Summary
Richard Schaaf is an Agile Coach and Business Analyst with over a decade of experience helping large Dutch and international organizations adopt Agile ways of working while often serving as delegated Product Owner to translate business strategy into prioritized, deliverable scope. Based in The Hague, he combines senior leadership responsibilities—hiring, promotions, sales support and organizational target-setting—with hands-on coaching across business and IT teams for clients such as Rabobank, Philips, NN, and Consumentenbond. Comfortable bridging business and technology, he keeps a practical tech curiosity by exploring tools like R, Tableau, Mendix, OptaPlanner and TensorFlow to better understand delivery constraints. Known for making complex requirements predictable, he brings a mathematician’s rigor (MSc in Mathematics and Computer Science) to problem framing and decision making.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO at Waterlant College
Master's degree, Mathematics, Master's degree, Mathematics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Dutch, English, German