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Technical director

Work Experience

Technical director and co-founder of The InternetOne N.V., a full-service Internet provider / hosting integrator that is currently rolling out over Europe and Latin-America. Responsible for R&D, ICT, and finance. Responsible for implementing a hosting environment and on-line provisioning with minimal means by applying top-notch tools. As technical director of a joint-venture with partners in Belgium, 444.NET N.V., responsible for creation and deployment of a yellow-pages type business search engine in record time.

Until November 2000 CTO of Acriter Software, a Java startup that first was active in consulting, and then converted itself to an independent software vendor that produced Acriter/BMS, an integrated solution for business management. I was responsible for the architecture of the product and the realization of their Jini-based distributed application server, and also played a key role in introducing agile development methods (note: about 9 months after I left, Acriter failed to make its second-round financing and folded).

In January 1995, I joined OpenLink Software, Inc. as Principal Consultant. The main reason was that they gave me the opportunity to do more of a R&D style of programming, as opposed to working according to exact customer specifications, which was interesting to do for a couple of years, but wasn't very satisfactory in the long run. They failed to follow up on their promises, however, which is the reason I left them in October 1997. Among others, I was responsible for the world's first type 3 JDBC driver and some interesting enhancements to the OpenLink multi-tier ODBC product like proxying of ODBC connections and a proof-of-concept for wat later became the WebConfigurator. The OpenLink VMS and Macintosh ports (from Unix and Windows sourcecode) were done by me, as was the implementation of DECnet support.
I got an irresistable offer from sidata GmbH which made me emigrate to Germany in 1991. sidata was a small company dedicated to Uniface custom development, and I learned a great deal more about Unix, about VMS, and about a number of RDBMSes (mainly Oracle and Sybase). My major project was with one of the large pharmaceutical companies in Basel, Switzerland, where I participated in a project team developing software for managing results of chemical analyses on new products. As we worked in an R&D environment that was subject to (among others) FDA rules, this assignment really taught me a lot about quality assurance. Apart from this project, I was responsible for system management within sidata and had a lot of short involvements with other projects when colleagues needed my skills. During an office move, I designed and implemented one of the first fully modular office networks in Switzerland.

In 1990, I joined SyCo MG B.V.(now GMT B.V.), a company specialized in custom development with Progress/4GL, mainly under Xenix. I was hooked to Unix immediately, and spent a fair amount of my spare time on porting all kinds of (GNU) utilities to this system. Among others, my main project here was a complete system for a wholesale bussiness in spare parts of all kinds of household appliances, from order entry to inventory.

Education

V.W.O. (pre-university education) from 1979 to 1985, average grade 7.7 (out of 10 - good for the third rank of my year) over the subjects Dutch, English, Mathematics I and II, Physics, Chemistry, Music;

Nijenrode Bussiness School from 1985 until 1989, when the school and I decided that Bussiness Administration was not my primary interest.

Lots of self-education and small courses, see Skills section.

Skills

I have experience in the area of banking (NL and CH), pharmaceuticals, local government (CH), national semi-government (D), trade (NL, D), and financial markets (NL).

Broad knowledge of business topics and quantitative methods ranging from project management to finance. Active experience in finance as director responsible for finance of two N.V.'s.

Since the second half of 2000, a large part of my job consisted of playing the role of XP team coach. I endorse this development philosophy and am willing to play this role in other projects.

Risk-taker, enterpreneur, quick to make decisions. I excel when the house is on fire and I work best in a continuously changing environment.

Fanatical commitment to quality (to the extent that yes, it sometimes gets in the way).

Languages

German, Dutch, English - all fluent.

Other

Extremely broad and deep technical skills in the areas of object oriented software development and Internet technologies.

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