Wim Leers

Current

• Intern at Mollom
• Freelance Drupal Developer at Wim Leers, Freelance Drupal Developer
• Volunteer/Team building at TTK Herckenrode VZW

• Project Leader at DriverPacks.net

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Websites

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• Project: DriverPacks.net

Wim Leers’s Summary

- Drupal module development (using PHP, SQL, jQuery and CSS). I prefer clients who agree to publish these modules at drupal.org (GPL-licensed), so everybody can benefit (the client benefits from this as well!).

- Creation of tools to create and maintain professional Microsoft Windows deployment solutions. These tools are now used by tens of thousands system administrators, Windows deployment consultants, universities and IT companies. See http://driverpacks.net/ for details.

Language/technology knowledge:
- In-depth: Drupal, PHP, Qt, C/C++, cross-platform C++/Qt applications
- Solid: jQuery, Java, multi-threaded programming (Pthreads, QThreads, NSPR threads, Java Threads), OpenMP, SQL (MySQL, Oracle DB2), XHTML, CSS, Javascript
- Basics: OpenGL, Haskell, shell scripting, JSP, XML, Perl, awk, batch scripting

Wim Leers’s Specialties:

- Web: Drupal module development, jQuery and UX
- cross-platform applications using C++/Qt
- Windows XP deployment

Wim Leers’s Experience

• Intern

  Mollom

  (Internet industry)

  July 2008 — Present (6 months)

  Drupal development.
  
  Notable requirements:
  - strive to full testing coverage (unit and functional testing)
  - complex AHAH-driven forms that degrade gracefully and that are testable

• Freelance Drupal Developer

  Wim Leers, Freelance Drupal Developer

  (Internet industry)

  June 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  * Drupal module development
  * Web site/application development using Drupal as a framework

• Volunteer/Team building

  TTK Herckenrode VZW

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  November 2005 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  I'm a member of the youth committee of TTK Herckenrode – which is a table tennis club.
  We organize activities for all members of the club, sometimes for the youngsters in particular.
  In particular, I've been organizing team building events for the youth committee.

• Project Leader

  DriverPacks.net

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2004 — Present (4 years 8 months)

  Founder of the DriverPacks.net project, after going open source in November 2006, still Project Leader. The software provided by this project has been used by many small and mid-sized companies (including consultants who work for large companies), as well as universities.

Additional Information

Wim Leers’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• Project: DriverPacks.net

Wim Leers’s Interests:

Drupal, jQuery, usability, high-tech (nanotechnology, bionics), movies, table tennis, Web 2.0, travelling

Wim Leers’s Groups:

DriverPacks.net, Drupal

•    AIESECAlumni
•    Drupal
•    Open Source
•    Universiteit Hasselt
•    Drupal Professionals Benelux

Wim Leers’s Honors:

- July 2008: Computer Science Bachelor study: completed second year cum laude
- July 2007: Computer Science Bachelor study: completed first year cum magna laude

Wim Leers’s Contact Settings

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