
Sr Mad Scientist at Fabrique
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

Sr Mad Scientist at Fabrique
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands
whooo! go web!
Copyright, Web development frameworks, Software development, Free and Open Source software, Web application security, Frontend as well as Backend web development, Scalability, Data integrity.
(Privately Held; Design industry)
November 2009 — Present (5 months)
I basically keep myself busy with general Mad Science involving computers, code, latex and a rather weird group of colleagues.
(Privately Held; Design industry)
February 2007 — November 2009 (2 years 10 months)
Webdevelopment, Game development, Online Marketing, SEO, Webserver management, Database modeling, Agile-y-things, Django, Python, PHP, MySQL, Web standards, Unicode, Translation management .. stuff like that.
(Internet industry)
January 2002 — December 2007 (6 years )
Founder and CTO of Madcat. A small design company, who hold webstandards and aesthetics in high regard. Either you do something well, or not at all.
The work varies from webdesign to painting to print design.
The work we do one the web is mainly done in PHP4/5, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Python and Perl.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — January 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Responsible for a large portion of the TBlox ERP platform. Responsible for training the developers. Improved usability and usability awareness and tried to focus on quality and testing.
Development work involving PHP5, MySQL, Javascript, XHTML, CSS, Python, Perl, sh. Created a homegrown MVC/Front controller framework and component library.
Did some consulting on how to do software development and constructed a more structured way of doing that.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year )
Co-Developed a multiplatform (IIS, Apache) web-port of a monitoring system involving water-management. Used PHP4, MySQL/PostgreSQL, CSS, Smarty/Savant templating, SOAP and XML-RPC.
Started a project involving online statistics management. Used PHP4, PostgreSQL, XHTML, CSS and focussed on I18N.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
January 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 9 months)
Webdeveloper. languages/standards used: PHP3/4, HTML, Javascript, XML, CSS and Perl.
Some systems administration work involving high traffic websites and databases (master-slave setups, tuning apache). Mostly responsable for developing and maintaining the spelpunt platform (http://www.spelpunt.nl).
1998 — 2003
1992 — 1998
Weblogging, Publishing, Usability, Dynamic Languages, Web2.0, Ajax, CSS, UCD, Experience Design, Skateboarding, Zen buddhism, Mindfulness, Environment, Nature, Politics, Kids, Good Food, Cradle-to-Cradle, Sustainable Development
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