I'm Samantha
I'm a

Creative Front-end Developer

Creative UX/UI Developer

Scrum Master

WordPress Theme Developer

Get to know me and my skills. Find out what I do that make me happy, what companies I worked for, how people feel about me and how to get in touch.

About me

Full name: Samantha Brouwer
Date of birth: 3 February 1990
Location: Lisse,
The Netherlands
Web: https://samantha-online.nl
Contact: Use my contact form or LinkedIn
Hobbies: Winter sports, gymnastics, hiking, traveling, reading, cooking and making happy memories.

My skills

HTML: 90%
(S)CSS: 90%
jQuery: 50%
Javascript: 40%

Photoshop: 80%
WordPress: 80%
Scrum: 70%
SEO: 60%

Services

Web Design

A new design for your website based on the latest design trends, with shapes and colors that will suit you and your company.

Web Development

Your new website coming to life online, with or without CMS. Pixel-perfect using modern techniques.

Fully Responsive

A fully responsive website, tested thoroughly on every device. Not just random stacked blocks, but really thought through.

Clean Code

Easy to read, develop and maintain. Writing clean code is just as important as a good looking website in the browser.

Scrum Master

As Scrum Master I can help lift your team to a higher level of colloboration, commitment and successes.

Work experience

2022 - Today

Front-end Developer
Mediahuis Nederland
As a Front-end Developer on the B2B development team, I am working daily on improving our digital brands, such as Autovisie, Beautify, Bedrock, Culy, Famme, J/M Ouders, Manners, Metronieuws, NSMBL, One More Thing and WANT.
Next to that, creating online tools (with React) for our ads.
2020 - 2021

Creative Front-end Developer / WordPress Theme Developer
Techkoningin.nl
As a Front-end Developer and WordPress Theme Developer at de Techkoningin I was responsible for developing pixel perfect and fully responsive websites for our customers. Using WordPress and our own developed theme, we're giving our (mostly female) customers an easy tool to maintain their own happy place online.
2018 - 2019

Creative Front-end Developer & Scrum Master
Lytho (formerly known as Sabern)
As a Creative Front-end Developer at Lytho it was my responsibility to implement the new design, look and feel of Lytho's own Brand Management Solution Software. I worked in a Scrum team with technical front-end developers, back-end developers, a UX designer and a QA engineer, where I was also the teams' Scrum Master.
Being the teams' Scrum Master, I facilitated our meetings, helped to remove impediments and supported our Product Owner.
2016 - 2018

Creative Front-end Developer & Scrum Master
DPG Media (On behalf of Developers.nl)
I was hired as an HTML/CSS focused Front-end Developer at first, to work at a new recruitment program called Tweakers Elect. But during my time at DPG Media, I did so much more. I worked at the new frontend of the recruiter part and onboarding flow of Nationale Vacaturebank, did a restyle of the Intermediair Salariskompas and worked on several email templates.
In October 2017 I was introduced as the new Scrum Master of our team. As coached for months by our previous Scrum Master, I was now ready to take over the wheel, since he was leaving.
2016 - 2016

Front-end Developer
Zorginstituut Nederland (On behalf of Developers.nl)
As Front-end Developer at Zorginstituut Nederland I mainly worked on further developments of KiesBeter.nl, mainly focussing on the new healthcare institutions page. This page, built in AngularJS, can be used to find healthcare providers, display quality data and compare these.
In addition to these developments, I also worked on futher developments on the Zorginstituut's intranet.
It was also a time for me to find out, sadly, that mainly working on AngularJS (or JavaScript in general) is not my cup of tea.
2016 - 2018

Front-end Developer
Developers.nl
Developers.nl seconded me to Zorginstituut Nederland and DPG Media. In between the projects I made visuals for vacancies which were communicated via social media.
2013 - 2015

Front-end Developer
Cartel Internet & Marketing
I started as a Junior Allround Developer, helping customers from within our support team developing and maintaining their websites. After 4 months I transferred to our Projects team, where I worked as a Front-end Developer on building new websites and in-house products.
In this time I also helped transitioning our team to work Agile using Scrum.

Education & certificates

2022
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Scrum.org
2019
Fundamentals of Digital Marketing

Google
2009 - 2013
Bachelor of ICT,
Communication & Multimedia Design

HAN University of Applied Sciences
2002 - 2007
Havo (Natuur & Techniek)

Fioretticollege Lisse

Recommendations

Nice colleague to work with. Friendly, passionate and quickly picks up new techniques. Extensive knowledge of the latest front-end techniques (Bootstrap, Less) and Scrum.

Xander ten Boden (Freelance Developer & Co-Owner @ K-Bit.dev)

Samantha started her role at the Persgroep as a front end developer. But now that she's leaving us it's hard to qualify her current role. She's still an excellent front-end developer for sure but she's also the teams Scrum Master and responsible for tons of other things that keep the team running. I think that it offers an excellent insight into Samantha as a team member. Not only does she do her thing well, she's willing and able to adjust her role to the needs of the team to the benefit of all.

Leon Krancher (Agile Lead @ Automotive MediaVentions)

Samantha is really a teamplayer. That's what we need in an agile environment. Always trying to help others, without neglecting her own responsibilities. I've introduced her in the secrets of being a scrum master and she succeeded well. Getting her focus and attention to our team while improving the scrum process.
Apart from that a skilled Front-end developer with a lot of patience and care. Looking for a caring Front-Ender? Stop now and get in contact with Samantha.

Guy Lagrand (Freelance Agile Coach @ Scrumworks)