internet, artificial intelligence, technical and practical solutions, consultancy, understanding needs, communication, empathic, helicopter view, very broad interest, out-of-the-box thinking

Sep '90 - '97

Technical Computer Science, Delft
Major: Artificial Intelligence

Sep '86 - Jul '90

VWO-Beta, Arnhem
subjects: Dutch, English, physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, economy

Sep '83 - Jul '86

VWO, Leiden

Jan '05 - now

MoMac
Senior software developer for WAP
Brief description: MoMac has a number of mainly Perl-based large generic systems that support development for all kinds of mobile content and interaction. I did all kinds of projects here, from billing systems (O2UK) to small applications for customers like EMAP, KPN, Vodafone, de Volkskrant, T-Mobile (UK and Netherlands).
Languages used in this function: mainly Perl, *sh

Apr '02 - Dec '04

2Organize.com
Technical consultant, senior UNIX developer
Brief description: After some experiences away from this company, I decided for personal reasons to go back and was put to work on a number of projects immediately. Direct Email, SMS Engine and several websites for a Dutch ministry, and KPN were created by me in the first couple of months. Most of these used databases containing information delivered by the customer. In 2003 I also developed an SMS-tool which is still used (now is 2007) in a partnership with a sms-related partner of 2Organize. I led a investigation project regarding a third-party content management system (Imperia) which 2organize was interested in. From March through July 2004 I developed a CRM tool for a large RvB project for Nuon (one of the main energy suppliers in Holland). Unfortunately it required constant maintenance as requirements changed daily and dataflows kept shifting; it was even launched when development was only done for one-third of the project. Fortunately, the project was closed satisfactory. Nuon had a 'bad rep' at the time, so this project needed special care and it did.
When I left I worked on several projects for Adobe -for which we did all technical maintenance of all their websites but America's- and a number of other national and international customers. I was also the backup software engineer for another large number of projects.
Languages used in this function: mainly Perl, *sh, C

Apr '01 - Apr '02

PerronC
Technical consultant, prototype developer, software engineer, project manager
Brief description:Perron C is a relatively small company which develops concepts for communication processes. It works for internet companies, newspapers, mobile phone companies and television and radio broadcasting companies. It takes an idea of a customer and develops this into a multi-media communication proces with the target audience.
When I joined this company, there was little or no knowledge on technical issues. Perron C needed a person who had considerable experience with internet and other technical concepts, and who could also present these to large customers like KPN, ING, ANWB, etc. I was given this task, which led to satisfying results.


Languages used in this function: Perl, *sh, C

Sep '00 - Apr '01

YourNews
Technical consultant & software engineer involved in upgrading the old syndication system
Brief description: YourNews was a news-syndicator.
My job was to bridge the gap between the technical department and the other departments. For this I first was involved in the Core Development team for the Syndication Engine that was being developed, for several months. When the need for software engineers became crucial to the success of the development of the new syndication engine, I was given several parts of the engine to develop, re-engineer and test.
In my seconth month, I was voted employee of the month.

Sep '00 - now

Vosoft
My own, idealistic company
Brief description: Personal company, founded to aid the underpriviliged
After having so many people call on me for websites, I decided to create a small one-person company, under which I could work for those who required my help. Vosoft's purpose is to aid, assist or develop internet technologies for those people or foundations or other non-profit organisations who cannot afford this or wish to spend their money to better needs.
Vosoft has created several websites over the years, among which were dozens of personal websites for travellers, JV Den Haag (a foundation that takes underpriviliged children on a small vacation), Stichting SF Report, WatWordtDeNaam (a small website for a local political party in Valkenswaard), MyJewels (personal jewel-website of a friend), dJinX (website of a jeweler).

Dec '99 - Aug '00

2Organize.com
Fifty e-commerce websites for Sun Microsystems (www.suncatalogue.com)
Brief description: Sun Microsystems is one of the leading companies in the world regarding relying hardware and software. Sun had tried before to set up an e-commerce site which did not work out well. 2Organize picked up on the project but started from scratch. A database was already at use at 2Organize but had to be rewritten totally for this project to an XML export. My part was initially consultancy as the e-commerce and website expert during negotiations.
When implementation began, I was responsible for transforming the XML data into templated webpages with different looks, inside a shopping application. Also, I was still acting as technical consultant for 2Organize.com towards Sun. The amount of time was limited even though the amount of work was doubled several times during the four months in which the websites were realised.

Feb '99 - May '99

2Organize.com
Libelle 2004: communicating in the future
Brief description: Libelle, the leading women's weekly magazine, turned 65 this year. Instead of a retrospective, Libelle wanted to look ahead and show what the future offered, to the top 400 managers and marketeers in the Netherlands. This project produced a magazine of the future, a website of the future and several presentations on how interaction, behaviour and the western culture will change in the coming years.
My involvement was triggered by 2Organize.com when expertise was needed on technological changes and the sociological impact of the usage of this technology. This led to an interactive internet talkshow, a prototype of in-place commercials and a realistic futuristic user interface, based on speech recognition.
The presentation was done by 2Organize.com, VNU Uitgevers -led by M. Boswinkel, at the time chief editor of Libelle- and KPN, who produced a video on the 'House of the Future'.

