OBJECTIVE

To stay challenged, learning new things and sharing what I know.

Being part of a creative team that will allow me to advance my career as a Technical Director specializing in character setup and matchmoving.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Personal work - 3D Generalist (1999-present)

• Animated short: Heavy! (release planned for 2011), I am responsible for all visual elements.

Internoise - Web/Software Developer (2005-present)

• Designed and programmed Webnoise for Strukton, BAM, VolkerRail, Spitzke and Eijfage Rail. For this online sound calculations toolset,
  I created a DHTML windows interface running on a LAMP platform.

Freelance - Database/Software Developer (1998-2004)

• Designed and programmed Divine, a universal automated acoustic simulation model for railway yards, for NS Technical Research

M+P Consulting Engineers - Assistant Project Manager (1996-1998)

• Developed and validated acoustic simulation models for road traffic noise and railway yards.

National Aerospace Laboratory - Graduation Internship (1994-1995)

• Conducted research on vibrations of the HST model support,
• Developed a numerical simulation of a TPS/propeller configuration.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Dutch (native), English (advanced), German and Spanish (intermediate)

EDUCATION

Fxphd.com - Visual Effects Training (2007-present)

• Completed courses on integrating 3D with live action, 3D tracking, motion capture, crowd simulation, compositing, color theory, editing, miniatures, hdr photography, dslr cinematography & post workflow.
• Verify my course enrollments at fxphd with certificate number 5UGPD3DRAU6VALE

Photo Academy - Creative Photography (1995-1998)

TU Eindhoven - MSc Mechanical Engineering (1989-1995)

• Specialized in Dynamics & Fluid Mechanics, graduated with honors.

COURSES

Scripting in Maya - MEL & Python (2009)

Psycho Mechanics & Acting for Animators (2003)

3D Character Animation (2003)

Character Animation in Maya & MEL Fundamentals (1999)

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

ADVANCED	Maya, SynthEyes, PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Access, Excel, VBA and Matlab.
INTERMEDIATE	MEL, Python, PFTrack, Mocha, Shake and Photoshop.
NOVICE	Final Cut Pro, Massive, MotionBuilder and Ajax.

A detailed version of my resume can be downloaded here.