Marco van Hylckama Vlieg

Current

Front End Engineer - Globalization Team at Yahoo!

Past

Front End Engineer i18n Tigers Team at Yahoo!
Web Developer at Yahoo!
Owner at Flying Weasel Multimedia

Lead Concept, Design & Frontend Development at adocca entertainment AB
Trainer at Eduvision
ICT Consultant at Pareto
Contractor at Commodore International Corp
Contractor at Commodore International Corp.
software engineer at mattmo
software engineer at Endemol
Technical Manager / Lead developer at Yumanet S.A.
software engineer at tribute

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Education

Universiteit Twente

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

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Marco van Hylckama Vlieg’s Summary

Innovative allround internet specialist with a focus on front end web development and design. Also proficient in back-end development with PHP and MySQL as well as UNIX system administration.

International working experience in Sweden, the Dominican Republic, the United Kingdom and my country of origin, the Netherlands.

Broad experience ranging from freelancing, working in startups, small internet agencies to the large corporations in the industry.

Thrives under a healthy amount of pressure and when presented with truly challenging problems. Most of all I love innovation and working on new concepts.

Marco van Hylckama Vlieg’s Specialties:

xhtml, css, javascript, php, graphic design, internet innovation, mysql and other databases, xml, xslt, mobile applications, i-mode applications, unix, linux, web standards, photography

Marco van Hylckama Vlieg’s Experience

Front End Engineer - Globalization Team

Yahoo!

(Public Company; Internet industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

Working on l10n, i18n and g11n stuff for the greater good of Yahoo!
Front End Engineer i18n Tigers Team

Yahoo!

(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

October 2008 — May 2009 (8 months)

Member of the i18n/l10n Tigers team at Yahoo! which is a team of dediated specialists dealing with internationalization and localization of large scale websites.

Based in Sunnyvale, California.
Web Developer

Yahoo!

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

2007 — October 2008 (1 year )

Web developer in the Front Doors team. I have worked on all EU Yahoo! homepages and more importantly on developing the brand new homepage platform for Yahoo! internationally.
Owner

Flying Weasel Multimedia

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)

March 2004 — March 2007 (3 years 1 month)

Co-owner of Flying Weasel Multimedia, a wireless/mobile company behind iFriends, the number #1 mobile chat/date community in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Company and it's assets sold to Xwits B.V.
Lead Concept, Design & Frontend Development

adocca entertainment AB

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

July 2006 — February 2007 (8 months)
Trainer

Eduvision

(Privately Held; Higher Education industry)

2002 — June 2006 (4 years )

I've been working as a freelance teacher for Eduvision for several years already. In addition to this I developed the 'Masterclass PHP' for Eduvision and delivered the course to students as well. Currently I'm teaching both advanced PHP programming as well as Linux system administration courses.
ICT Consultant

Pareto

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

January 2005 — February 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Working as internet consultant / developer on various projects both in-house and on-site. Focus lies on web application development in PHP with MySQL on UNIX platforms.
Contractor

Commodore International Corp

(Public Company; Internet industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
Contractor

Commodore International Corp.

(Public Company; Internet industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
software engineer

mattmo

(Internet industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years )

Worked on various small scale internet productions. Mattmo has it's focus on design rather than technology which is why I decided to leave the company after 1.5 years. Worked on several rather interesting projects nevertheless such as the Mattmo MoodEngine which is an advanced XML/SMIL based multimedia presentation package, the Alumni portfolio website for the Design Academy in Eindhoven, an online jobs site for MatchOne and the Archis architecture magazine website.
software engineer

Endemol

(Public Company; Internet industry)

2001 — 2004 (3 years )

Worked as a senior software engineer in a leading role on high profile websites, mainly for TV shows. The best example is the Big Brother internet project which we implemented both in the Netherlands as well as in Bucharest, Romania. In adddition to this I've developed Holland's first real-time quiz game in which players could 'join in' and play against the candidates in the TV studio with their PC's. Also involved in developing the Endemol Nederland corporate intranet and many other projects.
Technical Manager / Lead developer

Yumanet S.A.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Managed the technical / design department in a Santo Domingo, DR based startup company.
Developed a 5-language tourist portal on the Dominican Republic, an online hotel booking system, engineering work on Windows 2000 networks with UNIX routers/mailservers/gateways for small Dominican companies. Thoroughly broadened and deepened experience on the fields of programming, design and customer relationships during this period.
software engineer

tribute

(Internet industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

My first full-time job. Worked on managing many UNIX systems, developed a full scale streaming media service for SurfNET here and learned to program in PHP.