Curriculum Vitae Francis Dierick

Full Name: Francis Dierick 
Date of Birth: september 11th, 1976 

Address in Belgium: Henleykaai 60, Ghent, BE 9000, Belgium 
Address in Germany: Magdeburgerstrasse 2, Kosntanz, DE 7846, Germany

WWW: http://www.c1sc0.com 
e-mail: francis.dierick@gmail.com

Work Experience Summary

Accomplished web developer with over 10 years of experience in copywriting, programming and usability engineering predominantly using open-source technologies. Extensive experience working on research-oriented tasks in both academic and commercial environments.

Current Work Situation

As a research developer part of the 'Innovation' team at Holidaycheck I am responsible for conceiving and implementing novel web-based travel applications. Currently my academic interests lie in data mining (logfile analysis) with Hadoop/MapReduce, visualization of graph data, agile development methods and lightweight user-friendly Web 2.0 user interfaces.

I'm applying my skills gained in the bioinformatics world to managing and visualizing the large datasets used in Semantic Web applications.

I like to write simple, semantic, powerful web applications on the LAMP stack using lightweight development frameworks such as Zend, Django or Rails. In a perfect world, I develop on OSX and deploy in the distributed computing cloud.

Publications

• Andreas Heß, Christian Maaß, Francis Dierick (2008) From Web 2.0 to the Semantic Web: A Semi-Automated Approach. CISWeb Workshop at ESWC 2008
• Francis Dierick, Philipp Dopichaj, Uwe Fleischer, Andreas Heß, Andre Skusa and Christian Maaß (2008) Playful Validation of Automatically Extracted Data. Workshop "Nutzerinteraktion im Social Semantic Web" at "Mensch und Computer" conference.
• Sterck, L., Rombauts, S., Fawcett, J., Lin, Y.-C., Robbens, S., Wuyts, J., Dierick, F., Rouzé, P., Van de Peer, Y. (2007) Eukaryotic Genome Annotation. IUAP-BioMAGNET Kick-off meeting, 2007 (Poster)
• Rombauts, S., Sterck, L., Dierick, F., Robbens, S., Wuyts, J., Schiex, T., Rouzé, P., Van de Peer, Y. (2006) Eukaryote Genome annotation at the Plant Systems Biology department. BBC 2006, VIB-seminar 2006 (Poster)

Daytime work

• HolidayCheck AG (Switzerland) May 2009 - ... Technical Innovation Management
• Lycos Europe Research (Germany) July 2007 - May 2009 Web Development and UI Research
• VIB (Plant Systems Biology and Evolutionary Genomics) - Ghent July 2003 - June 2007 Web and database development
• Emerge.be - Macline November 2001 - June 2003 Web development
• Emerge.be - Shop on the Net (Brussels) July 2000 - November 2001 Web development
• Philips Speech Processing (Brussels / Vienna) January 1999 - November 1999 3rd Line Speech Technology Support
• DVH bvba (Antwerp) July 1998 - November 1998 Web development
• DVH bvba (Antwerp) February 1998 - July 1998 Freelance Web development

Nighttime work

• iPhone Development ~ currently 8 apps in the AppStore 2009
• www.many-eyeballs.com 2008 Mturk-driven website usability
• Peakr.net 2007 Social News for climbers
• Climbing.about.com September 2000 - May 2001 Web Editor and Writer
• Freeclimbing.com January 1999 - January 2001 Search engine development

Education

• 1989-1995: Secundary High School: Latin Modern Languages
• 1995-1996: Roman Languages, University of Namur
• 1996-1997: Communication Sciences, Egon - Ghent
• 1997-1998: Communication Sciences, Egon - Ghent

Additional Education

• Mandarin Chinese (Evening Course: 2006)
• Photography (2000)
• Interviewing Techniques (Evening Course: 1998)
• Multimedia (Evening Course: 1999)

Knowledge of languages

• Dutch: mother tongue
• English: Fluent
• French: Good
• German: Good
• Mandarin Chinese: Very limited understanding, will probably continue learning forever

Self-Education

• Genomics: annotation systems, visualization systems, good basic understanding of genetics for bioinformatics application development.
• Operating Systems: Mac OSX, Linux
• Databases: Filemaker Pro, 4D, MySQL
• Programming languages: ASP, Lasso, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, *nix shell, Objective C
• Scripting Languages: Javascript, VBscript
• Markup languages: HTML, XML, MXML, YAML
• Text editors: BBedit, Vi, Nedit, TextMate
• Pattern Recognition: grep
• Image Processing: Photoshop, Fireworks
• Networking: DNS, DHCP, administration of mail and web servers (Apache, Webstar)
• Lamp (Linux-Apache-MysQL-Perl/PHP) & Xamp (OSX-Apache-Mysql-Perl /PHP)
• OSX Server & Client in Web Development environments

Honors and Activities

• I like challenges. I started skydiving and got my A License in 3 months. I've been climbing all over the world (USA, Canada, France, Norway, China, ...) and filmed some of my exploits. I've been ice climbing since 2003 and climbed classics like Weeping Wall in Canada. I've been rock climbing since 1990 and bouldered up to 8a, mostly in Fontainebleau, France.
• I like to build things. As a pet project, I built a rock climbing specific search engine and crawler in 1997. (freeclimbing.com) I wrote climbing-related article for About.com at night during the Internet bubble. I built a climbing-related social news site (peakr.net) to polish my Web 2.0 coding skills in 2007.
• I like beautiful things. Since I couldn't draw I studied photography at the Royal Academy of Ghent. I still can't draw but I enjoy the minimalism found in good typography, writing and information design. One day I'll write a book.