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About Equi4 Software

Don't confuse excellence, which is achievable, with perfection, which is elusive. -- Anonymous

CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Blurring the distinction between work and play

Software development
• Design, implementation, and marketing of MetaKit, a programmer's tool.
• Contracts to design custom databases, end-user apps, and internet sites.
• Consulting for strategic use of technologies. Information systems analysis.

Related projects
• Design & implementation of Shareware Author indeX and The Tcl'ers Wiki.
• Exploring collaboration between independent software developers.
• A collaboration with two software developers / friends in wyzIT (soon triQS).

Commercial context
• Sole owner of the Equi4 Software company, founded in October 1989.
• Clients include commercial, industrial, and research companies, as well as government agencies worldwide. Customers are fully supported anywhere.

BACKGROUND
Some bare facts

Personal
• Born 1956 in Pforzheim (Germany). Raised mostly in the Netherlands, a bit in France and in the US. I speak Dutch, English, French, and German.
• Married to Liesbeth, with a daughter - Myra - showing us who we once were.

Education
• Mathematics and Computer Science (Masters degree, VU Amsterdam).
• Graduated on the topic of "File replication" (mentor Andrew Tanenbaum).
• Courses taken include: project mgmt, basic marketing, team building.

Interests
• Research on data manipulation / representation and data flow mechanisms.
• Design and implementation of "tiny languages" for app-specific domains.
• Mktg mechanisms, win/win collaboration, avoiding "Prisoner's Dilemma".

EXPERIENCE
That's what you get when you don't get what you want

Technology
• Extensive knowledge of Windows, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Unix.
• Most programming tasks done in C/C++, Pascal, SQL, Perl, Python, Tcl.
• Projects built using VC++, Delphi, VB, Access, FM Pro, Informix, Unix tools.
• Currently, most common tool is Tcl/Tk (scripting), augmented by C/C++.

Previous projects
• MetaChrom - exploratory chromatography data processing and visualization.
• MetaBridge - automatic fail-safe transport/sync of data in a network.
• Places - re-engineered large pathology finding system, ported VMS to Unix.
• Daba - fast and reliable multi-user Unix DB library in C, similar to C-ISAM.

Past employments
• Senior software architect, FMX Software, Utrecht.
• European Unix Support Manager, Apple Computer, Zeist.
• Proj manager, Nat'l Inst. of Public Health and Environmental Prot. (RIVM).
• Software engineer, Transmediair, Bilthoven.

various

• Critcl

• KitViewer

• Oomk

• Rasql

• Ratcl

• SDX

• Starkit

• Tequila

• Wikit

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