Erik Zachte

Current

• Data Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation

Past

• Technical Product Analyst at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM Information Services)
• Analyst, Developer, Data Miner (pro bono) at Wikimedia
• Technical Product Analyst at Air France - KLM

• Systems Engineer at KLM
• Infrastructure Analyst at KLM
• Information Analyst at KLM
• Database Administrator at KLM
• Application Developer at KLM

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Education

• Gerrit Rietveld Academie
• AMBI
• Universiteit van Amsterdam

• Universiteit van Amsterdam
• Gymnasium B

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Erik Zachte’s Summary

Values intrinsic motivators much more than extrinsic ones.
Prefers unsettling questions over merely satisfactory answers.

Erik Zachte’s Specialties:

Good foresight, realistic assessment of market trends, strategic thinker, loves complex problems and uncharted territory.

Erik Zachte’s Experience

• Data Analyst

  Wikimedia Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  As a contractor I build on and extend the statistics work that I started as a volunteer (see below).

• Technical Product Analyst

  KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM Information Services)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — 2008 (3 years )

• Analyst, Developer, Data Miner (pro bono)

  Wikimedia

  (Non-Profit; Internet industry)

  December 2002 — August 2008 (5 years 9 months)

  Wikimedia publishes the world-famous Wikipedia encyclopedia and other free knowledge projects. Wikipedia is a top-10 web site with millions of unique visitors per day (4000 article requests per second !!)
  
  I volunteered part-time as member of the developer team.
  
  Major projects:
  1., 'WikiStats' which analyzes growth patterns on 700+ wikis and publishes reports in 25 languages : See http://stats.wikimedia.org
  
  2., EasyTimeline: I extended the wiki concept by inventing a wiki-way to compose charts. Since years an integral and very popular part of the Mediawiki code base. See http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/EasyTimeline/Introduction.htm
  
  3., Wikipedia as TomeRaider ebook for notebooks and handhelds. Do you want to carry almost 2 million unabridged articles wherever you go, on a 5 gram 4 Gb memory card? I built a very complete wiki parser to convert a Wikipedia project to ebook format. See http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia

• Technical Product Analyst

  Air France - KLM

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  September 1981 — July 2008 (26 years 11 months)

  I provided consultancy to KLM business partners and KLM Information Systems, monitored and researched new IT trends, developed procedures, and analysed escalated problems.
  
  RFID was my latest field of focus.

• Systems Engineer

  KLM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  1993 — 2005 (12 years )

• Infrastructure Analyst

  KLM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  1989 — 1993 (4 years )

• Information Analyst

  KLM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  1986 — 1988 (2 years )

• Database Administrator

  KLM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  1984 — 1986 (2 years )

• Application Developer

  KLM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

  September 1981 — 1984 (3 years )

Erik Zachte’s Education

• Gerrit Rietveld Academie

  Avondopleiding 1993 — 1995

  Art School

• AMBI

  Software Engineering 1982 — 1984

• Universiteit van Amsterdam

  History 1975 — 1977

• Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Biochemistry 1973 — 1975

• Gymnasium B

  1967 — 1973

  Preparatory high school with physics, chemistry, math, biology, 4 modern and 2 classic languages and then some. Back in the old days when all courses were mandatory. I loved Homer, I hated Greek.

Additional Information

Erik Zachte’s Interests:

My major private interest is Wikipedia, where I got involved in 2002, when it was an obscure top-100000 web site. Now it is a top-10 web site with millions of unique visitors every day, and a household name, almost as well-known as Google. See also experience section.

Erik Zachte’s Groups:

Wikimedia

•    Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
•    Wikipedians
•    Wikimedia Foundation

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