Curriculum Vitae - Ir. Jim N. van Dam

 

 

HiPeS
Het Breed 651
1025 HX Amsterdam
Netherlands

Tel: +31206364674
Mobile: +31653750119

April 2004

Education:
I received my Master of Science degree in computer science at the Technical University of Delft, department of Mathematics and Computer Science. My thesis presented the results of my research and business experience in integrating Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology through a new approach in Methodologies. During my studies I was active as an assistant to Prof. Dr. H.J. van den Herik.

I started my own business in August 1987 and since that time I work as a free lance consultant.

As a consultant, architect, trouble-shooter and developer I participated in projects concerning:
- Business to ICT Consultancy
- The Software development process and methodologies
- Object Oriented analysis, design and software engineering
- AI and Knowledge Technology
- Document Management and Workflow
- Information Retrieval

As an analyst, designer and programmer I have knowledge of and experience with:
- the programming languages: C, C++, Java, Pascal, Prolog, Lisp, C# and various scripting environments
- the methodologies/methods/development environments/case-tools: OMT, Booch, SDW, DSDM, KADS, RUP, UML, WSAD, NetBeans, MS Visual Studio, OptimalJ and the Rational toolset
- the operating systems, Unix (Solaris, Linux) and Windows (NT, 9x, 2000,XP)
- the relational database management systems SQL Server, Ingres and Oracle
- the AI-environments: AionDS, SNAP and ART

As a teacher I have given courses in the programming languages C and C++, OO A/D/P, Unix as a development environment, artificial intelligence, knowledge technology and UML/RUP. As an author I wrote several articles in Computer Magazines.

Certifications

Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP 1.4)

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP .Net)

Professional Experience

1985 - 1987 Consultant Knowledge Engineering, Westmount Technology, Delft.

1987 to date Working as a free Lance Consultant/Researcher (Leaping Bits™) and started HiPeS in September 2002

Responsibilities

1988 to date Consultant and architect in numerous projects concerning Information- and Knowledge Technology.

1988 to date Software Engineer in numerous projects working with for instance C, C++, C#, Java, AionDS, SNAP, ART, Prolog, Lisp, XML, XSL(T/FO), SVG, SOAP, (D)HTML, J2EE, WebSphere MQ, .Net and various scripting languages

1992 - 1994 Researcher for new techniques in ‘Knowledge Based Information Retrieval’, Technical University Delft.

1992 - 1994 Lecturer/Researcher Knowledge Representation, Centrum voor Kennistechnologie (CIBIT), Utrecht

1996 - 2002 Member of the general management team of different IT-companies:
? Hecta (Zoeterwoude, 3 employees, bought by Admotion)
? Guidance NL (Nieuwegein, 21 employees, bought by CCV)
? RepIT (Tilburg, 10 employees, bought by Ordina)

Memberships

Member of IEEE, ACM and Kivi since 1990.

History of Projects

1985-1987 Consultancy and product support for ART, KES, Quintus Prolog and Lucid Common Lisp, Westmount, Delft.

1985-1987 Lecturer: ‘C’, Unix and Knowledge Technology, Westmount, Delft.

1987 Consultancy on feasibility of Knowledge Technology, Akzo Research, Arnhem.

1988 Consultancy on Introducing Knowledge Tools, SHAPE Technical Centre, The Hague.

1988-1992 Development of an Advisory system in C, Ingres, SunView and SNAP on SUN workstations, Haagse Hogeschool, The Hague.

1989 Consultancy on Development of a Help-Desk system, Guideline, Leiden.

1990 Research on several Expert-system development environments: AionDS, Nexpert and ART-IM, PC+, Amsterdam.

1990-1991 Consultancy and Development of an intelligent Database System in Borland- and MS-C++, BID, The Hague

1991 Development of course material and lecturer: Unix as a Development Environment, ITS, Kuwait.

1991-1994 Consultancy on Introducing Knowledge Technology in Products, Services and Software Development for EDM and Workflow; Work included development of a new methodology for InputMatics, Farrington, Haarlem.

1991-1992 Development of course material and lecturer: C++ and Object Oriented Development Course, Westmount, Delft and van Buuren van Swaay, Zoetermeer.

1992 Consultancy on Integrating Document Management in the core business process, BGC, Amsterdam.

1992 Design and development of a Knowledge Based System for Business-Analysis, KPMG, The Hague. Building environment: C, AionDS, dBase IV

1992 Consultancy on Information Retrieval, Patent en Octrooibureau, The Hague.

1992-1994 Lecturer and researcher: principles of knowledge based systems, Knowledge Representation, Centrum voor Kennistechnologie (CIBIT), Utrecht.

1993 Consultancy on Information Retrieval in Banking, Anhyp, Antwerpen.

1993 Consultancy on Integrating IT and KT in an OO environment for Image Analysis, Rijkswaterstaat, Delft.

1993-1994 Consultancy on Introducing Object Oriented Software Development for EDM and Workflow, Farrington, Haarlem.

1993-1994 Design and development of intelligent form design software, including code-generation, for Farrington in Haarlem. Building environment: Visual C++, Lex/Yacc, MFC, Master-Series and Kofax imaging on MS-Windows.

1994 Consultancy on using intelligent data-entry techniques, Jaarbeurs Utrecht.

1994 Consultancy on Development of a workflow Environment using Object Oriented techniques, RCC, Apeldoorn. Building environment: SNAP on Sun workstations.

