Specialties: Web applications development, Project management, Entrepreneurial activities

Gerard Nijboer Graduating MSc at AFAS Software [email protected]

Summary Student-entrepreneur with passion for IT and organizations. Combining the Master Business Informatics at the Utrecht University with my own business at Alphabase IT was one of the best choices I've made so far. It enables me to put the theory of my studies to practice and to learn even more. Furthermore, I love to chat about entrepreneurship and how information technology can assist (young) businesses in becoming successful and excellerating. Specialties: Web applications development, Project management, Entrepreneurial activities

Experience Graduating MSc at AFAS Software December 2013 - Present (3 months) Web specialist at Alphabase IT July 2010 - Present (3 years 8 months) At Alphabase IT, I develop web applications and provide related services to small and medium enterprises in the Netherlands, but also abroad. Related services include Search Engine Optimization, IT consultancy, webshop development and online/social marketing. 1 recommendation available upon request Web specialist at Protagonist BV April 2011 - November 2013 (2 years 8 months) At Protagonist, an internet service provider in web hosting and related services for small and medium enterprises, I work as a web specialist on both internal and external projects. I play a role as a web applications developer, but also as an SEO specialist for the SEO-product of Protagonist. Since Protagonist is an associated company with Belcentrale, an internet telephony service provider for small and medium enterprises, I also participate in projects for their organisation. 5 recommendations available upon request Owner at TabletStylus June 2012 - May 2013 (1 year) TabletStylus is a webshop which offers capacitive stylus pens for smartphones and tablets. This helps the user to keep his/her touchscreen clean and to make precize selections on the screen. Page1

The webshop is driven by Magento and developed by me, as part of the Alphabase portfolio. Developer, Co-founder at StatMagic September 2012 - January 2013 (5 months) Developing the datamining modules, modeling the database architecture, designing the calculation engine and developing the Application Programming Interface. Due to a lack of time, I had to make the hard decision to quit my role in the founding of StatMagic. Wilbert Seele and Sebastiaan Tammer, the co-founders, will continue the business. 2 recommendations available upon request Intern at Centric IT Solutions February 2012 - May 2012 (4 months) At Centric, I have analyzed differed social media strategy models which would suite an IT-organization such as Centric best. This has resulted in a scientific advisory report, delivered to the board of Centric IT Solutions. This research was done with Bart van Eck, who simultaneously investigated different monitoring tools for online presence that would fit best for IT-organizations such as Centric. Support assistant at Belcentrale BV July 2010 - April 2011 (10 months) For Belcentrale B.V. in Rotterdam, I work as a support assistant and I provide installations for new clients. Bartender at Palm Party House Bowling Zwijndrecht BV June 2007 - November 2010 (3 years 6 months) - Catering: Bartender and waiter - ICT: hardware, software, network and maintenance - Lights: Disco lights, DMX programming

Projects Phasing out SAP R/3 at Ballast Nedam September 2013 to November 2013 Members:Gerard Nijboer, Rick Barneveld, Vincent Boekholtz, Arjan de Kok Provide Ballast Nedam ICT with an advice regarding phasing out SAP R/3 and replacing it with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. The project consisted of requirements gathering, market analysis and a fit/gap-analysis regarding the requirements put forward by Ballast Nedam International Projects. The project was done within the context of the course ICT Advisory at Utrecht University. The project was coached by Arjan de Kok. Improving knowledge management at VL IT Specialists September 2012 to October 2012

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Members:Gerard Nijboer, Joey Janssen, Vincent Boekholtz The goal was to analyse the way VL IT Specialists manages knowledge within the organisation. This resulted in an advice report in which we provided ways to improve their business processes and improve their knowledge management. Merging safety bureaus at Brandweer Brabant Noord (Firedepartment of Brabant Noord) November 2011 to February 2012 Members:Gerard Nijboer, Vincent Boekholtz, Joey Janssen Provide BBN with enterprise architecture models of their organization, to gain insight in their departments. This should help them with the integration of the safety bureaus and the IT systems in place. The project concluded with an advice regarding future mergers, to provide them with a tool to structure these projects. Protagonist goes social 2012 April 2012 to Present Members:Laura van Strien, Marcel Vergonet, Gerard Nijboer, Coert Coomans Op dinsdag 3 april 2012 organiseert Protagonist de lecture "Protagonist goes social". Hierbij introduceren wij in twee sessies voor u de kansen van social media voor uw organisatie, en vertellen wij u meer over hoe u social media kunt integreren met uw huidige website. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.395007053856956.97710.291962460828083 Protagonist SEO evenement 2013 June 2013 to Present Members:Martijn Breet, Marcel Vergonet, Gerard Nijboer, Coert Coomans Op woensdagmiddag 12 juni 2013 van 13:00 uur tot 18:00 uur presenteren wij een inspirerend programma over het inzetten van zoekmachineoptimalisatie (SEO) voor uzelf en uw klanten. Het evenement zal plaatsvinden in het schitterende Hotel New York te Rotterdam. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.609630522394607.1073741825.291962460828083 Bel-Mij-Nu-applicatie on Facebook May 2012 to Present Members:Gerard Nijboer, Bart van Eck De gratis Bel-Mij-Nu-applicatie van Belcentrale brengt de bezoekers van uw Facebook-pagina kosteloos met u in contact door de drempel zo laag mogelijk te houden. Geen gedoe meer met terugbelnotities of verwarrende telefoonnummers, maar altijd direct en kosteloos een verbinding, zonder addertjes onder het gras. WordPress Bel-Mij-Nu-knop August 2012 to Present Members:Gerard Nijboer De Bel-Mij-Nu-knop voor WordPress stelt u, als Belcentrale klant, in staat om in no-time uw telefonische bereikbaarheid te verbeteren. Bezoekers van uw website kunnen voortaan direct met uw bedrijf in contact

