Peter Emanuel Roos

Peter Emanuel Roos

Deltaworks BV (owner), Sr. Interaction Designer, composer of orchestral, cinematic music

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Current
  • Sr. Interaction Designer at Belastingdienst
  • Sound engineer, product developer at Samplicity
  • Moderator at VI Control Forum
  • Composer of orchestral, cinematic music at www.PeterEmanuelRoos.com
  • Owner, Sr. Interaction Designer and Usability Consultant at Deltaworks BV
Past
  • Functional Designer at ABN AMRO
  • Interaction Designer at Mexx
  • CTO, co-founder at Ayuto BV
  • Sr. User Interface Designer at Deltaworks (Self-employed)
  • Sr. User Interface Designer at Informaat BV
  • Director of Software Development at Oliemans Punter & Partners BV
Education
  • Universiteit Utrecht
  • School voor Zijnsorientatie
Connections
126 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Peter Emanuel Roos’s Summary

I see myself as a "Renaissance" man. I have more interests than I have time to spend on all of them...

Keywords:
Usability, interaction design, ergonomics, psychology, software design, design patterns, music, composing, orchestration, recording, music production, studio technology, psycho-acoustics, psychophysics, neuropsychology, psychiatry, consciousness research, philosophy, spiritualism, religions, gnosis, Buddhism, early Christianity, history, astronomy, archeology, cultures, languages, their interrelations and history, cooking, cuisine, evolution and how science is changings its views on it, climate change and our potential roadmaps to the future.

A now for something completely different:

Some of Deltaworks' customers in the last years:
ABN-AMRO Bank, Provincie Gelderland, Hogeschool Utrecht, Delta Lloyd, Shell Global Solutions, Mexx International, Dutch Ministry of Justice.

I have also worked on projects for:
Unilever Research Labs, Heineken Technical Services, Sara Lee.

1986: Co-composer/lyricist of the Dutch summer hit "Zandvoort" with my friend Willem Snijders.

Peter Emanuel Roos’s Specialties:

I have a background in both research psychology (human information processing, perception, psychophysics, ergonomics) and software engineering.
I have 23+ years experience as user interface/interaction designer, product/concept developer and software engineer.


Peter Emanuel Roos’s Experience

  • Sr. Interaction Designer

    Belastingdienst

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

    February 2008Present (8 months)

    Interaction (re-) design of the public website www.toeslagen.nl of the Dutch Tax organization. The new site will be launched end of 2008 for the new fiscal year 2009. About two million citizins (receivers of government funds for health care, child support etc.) will be using the site, which is an informative "pre-portal" for a new portal where tax payers can manage their personal tax-related information.
    The design has recently been tested in a usability lab and has received very positive reactions from the test panel.

  • Sound engineer, product developer

    Samplicity

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

    January 2005Present (3 years 9 months)

    Using the brand name Samplicity, Peter creates and sells pristine quality ambience and reverb Impulse Responses (IRs) for professional recording studios, composers, producers and sound engineers.
    The IR libraries are used by several acclaimed film and TV composers.
    See also www.samplicity.com.

  • Moderator

    VI Control Forum

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

    September 2004Present (4 years 1 month)

    VI Control Forum is a community for professional and starting composers, producers and musicians working with Virtual Instruments, such as samplers and digital software plugins for digital audio workstations. This forum is owned by Frederick Russ.

  • Composer of orchestral, cinematic music

    www.PeterEmanuelRoos.com

    (Privately Held; Myself Only; Music industry)

    1999Present (9 years)

    Composing and producing orchestral music, using a fully equiped professional digital studio with a farm of six computers (Cubase and Gigastudio based), using the best orchestral sample libraries and a 64 track digital mixer. Trailer music, library/production music. Underscoring and writing music synced to film scenes.

  • Owner, Sr. Interaction Designer and Usability Consultant

    Deltaworks BV

    (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 1997Present (11 years 2 months)

    Deltaworks was originally a typically "Dutch" brand name for data analysis software that I developed back in 1993. Now it's the name of my personal Ltd. company, both for my IT and music projects. It is owned by my personal Ltd., Deltaworks Holding BV, which also owns trademarks and music publishing rights.
    For my IT projects I am hired by Interim Management companies, such as Michael Page, Harvey Nash and IT-Staffing (Paxton).

  • Functional Designer

    ABN AMRO

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2007January 2008 (10 months)

  • Interaction Designer

    Mexx

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2003October 2005 (2 years 6 months)

    Hired as Interaction Designer for an extranet application

  • CTO, co-founder

    Ayuto BV

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2000December 2000 (10 months)

  • Sr. User Interface Designer

    Deltaworks (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 1997September 1997 (1 month)

    Read: until now... ;-)

    Started as independent User Interface Designer working for my launching customer AMSL, a high tech company developing wafer-stepper machines for the production of CPUs and memory chips.
    Since 1997 I have been working for "my" Deltaworks", now a Ltd. company (see above).

  • Sr. User Interface Designer

    Informaat BV

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 1994August 1997 (2 years 10 months)

    As user interface designer I worked on projects for:
    Inforay, Centraal Beheer, Ministerie van Justitie, Travel-Net, Ministerie van Rijkswaterstaat, Provincie Gelderland, NedGraphics.

  • Director of Software Development

    Oliemans Punter & Partners BV

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

    January 1987January 1994 (7 years 1 month)

    Responsible for the design and implementation of a networked data acquisition system for Sensory Research, which was used by companies such as Heineken, Unilever, Sara Lee as well as research institutes in Food Science and Technology around the world.


Peter Emanuel Roos’s Education

  • Universiteit Utrecht

    Drs, Pyschology (Perception Research/Psychofysics) and Data Analysis/Statistics (double major), 19781986

    Activities and Societies:
    Minor in Computer Science (Operating Systems, Algorithms and Data Structures)
  • School voor Zijnsorientatie

    First three years of the six year, part-time course


Additional Information

Peter Emanuel Roos’s Websites:

Peter Emanuel Roos’s Interests:

In my free time I am studying composition, orchestration and production techniques for film music. For this purpose I have a fully equipped digital studio based around Steinberg Cubase, four sampler PC's and a reverb PC. Apart from IT services, I can also offer professional music scoring services (orchestral, cinematic).

Peter Emanuel Roos’s Groups:

V.I. Control Forum

  •    Chi Nederland
  •    Interaction Design Association
  •    Freelance IT Professionals (1500+)
  •    User Experience
  •    Music and Entertainment Professionals
  •    NVvE

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