Alex Arts (LION MyLink500.com Toplinked.com)

Current

• Senior Analyst Solution Development at Avanade
• Editor at Pocketinfo BV
• Creative Director at alexalle.tk

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Past

• Application programmer at Loko IT-specialisten
• Application Programmer at Metafoor Software
• Technical Consultant at Collaboration & Communication Systems Department at Canon Europa N.V.

• Technical Programmer at Centric
• Software Developer (SQL server programmer) at Q Magic
• Programmer at MindMingle
• Programmer at The Casey Group

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Education

• Hogeschool van Amsterdam

Recommended

5 people have recommended Alex

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• alexalle.tk
• My Company
• Lion500.com

Alex Arts (LION MyLink500.com Toplinked.com)’s Summary

- busy with my MCPD-EA
- DEVDAYS2009!
- keeping up-to-date with .NET 4.0, Azure and Live Mesh
- Doing custom consultancy work for customers

Alex Arts (LION MyLink500.com Toplinked.com)’s Specialties:

VBA, VB6, ASP(.NET), JavaScript, CSS1 + 2, (X)HTML, SQL2K, SQL 2005, SQL2008, C# .NET 2003, C# 2005, C# 2008, Visual Basic.NET 2003, VB.NET 2005, VB.NET 2008, AJAX, LLBLGen

ITIL, Functional & Technical design, database modeling, migration planning, user manuals, development plans

Alex Arts (LION MyLink500.com Toplinked.com)’s Experience

• Senior Analyst Solution Development

  Avanade

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year)

  - Consultancy work for customers helping them translating their ideas into workable solutions

• Editor

  Pocketinfo BV

  (Online Media industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  - Writing articles about all mobile devices and technologies
  - freelance
  - http://www.pocketinfo.nl

• Creative Director

  alexalle.tk

  (Internet industry)

  June 1999 — Present (10 years 2 months)

  My own playground:
  - testing of unknown programming techniques like PHP (open source but never out-of-the-box solutions)
  - exploring new techniques like CSS3, Flash and RSS feeds
  - Recently celebrated 9th anniversary (9-6-99)
  
  http://www.alexalle.tk

• Application programmer

  Loko IT-specialisten

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2008 — July 2008 (3 months)

  Specializations: VB.NET 2005, SQL 2K, ASP.NET
  
  - Developing custom programs in Visual Basic .NET 2005 with SQL 2000 databases
  - Maintaining older systems in VB.NET 2003

• Application Programmer

  Metafoor Software

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2007 — April 2008 (9 months)

  Specializations: C#.NET 2005, SQL 2K, ASP.NET, AJAX
  
  - Working with the latest technology in the language C# .NET 2005 and AJAX on custom projects for internal and external clients
  - Maintaining applications written in older languages like Office VBA
  - Discussing with the project manager the steps to be taken and setting up project fases with the right groups and individuals within the organization
  - Giving guidance to other team members, mainly programmers
  - Gaining information from customers and transporting it to the project specifications
  - Reporting about progress and contents
  - 2nd and 3rd line support for the websites of the customers

• Technical Consultant at Collaboration & Communication Systems Department

  Canon Europa N.V.

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

  February 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  Specializations: ASP, Content Management System Tridion, ITIL
  
  - Developing and maintaining the public and private websites of Canon Europe in ASP using Tridion CMS
  - Bugs and requests of European customers and end users on 2nd and 3rd line
  - Pro actively signaling problems using Problem Management (ITIL)
  - Discussing and maintaining an open dialogue of technical and functional issues
  - Followed the courses Tridion Technical Training and ITIL Foundation

• Technical Programmer

  Centric

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2005 — January 2006 (7 months)

  Specializations: MS Office VBA, T-SQL, C#
  
  - Creating a global design / blue-print model from the technical point-of-view
  - Technical impact-analysis for fitting in the existing technical schema
  - Analyzing and specifying modifications of custom-made or out-of-the-box applications in house or third party
  - Creating technical and functional design and fitting it in the global design
  - Designing database models
  - Translating business requirements to use cases and object models
  - Using best practices and design patterns
  - Documenting modifications, process and data models, component specifications, third party implementations
  - Supporting end-users with creating, maintaining and expanding comprehending user manuals, both technical and functional
  - Keeping project deadlines tight and transparent for the project manager and the customers
  [Centric bought QMagic]

• Software Developer (SQL server programmer)

  Q Magic

  (Internet industry)

  August 2004 — June 2005 (11 months)

