My Resume

Vincent Jürgen Oord

I am a web guy with a strong focus on usability.

I was born on July 4th, 1983 in Amstelveen, The Netherlands.

I divide my time between Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Vienna, Austria.

Work experience

2017 — present

Freelance Product Developer, veen.xyz

• MyChannels / De Persgroep (Ruby, Elixir)
• DeGoedeZaak (Ruby)
• News scrapers for Journa (Javascript, ES6)
• Canvas app for D66 (HTML, CSS, Javascript)

2015 — 2017

Co-founder & CTO, Cocoon B.V. (Amsterdam)

• Got selected for the Rockstart Web/Mobile Accelarator 2015 program
• Built web application, dashboard and API in Ruby on Rails
• Worked on mobile app and Dashboard using Ionic and AngularJS
• Responsible for product management, customer development
• Responsible for team of 2 developers
• Cocoon was acquired by Minescape

2013 — 2015

Director of Digitalization, Political Party D66 (The Hague)

• Responsible for managing various digital and online projects including CRM, a discussion platform (Discourse) and mobile apps for the party convention
• Built e-voting tool (Ruby on Rails)
• Built billboard donation website (Ruby on Rails, Google Maps, Javascript)

2013

Product Manager, Springest B.V. (Amsterdam)

• Responsible for product development of API and Springest Go

2010 — 2013

Web Developer, Springest B.V. (Amsterdam)

• Stack: Nginx, Ruby on Rails, Solr, HTML5 and jQuery
• Experience with setting up Unix web servers
• Co-responsible for migration from CakePHP to Ruby on Rails

2009 — 2010

Online Campaigner, Political Party D66 (The Hague)

• Development of campaigning apps and the official campaign website

2009

Web Developer, Media Concepts B.V. (Amsterdam)

• Development of websites for various clients in proprietary CMS (PHP)

2007 — 2008

List Manager, ABN AMRO N.V. (Amsterdam)

• Responsible for querying the customer database for marketing purposes.
• Co-responsible for designing and implementing a standardisation project.

2005 — 2006

Web Developer, NVM Realworks B.V. (Amsterdam)

• Developed websites for real estate agents in Coldfusion

2001 — 2005

Various student jobs in data entry (Magnes, Result DDB) and caretaking (Thuiszorg Amsterdam)

Education

2006 — 2007

MSc. Information Science, University of Amsterdam

• Track: Human Centered Multimedia
• Thesis: Pop concerts and their effect on user generated content
• Team leader Interface Team for Internet Information project in which a Q&A retrieval search engine was made in collaboration with three other teams.

2002 — 2006

BSc. Information Science, University of Amsterdam

• Thesis: Predicting weblog moods using sentiment orientation analysis (in Dutch)
• Team leader for Information Retrieval project in which the quality of the search engine of the university website was researched.

Other Activities

2015 — present

Online communication trainer for IDI foundation

2015 — present

Teacher / mentor at the Development Bootcamp by Codaisseur and other Learn-to-Code events

2013 — present

Member rowing club K.A.R.Z.V. De Hoop Amsterdam

2012 — 2013

Participant Route66, Talent Programme of D66

• Co-wrote paper on the future of education for Dutch MP Paul van Meenen

2008

Volunteer, Cross-Borders (Kathmandu/Bahrabise, Nepal)

• Taught English on two different schools and worked in a children's home

2003 — 2011

Member student rowing club A.A.S.R. Skøll Amsterdam

• Coach of freshman crew (2010) and senior lightweight men (2011)
• Three years of crew rowing (2005, 2006, 2007)
• Member of various organizing committees, e.g. Promotion and Koninklijke Holland Beker, the biggest international rowing regatta in The Netherlands.

Misc.

I'm a native Dutch speaker. I'm fluent in English and I speak and understand German. Furthermore I have a basic understanding of French, Spanish and I try to speak and understand नेपाली and हिंदी.

In my spare time I like photography, rowing, cycling and politics.

I sometimes push code to GitHub.

I've also got a Dutch car and motorcycle license (A + B).

In 2008 I travelled for 7 months to Japan, India and Bhutan and did volunteering work in Nepal.

In 2009 a friend an I drove by car and motorcycle from Istanbul to Nepal.

In 2012 two friends and I volunteered for the Obama re-election campaign in Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and Illinois.

Together with some friends I organize the Webcrafters and Amsterdam Tech Runners meetups.

Contact

You can find me on twitter and LinkedIn, but I'd prefer if you would just send me an e-mail.

If you're more the calling type of person, you can book also book a 30-min call with me.