Dennis has 25 years experience in IT and has worked in a diversity of business environments, like government, utilities, insurance companies and large manufacturing multinationals. His current job is Lead Architect in the group Corporate Functions at the Corporate IT department of Philips International. His current projects are focused on the architecture and implementation of infrastructure standards, e-Invoicing and several aspects of SOA (metadata repositories, governance, security).

Dennis has always been interested in implementing new concepts in an innovative way, especially in distributed computing environments. In 2000 Dennis designed and implemented an Enterprise level intermediate infrastructure between heterogeneous integration solutions for Philips. This domain-based architectural design was the foundation for the concept and introduction of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) by Sonic Software.