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Curriculum Vitae - Rigo Ketelings

Available for contract work from january 2009 on, all over Europe. Free Software development projects are preferred. Code written can be released under any license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), like the General Public License.

name: Rigo Ketelings
address: Piusstraat 160, 5021 JD Tilburg, Netherlands, 51.5493515.088193
telephone: +31 (0)6 - 47544993
email:
date of birth: november 1st, 1970 (38), unmarried
nationality: Dutch
code: Yagoo (svn)
interests: Free Software, Semantic Web, (Streaming) Media, Distributed Transient Networking, Virtualization, Clustering, ITIL Service Management & Security Audits (CISSP).
website: MED1A CVDelicious Yagoo
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Overview


Experience

Freelance

01/2007
- now
Founding MED1A, Europe (EU)
MED1A builds, streams & supports web-development, multicasting & IPTV during events and/or artistic MED1A-productions through all of Europe.

focus:
03/2007
-07/2007
Research collaborative med1amatic possibilities, Paris, France (FR)
focus:
  • propose & discuss possibilities & conditions for possible collaboration.

10/2005
-10/2006
HfG | Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany
seminars:
  • "THE MOON WAS AFTER ALL THE FIRST TV." -- Nam June Paik.

    "HERE in φrivate Φrbits. Fire a rocket. Spray pixels. Get parabolic. Φpen Φrbit season for new media objects on their way Φut of this world." Seminar introducing artwork 'Art in an Age of Φrbitization' with Philip Pocock (CA), Hochschule Pforzheim.

  • "FAKE is one of the oldest narratives, an inner problem in art in terms of idea, techniques & expression." Collaborative with Herwig Hofmann, 3D.lab (DE) & his students.

additional:

  • assist Heike Pitschmann with European tour: 'Visual Art Manifesto Performance'.
  • implement open media platform (with timeline-widget, using AJAX techniques) & get performances streamed online while converting all footage to use open standards.

  • 08/2005
    -12/2006
    ZKM|Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
    Artist in Residence

    "Spheres of artistic production that relate to notions of 'orbit'. Using online web and/or the bluetooth enabled interface on-site, users can navigate the database or upload texts & images to this universe & thus collectively create its contents & structure".

    additional:
    06/2005 Test-Portal, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    "International Dynamic NOW ART festival Test-Portal tries to combine all artistic forms of expression into one dynamic, cooperative NOW. Giving space & showing different forms of avant-garde, experimental works, bringing Internationally autonome thinkers/artists together."

    focus:
    04/2005 Walsh Western, Limerick, Ireland
    • Develop application (Python) to use barcodes used within Dell's European logistic chain in shipping warehouse Walsh Western via scanners.

    01/2005
    -11/2005
    Artist Collective 'Het Domijn', Weesp, Netherlands
    Residence & ateliers for an artist collective, working in theater, movie- & television industry all over the Netherlands.

    focus:
    • implementing Content Management System to manage content for collective.

    • getting alternative bios 'de Datcha' online.

    • getting content ready for 'Domijn Festijn', festival to celebrate '650 year Weesp'.

    10/2004 DEAF04 - Affective Turbulence, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    DEAF, the 'Dutch Electronic Art Festival', a biennial international & interdisciplinary event organized in Rotterdam (NL) by V2_, which showcases crossovers between art, technology & society.

    focus:
    03/2004 Roodveldt - importer in the BENELUX for O'reilly, together decided my book shelve is a winner!
    09/2002 Computable.nl published an article I wrote.
    02/2000 Hoogspoor, Tilburg, Netherlands
    Implement Client/Server architecture at an electrical & light-installation business.

    Employers


    1995-2004 Interpolis NV, Tilburg, Netherlands
    Interpolis, one of the Netherlands’ largest insurance companies, provides individuals & businesses with tailor-made coverage for a vast range of risks. As part of the full-range financial services provider Rabobank Group, they are founded on cooperative principles.

    Besides the Dutch market, Interpolis has operations in Ireland, Luxemburg & Portugal. In 2004 Interpolis had a turnover of 5 billion Euro & it employed around 6000 people.

    2002-'042004 Infrastructure SpecialistInterpolis
    Staff unit 'Concern ICT'.

