Personal data:

Name:	drs. Björn Hermans
Domicile:	Utrecht
E-mail:	bjorn@hermans.org
Date of Birth:	22nd of September 1972 in Eindhoven

Work experience:

June 2007 - now:	Java Developer Front End at bol.com in Nieuwegein: development of Java (J2EE) applications for the bol.com web shop.
September 2005 - May 2007:	Senior Software Engineer at Be Value in Utrecht: development of Java (J2SE) applications, among others in Autonomy K2 environments; writing functional and technical designs; participated in the realisation of the renewed, government-wide search engine.
November 2003 - September 2005:	Internet Software Engineer at Mirabeau in Amsterdam: development of Perl and Java (J2SE)/JSP applications in Mediasurface environments; writing technical designs; writing technical and end-user documentation.
January 2003 - October 2003:	Software Developer Perl at NedStat in Amsterdam: development of applications related to the MySQL database in which IP address data are linked to geographical data (IPDB); writing functional and technical specifications; creating a suitable development environment for IPDB applications.
December 2001 - January 2003:	Senior Internet Developer at E-cube in Nijmegen: development of applications on top of the Intershop E-commerce software suite; writing documentation; writing functional and technical specifications.
September 2000 - December 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; active involvement in designing and planning of the architecture of the Semergy software suite; development of those components responsible for gathering and converting content & the general suite management.
September 1996 - September 2000:	Information Filtering Consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Utrecht. The job was performed at the Advanced Information Filtering unit of the Cap Gemini Institute; keeping track of the latest developments in the areas of the New Media; writing short reports and papers; development in various programming languages of prototypes for mostly demonstration purposes; writing functional and technical specifications.

Education:

1996 - 2000	Cap Gemini Ernst & Young: Attended various courses, including "Facilitating Workshops", "Java", "Presentation Techniques" and "Architectural Design of Distributed Information Systems".
1991 - 1996	Tilburg University: Studied Language and Literature Studies where I graduated in the degree programme "Language and Artifical Intelligence". Additional courses were attended in such areas as computer operating systems, computer networks and information policies.

IT skills:

• good general knowledge of the Internet, the Web, Windows and Personal Computers;
  
• broad experience in Java (J2SE), Perl, HTML, and JavaScript;
  
• fair up until medium experience with UNIX/Linux, XML, SQL, CSS.

Language skills:

• Very good Dutch oral and writing skills;
• Above average English oral skills and (very) good writing skills;
  
• Fair oral and writing skills in the German and French language.

Other experience:

2002 - now	Doing text editing volunteer work for a non-profit organisation.
1998	Contributed to a strategic study of the EIM as an Intelligent Agent expert. The study was entitled "Intelligent agents, markets and competition - State-of-the-art study on the effects of intelligent agents in markets".
1998	Delivered a lecture on the subject of "Information Brokering and Agency" for the Netherlands Association for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals.
1998	Wrote the paper "Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch". The paper was presented in 1998 at the conference "I'MEDIAT'98": "the First International Workshop on Practical Information Mediation and Brokering, and the Commerce of Information on the Internet". The paper was published in the November '98 issue of the "First Monday" journal.
1996	Wrote my end thesis regarding the present and future possibilities of so-called "Intelligent Software Agents" with regard to information supply and demand on the Internet. The thesis was published in the March '97 issue of "First Monday".

Personal Interests:

I am interested in major developments regarding the Internet and the World Wide Web. I am also deeply fascinated by the love-hate relationship between computers/technology and us humans. Other interests are the culinary side of life, photography, playing computer and board games, and playing theatresports at the Utrecht theatresports group "Badmutz".