1989 – 2007 trainer & developer of the method SAR Dogs “the natural way” training (teaching the bringsel method in 5 days); training and assessments tests of my own 5 SAR dogs;
1999 earthquake Turkey (2x) as deployment coordinator;
2001 founder of Kappa Search Dogs 2005 & participation in a 2-day International Mission-Exercise in Ljubljana, Slovenia ;
till 2007 coordinator for deployments and training of the SAR Dogs teams of Kappa Search Dogs;
Deployments in Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Organizer of 3 international SAR Dog workshops, guest trainer Tom Middlemas (with teams from Germany and Australia).
Assessor with the Foundation SAR Dogs Netherlands (SIN).