Jan '98 - Nov '00

Graduation project 'IMU'
A user tracking tool for websites containing a highly dynamic, self-teaching page-recommendation system for website visitors
Brief description: IMU is a web tracking tool which can be used for every website there is. Its main purpose is tracking users on the website and recommending webpages to visitors of the website it is installed on. Apart from that, IMU offers very intriguing webstatistics which are session based: amount of sessions, viewing time per page(-group), surf behaviour, page efficiency and webbot detection are just a few things that can be measured using IMU. For more information you can view the sheets of one of the presentations of IMU here.
It was graded as a nine, on a scale of one to ten.

Aug '98 - Sep '98

Plantijn Casparie Mediawork
All-purpose personalized chat/mail/news site for Adobe Germany
Brief description: As part of the new look of the german Adobe website, Adobe wanted a chatbox with a number of nifty gadgets like a userdatabase, internal mail, and a user-2-user chat possibility. Also they wanted a news forum system which was message-based and not chat-based.
Though the functionality of the chat was not fully envisioned, I created a web-based chat program which supported all these functions and some more. Later on it was enhanced by an intriguate client-side javascript application that updated the messages. A snapshot of the system at work can be found here. The system is still online and can be found at http://www.adobe.de/community/chat/index-stream.html

Sep '97 - now

SF-Report, Foundation
Owner of this foundation, responsible for communication between councel and editors
Also writer for the magazine and website maintainer.
Brief description: SF Report was a foundation created in 1997. Its main purpose was to inform people about science fiction in literature, film and other media. This was done through a glossy magazine (available at most bookstores). After two years (in 1999) the website was installed which I set up, with a custom CMS.

Apr '97 - May '97

Artefact, Delft
Programmer and developer of a classified prototype of a military auction system
Brief description: This, at the time classified, project was about an auction system for military equipment. Though my role was initially only as implementor of the requested prototype, I quickly became a consultant regarding usability, design and implementation. The prototype was a huge hit during the presentation in Texas, USA.

May '96 - Dec '99

Plantijn MultiMedia, Rotterdam
Programmer, developer for several WWW internet-sites
Brief description: Creating several different websites, from small footbal related project to the large, european websites of Adobe which was a continuous flow of projects of all kinds. Within these projects I contributed to all aspects of website development and maintenance, including customer contact.

Nov '95 - Jun '97

Sibbel & van Pelt, Rotterdam
Sysop Linux webserver; developer, maintainer of www.worldofcards.nl
Brief description: Initially technical developer of the first e-card website in Europe. After development of the database system and implementation of the graphical interface, I maintained the system, improved it for better efficiency and was the contact person for this website.

Dec '93 - Jan '98

TU Delft, Faculty TWI
System operator Alliant UNIX Computer and internet-site maintainer,
System operator SEQUENT UNIX computer, internet-site maintainer
Brief description: both machines were used as main server at our faculty and needed technical support which I provided. When the systems were upgraded I got both machines to use as I pleased. This resulted in several website projects for students.

Nov '93 - May '94

TNO in Delft, department TNO-INRO
Research and development of a graphical representation of geographic data with icon-support under MS-Windows 3.1.
Brief description: The project was named GeoLib. Initially the project contained a high -but finite- number of icons, shown on top of a chart with roads, borders, and different kinds of areas. It was used in a major project called 'the Application' as the visualization of geographic data.

Sep '93 - Sep '96

TU Delft, Faculty TWI
Three year member of the counsel of the school of Technical Mathematics and Computer Science.
Also, a member of the Commission Society and Science and some other, minor commissions.
Brief description: Though usually student counsel members only stay on for one year, my input was considered relevant enough by all students that they re-elected me two times. This was very fruitful, as I got to know the counsel's ways well which was quite useful during several reorganizations.

Senior:

Low-Level:	MachineCode 6510, MachineCode 68000
Medium-level:	C/C++, Modula-2, Java-script
High-level:	SQL, Perl

Medior:

Low-Level:	ZX-80
Medium-level:	Pascal, Visual-Basic, Flash-action scripting
High-level:	yacc, flex, Lisp, PHP, Java

Experiences in computer systems

Good:	Amiga OS1.3/2.0, Linux, MS-DOS, MS-Windows, SEQUENT, Alliant, SUN-OS4 UNIX systems, Commodore 64
Moderate:	Apple, AS/400

Other

Good:

Windows: Photoshop, ImageReady, MacroMedia Flash, Swish, Swift 3D, and others Linux/Unix: Mysql, Oracle, Postrgress, OpenOffice, Gimp, Imperia, thousands of *nix tools

Languages

Dutch	Native language; fluently spoken as well as written
English	well spoken as well as written
German	Spoken average, written moderate
French	Spoken moderate, written moderate

Hobbies and interests

Sports	Played hockey for over seven years, Tennis, Kempo and Nunchaku-Do (chinese fighting sports), fitness
Science	Medical sciences, psychology, biology, computersystems, programming, philosophy
Miscellaneous	Reading, writing, drawing, movies, visual and audio techniques, horror, science-fiction