment Club

With the support of my university, I founded this club to form a group of students interested in investing, like me, to discuss current trends, strategies, and other issues within the group.

Responsibilities:

  • Controlling the self-build Online Trading Competition.
  • Organizing and chairing meetings.
  • Liaise between the University and the Club.
  • Arrange fieldtrips and guest speakers.

Work experience

January 2011 - Present

Intern Finance and IT - Managed Services - Siemens Medical Solutions US, Malvern, PA, USA

Responsible for a selection of ongoing projects, including pricing model development, updating a financial database, storage usage reporting. Furthermore I assist the Managed Services team on an ad-hoc basis where most requests for my assistance are to perform analysis on financial data or IT related analyses.

September 2010 - January 2011

Administrator – Investor Growth Capital Holding, Amsterdam

Carrying out general administrative tasks including, but are not limited to, filing of deal documents and other documents in the appropriate file, ensuring that the database with information of investments is up-to-date, carry out any photocopying and scanning which may be necessary, and assisting the Investment Controllers and Managing Director on own initiative or upon request.

June 2010 - August 2010

Transaction Monitoring Analyst - Group Compliance, CAAML - ABN AMRO Netherlands, Amsterdam

Due to an increase in criminal behaviour (e.g. money laundering, fiscal fraud and terrorism funding) there is an increase in usage of the financial system. The department "Client Acceptance & Anti-Money Laundering" is active in preventing this. As analyst, I was responsible for analyzing incoming and outgoing payments of corporations and individuals. Each client has an own pattern of payments, when the client's behaviour deviates from this pattern it was my responsibility to analyze the reason of the deviation and determine whether it was a legit transaction.

June 2009 - December 2009

Content Editor - Vodafone Netherlands

Maintaining the Vodafone Netherlands webshop by adding new products, updating pages, creating new pages (mainly in HTML). Other tasks included writing descriptions and editing images in Photoshop.

October 2005 -  June 2009

From December 2007 till June 2009 - Assistant Department Manager Software, MediaMarkt Almere B.V.

Ensure staff is aware and motivated to provide an excellent service to customers at all times and in all circumstances. Ensure the shop is merchandised to Company standards in the corporate look to maximize sales. Replacing the Department Manager when absent.

Responsibilities:

  • Ordering
  • Sales
  • Administrative activities
  • Supplier contact

From October 2005 till December 2007 - Sales consultant, MediaMarkt Almere B.V.

Responsible for assisting the sales team to achieve maximum revenue and maximum customer satisfaction.

June 2008 - August 2008

Summer Job - Financial Clerk - Zorggroep Almere

Responsible for providing financial, administrative in order to ensure effective, efficient and accurate financial and administrative operations.

Responsible for reporting on the following concerns:

  • Accounts receivables of rent of working space to health care practitioners.
  • Analyzing the payment behavior of individuals on open invoices from received health care.
  • Controlling the current "General Exceptional Medical Expenses Act"(AWBZ in dutch) accounting.

Additional skills

Highly experienced with Microsoft Windows 2000, Xp, Vista and Windows 7.
Highly experienced with Microsoft Office 2000, Office 2003 and Office 2007.
Practical experience in PHP, SQL, JAVA, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Basic knowledge on SAP.
In possession of Dutch drivers license.

Language skills

Language Listening Reading Speaking
Dutch Native language Native language Native language
English Fluent
 Fluent Fluent 
German Basics Basics 
 Basics
Spanish Basics Basics Basics