Entrepreneur, Lead Developer, Partner in Firmhouse
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Co-founder at Prototyping Weekends
- Lead Developer and Partner at Firmhouse
- Past
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- Founder at Tweetburner
- Web developer at ORTEC
- Founder at Welo internet & media
- Board member communication, media and PR at Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA
- Chair at Youth Council Gouda
- Web developer at St.-Antoniuscollege
- Software Developer, Translator at GNOME
- Web Developer at St.-Antoniuscollege
- Education
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- Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk
- St.-Antoniuscollege
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Michiel Sikkes’s Summary
I'm a web software developer and entrepreneur. I started as part-timer and freelancer for various customers and businesses. Now I'm building Firmhouse as partner and Lead Developer. We want to create the best software as service applications with a human touch.
Michiel Sikkes’s Specialties:
Programming in languages like Ruby, PHP, C#, Java. Experienced with frameworks like Ruby on Rails, .NET, CakePHP. Collaboration of software development teams. Interaction design.
Michiel Sikkes’s Experience
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Co-founder
Prototyping Weekends
(Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (9 months)
Prototyping Weekends is a recurring event where developers, designers, concepters come together in one weekend with the goal to design and create a working web service or application in two days.
I'm responsible for co-organizing these events and making sure all participants can work together during the weekend. Matching concepters, designers and developers. -
Lead Developer and Partner
Firmhouse
(Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Firmhouse builds prototypes (bèta versions) for internet services and web applications using agile development. I'm responsible for getting our services and application developed.
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Founder
Tweetburner
(Internet industry)
April 2008 — December 2008 (9 months)
Tweetburner is a web service that allows you to shorten long URLs, and track what happens to them when you post them to Twitter or other services.
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Web developer
ORTEC
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Developer of various web and software applications used in ORTEC sports sponsering projects.
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Founder
Welo internet & media
(Internet industry)
September 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Welo internet & media is a company which focuses on creating and realising internet concepts. These usually involve a combination of the web, the Internet and connecting these to all kinds of (multi)media.
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Board member communication, media and PR
Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Political Organization industry)
July 2006 — May 2007 (11 months)
De Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA is a policital youth organization within the Partij van de Arbeid in the Netherlands. It provides trainings, activities and excursions for youth. There are approximately 1500 members.
I am responsible for investigating better and modern means of communicating to the organization's members and other organizations. Primarily focused on applying new media systems in the organizational infrastructure. -
Chair
Youth Council Gouda
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Government Relations industry)
September 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Chair of the Youth Council in Gouda. Advising the local government and organizing activities for youth in the city of Gouda.
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Web developer
St.-Antoniuscollege
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)
August 2001 — August 2006 (5 years 1 month)
Development and concept development of web applications and websites being used as communication or learning applications for students, parents and employees.
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Software Developer, Translator
GNOME
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2006 (6 years )
I was an active contributer, translater and developer inside the GNOME and Ubuntu communities. Some pet projects of me are Trash Applet for GNOME and Update Manager in Ubuntu.
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Web Developer
St.-Antoniuscollege
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)
July 2000 — August 2006 (6 years 2 months)
PHP, HTML/CSS developer on various projects used for eductional purposes. For example, survey systems, student management systems and website maintainance.
Michiel Sikkes’s Education
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Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk
B. Informatics , Communication and Multimedia Design , 2006 — 2010 (expected)
Followed several courses in Informatics, Business Informatics and Entrepreneurship
- Activities and Societies:
- Student-entrepreneur at Enter-priZe (enter-prize.nl)
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St.-Antoniuscollege
2000 — 2006
- Activities and Societies:
- IT/Web team, Debate team, International Exchange
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Michiel Sikkes’s Interests:
management, entrepreneurship, (graphics) design, web technologies, education, non-profit, environment, politics
Michiel Sikkes’s Groups:
Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA, Enter-priZe
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Werken in Zoetermeer / Working in Zoetermeer, NL
Michiel Sikkes’s Honors:
"Goudse scholieren leggen beweging van de zon vast", publication in NVOX, a magazine of the Dutch association for science in education (2004)
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