Ben Vaessen

Current

Owner / Software Engineer at Launch-IT (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

Software Engineer at Simac Masic & TSS
Software Engineer at FOM (NL), detached at FZ-Juelich (Germany)
Software Engineer at Proeftuin-ICT

Software Engineer at RWTH Uniklinik

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Education

Hogeschool Zuyd
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Sophianum

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Ben Vaessen’s Summary

- Born on August 4th, 1980
- Communicative: I “think IT” but communicate in a humane way
- Socially skilled, easily make new friends, positive and motivated
- Used to international environments because of work, study, traveling and living in international groups. Fluent in German, English and Dutch.
- Creative, adaptive and flexible: not afraid of changes
- Eye for detail and beauty while still having overview
- Broad knowledge and interest in technology and science
- Planned and organized: efficient, effective and document my work
- Able to perform well in a group as well as on my own

Ben Vaessen’s Specialties:

- C#, C++, C (Borland Builder, Visual Studio, on MS-systems as well as UNIX and microcontrollers, including Luminary, Atmel and 8051).
- Visual Basic (.Net)
- Labview (incl. RT, FPGA and DAQmx)
- Machine Vision Systems (PPT/SICK)
- MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, XML and (Active)Perl
- Borland Delphi, Pascal, RSI IDL

Ben Vaessen’s Experience

Owner / Software Engineer
Launch-IT (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Launch IT is specialized in the development of technical information systems, especially in those systems that touch hardware or complex processes, e.g. embedded software, control and data acquisition software, remote management, user interfaces for machines and more. Please browse to www.launchit.nl for more information.
Software Engineer

Simac Masic & TSS

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

February 2008 — June 2008 (5 months)

Mainly active in
- Sales Support
- Feasibilty Studies
- PPT Vision Systems
Also worked with
- SICK 3D Systems
- Barcode applications
Software Engineer

FOM (NL), detached at FZ-Juelich (Germany)

(Research industry)

February 2005 — January 2008 (3 years )

- Detached at the Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), Institute for Plasma Physics, where an international cluster of physicists and engineers studies various aspects of nuclear fusion.
- Development of software and small electronics for control, storage, transport, and real time analysis of measured data acquired with various diagnostics at the fusion reactor called TEXTOR, such as:
- Control, GUI, and Data Acquisition systems, as well as operation support for a microwave diagnostic and heating device.
- Development of software for a multi-purpose Timer/Wave Generator
- A control system for timing and data acquisition for 4 high speed cameras (Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy)
- A webserver plugin for publishing HDF5 data files
- Several other software solutions for analysis, control and data acquisition. Implemented small electronic circuits for safety interlocks and cooling systems.
- Software environment: C, C++, Labview (including RT, DAQmx and FPGA), RSI IDL
- Hardware (UNIX and Windows, as well as VME, National Instruments PXI and PLC systems)
Software Engineer

Proeftuin-ICT

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year )

Various projects, developing software solutions in a group, mainly using C++ and microcontrollers.
Software Engineer

RWTH Uniklinik

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2003 — July 2003 (6 months)

- Development of a real-time filter for elimination of blooming effects, finding the Region of Interest and improving the overall quality of images recorded with an endoscope: a medical device for video filming inside the human body, which delivers very poor raw data because of the harsh conditions in which it is used.
- Implementation in C++, prototype under UNIX, final version: DIRECTX

Ben Vaessen’s Education

Hogeschool Zuyd

2001 — 2005

Specialised in Embedded Systems / Technical Information Systems.

Activities and Societies:

* Alumni Panel,
* Coached 2 students
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Information Technology 1999 — 2001
Sophianum

Atheneum , Mathematics, Physics, German, English, Dutch , 1992 — 1999