Sander Marechal

Geek, programmer and part-time web developer. If I am not hacking away at gnome-hearts then you can probabely find me moderating the web development forum at gamedev.net or catching up with the latest news at LXer or Groklaw. Below you can find my curricilum vitae marked up in the hResume microformat or you can download it in English (ODF Text or PDF) or in Dutch (ODF Text or PDF).

Curriculum Vitae

A business engineer and web developer who is passionate about programming, the internet, web standards and free/open-source software.

Personal details

Full name:
Sander Marechal
Date of birth:
October 21st, 1979
Location:
's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Nationality:
Dutch
Drivers license:
B
Website:
http://www.jejik.com
E-mail:

Work experience

  1. Tribal Internet Marketing

    Programmer / Business Analyst in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands from April 2007 – Present

    I worked on a variety of internal projects. One of them was a fully automated report generating system based on ODF and XSLT with the data coming from various external XML-RPC sources. I also performed basic Linux system administration on webservers.

  2. DHL/Exel Supply Chain

    Application Analyst in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands from January 2005 – March 2007

    I administered and analysed a variety of warehouse management systems plus their eco system of derived intranet applications, databases, tools, EDI flows and reporting engines for multiple DHL sites. The applications were built using a variety of languages and techniques but VBA/ActiveX coupled with MS-SQL were the most common one's.

    I also designed, built and implemented Elsi, a PHP/MySQL application for tracking support requests. It's based loosely on the phpBB 3 core and the look–and–feel of Bugzilla, but aimed at support tracking. It currently serves 6 sites totalling a couple of hundred users and several thousand registered calls. Stress-testing showed it can handle well over 200.000 calls with complex queries and reporting.

  3. Vermeer Logistics B.V.

    Logistics Trainee in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands from September 2003 – December 2004

    I performed a variety of logistics related reseach and helped out with IT support. I also developed a web application to track the flow of goods, measure a variety of performance indicators and provide custom reporting for both Vermeer as the Heineken brewery about our performance levels. This tool was bought by DHL/Exel and is still in use today.

Aside from the above jobs I have worked during my education in a variety of part-time functions such as mailman, driver and cashier from 1994 to September 2002.

Other related activities

  1. Stichting Lone Wolves

    Programmer in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands from November 2003 – Present

    Stichting Lone Wolves is a small two-person foundation I co–founded that develops standards-based websites for small to medium businesses. We use the money we earn to fund our free/open-source hobby projects. Some of the projects we have done:

    Gnome hearts
    A hearts card game I developed because Gnome did not have one yet and KDE only has an implementation that is no longer actively developed.
    Stockwise
    A website we developed for a self-storage company. There's an administrative backend so the client can manage parts of the website by himself. The artwork was done by an external design agency.
    ISTH
    A website project for an industrial systems builder. The catalog backend allows the client to manage pages with a mediawiki-like parser.

Technical skills

Education

  1. Fontys Hogescholen Eindhoven

    October 2000 – September 2003. Graduated as Bachelor of Business Engineering. During this time I completed the following projects:

    Vermeer Logistics
    Analysis of the logistics flow. This resulted in a statistical model that could be used to predict bottlenecks and recommendations on a long term company strategy.
    Grasso
    Documenting work processes and restructuring an assembly line.

  2. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

    September 1998 – October 2000. After two years of the course for Master of Business Engineering I switched to the Bachelor course due to a lack of higher calculus skills.

  3. Frederik Hendrik College 's-Hertogenbosch

    September 1992 – May 1998. Graduated Atheneum with the courses Dutch, English, German, Math, Advanced math, Economy, Business economy and Physics.