Berco Beute, PhD

Current

• CTO at Accepte

Past

• Owner at Media2B
• Senior innovator at TNO Information and Communication Technology
• Software engineer at Evermind Informatica, Groningen

• Junior sales representative at Procter & Gamble

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Education

• Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
• Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
• Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

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Connections

92 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My music

Berco Beute, PhD’s Summary

I am an ICT professional with a passion for the creative possibilities of computers. Ever since the first web browser was released I have studied internet technologies and experimented with the possibilities they offered me while innovating. The cutting edge of ICT is where I feel most at home, and I am always reading about, and getting my hands dirty with, the latest technologies. My expertise in internet technologies ranges from high-level trends to low-level implementation details. Although I like to work by myself I prefer to work in a team, especially if that team demands the most of me. I am responsible, driven by results and no-nonsense. My social and communication skills are good. And I take humour very seriously; it’s nothing to laugh about.

Berco Beute, PhD’s Specialties:

- Software development (requirements, design, code, test)
- Management of software development projects.
- Teaching in (advanced) internet technologies.
- Mobile internet
- Technologies I specialize in:
--- Python
--- Java
--- Software for mobile devices
--- Distributed systems
--- Cloud computing

Berco Beute, PhD’s Experience

• CTO

  Accepte

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

  Shared owner of Accepté (~50 employees) and responsible for the technological roadmap and IT department. Accepté has two propositions:
  Getlogic: IT solutions for organizing events aimed at general businesses.
  Paylogic: IT solutions for the event organizing industry.

• Owner

  Media2B

  (Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2008 (7 years)

  Media2B is a software development company specializing in applying innovative, open source internet technologies.

• Senior innovator

  TNO Information and Communication Technology

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  2003 — 2008 (5 years)

  Roles: Lead developer, software architect, project lead, software innovator and ICT consultant. Leading in-house expert on mobile terminals and software for mobile terminals and accompanying back-end systems.

• Software engineer

  Evermind Informatica, Groningen

  (Computer Software industry)

  1994 — 1999 (5 years)

  Interface design, Web (application) development, Computer-graphical design (2D and 3D), Marketing communication, Market research, Business development.

• Junior sales representative

  Procter & Gamble

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PG; Consumer Goods industry)

  1994 — 1997 (3 years)

Berco Beute, PhD’s Education

• Danmarks Tekniske Universitet

  PhD , Distributed Multimedia , 1999 — 2002

  Dissertation on navigating distributed services.

• Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

  MSc , Artificial Intelligence , 1995 — 1999

  - Multi-agent systems
  - Usability engineering

• Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

  MSc , Communication Science , 1991 — 1995

  - Marketing communication
  - New media (internet)
  - Pop culture and popular music

Additional Information

Berco Beute, PhD’s Websites:

• My Company
• My music

Berco Beute, PhD’s Interests:

Music (creating and listening), computer programming, computer-graphics (2D/3D), reading, the digital revolution, cognitive sciences, travelling, cyber culture, snowboarding, soccer.

Berco Beute, PhD’s Groups:

•    Python Community

Berco Beute, PhD’s Honors:

* Dianaprijs TNO - Innovation Award TNO, 2006/2007.Received for Farcast, a platform for enabling mobile multimedia communication. In the opinion of the jury, Farcast was ahead of all the other entrants in terms of the criteria of innovativeness, applicability and scientific value.
* Patent for Europe and North America "Motion-based device coupling". Idea: Connecting mobile devices by holding them together and making a (random) gesture after which both devices have a unique pattern in 3D space with which they can identify each other.

Berco Beute, PhD’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• reference requests