TOON VERWAEST

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Weissensteinstr. 112,
3007 Bern, Switzerland
+41 (0)788 95 70 30
07.02.84
Belgian

Education

2007-Now PhD studies Software Composition Group at the University of Bern
2006-2007 EMOOSE European Master in Object-, Component-, and Aspect-Oriented Software Engineering Technologies, taught in English, Five months at Ecole de Mines de Nantes, France Six months at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina http://www.emn.fr/emoose
2004-2006 Master of Science in Theoretical Computer Science, Graduated with Distinction in July of 2006. University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, http://www.vub.ac.be

Experience

2003-2006 Board member of the student organization Infogroep. Learning to work closely together with other people from different positions, among which vice president and server administrator.
2005 Research assistant at the Programming Technology Laboratory at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Acquiring the ability to work independently on a bigger project in communication with other researchers through presentations.

Personal Skills and Competences

Technical skills
Languages Smalltalk, Ruby, Python, Prolog, Haskell, Scheme, Lisp, ... and the ability to learn new languages
Systems Linux, MacOSX, Windows
Paradigms Object-Oriented, Component-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented, Logical, Procedural, Functional
Spoken Languages

Dutch: mother tongue, English: ability to use daily, French: communication and lecture, Spanish: communication and lecture

Various

Drivers license

Personal Interests

Making as well as listening to music and going to concerts, photography, painting and drawing. Sporadically doing sports, mostly swimming. Working on, with and around computers. Going out, meeting people.