Personal
Research & Development (R&D) has always been my greatest passion. As a child I had an obsession with building materials like LEGO and became addicted to computer programming & graphic design shortly after.
Hobbies
Travelling, studying historical, technical & scientific documents, learning languages, computer programming, designing, animating, art, cooking, museums & exhibitions, Japanese anime & manga, videogaming.
Sports
Waterpolo, vertskating, snowboarding, squash, swimming, billiards.
Languages
- English (fluent)
- Dutch (native)
- German (basic)
- Japanese (basic)
- French (very basic).
Objective
To continuously strengthen and develop my skills in an environment that will constantly challenge me and make use of my passion and enthusiasm for research, design & development.
Experience
- 2006-Present Climax Media, Toronto, Canada.
- 2004-2006 Motiongraphiks, Toronto, Canada Working as the Multimedia Software Developer for Motiongraphiks, this job allowed me to execute my skills and passion for R&D.
- 2000-2002 Van Wijk Studios, IJmuiden, Netherlands Part-Time. Creative Director position.
Education
2000-2004 Grafisch Lyceum Amsterdam, Netherlands College where I earned my diploma in Multimedia
1994-1999 Vellesan College, Velsen, Netherlands Attended VWO/HAVO & received my MAVO certificate
Software Knowledge
- Adobe Flash 4/5/6/7/8/CS3/CS4/CS5
- Adobe Flashcom
- Adobe Remoting
- Adobe Dreamweaver MX/2004/8/CS3/CS4/CS5
- Adobe Director MX
- Adobe Breeze
- Discreet 3D Max
- NewTek Lightwave
- Microsoft Office XP/2003/2007/2010
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
- Microsoft Visio 2007
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft Project Server 2000
- SoundForge 6/7/8
- Adobe Photoshop 6/7/CS/CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5
- Adobe Illustrator CS3/CS4/CS5
- Adobe After Effects CS3/CS4/CS5
- Adobe Premier CS3/CS4/CS5
- Drupal 5/6 - Ubercart
- PHPStorm
- Navicat
- VirtualDub
- Cisco ASDM
Program Languages
- ActionScript 1/2/3
- ColdFusion 7 MX
- Lingo
- PHP 4/5
- ASP/ASP.NET
- MySQL 5
- Javascript / AJAX / jQuery / jSON
- HTML / XML / DHTML / CSS
- C#
- Linux shell scripting
- Some Java
Systems (OS)
- Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2008-R2
- Microsoft Windows Mobile 5/6
- Apple Macintosh OSX (basic)
- Linux Redhat / Debian / CentOS
- FreeBSD
Other related (computer) skills
- Experienced Component Developer & Framework Architect
- Network Management (Setting up Servers, Wiring, Installations, Routers & Switches)
- PBX Experience (Asterisk/3CX) (full phone network installation experience)
- Server Management & Maintenance
- Advanced E-commerce experience (Ubercart, payment gateways (API's), transactions, recurring billing)
- Hardware knowledge / Building systems from scratch
- Strategic Business Planning
- Knowledge of many small applications (ftp, telnet, ssh, video tools, etc.)
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