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komen, door hun telefoonnummer op uw website in te voeren. De Call-API koppeling met onze PBX-server maakt het mogelijk om direct een gesprek op te starten.

Certifications Bachelor Information Sciences Universiteit Utrecht September 2012 English Level A2 International Baccalaureate

August 2009

Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship Coursera May 2013

Publications The Adoption of Software Patterns in the Dutch Software Industry Proceedings of the 17th European conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP 2012) July 2012 Authors: Gerard Nijboer, Jaap Kabbedijk, Slinger Roijackers (Jansen) There is no clear overview of the use of software patterns within the Dutch software industry. This lack of insight leads to the fact software pattern researchers have problems getting their patterns accepted within the industry and do not know how to communicate pattern related research results. This empirical evaluation examines the use of patterns within the Dutch software industry. Six different software companies within the Netherlands were interviewed on how they used software patterns in their daily practise. The research concludes that software patterns are often implicitly or even unconsciously used by Dutch software companies, instead of explicitly in communication. Patterns identified within academic research are indeed known and used within the software industry, but still more on a personal level than companywide.

Skills & Expertise PHP MySQL jQuery Facebook API Facebook Applications jQuery Mobile jQuery UI CodeIgniter Web Design Apache Cordova Google Apps Google Analytics Entrepreneurship

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Magento Wordpress Joomla CSS3 HTML5 SEO Online Marketing Social Media Marketing CSS XHTML WordPress Web Applications Web Development CMS Usability Programming JavaScript Website Development

Education Universiteit Utrecht Master of Science, Business Informatics, 2012 - 2014 2 recommendations available upon request Universiteit Utrecht Bachelor of Science, Information Sciences, 2009 - 2012 Activities and Societies: Sticky feestcommissie 1 recommendation available upon request Farelcollege Ridderkerk International Baccalaureate, English Level A2, 2005 - 2009 Farelcollege Ridderkerk Bilingual VWO, Economie & Maatschappij, 2002 - 2009

Courses Master of Science, Business Informatics Universiteit Utrecht Introduction to Business informatics Knowledge management ICT entrepreneurship Enterprise architecture Seminar Software Ecosystems Business Intelligence

INFOSPMBI INFOKMT INFOIE INFOEAR INFOMSSE INFOMBIN Page5

Method Engineering Seminar Innovation in Life Sciences and ICT Software Architecture ICT Advisory Software Product Management MSc Graduation thesis Business Informatics Colloquium Business informatics

INFOME INFOMILSI INFOMSWA INFOMICTA INFOMSPM INFOMMBI INFOCQMBI4

Bachelor of Science, Information Sciences Universiteit Utrecht Informatiekunde introductieproject Mens, Maatschappij en ICT Informatiesystemen Imperatief programmeren Ontwerpen van Interactieve Systemen Web Design Datamodelleren en databases Organisaties en ICT Wetenschappelijke Onderzoeksmethoden Computerarchitectuur en Netwerken Modelleren en systeemontwikkeling Business Process Management Strategisch Management van Organisaties en ICT E-Business Usability Engineering Product Software Cognitie en Communicatie Systeemontwikkeling Capita Selecta Onderzoeksproject Essentials of Business and Entrepreneurship Intelligente Interactie Recht en Informatica

INFOB1PROJ INFOB1IMM INFOB1ISY INFOIMP INFOB1OIS INFOB1WD INFODB INFOB1OICT INFOWO INFONW INFOMSO INFOBPM INFOB3SMI INFOEBU INFOUE INFOB3PS INFOB2CC INFOB3SO INFOCS INFOOZP EC2EBE3 INFOB3II INFORI

Languages Dutch English German

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Interests Entrepreneurship, Starters, Web Applications Development, Technology, Gadgets, Information Technology, Sports, Swimming, Diving, Running, Exploring

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Gerard Nijboer Graduating MSc at AFAS Software [email protected]

