Rijk Willemse

Current

Initiator and manager at Arnhem aan Zee
Senior Consultant and owner at LaVerbe
Author at Rijk Willemse

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Past

Lecturer at Faculty of Economics and Management
Senior Text Writer/Consultant and owner at Taal & Taal
Researcher at Institute of Phonetics

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Education

Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Pedagogische Academie Twente
Ichthus College

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Public Relations and Communications

Rijk Willemse’s Summary

Rijk Willemse has a background in (computational) linguistics, philosophy and communication. As partner in LaVerbe (www.laverbe.nl) he is a senior consultant, sparring partner and coach. He specializes in conveying complex matters in a straightforward yet strategically motivated way, and in coaching others to do the same.

Rijk Willemse’s Specialties:

Building community networks around cultural and governmental issues.

Rijk Willemse’s Experience

Initiator and manager

Arnhem aan Zee

(Public Relations and Communications industry)

2005 — Present (5 years )

Arnhem aan Zee is an extensive network providing platforms for art, 2d, 3d and fashion design, architecture, music, photography, cinematography, dance, vj, dj, cartooning, literature and performing arts. Arnhem aan Zee links artists, designers and performers, and it provides crucial information on the places they act.
Senior Consultant and owner

LaVerbe

(Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)

January 1999 — Present (11 years 2 months)

Senior consultant
Taal & Taal merged with LaVerbe in 1999.

Rijk Willemse is senior-adviseur en partner in LaVerbe. Hij is als adviseur veelvuldig betrokken bij projecten waarbij complexe informatie toegankelijk gemaakt moet worden. Rijk is sparringpartner voor beleidsmakers en bestuurders, veelal bij de start van gecompliceerde projecten op het gebied van klimaatverandering, ruimtelijke ordening en overheidscommunicatie. Daarnaast geeft hij trainingen aan medewerkers, leidinggevenden en bestuurders. Rijk is gespecialiseerd in het bouwen van netwerken rond culturele en beleidsmatige thema's.
Author

Rijk Willemse

(Writing and Editing industry)

1987 — Present (23 years )

Writing and publishing articles on the process of writing, editing and publishing. For an overview, please refer to http://www.rijkwillemse.nl/Content_4/content_3.html

Book published:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/279706
Lecturer

Faculty of Economics and Management

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)

1997 — 2000 (3 years )

Lecturing the post-doctoral course Writing and Speaking for an Audience (Publiekgericht Schrijven en Spreken), during three consecutive years to post-graduates of the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Hogeschool Utrecht.
Senior Text Writer/Consultant and owner

Taal & Taal

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)

January 1991 — 1999 (8 years )

Text writing for governmental and not-for-profit organisations mainly.
Training and coaching executive officers in writing and public speaking.

Rijk Willemse founded Taal & Taal in 1991.
Taal & Taal merged with LaVerbe in 1999.
Researcher

Institute of Phonetics

(Research industry)

1986 — 1994 (8 years )

Research employee, European Esprit Projects for Multilingual Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Specialisation: syntactic models for TTS and Speech Synthesis, computational linguistics, programming parser-generators
Lecturing courses Syntax in Automatic Speech Recognition
Introducing amongst others Wild Card Parsing http://tinyurl.com/ykaa7jp

Rijk Willemse’s Education

Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Linguistics, Informatics, Philosophy and Litterature 1983 — 1987

Computational linguistics, thesis on Conjunction and Gapping in the Amazon Casus framework of Natural Language Parsing and Interpretation (cum laude) - http://tinyurl.com/ycwqv2k
Pedagogische Academie Twente

1978 — 1981
Ichthus College

1970 — 1976