About me

I was born on 11th July 1978 in Nickerie, the rice district of Suriname. At the age of 19 I moved to Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname to attend the Anton de Kom University, where I studied Business Management. After my second year I found this study to be not challenging enough, so I stopped and started looking for a job.
I started at INFINITY Holding NV (2000), first as assistant operations manager of the security branch, but pretty fast after that I became the assistant manager Marketing & PR.
As keen as I always have been for learning I started with some online courses at the Leidse Hoogeschool (Netherlands), where I graduated from the courses Marketing Orientation and Knowledge & Information Management.

In 2002 I started working for a new company, called Itee NV, as the Manager Marketing & HRM. Pretty soon after that I started with a new course, this time a post bachelor course in Human Resource Management, a joint effort of the Anton de Kom University and Hoogeschool Brabant (Netherlands). Currently I am studying for my MBA, which I plan to graduate from in July 2009. I am also considering doing another Masters course, but still have to see how it will match.

By the end of 2004 I moved once again, and started a new career as Sales Manager at Hatramij, where I worked until May 2007, when I decided to start my own company, Pragmatic.
In fact I have been walking with the idea for Pragmatic for quite some years, and I had already registered the company at the chamber of commerce in January 2007.
But in May I decided to really start on my own; so I took that very important step and became an entrepreneur.

At this date, those many months after I took that big step, I can’t say I’m sorry. I’ve had some ups and downs, have been struggling to survive, but hell yeah……It’s kickin’ fun and I like what I do. And of course I have to say it….I probably wouldn’t have gotten this far without the outstanding support I’ve received all the time from Soemartie, my spouse. She has been my social security, financial security and of course a big source of moral support.

Download my resume here: 2009 JCI CV Marciano S. Lie A Young.