Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

name: Sander Rudolfus Kooijmans
e-mail: sander@gogognome.nl
birthdate: November 28th 1975
place of birth: Boxmeer (Netherlands)

Skills

Dutch: native speaker
English: oral: very good, written: very good
German: oral: reasonable, written: basics
French: oral: basics, written: basics

programming languages: Java, C++, C, C#, Python, Perl, Pascal, Z80-assembler
operating systems: Linux, Microsoft Windows (XP, 2000 Server, 2003 Server), Unix

Professional career

HighTech ICT (January 2010 – now)

• Senior software developer in a team consisting of four persons automating part of the production department of a paint factory in ‘s Hertogenbosch. (September 2010 – now)
• Senior software developer for TNO Automotive in Helmond. Several programming jobs for PreScan, Automotive Week and MF-Tool. (March 2011 – September 2011)
• Senior software developer in a team consisting of three persons developing a warehouse management system for a paint factory in ‘s Hertogenbosch. (April 2010 – March 2011)
• Senior software developer in a small team (2 to 4 persons) developing a new integration server for Digitenne of KPN. The integration server receives commands from several Subscription Management Systems to add subscriptions to or remove subscriptions from smart cards. The integraion server passes this information on to a conditional access system that adds subscription information per smart card to the digital television signal. The decoder of customers uses this information to determine which channels can or cannot be watched. (January 2010 – April 2010).

PharmaPartners (November 2006 – December 2009)

• Software engineer working on the new PharmaCom product. PharmaCom is a product for pharmacies in the Netherlands.

Philips Medical Systems (June 2005 – October 2006)

• Software engineer in a project working on a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and cardiac viewing application.

Philips Applied Technologies (October 2001 – May 2005)

• Software engineer working for Philips Medical Systems (Best) in a team working on software for a cardio/vascular X-ray detector. (March 2005 – April 2005)
• Software engineer in a team of 4 people participating in the blu-ray standardisation. I was involved mainly in the BD-J part of the standard. (June 2004 – March 2005; May 2005)
• Software engineer in a team of 4 people, developing a set-top box for the pilot project of Motiva. Motiva is a personal healthcare appliaction that has won a Medical Design Excellence Award in 2005. In February 2006, Philips Medical Systems announced that the company Frost & Sullivan has awarded Philips Medical Systems the Technology Leadership Award 2005 for Motiva. (December 2003 – June 2004)
• Software engineer in a project of 15 people in which a media player for the Windows platform is produced. (September 2003 – December 2003)
• Software engineer in a project of 100-150 people. Goal of the project is to develop set-top boxes and digital televisions compliant with the MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) standard. During this project I have gained experience in the field of satellite receivers, the DVB and MPEG standards. For about 5 months I have focussed on the system software update protocol. (October 2001 – September 2003)
• Integrator in the MHP project in Suresnes (Paris – France). (April 2002 – June 2002)

Education

Stan Ackermans Institute (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Software Technology (OOTI) (September 1999 – August 2001)

• Principal subjects: software engineering, formal methods, professional development
• Final project: Evaluation of the EPOC operating system at Philips Research in Eindhoven (December 2000 – August 2001)
• Workshop: Architect in the Argus project. This project had a duration of three months, in which 14 people developed software for a hard disc based video recorder (April 2000 – June 2000).

Eindhoven University of Technology

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (September 1994 – August 1999)

• Principal subjects: software engineering, distributed systems, parallelism
• Final assignment: The design of a parallel programming language to implement distributed algorithms and a simulator to evaluate these algorithms. Supervisor: dr.ir. R.R. Hoogerwoord (October 1998 – June 1999)
• Subsidiary subjects: speech technology, image technology, computer graphics, cryptology and coding theory, parsing and compilers

Atheneum-B at Elzendaal College Boxmeer (diploma 1994)

Other activities

• Trainer of a youth team of volleybalvereniging Set Up. (September 2009-June 2010)
• Member of the executive committee of table tennis club The White Balls. Secretary of the executive committee since May 2007. (May 2006-May 2009)
• Treasurer of volleyball club volleybalvereniging Set Up. (March 2006-June 2011)
• Co-ordinator of referees of volleyball club VCE/PSV. (2003-February 2005)
• Member of the lustrum committee organizing festivities for students’ volleyball club Tamar that celebrates its 40th birthday in 2003. (2003-2004)
• Executive function as vice chairman of students’ volleyball club Tamar. (1998-1999)
• Executive function as contest director of students’ volleyball club Tamar. (1998-1999)
• Executive function as chairman of the tournament committee of students’ volleyball club Tamar, organising an international outdoor volleyball tournament. (1996-1997, 1997-1998)
• Member of ‘de Werkwinkel’, a committee of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science that retrieved, duplicated and gave away old exams for students. (1994-1996)
• Postman of PPT-Post on Saturdays to supplement scholarship (1994-1997).
• Hobbies: volleyball, programming (2nd place at Dutch National Programming Contest for student teams, 5th place at the Northwestern European Programming Contest), piano, reading.