Roel de Cock (M)

born 5 december 1965, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Chronology
1984-1986 Chemistry, Nijmegen University (unfinished)
1986-1987 Training (partly on-the-job) for AMBI-certificates COBOL programmer (see training and courses and companies)
1988-1990 Employed as applications programmer
1990-1991 Library Academy (Frederik Möller), Amsterdam
1991-1992 Employed as librarian/systems manager, Science Faculty, Nijmegen University
1992-1993 Employed at Computer Helpdesk, Tilburg University Library
1993-1994 Librarian (Dutch "documentalist") at Excerpta Informatica, Tilburg University Library
1994-2001 Novell systems manager / project programmer, Automation Unit of Tilburg University Library
2001-current Unix programmer, Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark / CVT-Infolab

Companies
1987
Alpha Micro Systems Netherlands, Druten
Application programming in COBOL. Training on-the-job.
1988-1989
EVC produkties, Nijmegen
Writing pupil registration system for educational institutions, and construction cost control software for Ministry of Housing (in Clipper). Customer support.
1989
Buro Agogische Produkties, Nijmegen
Writing Computer Aided Instruction for bank employees (in Clipper).
1991-1992
Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, library of Sciences
Installing and maintaining local library systems. Reference work for the Information Science and Chemistry collections.
1992-2001
Tilburg University Library
Documentation work, systems management, Unix programming
2001-current
Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark
Programmer at CVT/Infolab, working mainly under Linux.

Training and courses
1996-1987, 1992, 1993 AMBI certificates: I1, I2 (general); B1, HB.1 (database management); T2 (COBOL), HP.6 (networks).

(AMBI is a Dutch modular Computer Science education programme of which the distinct modules can be studied independently. AMBI modules are at higher vocational level.
1990-1991 Library Academy (formerly Frederik Mõller Academy), Amsterdam (evening courses). General principles of librarianship and subject classification. Studies interrupted because college schedules turned out to be awkwardly incompatible with the job at Nijmegen University.
1994 Gemeenschappelijke Opleiding voor Bibliotheek en Documentatie, Den Haag, course GO-F (documentation). One-year course (1 day per week) in reference work and subject classification, with several practical tasks to be performed in allday library practice.
1998, 1999 C++ and Advanced Unix Programming, AT Computing, Nijmegen. (AT Computing is recognised as one of the foremost Unix knowledge centres in the Netherlands, Nijmegen University probably being the first European university in posession of a Unix system.)
2001-2003 Several courses in XML, XSLT, SOAP, Web services and related technologies, Superusers, Hillerød DK.
2004 Introduction to Java, J2EE, and Java-XML related technologies, Lund og Bendsen, Glostrup DK.

Most current and library-specific programming experience

At Tilburg University, Roel was involved in development of a multidatabase bibliographical search system under the heading of the European Decomate project. Main activities were configuration/distribution management, development of an interface to the Online Catalog and Borrower systems, and deployment of the Current Awareness Service. The software has after the project been adopted (by OCLC/Pica under the name iPort) and is in use by several institutes in The Netherlands and Germany.

Roel's main activities at CVT/Infolab involve ongoing development of the Chemicals Portal at kemibrug.dk, the DTU research database Orbit and maintenance or redevelopment of the local web indexes at two universities in the Copenhagen area.

Hobbies and interests

Roel likes bicycling (currently does some 150 km per week to and fro his work), mountain hiking (when mountains available) and horse riding (when horse available). He also holds an interest in military aircraft and ditto PC simulators.

He used to posess a stone-aged, but functioning Nissan Sunny which he sold shortly after he saw the Danish "registration tax" rates (and directly after he regained consciousness).

Reference
Jola Prinsen, former head of Excerpta Informatica, currently vice president of Ticer BV.