Background
I am a 6th year graduate student in the
CS department at UW–Madison.
In 2004, I graduated from
Macalester College
majoring in
Computer Science.
For the two years that followed, I worked as a software developer for
Objective Interface Systems (OIS),
a small software company developing real-time, embedded, and high-performance
communications software. I began my graduate studies in the fall of 2006.
For a deeper history, refer to the following timeline:
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
| Nov 26, 1981: |
Born in Goes, in the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. |
| 1981 - 1987: |
Raised in the village of Oud-Sabbinge, in the municipality of Goes. |
| 1987 - 1996: |
Lived with family in Hong Kong, moving several times during the 9-year
span. |
| Fall 1987:
| Began primary school at Kowloon Junior School (KJS), a British school. |
| Fall 1993: |
Began secondary school at King George V School (KGV), a British school. |
| 1996 - 2000: |
Lived with family in Washington Township, New Jersey, U.S.A..
Attended Westwood Regional High School. |
| 2000 - 2004: |
Lived in St. Paul, Minnesota, as an undergraduate student at Macalester
College. |
| Spring 2003: |
Studied abroad at the University of York in England. |
| Summer 2003: |
Worked as a research apprentice in Łódź, Poland, via IAESTE. |
| 2004 - 2006: |
Lived in northern Virginia working as a
software developer at Objective Interface Systems. |
| 2006 - Present: |
Live in Madison, Wisconsin, as a graduate student at UW–Madison. |
My current CV is available here.