    3rd. level support on managing the infrastructure for a (nation) Wide Area Network (WAN), including all of its included services, 6.000+ users & 500+ machines.

    Development:

    • Application Service Provider, using Citrix METAframe & DMZ/PIX/IPSec technologies for all (500+) insurance re-sellers nationwide.
    • ITIL Service Management web.frontend.
      Userfriendly webapp & framework to manage CI's, checks server-logs & configure user-profiles.
    • Technical end-responsible for outsourcing Sybase/Oracle knowledge-centers to Rabofacet.
    1999-'022002 Business Informatics SpecialistInterpolis
    Market Organization 'Business Insurances'.

    Application Management:
    • Managed multiple applications, code-wise.
    Data Management:
    • Managed multiple Sybase DBMS & Oracle Database solutions, using IBM AIX/RS6000 as server-platform. For example, Health care Insurance backoffice systems, Contacts systems, Sales systems.
    1995-1999 Technical Applications Specialist Interpolis
    Managing Client/Server Applications within Market Organization 'Employment Benefits', focusing on insurances for employees.

    Applications:

    • SARAH Electronic Document Management plus Workflow solution
    • BORIS Health Insurance backend administration
    • BARBIE Health Insurances for employees (front- & back-office)
  • member of 'Young Rabo'1999 & 2004 'Young Interpolis Professionals' member 20032004.
  • in 1999, SARAH won the 'International Global Excellence Award' by IBM Filenet
  • co-founder of 'Interpolis Innovation Seminar', annual conference organized for Rabobank CEO's to introduce new products within the portefolio of Interpolis; rewarded an 8-10 overall on content/organization.

  • Education

    09/84-06/90

    Cobbenhagen College, Tilburg

    HAVO - Dutch, English, Math, Physics, Economics & Trade

    09/90-06/91

    Technical College, Ede-Wageningen

    Communication, Informatics & Media

    08/92-06/93

    Fontys, Tilburg

    PABO - the art or science of being a teacher (Pedagogy)

    09/94-08/95

    Business School Notenboom, Eindhoven

    European Management - Marketing (NIMA), Public Relations (NGPR)

    09/99-08/00

    NTI, Leiden

    bachelor Business Informatics

    Nederlands Talen Instituut
  • numerous courses & seminars.
  • Open-Source Projects

    Project

    Description

    Role

    Gentoo Foundation numerous ebuilds & patches, testing & debugging since 2002present volunteer
    overlay AMD64/GTK related overlay (Subversion) 2006present lead developer

    Skills

    natural languages , , ,
    hardware platforms IBM RS6000 (), HP , CISCO(PIX), Avaya & AMD64
    network management Nagios/RRDtool, Webmin, openNMS, SNMP, IBM Tivoli, HP Open View, CA Unicenter
    database management Sybase ASE (T-SQL), Oracle (PL/SQL), MySQL, IBM DB2, IDMS, postgreSQL/Bizgres, MSSQL (T-SQL), Derby, Firebird, xBase & SAP DB/MaxDB
    operating systems IBM AIX, Gentoo, Novell, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, (LAMP), other GNU/Linux flavors, Microsoft (NT/200x/Terminal) platform, Citrix & others.
    internet development Apache, Raccoon, W3C/(x/D)HTML, CSS/XSL, JSON, XML/RSS/RDF/FOAF/Microformats, AJAX/SOAP/REST
    programming languages Python, Perl, PHP, Bash, JAVA(script), T-SQL, PL/SQL, UML, C/C++/C#
    virtualization Citrix, VMware, Xenqemu, OpenVZ, user-mode linux (uml) & /dev/kvm
    streaming media Helix DNA/Real Media, Apple QuickTime/Darwin Streaming, Flumotion/gstreamer, Icecast, Red5/FLV & Multicasting (VRVS/AccessGrid)
    application management & development IBM Filenet/Lotus Domino/Notes/Websphere, Sybase/Powerbuilder, Cognos/Impromptu.JAVA/JSP/Eclipse, (Jacarta-Apache Tomcat, JBoss)
    Intel/AMD x86(_64)
    , IBM PowerPC, GNU Autotools/GCC, CVS/Subversion/git, (py)GTK+, Twisted, & bluez-stack

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