Resume
Personalia
| Name | Drs.ing. H.J.P.M. Vos |
| Given name | Fred |
| Date of birth | 12 May 1962 |
| Marital status | Unmarried |
| E-mail adres | fred 'at' fredvos 'dot' org |
| Driver's license | BCDE |
Education
- 1993-1997: Food and Toxicology, Open University - The Netherlands, thesis: Adding compensatory growth to the Technical Model Pigfeeding, diploma: 1998. This study is done in my spare time.
- 1979-1983: Food Technology, HAS 's-Hertogenbosch, diploma: 1983
- 1974-1979: HAVO, Maaslandcollege Oss, diploma: 1979
And:
- Prince2 (2007)
- Several IT and modelling courses, like a number of AMBI-modules (end 1980's), 'Building simple mathematical models', by DLO in 1991, Oracle Designer, in 1996 by Bergler in Amstelveen, 'Building web services in Java' (2004+2005).
- Internal Auditor (ISO 9001), Berenschot & Batalas, 1999
Work Experience
2001-now: Tilburg University
Currently working als software developer in team Development of LIS (Library and IT-services). Now main developer for a European project called NEEO, where I'm involved in the setup of the technical architecture and I'm the lead developer for the portal that is about to be launched in January 2010 (based on Java, OAI, Lucene, Wicket). Before this I worked on software for publication lists of scholars from Tilburg University and other universities from The Netherlands and Europe. These publication lists are based on bibliographic metadata from Institutional Repositories (OAI, XSL, Cocoon).
Before: Library, team Digital Services. Developer. Development of web-based applications, mainly in Perl. Worked on a so-called Library Portal 'iPort'. For iPort I developed the Current Awareness Service. Worked on Institutional Repository software. Built the interface for the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol (OAI-PMH2) for it and tools to synchronize bibliographic metadata from a research management system with the Institutional Repository and to export data to a z39.50 database.
2000-2002: Volunteer at Buro Slachtofferhulp (victim service)
This is work that was done in my spare time at the bureau in 's-Hertogenbosch.
1986-2001: Research Institute for Pig Husbandry
Research assistent en Application Developer, later Scientific Researcher.
1985-1986: Unilever Meat Group
Process Development and Quality Assurance departments.
1983-1984: Military service
11e Herstelcie, Schaarsbergen.
Voluntary Service
2007-now: Digitization of a LETS unit at 's-Hertogenbosch.
Responsible for all technical aspects. The site uses Open Source software and is hosted at a small external organization. Technical advice and vice administrator. Built Java code to generate PDF lists from CSV exports, using XSL-FO.
2002-2009: Administration of a server and several websites
Administration of a server hosting several websites, among others a site for a support association for the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome in The Netherlands, and also this site. Some sites were powered by Apache Cocoon. Some technical advice for the association and advisor for a new site for the World Federation of associations for Cornelia de Lange Syndrome. This was all voluntary service for a friend of mine.
2002-2006: Vice webmaster for a local site of a political party
Technical assistance.
1999-2002: Member of the board and chairman of a LETS unit in 's-Hertogenbosch
1990-1993: Secretary and member of the board of an association of tenants
This association looked after the interests of tenants of two large apartment buildings in Hintham.
IT knowledge
- Java, JUnit, Log4J : good
- XML, XPath, XSLT, W3C schemas : good
- Bibliographic Metadata, Open Archives Initiative : good
- Full text search technology, Lucene : pretty good
- J2EE, Servlets, Eclipse, Maven : pretty good
- Wicket : pretty good
- SQL, Oracle, FirebirdSQL, Derby, PostgreSQL : pretty good
- Linux, Unix : pretty good
- (X)HTML, CSS, WAI : moderate
- Apache, Tomcat, Cocoon : moderate
- CVS, Subversion : moderate
- Perl, shell scripts et cetera : moderate
- SVG, XSL-FO : moderate
- Solr : moderate
Hobbies
Collecting African art. Programming. Learing the Arabic language. Traveling (Egypt, Middle East, black Africa). Watching art and visiting museums. Reading about the history and cultures of Egypt and Africa. Walking, camping.