Social Web Consultant
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Self employed at Souren Consultancy
- Past
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- Developer at Hyves
- Researcher, wiki specialist, software architect at Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Core developer and tech team coordinator at CouchSurfing
- Developer and system designer at CEPES, Peru
- Volunteer, übergeek at IESC/Geekcorps
- Researcher at IRCAM, Paris
- Developer at PPC
- Education
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- Hogeschool van Beeldende Kunsten, Muziek en Dans
- Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
- St. Janscollege Hoensbroek
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Kasper Souren’s Summary
Information technologist with broad experience in internet applications, social networks and open source. Strong background in mathematics and AI. Interested in new challenges related to wikis, languages and/or wireless technologies.
Kasper Souren’s Specialties:
Languages (fluent Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and bits of more), GNU/Linux, Drupal, wiki technology and sociology, Python, PHP, MySQL
Kasper Souren’s Experience
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Self employed
Souren Consultancy
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Consulting on social web technology (wiki, Drupal, community), design, SEO, for small businesses and non-profits.
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Developer
Hyves
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)
PHP, MySQL, JavaScript
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Researcher, wiki specialist, software architect
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
(Research industry)
June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)
Design and implementation of a free software to analyze trust among participants of social networks.
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Core developer and tech team coordinator
CouchSurfing
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Hospitality industry)
August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)
* Coordinating the CouchSurfing tech team and taking it to another level
* Wiki maintenance and content editing
* Improving communication and transparency
* Getting new volunteers started
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Developer and system designer
CEPES, Peru
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2006 — July 2006 (4 months)
Creation of an information system to increase transparency of grant applications to the Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture. Used technologies: PHP, MySQL, connection to MS SQL (through cygwin).
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Volunteer, übergeek
IESC/Geekcorps
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)
As Geekcorps Mali's technology expert I set up Kunnafonix, a GNU/Linux system for communitary radio stations. I also helped out with networking tasks and started the Bambara Wikipedia.
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Researcher
IRCAM, Paris
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2002 — November 2004 (2 years 5 months)
Researcher in Artifial Intelligence applied to music, designed and implemented (in Python) a system to analyse musical pieces.
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Developer
PPC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — April 2002 (2 years 4 months)
Programmer of web applications, using ASP, MSSQL, PHP.
Kasper Souren’s Education
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Hogeschool van Beeldende Kunsten, Muziek en Dans
sonology, electronic music 2001 — 2002
- Activities and Societies:
- I staged performances of my electronic music, played in an experimental jazz ensemble and John Zorn's Cobra.
I helped composer Clarence Barlow to migrate his software to GNU/Linux.
DJ at local radio station.
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Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Master of Science , Mathematics , 1995 — 2000
Received my Propedeuse with Honors (cum laude).
Graduated on a thesis on string searching. -
St. Janscollege Hoensbroek
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Kasper Souren’s Interests:
traveling, listening and creating music, hospitality exchange, hitchhiking, languages, reading novels, Wikipedia
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