Consultancy

"See the forest for the trees."

Having eye for detail without losing the bigger picture.

Experience

"Determing the age of a tree."

Not just relevant, but a priceless added value.

Knowledge

"Strong roots in a fertile soil."

Aquired only by hard work & passion for this profession.

Work

"A tree is known by its fruit."

Not just talk, but producing actual references & results.

About

Rien Verbrugghe (Contact Rien) is a Professional senior developer and consultant (27) working for Nascom. Specialising in Rich Internet Applications on web, desktop and mobile devices. Offering refreshing solutions and ideas with extensive knowledge of the markets and technologies. Very skilled in object oriented programming (see GitHub), design patterns, marketing and bussiness opportunities. Continually striving to ensure high standards are met and consistency is maintained throughout an entire project. You can follow Rive.be using RSS or on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Experience by working
"Determing the age of a tree."

2007 - 2010Sr. Interaction Developer and Pre-Sales Consultant
Nascom, Genk (BE)

Development & pre-sales consultant for mobile, desktop & web applications. Mostly in function of campaigns for international high brands & advertising agencies. Responsible for all estimations and offers in the development team, contactperson for the Adobe Agency Partner Program. Replacing team lead when absent.

2006 - 2007Multimedia Producer
Apeirons, Riga (LV)

Development, design, teaching webtechnology classes, technical support & organization of Apeirons multimedia events. All projects followed strict accessibility guidelines.

2005 - 2007Flash Platform Developer
Rive, Knokke-Heist (BE)

Freelance Flash/PHP work for several national & international organizations, companies or personalities. Nominated 2 times for Jeugdwerk site van het jaar on 322 participants. (silver in 2004 & gold in 2005)

Experience by education
"Determing the age of a tree."

2006 - 2006Internship program advanced French language
Langues Sans Frontières LSF, Montpellier (FR)

Youth For Understanding Vlaanderen (YFU)

2005 - 2005Internship program Distance Education Study Center
Riga Technical University department DESC, Riga (LV)

Flash e-learning application development on HP and Nokia devices.

2003 - 2005Bachelor Multimedia and Communication Technology
Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen department PIH, Kortrijk (BE)

Industrial sciences & technology, specialization Flash.

Knowledge
"Strong roots in a fertile soil."

Languages

3D, 960gs, AMFPHP, API, AS2, AS3, Away3D, Cairngorm, CSS, Facebook, Framework, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Javascript, jQuery, MonsterDebugger, MXML, Nascomaslib, Omniture, Papervision3D, PHP, PureMVC, SQL, SWFAddress, SWFFit, SWFObject, TweenMax, Wordpress, XHTML, XML, ZendAMF

Software

37signals, Adobe, AIR, Atlassian, Basecamp, Eclipse, Flash, FlashDevelop, Flex Builder, Illustrator, JIRA, Photoshop, PhpMyAdmin, Subversion, TortoiseSVN, Tridion, XAMPP

Latest work
"A tree is known by its fruit."

Selected projects


FirstFrame

Rive.be Hybrid Site
August 2nd, 2010

Hybrid Wordpress site with AJAX page loading, interactive flash header, Google maps integration & video playback with http streaming functionalities.

smiths_00

Smiths 3D chips carousel
July 22nd, 2010

Online 3D carousel product selector. Offering information about the amount of nutrition and/or calories.

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