Frans Verhoef

381 Tanglin Road; #10-06 Tanglin Regency; Singapore 247965

- frans.verhoef@travel-companion.net

Nationality: Dutch - Gender: Male -

 

 

SUN Java Certified Software Engineer with 3 years of experience in Genomics and Business Software development projects.

 

 

Career

Mar 2003 – now

Genome Institute of Singapore

Title

Bioinformatic Specialist (software engineering)

Details

Brought into GIS to improve and develop upon an existing LIMS system involving a lot of custom in-house developed software, which integrates high-throughput Sequencing machines with oracle database and web-based viewer. Also includes integration of external data sources.

Technologies

Java, C++, Perl, Oracle, Linux cluster

Website

http://ww.gis.a-star.edu.sg

Mar 2001 – Mar 2003

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore

Title

Software Engineer

Details

Team member of the Fugu informatics project.

  • Support and leadership role towards junior developers
  • Full cycle development of genomic software and web systems.
  • Adaptation of existing software to own needs
  • Part of international development team

Technologies

Java, Servlets, JDBC, Swing, CORBA, Perl, HTML, SQL, MySQL, UML, Together, Jbuilder, Linux, Win 2000

Publication

(Co-author)

Whole-Genome Shotgun Assembly and Analysis of the Genome of Fugu rubripes

By Samuel Aparico et al. (Science, Vol. 297, Issue 5585, 1301-1310, August 23, 2002)

Website

http://www.fugu-sg.org & http://www.imcb.nus.edu.sg

Aug 2000 – Feb 2001

ITWebex, Singapore

Title

Systems Analyst

Details

ITWebex is an Internet company that sets its foundations on making an online knowledge management tool.

  • Design and prototyping of knowledge management software.
  • Development of server and web systems.
  • Web design

Technologies

Java, Servlets, JDBC, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, MySQL, Linux, Win 98

Sep 1999 – Jul 2000

Atos Origin (formerly known as Origin), Singapore

Title

Systems Analyst, eBusiness Applications (Feb 2000 – Jul 2000)

Communications Engineer (Sep 1999 – Jan 2000)

Details

Origin is a Multi-National IT Consulting and Services firm.

As Systems Analyst, eBusiness Applications:

·         Consultation to clients

·         Full cycle development of eBusiness applications for clients

As Communications Engineer:

·         Management of EDI system used by external clients

·         Webmaster of Intranet website, including development

Technologies

Java, Servlets, JDBC, Perl, Oracle, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, Flash, EDI, Win 2000, Solaris

Website

http://www.atosorigin.com

 

 

 

Skills (Score ratings: 5 = expert, 3 = intermediate, 1 = basic)

Programming lang.

Java (5), Perl (2), CORBA/IDL (2), C/C++ (2)

Web languages

Java (5), Perl (2), HTML (4), JavaScript (1), Flash (1)

Techniques

UML (3), Webdesign (3), Systems analysis and design (4)

Databases

MySQL (4), Oracle (3), SQL (4), Object database/Objectstore (2)

Tools / platforms

Linux (4), Win 98/2000 (4), Unix (4), EDI (2), VPN (1), Sun 1 Studio (4), Jbuilder (3), Together (3), CVS (4), Apache (3), Tomcat (4), Cluster (2)

Languages

Dutch (5), English (4), German (1), French (1), Japanese (1)

 

 

Education

Sep 1995 – Feb 1999

Computer Science at Bachelor degree level At Hogeschool van Utrecht, Netherlands (Finished 3 out of 4 years).

 

 

Professional

Sep 2002

SUN Java Programmer Certificate (jdk1.4)

Dec 1999

Origin Project Management (OCPM) Internal training in Origin’s internal Project methodology.

Sep 1999

Amtrix / T&D Training Internal training in Origin’s EDI system, based on Amtrix.

 

 

Personal

Designing and developing my own website, playing computer games, sipping wine with friends, reading a good book (all kinds), spending quality time with my wife, traveling around the world and on the way exploring local cuisines.