Wim Leers

Current

• 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. I prefer clients who agree to publish these modules at http://drupal.org (therefor GPL-licensed), so everybody can benefit. The client benefits from this as well in the long run!

- 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.

Technology/programming language knowledge:
- In-depth: Drupal, PHP, Qt, C/C++, cross-platform C++/Qt applications, Python
- Solid: jQuery, Java, multi-threaded programming, SQL (MySQL, SQLite, Oracle DB2), XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, testing
- Basics: OpenGL, C#, Haskell, OpenMP, bash, JSP, Perl, awk, batch scripting

Languages:
- Dutch: native
- English: both written and oral at near-native level
- French: used to be fluent
- Spanish: barely any knowledge, but eager to learn!

Wim Leers’s Specialties:

- Drupal development (using PHP, SQL, jQuery, CSS)
- cross-platform applications using Python, Python/Qt or C++/Qt

Wim Leers’s Experience

• Freelance Drupal Developer

  Wim Leers, Freelance Drupal Developer

  (Internet industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  * Drupal module development
  * Web site/application development using Drupal as a framework
  
  Speaking/presenting:
  * FOSDEM 2009
  * DrupalCon DC 2009
  * DrupalCon Paris 2009

• Volunteer/Team building

  TTK Herckenrode VZW

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  November 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  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 just for the youngsters.
  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 (5 years 7 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, regenerative medicine …), movies, table tennis, beach volleyball, semantic web, communication, design, meeting interesting people

Wim Leers’s Groups:

DriverPacks.net, Drupal

•    AIESECAlumni
•    Python Community
•    Drupal
•    Open Source Universe
•    Universiteit Hasselt
•    Drupal Professionals Benelux
•    Qt by Nokia

Wim Leers’s Honors:

- September 2009: presented at DrupalCon Paris
- July 2009: granted a DrupalCon Paris scholarship
- July 2009: bachelor thesis got highest score and was labeled as a master thesis
- July 2009: Computer Science Bachelor study: completed third year with honors
- March 2009: presented at DrupalCon Washington DC
- February 2009: granted a DrupalCon Washington DC scholarship
- January 2009: bachelor thesis proposal selected for inclusion in web content of the college textbook "Technical Communications Today", 2009 edition
- January 2009: presented at FOSDEM
- July 2008: Computer Science Bachelor study: completed second year with honors
- July 2007: Computer Science Bachelor study: completed first year with honors

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