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Curriculum Vitae
Ivo Timmermans
Personal Details
| name | Ivo Roald Timmermans |
| gender | male |
| nationality | Dutch |
| address | Derde Werelddreef 83, 2622 HC Delft, NL |
| date of birth | 27 September 1977, Utrecht, NL |
| drivers license | European, Category B; possess a car |
Education
- 1995-2003
- Applied Mathematics at the Delft University of Technology; stopped in the bachelor stage.
- 1989-1995
- Secondary school at het Utrechts Stedelijk Gymnasium in Utrecht; subjects passed in final exams: Dutch, Latin, English, German, physics, math A, math B, chemistry, biology.
Career Summary
- February 2002 – present
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Software engineer at Next Element Solution Provider B.V.: Programming in PHP, Perl, C, C++, Python, SQL; project management experience.
- November 2001 – January 2002
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Software engineer at N2IT B.V.: Developing the FinalScratch software application; C++, GTK, Linux, realtime audio.
FinalScratch is an application that allows professional disk jockeys to play digital music (MP3, wav, Ogg Vorbis, etc) using their existing analog mixing environment.
- June 2000 – October 2001
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Software engineer at Cistron Internet Services B.V.: Perl, CGI, Apache, C, PostgreSQL, Linux system administration.
Mostly developing custom CGI-based applications for customers or internal use, for example: a product catalog and online shop for a comics store; a custom content management system for students.
- March 1999 – September 2000
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On detachment from Operator Group Delft as system administrator for a mixed Windows NT and Novell Netware network at the Thuiszorg Nieuwe Waterweg-Noord in Schiedam (institution for home care).
Next to everyday administration activities, I helped migrating a network of about 150 Windows PCs and eight Novell NetWare 3 servers to 200 PCs and fifteen Novell NetWare 5.0 servers.
Publications/talks/competitions
- 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
- Competed in the local (Delft), the Dutch and the Northwest European rounds of the Intercollegiate Programming Contests (ICPC).
- November 2001
- Article GNU Emacs als editor (GNU Emacs as editor), published in the Dutch Linux Magazine.
- May 2001
- Talk High Availability VPN solutions during the spring conference of the NLUUG (Dutch UNIX User Group).
- November 2000
- Article Virtual Private Networks met tinc (Virtual Private Networks with tinc), published in the Dutch Linux Magazine.
- August 2000
- Talk Virtual Private Networks, during the Networking Event 2000.
Cultural Activities
- January 2003 – present
- Learning Aikidou (a Japanese martial art), currently 6th kyuu level.
- October 2002 – present
- Playing Go (Chinese/Japanese board game), currently about 11th kyuu level.
- October 2000 – present
- Package maintainer for Debian GNU/Linux (responsible for the quality of about thirty software packages in Debian, helping with translations to Dutch).
- November 1998 – present
- Coordinator of the Dutch translation team of the Free Software Foundation.
- September 1998 – present
- Author (later co-author) of tinc, a userspace VPN daemon for Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Windows, OSX.
- October 1997 – September 2001
- Network administration commission Delftse Studentenvereniging Sint Jansbrug (student society).
- August 1997 – August 1999
- Member of the Sponsorship Commission in Sint Jansbrug.
- March 1997 – December 1997
- Lustrum Yearbook Commission for Sint Jansbrug (responsible for sponsoring and layout).
- October 1995 – present
- Member of the Delftse Studentenvereniging Sint Jansbrug (student society).
Language proficiency
| Language | Reading | Written | Fluency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch | native, very well | native, very well | native, very well |
| English | fluent | fluent | fluent |
| Swedish | x | x | x |
| German | x | ||
| French | x | ||
| Japanese |
References
References available on request.
