Gerard Toonstra

Current

Scientific Software Developer at Thales Research & Technology
Research Engineer at D-CIS Lab

Past

Technical Architect at Sogeti
Sr. Software Engineer / Consultant at CESAR, Brazil
Software Engineer at Convergys, EMEA Ltd., UK

Internet applications Developer at IQUIP BV, NL
Dual purpose officer (maritiem officier) at P&O Nedlloyd BV, NL

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Education

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Qualiti
School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Gerard Toonstra’s Summary

Experienced software designer with huge interest in AI and substantial knowledge of general web-related and mobile technologies.

Gerard Toonstra’s Specialties:

Artificial Intelligence, Google Web Toolkit, GWT, Guice, Geneva Billing, Oracle, J2ME, J2EE, JSP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, cryptography (openssl), OpenGL, Graphics, Java, C, all Unixes, Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE, Apache, Perl, TIBCO, Postgres, MySQL, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, XML, XSLT, XSD, JNI, JUnit, Java annotations, jBPM, Prolog, SOA, JDO, JPA, DHT, Hadoop, all sorts of Google Mashups.

Gerard Toonstra’s Experience

Scientific Software Developer

Thales Research & Technology

(Public Company; HO; Defense & Space industry)

September 2009 — Present (5 months)
Research Engineer

D-CIS Lab

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2009 — Present (5 months)
Technical Architect

Sogeti

(Public Company; CAP.PA; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2007 — August 2009 (2 years )
Sr. Software Engineer / Consultant

CESAR, Brazil

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2004 — September 2007 (2 years 10 months)

I started doing the architecture and programming of J2ME applications for a very large mobile client in the US.

Besides engineering, I did estimates, pre-sales and was part of the internal consultants group for engineering.

Another project concerned a performance analysis and re-factoring of a Content Delivery System for mobiles. This uses OTA, J2EE and WML technologies, as well as DRM. The platform was transferred from WebLogic 6.1 / JDK1.3 onto a JBoss 4.0 / JDK 1.5 platform with Hibernate and time-caches. Several operations in the database were significantly improved.

The final project here concerned a project management solution using GWT as the client front-end with Sharepoint integrations for a large client in Germany.
Software Engineer

Convergys, EMEA Ltd., UK

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CVG; Telecommunications industry)

September 2001 — April 2004 (2 years 8 months)

Customisation development for Billing platform, involving discounts, rating, billing and custom invoice generations. Did architecture, design and functional requirements review of customisations. Went into 2nd line Customer Support for 6 months. Languages and technologies used: C / C++ / Java / WebLogic7.0 / JBoss / UNIX / Windows / Excel / Oracle 7.3 to 10.0 / PLSQL.
Internet applications Developer

IQUIP BV, NL

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 1999 — August 2001 (2 years 7 months)

Developing applications for and maintaining database of 10,000 documents, containing bank's portfolio information of products.

Maintenance of insurance portfolio software for 3 months.

Middleware applications for telco. Securing B2B website with client/server certificates. Phase2 of B2B website programming. Programming for billing middleware connector. SMAS VPN connector. Other middleware applications and support.
Dual purpose officer (maritiem officier)

P&O Nedlloyd BV, NL

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Maritime industry)

October 1997 — September 1998 (1 year )

Dual purpose officer makes you navigation officer and engineer at the same time. The job involves switching from deck and bridge duties to engine room duties every couple of weeks. In short, all activities on a ship are to be executed by this type of officer. I sailed on the largest ships available, worldwide. The majority of trips I spent in Australia, Singapore and New Zealand with other trips going around both capes. I set foot in all continents.