My Resume

Vincent Jürgen Oord

I am a web developer (PHP/Ruby) with a strong focus on usability.

I was born on July 4th, 1983 in Amstelveen, The Netherlands.

I live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Education

2006 — 2007

MSc. Information Science, University of Amsterdam

• Human Centered Multimedia
• Thesis Pop concerts and their effect on user generated content
• Team leader Interface Team for Internet Information project in which a Q&A retrieval search engine was made in collaboration with three other teams.

2002 — 2006

BSc. Information Science, University of Amsterdam

• Thesis Predicting weblog moods using sentiment orientation analysis (in Dutch)
• Team leader Information Retrieval project in which the quality of the search engine of the university website was studied.

Work experience

2010 — present

Web Developer, Springest B.V. (Amsterdam)

• Using CakePHP, Ruby on Rails, Solr, HTML5 and jQuery

2009 — 2010

Online Campaigner, Political Party D66 (The Hague)

• Developed some campaigning apps and the official campaign website

2009

Web Developer, Media Concepts B.V. (Amsterdam)

• Developed websites for various clients in proprietary CMS (PHP)

2007 — 2008

List Manager, ABN AMRO N.V. (Amsterdam)

• Responsible for querying the customer database for marketing purposes.
• Co-responsible for designing and implementing a standardisation project.

2005 — 2006

Web Developer, NVM Realworks B.V. (Amsterdam)

• Developed websites for real estate agents in Coldfusion

2001 — 2005

Various student jobs in data entry (Magnes, Result DDB) and caretaking (Thuiszorg Amsterdam)

Other Activities

2012 — present

Participant Route66, Talent Programme of D66

2008

Volunteer, Cross-Borders (Kathmandu/Bahrabise, Nepal)

• Taught English on two different schools and worked in a home for children.

2003 — 2011

Member student rowing club A.A.S.R. Skøll Amsterdam

• Coach of freshman crew (2010) and senior lightweight men (2011)
• Three years of crew rowing (2005, 2006, 2007)
• Various committees, e.g. Promotion and Koninklijke Holland Beker, the biggest international rowing regatta in The Netherlands.

Misc.

I’m a native Dutch speaker. I’m fluent in English and I speak and understand German. Furthermore I have a basic understanding of French, Spanish and I try to speak and understand नेपाली and हिंदी.

In my spare time I like photography, hack projects and various sports.

You can see some of my code over at GitHub.

I’ve also got a Dutch driver’s license (B).

In 2008 I travelled for 7 months to Japan, India and Bhutan and did volunteering work in Nepal.

In 2009 I drove by car and motorcycle from Istanbul to Nepal together with a friend.

Contact

Contact me by sending me an e-mail or reach me through Facebook, twitter or LinkedIn.