{"id":17032,"date":"2022-06-30T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/?p=17032"},"modified":"2023-03-07T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T09:25:01","slug":"hendrika-willemse-vreugdenhil-helps-women-to-advance-in-the-male-world-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/hendrika-willemse-vreugdenhil-helps-women-to-advance-in-the-male-world-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendrika Willemse-Vreugdenhil helps women to advance in the ‘male world’ of IT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hendrika Vreugdenhil
Genealogiecode: J X c.2.2
Door: Jeroen Bordewijk en
Witold Kepinski
Bron: Dutchchannel.nl
Foto: Hendrika Vreugdenhil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ambitious women who excel in the ‘male world’ of IT, that’s the focus of ‘She in IT’. Initiator Hendrika Willemse-Vreugdenhil wanted to do what she enjoyed the most after a career with Detron, VMware, and Nutanix: \u201cWomen sometimes have problems profiling themselves. I want to help them, especially now that more and more technological companies recognize the importance of diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n

A world of men
\nAnders Contrary to many other women Hendrika Willemse-Vreugdenhil already knew from a young age that she wanted to work in IT. \u201cI did a level 4 Associate’s Degree in IT (MBO-IT) and continued with a parttime BA in Commercial Economics,\u201d she says. \u201cMy brother (18 years older than me) worked in IT and it really interested me. But while studying I was one of only three girls there. After my studies I started working for my brother’s company: eXpertise-IT. Together we turned it into a million dollar company. After my brother passed away I led eXpertise-IT on my own for a few more years, until I sold it to George Banken who, in turn, incorporated it into Kender Thijssen. I came along as part of the deal and, as a 27-year-old, I landed a management job within the leading IT and telecom company, being the only woman on the team. I headed a team of 60 people with full responsibility.\u201d Willemse-Vreugdenhil learned a lot with Detron, like she did with VMware, where she headed large international transformation projects for ING and RBS. \u201cBut something kept bothering me, like an itch. I wanted to be an entrepreneur again, like with eXpertise-IT. I didn’t fit into the system. I was stubborn, wanted to do things differently, better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Discipline
\nIn addition to that, Willemse-Vreugdenhil, who’s also a triple karate world champion, loves to coach. \u201cI’ve trained my own karate team, which gives you loads of experience with so-called ‘high performance coaching’.\u201d Not that Willemse-Vreugdenhil wants to send every woman with IT aspirations on karate training, but her story is inspiring. \u201cI completely failed my Cito exam*, no college prep program wanted to accept me. After that I got bullied at MAVO (high school level between college prep programs and general educational development programs) I started doing karate. The sport changed my view of life. Karate taught me to focus, be disciplined, and have perseverance, exactly what
\nyou need to make a difference in the male dominated world of IT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ambitious women who excel in the ‘male world’ of IT, that’s the focus of ‘She in IT’. Initiator Hendrika Willemse-Vreugdenhil wanted to do what she enjoyed the most after a career with Detron, VMware, and Nutanix: \u201cWomen sometimes have problems profiling themselves. I want to help them, especially now that Read more…Hendrika Willemse-Vreugdenhil helps women to advance in the ‘male world’ of IT<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[539,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-branch-j","category-berichten-en"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hendrika-Willemse-Vreugdenhil-04.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc5Z2Q-4qI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17032"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17232,"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032\/revisions\/17232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vreugdenhil-online.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}