Matthijs Wolters studied Econometrics in Groningen PhD in Business Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and was a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. He goes on SciSports to work as intelligence director. In that role, he leads the intelligence department of the company.
Wolters about his job: "My main task and challenge is to explain to the football world what beautiful things you on our" to do intelligence. And invent along with the football world how football expertise and data intelligence can take full advantage of each other. "
Three IT talent
The start-up of Enschede has 46 employees. The appointment of Wolters is the third this year. The company took out a Flemish machine learning expert inside. It concerns the 28-year-old Jan Van Haaren, which focuses on applying artificial intelligence and machine learning. That should generate better insights for professional football clubs.
Then the 27-year-old Jose Fernando Iglesias Garcia was at Google removed. The software engineer must help SciSports with the international breakthrough of James Ball. That is a real-time data machine that automatically generates three-dimensional data from video images of football matches are filmed with its own system of fourteen cameras.
SciSports analyzes and enriches existing international data from more than three hundred thousand players that control and predicted level players include quality, player growth, and potential impact on the team.
At team level it is used to analyze games and competitions and predict. For example, the tool helps in finding talent in a particular region and looking for a player with a player profile as well as an analysis of the opponent.
The company claims several clubs and agents in the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Portugal, Brazil, Germany and Italy among its customer base.
ICT specialists are popular. They are approached almost daily for a (new) function. But how do you find the right ICT job that suits you? For example, as a starter or when you are not happy in your current job? Computable early on his career experts Wijnand Lens and Marie-José Veerhuis.
"In the ICT are many different features that all require a different profile," says Wijnand Lens. He is founder, trainer and consultant at Dolgoz. "Take for example a programmer. He has to be creative and meticulous. An undetected error, can have extremely unpleasant consequences. As a tester you have to be careful and test everything what is asked. Creative are you to think about what can go wrong and not to invent new features. As a designer you have to be right again communicative to identify customer needs and for this to turn into something that can make a programmer. "
(Selfknowledge
How to find the correct ICT function? According Lens you have previously come to know yourself. "You have to know where you have fun, what drives you, how works and how you work. Want to know what kind of person? Then have a color test. This makes clear what is important and what your ideal working world is like. " He therefore believes that young people must first have a clear self-image, for they are anyway going to delve into ICT functions and search for the appropriate study. "Are you prepared this way and you'll have a great chance of success."
Marie-José Veerhuis, business consultant customer engagement and commerce Ctac, agrees with this. She also believes that ICT professionals must remain well informed of all new developments in the market. "The ICT sector is characterized by change. You have to keep learning constantly to add value. This requires a lot of energy, (private) time and above all enthusiasm. "
Skills
Veerhuis advises ICT specialists to assess their knowledge and skills. "Think of problem, define solutions and directions, communication skills, customer and results orientation and persuasion. Through this mapping do, both for yourself as a future employer immediately clear what your added value. After a good self-analysis, it is advisable ICT jobs very carefully analyzed so as to determine what type of organization and role suits you. So you can put a clear focus in the search and career change actually make a success. "
Finally, it is in its important to know how organizations are structured and how business processes relate to one another. "But the challenges organizations face and how do ICT organizations. Then you will be able to recognize opportunities and can support sales colleagues to win new contracts. "
proper function
It may also be that you're unhappy in your current ICT function. "Then it is an advantage that you know the ICT industry," says Lens. "You just got to figure out why you are not happy with this feature. Is that the company you work for? Then the solution is quite simple: go out there. Stay in a place where you're not happy, is for you and the company is not good. Tell your employer that you are not happy in your current job and probably he'd like to help with the next step. It will amaze you! "
"Are you happy with your employer, but not with your position? Then once the conversation with your boss. Sometimes there is a career coach who can help in the exploration of another function. Often, the quickest way to discuss that you are unhappy and you want something different, "Decision Lens.
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