11 people have recommended Gerard "Gerard is a very pleasant man to work with. His work is of high quality and if you don't understand something he will take the time to tell you and educate you so you can change thing on your own. His service is also of high quality. The price - quality is also very good. especially because his work doesn't end by delivering a product but by keeping track of the website he is monitoring also, bring problems to your attention and helping solving them. I would work with Gerard any time again and hire him for all the matters involving building and maintaining a website." — Harold Dommerholt, was Gerard's client "Gerard is a great colleague to work with. He has the right vision for difficult issues and uses that to get the best end result." — Maarten Brakkee, Webdeveloper, Protagonist BV, worked directly with Gerard at Protagonist BV "Ik heb een aantal jaar met Gerard mogen samenwerken en heb hem leren kennen als gedreven en deskundige webdeveloper altijd op de hoogte van de laatste ontwikkelingen, geen uitdaging is hem te groot en zijn inzet is altijd 110%. Het was dan ook een plezier om met hem te werken." — Martin Holleman, Software Developer, Radik Nederland, worked directly with Gerard at Protagonist BV "Gerard is very focused, skilled, a fast learner and fun to work with. He's never afraid to look into something new and create something awesome." — André Peeman, Chief Operating Officer, Protagonist BV, worked with Gerard at Protagonist BV "Gerard is a talented web developer. It's been a pleasure to work with Gerard within the Web CEO's whitelabel SEO tools project. He developed Protagonist's whitelabel solution from the scratch and made it a popular tool. Gerard respects details and meets deadlines that makes him an undoubtedly valuable IT expert at any company that will be lucky to employ him. Gerard is an easy-going person that can find a solution to an almost unsolvable issue and come to an agreement in the toughest argument. Deep knowledge and practical mind are his biggest merits." — Vitaly Chaikovsky, Partnerships Development Manager, Web CEO, was a consultant or contractor to Gerard at Protagonist BV

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"Gerard is een op en top technicus. Analytisch rustig en een harde werker. Ook zijn communicatie vaardigheden zijn prima in orde, iets wat nog weleens wil ontbreken bij techneuten." — Coert Coomans, Founder, Belcentrale BV, managed Gerard at Belcentrale BV "Ik ken Gerard vanuit de startup StatMagic van de Universiteit Utrecht. Hier heeft Gerard laten zien dat hij een gedreven persoonlijkheid is. Hij is een snelle, positieve denker die dit kan omzetten naar software. Maar heeft ook de capaciteit om dit goed te motiveren. Daarnaast is Gerard een open en sociale persoonlijkheid waardoor hij een heerlijke gesprekspartner is." — Dennis van Velzen, Directeur Productdevelopment, AFAS Software, was with another company when working with Gerard at StatMagic "I've had the pleasure of working with Gerard in the role of lead programmer as we were starting up StatMagic, and what stuck with me the most was his almost insane devotion to hitting his deadlines. Even with another course AND another business on the side he never once compromised on features or quality, even it meant working 20 hour days. I can confidently recommend Gerard to anyone who needs a programmer to go above and beyond expectations." — Wilbert Seele, Owner/Manager, StatMagic, worked directly with Gerard at StatMagic "In het kader van zijn Master MBI studie heeft Gerard, samen met een tweetal collega studenten, een opdracht voor Ballast Nedam uitgevoerd. Hierbij moest een haalbaarheids- en fit-gap analyse worden gemaakt die betrekking had op de vervanging van een legacy ERP systeem. Gerard heeft bij deze opdracht laten zien te beschikken over alle noodzakelijke kwaliteiten, zowel op organisatorisch- als consultancy technisch niveau. Met name zijn 'natuurlijk leiderschap' is mij hierbij positief opgevallen. Vanuit mijn ervaringen met Gerard als consultant kan ik hem dan ook van harte aanbevelen bij toekomstige werk- en opdrachtgevers." — René Knaake, Informatiemanager, Ballast Nedam, advised Gerard at Universiteit Utrecht "I have worked with Gerard as a coach of Utrecht University on a case at Ballast Nedam International Projects. The case embodied a research and advice on the migration of SAP to Microsoft Dynamics Axapta. Gerard profiled himself as a good business and IT consultant with a professional attitude. He is a natural leader and good team worker, that is dedicated to achieving successful results." — Arjan de Kok, Business consultant, HQ-consult B.V., advised Gerard at Universiteit Utrecht "During my Master Business Informatics I had the pleasure of working together with Gerard on different projects and courses. If you talk about endless motivation, I think about Gerard. Besides his effort at the university, he is involved in various projects and corporate positions regarding information technology. If you make an appointment with Gerard, you always have an insurance that he will meet up to the appointment and deliver great quality work. Gerard has a very distinguished ‘hands on’ mentality and is very good in relating scientific research to topical business problems. I’m sure Gerard will have a great career and come up with

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some nice solutions in the information technology industry. Hopefully I will keep the opportunity to work together with Gerard in the future." — Joey Janssen, MBI student (Master of Business Informatics), Universiteit Utrecht, studied with Gerard at Universiteit Utrecht

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