1994 Lecturer: SNAP special course, Siemens knowledge technology group, Vienna.

1994 OO Design and development of an integrated environment for image analysis, Rijkswaterstaat meetkundige Dienst, Delft. Building environment: C, X-Motif, SNAP and Scil-Image on Sun workstations.

1994 Consultancy on introducing intelligent document management in health-care archives, RBB, Den Haag.

1994 Integration of Form Design software with image-handling and key-entry software. Building environment: Visual C++, MFC and Master-Series on MS-Windows, DEKIMO, Gent

1994 Consultancy on Optical Character Recognition in Document Management systems, CMV Bank, Amersfoort.

1994 Development of a proposal handling system, West Consulting, Delft. Building environment: C++, Solaris, X-Motif, Java and FrameMaker on Dec and Sun Workstations.

1994 Consultancy on toolselection for the building of a knowledge intensive application, RCC, Zoetermeer.

1995 Feasibility study on Intelligent Information Retrieval, VROM/DGM, The Hague

1995 Technical project manager for a 5-man team designing and developing the Workflow Template in SNAP on Sun Solaris, RCC, Apeldoorn

1995 to date Design and development of a branche-specific Case-Tool including an application generator. Building environment: AionDS, Cobol, Java, Visual C++, Lex/Yacc, SQL/Server and Oracle, Interpolis and RepIT, Tilburg

1996 to 1998 Member of the management team of a company specialized in education and training for software developers, Guidance Nederland, Nieuwegein

1996 Consultancy on transition to a C++/OO development environment for a large insurance application, Centraal Beheer, Apeldoorn

1996 to 2001 Member of the management team of a company specialized in intelligent software for physical performance, Hecta, Zoeterwoude

1997 to 2002 Lecturer on software development using the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Rose and RUP, Guidance Nederland, Nieuwegein

1997 Consultancy on IT architecture, project analysis and management consultancy, STER, Hilversum

1997 to 2002 OO software design and development for e-commerce applications on the Web in Java, HTML, and C++ using UML and RUP, Guidance Payment Technologies, Nieuwegein

1997 - 1999 Member of the management team of a software development company that supports a branche specific case-tool with full application codegeneration, RepIT, Tilburg

1998 Design of a rental system for industrial materials using the RepIT Case-Tool, and UML, Stork Materieel, Botlek

1998 - 1999 Consultancy on the architecture and OO design of a large insurance application: ‘Alles in 1 Polis’, Interpolis, Tilburg

1999 Design and development of a platform independent library for communication between financial exchanges, ANSI C, pthreads, Windows NT, Unix (AIX, IRIX), VMS, FinCom+, Amsterdam

1999 to 2000 Consultancy on the architecture and design of a framework for software development of large distributed systems for local authorities’ administrative offices, DSDM, Cool:Gen, GAK/ASZ, Amsterdam

1999 to date Consultancy on the architecture, OO design and integration of several insurance front- and back-office applications, C++, C#, WebSphere MQ, Siebel, SQL/Server, XML/XSLT, BizTalk, Interpolis, Tilburg

2000 Development of a presentation manager using Java and Swing for generated application back ends, RepIT, Tilburg

2000-2001 Design and development of a Intranet Webapplication for logging research data using C# and ASP.Net, Admotion, Zoeterwoude

2002 Development of a datatransformation component, .Net, C#, XML, Interpolis, Tilburg

2002-2003 Consultancy on the implementation of a software factory for business critical insurance applications, C++, C#, Windows 2000, .Net, SQL Server, Application Centre, Interpolis, Tilburg

2002 to date Architecture, design and implementation of a service-oriented application platform using WebSphere MQ, XML/XSLT, SOAP, Siebel, Windows 2000 and the .Net framework, Interpolis, Tilburg

2002 Consultancy on the use and integration of RUP and the Rational Suite with existing development tools, Ordina, Eindhoven

2003 Development of a Business Process Management application using Savvion, JBuilder, J2EE, Telexis, Rijswijk

2003 to date Consultancy on implementing RUP for requirements gathering, modeling and software selection/development, Purchase and HRM departments, Center Parcs Europe, Rotterdam

2003 to date Development of a provisioning gateway for telecommunication service providers and network operators, C#, .Net, XML/XSLT, SQL Server, UML, Telexis / Telfort, Rijswijk

2003 to date Consultancy on improving performance of insurance applications based on a service architecture, XML, BizTalk, Websphere MQ, .Net, Interpolis Tilburg

2004 Architecture, design and development of an electronic Voting Box application using VB.Net, SQL Server, Pink Roccade / BoxxMail, Amsterdam

2004 Development of a Java Swing rich client front-end for a J2EE back-end system, Java, Swing, J2EE, OptimalJ, Compuware, Elegant / Nationale Postcode- en Sponsor Loterij, Almere

Languages:
Dutch: native speaker
English: fluent
German: good
French: average
Portuguese: average

Hobbies:
From age 7 I actively participated in about 8 different sports. I was a member of the national Basketball team of the Netherlands. I have played basketball on a professional level during five seasons and was the highest ranked Dutch professional basketball player on the 1993 all-star list.
I play guitar and piano and like to listen to Van Morrison, Kenny G and classical music.