User:Martien/West Consulting

Started on the first of April 1991 as Technical Consultant at West Consulting B.V. in Delft and put my energy and drive into:

Trainer and Presenter

• Trained hundreds of people on FrameMaker (DTP), both beginners and seasoned users.
• Taught various course on the C and PostScript language, as well as the UNIX operating system, both system administration and networking (TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, automount(1M), etc.)
• Designed and created course material.
• Subcontracted as trainer by Sun Microsystems and Koning & Hartman.
• Organized and presented two seminars in collaboration with the Delft Technical University (TUD), Xelion and Sun Microsystems on the X Window System, focusing on the Graphical Users Interfaces (GUIs) like the open look gui and Motif.

Consulted on system and network architecture, administration and management of LANs containing a mix of UNIX, VMS, DOS and Mac OS environments. Primary operating system was SunOS (now Solaris).

Mentored, trained and consulted on setting up, configuring and using Adobe FrameMaker effectively and efficiently in professional document production environments at companies like Philips, Uniface, HSA (now Thales), and Estec.

After sales support on technical and organizational topics covering UNIX, FrameMaker, DTP and networking.

Pre-sales support by giving demonstrations and presentations and answering Request for Proposals for specific products like FrameMaker and Sun hardware and software.

Ported MADYMO from VMS to UNIX (SunOS) and IBM's MVS. MADYMO, a crash test simulator written in the FORTRAN language, is a product of TNO/IW.

Created Software Requirements and Architectural Design of Cendar, a Centralized Data ARchiving System targeted to backup and recover data in a reliable way in a distributed heterogenous network containing UNIX, VMS and DOS systems. Cendar backs up on and recovers from optical disks without requiring special knowledge from the operator or end user. Metadata is kept in a standard relational database.

Wrote several documents required as deliverable in the full software life cycle, like user manuals, requirement documents, detailed design documents, software management document and installation and configuration manuals.

Designed and built several conversion tools in the context of Adobe FrameMaker

Very actively defining and endorsing standards for software engineering like coding standards, methodologies and best practices.

Coached and mentored a student during his GRACE project. GRACE is a Graphical Compiler Environment for Ada development environments supporting the OPEN LOOK GUI.

Coached and mentored two students from HIO Enschedé in their UMBRELLA project. UMBRELLA targets to completely run system and network administration using a standard DBMS (like Oracle or Sybase) on UNIX.

Wrote several articles for publications like Automatisering Gids, Computable and PC+ on various topics ranging from window systems, GUIs and DTP.

You can also have a look at Martien's complete resumé.