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Glenn Carremans

For the last part of my college education I had to do a 3 month internship at a company and after that write a report about it and defend it in front of a group of teachers and professionals.
I always remembered the CEO of a company that did a speech I think a year earlier at my school so I decided to try and contact them if they had any space for interns, luckily they did and almost immediately they accepted me for an Android dev internship.
Almost at the end of the internship the CEO asked me if I wanted to start there after I finished school and I was very excited (the vibe at the company is very fun), so I immediately started their after I got my IT degree. We work project based for clients and make native mobile applications.

After I think 2 months they told me that they are planning to start a new "project", consultancy. And they asked me if I wanted to be their first consultant for their new division. Again I said yes and was happy to be able to get this new challenge. So now instead of working project based I have full time commitment to a client for x time and help them on their projects, do maintenance of legacy code, maybe even help them learn new things, ... very diverse. But still mainly Android focused and sometimes web/php.

So now for almost 2 years I am working as a full time consultant with one of our biggest clients maintaining and improving multiple projects.