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Tom de Bruin · Castricum aan Zee Systems Engineering · Strategy · Innovation

Translating complexity into clarity.

Consultant at Dutch Boosting Group. Currently working with Stedin, Rijkswaterstaat, Schiphol and Gemeente Dronten — moving between Systems Engineering, strategy and innovation. TU Delft MSc CoSEM.

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— short version

I get energy from creating, collaborating, and turning complex problems into clear, workable steps.

My week runs across grid operators, national infrastructure, municipal mobility and aviation asset management. The brief is usually fuzzy and the stakeholders are many. I'm useful when the room needs a through-line, a shared map, and a credible next step before Friday.

Before consulting I spent seven years running surf camps and teaching surf on the North Holland coast — which still informs how I read a group, hold responsibility while conditions shift, and keep things moving.

Three places to start.

pick one →

Wetsuits drying on a street barrier under coastal sun.
I.
the work
What I actually do

Current mandates, prior roles, how I run a project, and where the operating instinct comes from.

Looking up at an old glass atrium.
II.
ambitions
Where I want to go

The kind of work, people and environments I'm actively looking for over the next few years.

Tom riding a clean wave.
III.
personality & passions
What sits underneath

Surf, wind, mountains, music, gear, travel. The rest of how I actually move through the world.

— right now

Stedin, Rijkswaterstaat, Schiphol, Gemeente Dronten.

On a normal week I'm somewhere between a requirements review at Stedin, a contract management session for the A15, a participation workshop in Dronten and a course at the DBG Academy. The thread is the same — keep the substance honest, the people aligned, and the next step concrete.

I also lead Dutch Boosting Group's internal work on AI pilots — finding the places where AI genuinely makes consulting work sharper, not just louder.

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tu delftwhere the engineering language came from

If you're working on something that matters — let's talk.

tomdebruin37@gmail.com  ·  linkedin