Rik Farenhorst

Current

Technical Consultant and Researcher at Capgemini BAS B.V.
Ph.D. Researcher in Software Engineering at VU University Amsterdam

Past

Young Professional at Getronics PinkRoccade
R&D employee at Getronics PinkRoccade
Student Assistant in Software Engineering at VU University Amsterdam

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Education

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Oscar Romero

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

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Rik Farenhorst’s Summary

My PhD research at VU University Amsterdam focuses on architectural knowledge management, which entails the application of knowledge management practices in an enterprise and software architecture domain. I am also involved in teaching the Master course on software architecture.

As technical consultant and researcher at Capgemini BAS B.V. I work on defining and improving methods, processes, and (Web 2.0) tool support for the enterprise and software architecture domain, with a particular emphasis on knowledge management support. My recent activities include the design and implementation of a enterprise wiki environment for our 'architecture community', the training of colleague architects on how to effectively describe architectures, and the establishment of process guidelines for evaluation and evolution of architectures. Last but not least, I guide interns who conduct their master thesis research in the field of architectural knowledge management.

Rik Farenhorst’s Specialties:

Enterprise architecture, software architecture, knowledge management, software engineering, Web 2.0

Rik Farenhorst’s Experience

Technical Consultant and Researcher

Capgemini BAS B.V.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

At Capgemini BAS, which was previously known as Getronics PinkRoccade Business Application Services, I work part-time as technical consultant and researcher in enterprise and software architecture. I work on defining and improving methods, processes, and (Web 2.0) tool support for the enterprise and software architecture domain, with a particular emphasis on knowledge management support. My recent activities include the design and implementation of a enterprise wiki environment for our 'architecture community', the training of colleague architects on how to effectively describe architectures, and the establishment of process guidelines for evaluation and evolution of architectures. Last but not least, I guide interns who conduct their master thesis research in the field of architectural knowledge management.
Ph.D. Researcher in Software Engineering

VU University Amsterdam

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

April 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

I conduct research in the area of architectural knowledge management, which entails the application of knowledge management practices in an enterprise and software architecture domain. As of yet, I published more than 12 publications on this topic in international refereed conferences or journals.

My PhD research is conducted in the context of the Griffin project. (http://griffin.cs.vu.nl) that aims to develop notations, tools and associated methods to extract, represent and use architectural knowledge effectively. My research focuses specifically on support for sharing architectural knowledge. We discovered that depending on the type of (tacit or explicit) architectural knowledge, different knowledge sharing strategies are effective in the architecting process. Based on these insights, we have designed and implementation Web 2.0-based tool support. We currently experiment with these tools in practice.
Young Professional

Getronics PinkRoccade

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GTN; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)

In this part time job, I guided Master students during their internship at the Serviceline Architecture department of Getronics PinkRoccade. Research conducted in this department by me and the students I guided focused on software and enterprise architecture, knowledge management and business intelligence. In addition, I assisted colleagues in constructing and maintaining architecture descriptions, harvesting architectural best practices, and reusing architectural knowledge in projects.
R&D employee

Getronics PinkRoccade

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 — August 2006 (1 year)

In this part time job I was responsible for guiding Master students with their research at the Research & Development department at Getronics PinkRoccade, sector Public. I particularly focused on research in software engineering and software architecture.
Student Assistant in Software Engineering

VU University Amsterdam

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2002 — August 2004 (2 years)

I have worked as a student assistant at the software engineering department of the computer science faculty. In this job I guided bachelor students in weekly meetings, gave grades, prepared lectures, and organized and supervised practical work. Courses I taught during these 2 years include Introduction to Java programming, Datastructures, Software Engineering, Task analysis & Web design.

Rik Farenhorst’s Education

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

MSc , Computer Science, Software Engineering specialization , 2003 — 2005

Graduated cum laude
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

BSc , Computer Science , 1999 — 2002
Oscar Romero

Additional Information

Rik Farenhorst’s Websites:

My Website

Rik Farenhorst’s Interests:

tennis, surfing, studying Chinese, travelling

Rik Farenhorst’s Groups:

IEEE member

The Official IEEE Group
The Enterprise Architecture Network
Dutch ICT professionals
IEEE Computer Society Members
Getronics (a KPN company)
Via Nova Architectura
VU Amsterdam
IT Professionals Netherlands
Capgemini - Together, Free Your Energies
LAC (Landelijk Architectuur Congres)
ACM SigSoft
Amsterdam Professionals
WICSA - ECSA 2009
SIKS-Community, members and alumni of the School for Information and Knowledge Systems