Curriculum Vitae December, 2006

Work Experience

Q42, The Hague, The Netherlands
Yes2web, Delft, the Netherlands: April 2005 to March 2006; Yes2web was a small student-founded company that I joined to develop a community-driven portal application as part of my final college thesis. Although the project never launched, I decided to remain employed by the company for 9 months after my project was complete in order to gain experience working in a constrained environment whose improved flexibility was offset by budgetary limitations and shortened development processes.
Impuls IT, Dordrecht, the Netherlands: July 2003 to December 2003; I worked here as an intern at the web development branch. My responsibilities were few but the variety of my tasks more than made up for it; constructing websites using the company's licensed web development software Site Supra, as well as instructing fellow employees as to the relevance and benefits of standards-based web design practices. I also developed the identity and website for the company's new product, Codeless, which you can see in my portfolio.

Education

Bachelor of Information & Communication Technology: 2001 - 2005; Rotterdam University, the Netherlands

General Skills

Languages

Fluent in the following languages:: English; Dutch
Can read the following languages:: French; German

Can translate (technical) documentation from English to Dutch and vice versa

Software Expertise

The prospect of having access to a multitude of commercial resources from competing companies as well as the open-source community and its many modern applications means that developing a skillset within the reach of today's Internet is significantly less daunting a task than would have been a decade ago. Here's a short overview of my experential acquisitions in this field, as well as my optionally viewable thoughts on each product.

Adobe/Macromedia Software

Contribute
Dreamweaver
Fireworks
Flashpaper
Illustrator
InDesign
Photoshop

Reasonable proficiency

Freehand
Flash
Director
QuarkXPress

Programming Language Expertise

I first started trying to figure out how internet (server-side) scripting and programming worked when I first needed it for one of my own projects. Now that I've passed through college, I understand the basic syntaxes of several languages and have mastered PHP. The following list is useful in determining which languages I am merely familiar with, and which I have applied in a multitude of projects and environments to this day.

Client-side Scripting

CSS 1.0 & 2.0
DOM
Javascript: Including DOM manipulation, XMLHTTP and Ajax techniques. I personally prefer the prototype library and associated extensions such as scriptaculous when building Ajax-enabled applications.
HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 & 1.1
XML
XML Schema & DTD
XSL

Server-side Scripting