CV • 9 Jun 2011
This is my résumé in English. There is also an 
Dutch version.
Remark: This text is auto-translated by Google, a proper translation is in the pipeline
Since 2007 I work at Learnit in Groningen,
I also do small freelance work.
Before I was a freelancer for various companies,
interspersed with periods of employment.
See the chronology.
My activities are mainly designing, writing and maintaining software. There is also a good deal of system integration and infrastructure involved. In Learnit (a course in business with about 30 employees) I work on software that supports the daily business, such as the planning database and the GUI before, and the website and the link between the various systems.
Narrow and broad
The IT field is extremely large. I have always focused primarily on software. A degree of specialization is therefore inevitable, but that's okay, because it is useful and interesting to you in a particular aspect in depth. It is not difficult: if you have a certain mindset for programming, you can if necessary new technologies easily own. This applies, for example programming languages, APIs and software architectures. Another plus is that your knowledge I'll be back for use elsewhere.
Besides specialization, I think it is also important to develop knowledge in width. That's why I made several trips (and taste) to related disciplines such as management of hardware, setting up computer networks and infrastructure, web design and web applications, design of software systems, embedded software, operating systems.
I find it important that my products are suitable to use and users could benefit from it. For GUIs should for instance be that users are so streamlined as possible their daily work can do without the program they get in the way of nuisances caused by laziness of the programmer, or a gaudy design that will eventually the eyes.
Background
Halfway through the 60 years I was born at an early age and came into contact with programming. It became my hobby, along with electronics. I wanted to know exactly what happened, down to the silicon. At that time I read computer manuals and datasheets more than comics.
Throughout my school (VWO-B) I have the development of the microcomputer to follow. In that respect, I grew up in interesting times. It was the era in which the computing power migrated from centralized mainframes to decentralized systems.
From an intrinsic interest, I came into contact with various programming languages and applications of computers, which I own My favorite one was. At that time, which include C, data communications, audio-visual applications, and relational databases, initially C/PM and later under MSDOS. What years later, C + +, Unix and Windows with. Still later the Internet, WWW, and languages such as Java, Javascript, PHP and Python.
On my twentieth, I could get work as a software developer, and because it never bores me, I am to this day continue to do so.
I live in Groningen, and do not like to stand in traffic jams. I have no car, which I put away for that very reason. Nowadays with the internet, I can basically from anywhere in the world works.