  Specializations: T-SQL, ASP
  
  - Setting up design, test, implement and production environments on virtual machines for clean programming, testing and implement scripts
  - Maintaining and optimizing code of others to fit in new implementations or bug requests and documenting these changes
  - Pro actively searching opportunities
  - Analyzing code and evaluating the cost and implementation both financial and time efficient
  - Expanding, maintaining and building knowledge in a wide area, but at the same time specializing in .NET languages
  - Actively following Microsoft and other knowledge enhancing innovations and developments
  - Technical recommendations and content knowledge sharing
  - Documenting technical and functional steps of conversions
  - Cleaning up and tuning code to work with new infrastructure
  - Testing of new and modified code and programs according to standards
  - Training of customers for use with new programs and setting up training documentation
  [Bought by Centric]

• Programmer

  MindMingle

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2004 — July 2004 (6 months)

  Specializations: MS Office VBA, T-SQL, ASP
  
  - Analyzing and incorporating financial and statistical data
  - Part of a 2 men strong IT team being the backbone of the company both software and hardware wise
  - 6 month contract for building knowledge and experience in the field of conversion of Microsoft Access to SQL Server of statistical data
  - Teaching SQL server tactics and maintenance
  - The basic principle housed on data warehousing meaning lots of statistics
  - Using graphics and statistics to display data to customers
  [Temporary project]

• Programmer

  The Casey Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2001 — January 2004 (3 years 1 month)

  Specializations: MS Visual Basic 6, SQL Server 2000/7.0, Sybase, Cytrix, ASP
  
  - Following courses in VB6, expanding knowledge and building experience in customer projects
  - Discussing client requests both new, updates and bugs and incorporating these in existing and new projects
  - Documenting changes and learning the steps involved
  - Going through all the steps needed from the first request until the actual implementation and giving technical and functional support, mostly 2nd and 3rd line
  - Reading the required literature and searching the knowledge base both internal (colleagues) and external (Microsoft Knowledge Base)
  - Discussing with project managers about time frames, required methods and capacity and third party tools if needed
  -Specialized projects for the medical industry

Alex Arts (LION MyLink500.com Toplinked.com)’s Education

• Hogeschool van Amsterdam

  Bac , History , 1996 — 2000

  Learning the art of teaching Western History and supporting the needs of teenagers in their most difficult and dark times, aged around 12-15 years.

  Activities and Societies:

  A bit of help to the Network Department both software and hardware.

Additional Information

Alex Arts (LION MyLink500.com Toplinked.com)’s Websites:

• alexalle.tk
• My Company
• Lion500.com

Alex Arts (LION MyLink500.com Toplinked.com)’s Interests:

Exploring gadgets, surfing the net, going to Thailand for vacations and friends, staying up-to-date with the latest technology, finishing decorating my house

Alex Arts (LION MyLink500.com Toplinked.com)’s Groups:

•    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
•    World Wildlife Fund
•    Avanade Professionals
•    Christian Professionals
•    LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ] < BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS >
•    UNICEF Support
•    Link2Europe
•    ITSM (ITIL) Professionals
•    OpenNetworker.com
•    IT Specialist (20,000+ Information Technology Professionals)
•    Internet Technology Hub
•    Lean Six Sigma
•    Friends of Holland / The Netherlands; DutchConnectionAZ.org
•    ITIL-ME
•    .NET Developers
•    Global group
•    Microsoft Office Specialist Network
•    Dutch ICT professionals
•    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
•    Linked .NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
•    FON!!
•    Database Experts
•    .Net Professionals
•    Leading International Open Networkers (LION)
•    Friends of the European Union
•    GroupLinked.com
•    The Netherlands
•    Thailand Connection ราชอาณาจักรไทย \ Professionals and Friends
•    SQL Server Professionals
•    The ITIL Group
•    InvitesWelcome.com (Open Networkers)
•    Green
•    C# Connect
•    One World
•    Linked Amsterdam
•    Thai Professionals Group
•    Pet Friendly, Animal Lovers
•    LION500.com (Open Networkers)
•    International Fund for Animal Welfare
•    SEO Secrets
•    OPEN NETWORKERS!
•    The IT Developer Network
•    The Revolution Group
•    Dutch LIONs (Open Networkers)
•    Net Work (ing)
•    Global LIONs
•    Writers and Authors Circle

Alex Arts (LION MyLink500.com Toplinked.com)’s Honors:

- MCP
- MCMS 2002 Certificate
- ITIL Foundation Certificate
- Tridion Technical Training R5.2 Certificate
- Article in Microsoft .NET magazine # 2 2009 (26 May 2009) discussing Live Mesh (in Dutch)

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