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Identification
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Name Matthijs van Henten
Cellphone +31 6 308 41 238
E-mail something @ this domain

 

Education

9/2004 – 9/2007 MSc Mediatechnology, University of Leiden* Leiden
9/1999 – 7/2004 BA Media Art, AKI Academy of Fine Arts Enschede
9/1990 – 6/1998 Pre-university education, Berlingh College Beverwijk

[*] Degree obtained on 31-4-2010 2010

Employment/Work history

5/2009  Current Interaction Developer at Waag Society
Job descripion:
interaction design
Write interaction design specifications, design wireframes. Rework the interaction designs into a functional and technical design
research and development
Within the project “Architektoon”, explore 3D scanning technology, develop and design both software and hardware based on Python, OpenCV and Arduino.
Software and design blueprints have been released as opensource http://github.com/mvhenten/pylatscan .
For the project “Multimedian”, research streaming media and open video formats, video annotation and HTML5. Based on this research we developed an online video annotation platform based on Zend Framework.
This software has been released as opensourcehttp://code.google.com/p/annotrax .


backend developer
Development of various modules for Drupal CMS, most notably administrative interfaces for an in-house media server, an e-learning environment and the campaign sites “fairphone.org”, “unlimited design”http://fairphone.org

http://unlimiteddesigncontest.org .



webdevelopment/frontend developer
To build and maintain a number of websites based on either Drupal or WordPress.

10/2008  5/2009 Application developer at Fabchannel B.V.

Job description:

implementation of the multi-lingual version fabchannel.com
Expand and improve both existing backend and website gradually, in order to offer an English, Duch, Spanisch and German version.
maintain and improve the existing website
Device and implement new features for the website, to implement partner api’s, campaigns and new backend modules, in close collaboration with the international marketing team.
web-application VIA-M/Multimedian
Implementation and technical design of a web-application used to visualize and explore automatically generated video metadata and feature recognition.

search engine optimization

Research and implement various SEO strategies for Fabchannel.com
2/2007 – 10/2008 webdeveloper and projectmanager at 1Site1B.V.


Job description:


projectmanager
Organize meetings with customers, delivering quotes, and communicate with third party design agencies. In charge of customer support and supervising interns.


webdeveloper
Building websites based on the in-house back-end solution and CMS, stress testing the system and developing new functionality trough plug-ins.
10/2006 – 12/2009
Co-owner of design agency Ischen


Job description:

webdevelopment and graphic design

Building websites based on WordPress or custom solutions, organize meetings with customers, pich new projects, and work on graphic design on a conceptual level.





Extra activities

2009 – 2010
  • The Sound Of Video – A musical video intrument created with Python and OpenCV as part of my graduation project.
  • Billy – A simple invoicing system for Google Appengine
  • Front-end design and development for the “lespaul” reader, an RSS reader built with Django.
2008 – 2010
  • Workshop assitance for the Crossing Borders festival at AKI, Enschede
  • Developing PICO, a simple CMS in PHP
2007
  • Course assitant for `Interaction in sound and space`, programming MAX/MSP at Universiteit Leiden
  • VJ performances with the VID:BAT collective
2004 – 2007
  • VJ performances and participation in piksel05, Bergen, Norway
  • Participation in  ”Destillaat VII”, exhibition and video performance in Extrapool, Nijmegen
  • Participation in the  ”Live Cinema” project – performances in NIMK ( Amsterdam ), WORM ( Rotterdam ) en Extrapool ( Nijmegen )
2002 – 2009
  • Co-developer and initiator of Veejay, een realtime video sampler and effects processor for Linux. Mainly GUI development (GTK/Glade), beta-testing, and community support.



Languages

Dutch Native
English Fluent in oral, good in writing
German Good in oral

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March 11th, 2011 at 11:02 am

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