Born and raised in the Netherlands, Tommy van Schaik found out early on that his natural habitat was between business and IT. After graduating with his Bachelor in the area of Business & IT and later his Master in Business Process Management & IT, he has worked most his career for the Dutch Department of Defense. There he focused on project management, IT governance, business processes, IT architecture, requirement engineering, and business rules. After a beautiful expat adventure in the United States, Tommy has now moved back to the Netherlands where he is employed as a project manager for the Dutch government. If he has any spare time left between family, work, and being a Pluralsight author, Tommy tries to stay fit either in the ring or on the basketball court.