Personal data

Name:

drs. Björn Hermans

Domicile:

Utrecht

Year of Birth:

1972

E-mail:

bjorn@hermans.org

Work experience

2010 - now

Owner of no-nonsense impro in Utrecht:

1. Offering impro & theatresports workshops to both private and business groups;

2007 - now

Java Developer Front-End at bol.com in Nieuwegein:

1. Development of Java (J2EE) applications in an ATG environment for the bol.com Webshop;
2. Fulfilling the role of Technical Application Owner (TAO) of the catalog part of the Webshop.

2005 - 2007:

Senior Software Engineer at Be Value in Utrecht:

1. Development of Java (J2SE) applications in an Autonomy K2 environment, among others;
2. Writing functional and technical specifications;
3. Taking part in the realization of the renewed government-wide search engine

2003 - 2005:

Internet Software Engineer at Mirabeau in Amsterdam:

1. Development of Perl and Java (J2SE) applications in Mediasurface environments;
2. Writing technical specifications;
3. Writing technical and user documentation.

2003:

Software Developer Perl at Nedstat in Amsterdam:

1. Development of applications linked to the MySQL database in which IP address data are linked to geographical data (IPDB);
2. Writing functional and technical specifications;
3. Creating a suitable development environment for IPDB applications.

2001 - 2003:

Senior Internet Developer at E-cube in Nijmegen:

1. Development of Web applications, mostly on top of the E-commerce software of Intershop;
2. Writing documentation;
3. Writing functional and technical specifications.

2000 - 2001:

Software Developer at Semergy in Nieuwegein. Semergy was an Internet start-up active in the fields of Semantic Classification, Information Retrieval, (Web) Crawling and Knowledge Management;

1. Active involvement in designing and planning of the architecture of the Semergy software suite;
2. Development of those components responsible for gathering and converting content & the general suite management..

1996 - 2000:

Information Filtering Consultant at Cap Gemini in Utrecht:

1. Keeping track of the latest developments in the areas of the new media, such as the Web;
2. Writing short reports and papers;
3. Development in various programming languages of prototypes;
4. Writing functional and technical specifications.

Education

1996 - 2000

Cap Gemini Opleidingen:

Various courses, including Facilitating Workshops, Java, and Presentation Techniques.

1991 - 1996

University of Tilburg:

Studied Language and Literature Studies, where I graduated in the degree programme Language & Artificial Intelligence. Additional courses were attended in such areas as computer operating systems, computer networks and information policies.
The subject of my end thesis were the present and future possibilities of Intelligent Software Agents. This thesis was published in the March '97 issue of the First Monday journal.
In 1998, I have written a follow-up paper to my end thesis entitled Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch.

Computer skills

 

1. Good general knowledge of the Internet, the Web, Windows and PCs;
2. Broad experience in Java (J2SE/J2EE), Perl, HTML, and JavaScript;
3. Average experience with UNIX/Linux, XML, SQL, CSS.

Language skills

Dutch:

Very good oral and writing skills;

English:

Above average English oral skills and (very) good writing skills;

French & German:

Fair oral and writing skills.

Personal interests

 

I am interested in major developments regarding the Internet and the World Wide Web. I am also fascinated by the love-hate relationship between computers/technology and (us) humans. Other interests are the culinary side of life, going to the movies or the theatre, photography, board games, and playing theatresports with the Utrecht theatresports group KEK_.