Reinout van Rees

Current

Programmer at Zest software

Past

PhD student at Delft university of technology
Research assistant at Stichting STABU

Education

Technische Universiteit Delft
Technische Universiteit Delft
overvoorde

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Reinout van Rees’s Summary

A real valuable professional experience has been the two-year EU research project eConstruct, in which I participated full-time. I was very actively involved and designed and co-designed many of the core results of the project. Working together with other people throughout Europe and making real progress: great!

I'm actually working a bit in two separate industries at the moment: PhD in civil engineering (the IT side of it, though) and open source programmer for elaborate websites. A combination of both would be ideal, at the moment I'm quite happy improving my raw programming skills and I'm also very much enjoying the company I'm working at (zest software) and the open source community (Plone) I'm a part of now.

Regarding the building and construction industry: my goal is to allow it to improve itself by giving it the instruments to do so. Instruments, in my book, that include internet, semantic web, etcetera. Important: I like things simple. Nothing too elaborate: simpleness reigns supreme.

A second goal is to be open and to share knowledge freely. Important item here is my website that I use to provide others with the bit of information that I have. I post a lot of stuff on my weblog.

Very important to me is open source software. My preferences are working with the language Python, the web application server Zope and the content management system Plone.

Reinout van Rees’s Specialties:

My specialty is bringing the combination of my mind and my lazy attitude to bear on problems. This can mean a lot of things.

For instance applying a mixture of modeling, internet programming and open source to the building and construction industry. Figuring out a pretty simple, perhaps even simplistic, solution to exchange information.

Or at my current programming job: I'm sprouting little or big programs left and right to automate things that I'm too bored to do by hand.

Reinout van Rees’s Experience

Programmer

Zest software

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

March 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)

On 1 April 2005 I started as python/zope/plone programmer for Zest software (http://zestsoftware.nl). I'm free to keep an eye out for Building-Construction related opportunities and will do so. Most of my civil engineering PhD software is build with Python and Plone, so it is a good fit.

I'm enjoying myself enormeously immersing myself in the technology and the open source Plone community.
PhD student

Delft university of technology

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Civil Engineering industry)

September 2000 — January 2007 (6 years 5 months)

My research is best summarised by the phrase "getting the construction industry talking to each other via the internet". Loads of research is poured into expensive databases, expensive CAD packages etcetera: stuff that's only payable and usable by the top 1% of the construction companies and architects. I've always kept true to the realisation that my solutions and results should be usable by all sorts of companies: also the small ones.

A very important and enjoyable part of my PhD was the first two years: I participated full-time in the EU research project "eConstruct". International collaboration, good atmosphere, working together: great.

I've tried to remain pretty practical by implementing as much as possible of my research. Myself. For which I use mostly open source tools: python, zope, plone, linux.

On 15 Januari 2007 I'll give my PhD thesis defense, so the end is in sight!

I've given a university course on UML modeling and ArchiCad (for four years).
Research assistant

Stichting STABU

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

October 2000 — September 2004 (4 years)

I spend 3/5th of my PhD research time at STABU, which funded part of my research. For STABU I did a lot of eConstruct project work, including work on the LexiCon. Most of the time I did my "normal" research, but also some development of computer programs for internal use (successfully :-).

Reinout van Rees’s Education

Technische Universiteit Delft

PhD, Civil engineering, 2000 — 2006

AEC, building and construction industry, ontology, object library, semantic web, internet, econstruct european project (bcxml). I'm also actually implementing my research, for which I use mostly open source tools: python, zope, plone, linux.

Activities and Societies:

personal development course, organisation and management course, research school structural engineering, onderzoekschool bouw
Technische Universiteit Delft

MSc, civil engineering, 1991 — 2000

Specialisations: civil engineering informatics, traffic engineering, planning

Activities and Societies:

C.S.R.-Delft, IFES, IFES-Nederland, choir
overvoorde

VWO, 1987 — 1991
College Blaucapel

VWO, 1984 — 1987