Curriculum Vitae

Ruud Harmsen

Internet email: 1st and 2nd letter of first name, 1st and 2nd of last name @rudhar.com
World Wide Web: https://rudhar.com

Date of birth: 8 March 1955
Nationality : NL

Chamber of Commerce: Utrecht, Nederland, nr. 30126921

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15 July 2020:

I ended my company.

May 1995 - today:

Free-lance

• Translator English->Dutch and German->Dutch.

July 1995 - today:

Translations English->Dutch, Dutch->English and German->Dutch.
Via translation agencies in Belgium, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Sweden and Canada.

• Technical manuals for paint spraying equipment, pumps and accessories.
• Technical manuals and training material for refrigeration equipment.
• Customer Satisfaction Surveys.
• Manual for electronic testing device.
• Press releases mobile telephony.
• Localisation presentation application (Windows & Macintosh).

May 1995 - ca. July 2004:

For KSI (now called Centric-KSI):

• Recurring maintanance and client-specific modifications to EB Plus and EB Bankstatement.
• Ported these MS-DOS applications to MS-Windows (32 bits), without rewriting them on the application level.
• Adapted the application so they could be used with the euro (transition period).
• Separated text strings from the sources, to enable translation to multiple languages.
• Enhanced import facilities of bank statement information from various banks (MT940, Belgian CODA-format, and many others).

April 1, 1996 - August 30, 1996:

Maintenance on a software system for mortgage presales.
ING Bank Amsterdam.
Microsoft C, MultiEdit, PVCS, Ghost.

August 15, 1995 - October 31, 1995:

Design of changes and enhancements to a system for electronic banking. ING Bank Amsterdam.
Tools: MSWord 6.0, WordPerfect 5.1, MSAccess 2.0.

May 1995 - August 1995:

Platform: PCs, MSWindows

Software:

• Borland C++
• Object Windows (Borland)
• B-Tree Filer (TurboSoft)

Application:
Prototype of a program for automobile dealers. After specifications from, and in cooperation with, a partner in the USA.

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May 1990 to April 1995:

Company: KSI Automatisering, IJsselstein, the Netherlands

Platform: PCs, MSDos

Software:

• C (Borland/Turbo C, Microsoft-C).
• Turbo Pascal 6.0 with Turbo Vision.
• C-Scape screen handling.
• DB-Vista network-database (now called RAIMA).
• MIX Database Toolchest.
• MKS (UNIX-tools for DOS).
• Polytron PVCS (version control system).
• Turbo Profiler.
• Bounds-Checker (by Nu-Mega).
• Ghost testing tool.

Applications:
(In C):

• TTI: Domestic and foreign payment requests.
• EB Plus: Matching of bankstatements with open items
• imported from finance applications. Interfaces to and
• from Dutch and Belgian systems for electronic banking.

(In Pascal with Turbo Vision):

• Design calculations for evaporator installations for dairy and other industries. After an existing Basic-program, with redesigned user-interface for PC.

Work:

• Technical design and realisation of interactive PC-applications, and maintenance on them.
• Completing and updating technical documentation.
• Restructuring existing software.
• Keep large programs working within MsDos's limited memory space.
• Systematic testing.
• Version control on a large piece of software (nearly 500 modules, over 150 thousand lines-of-code, almost half of which are comments).

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October 1985 to April 1990:

Company : Nixdorf Computer, Vianen, the Netherlands (at times also in Paderborn, Berlin and Munich, Germany)

Platform: TARGON 35 Minicomputer, UNIX System V

Software:

• UNIX tools (sh, sed, awk, grep, make etc.)
• C (also lex, yacc)
• Modula-2
• 4th generation system X/SDE
• Relational databaseDDB/4, SQL

Applications:

• International finance system (later known as ALX).

Work:

• Technical design, programming, some system management.
• Specifying and evaluating a 4GL environment under development.
• Defining programming standards. Taking part in international orkgroups.
• Language skills: German and English, both spoken and written.
• Built some software development aids, based on C and UNIX tools, such as:
  • Crossreference on multiple source files and programs.
  • Bulletin board based on mailx (including an auxiliary program in C to be able to use UNIX's setuid facility).
  • Generation of "umlauts" in German texts.
  • Program to find sparse files (files with holes in them) and fix them.
  • Beautifier for Modula-2 (written in C and lex).
  • Networkplanning, with grafical printer-interface using UNIX's "pic" and "troff".
  • Program to run a demo with screen output on multiple terminals (with automatically transferred ioctl's).
  • Shell-script for installation of software-components by multiple developers into a common library of modules.

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October 1982 to September 1985:

Company: RAET in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

B) July 1983 to September 1985

Platform: HP-3000 Minicomputer

Software:

• Cobol
• KSAM (indexed sequential)
• Powerhouse products
  • Quiz (report generator)
  • Quick (screens generator)

Applications:

• Stock, purchase and sales system for a timber-trade company.
• Registration system for pig-breeding company.

Work:

• Technical design
• Testing
• COBOL programming

A) October 1982 to June 1983

Hardware: Amdahl mainframe

Software:
Cullinet products (later Cullinane):

• ADS (development tool for screen applications),
• IDD (datadictionary)
• IDMS (network database)

Applications:

• Land registry system for "waterschappen" (polder districts).
• Real estate registry and OGB (a tax comparable to UK poll tax) for municipalities.

Work:

• Testing.
• Writing of user manual.
• Technical design.

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October 1980 to September 1982:

Company: Rabobank Nederland, Zeist, the Netherlands.

• Platform: IBM mainframe
• Software: TSO-SPF, JCL
• Application: Current accounts system.
• Work:
  • Analysis of proposed modifications and consequences thereof, update design documents accordingly, enhance documentation.
  • Interface the current accounts system with a system for interest, provision, and cost for business clients, bearing in mind "number fixation" (an account-holder can move to a different bank, but keep their account number, with a transitional period), and mergers between banks. The Rabobank is a cooperation of many different, strictly independent, banks).

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January 1980 to September 1980:

Internal training as systems-analist at Rabobank Nederland in Utrecht. Several IBM-courses, and AMBI-modules I1, I2, T1, B1, B2, S1 en S2, among other things.
Trial project: course administration, on a DEC-20 systeem, in Basic.

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September 1978 to December 1979:

Military Service (Signal Service)

1974-1978:

Electrotechnics at the HTS (higher vocational school) in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

1967-1974:

Atheneum-B