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Remko Popma
CTO, Azzurri Ltd.

E-Mail:

remko@azzurri.co.jp

Address:

603 New Aoyama Bldg., 1-4-6 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0002, Japan
Tel:
+ 81-3-5774-5929
Fax:
+ 81-3-5774-5928


Skills

IT
  • Development process: Extreme Programming
  • Web development, web usability testing and design
  • Object-oriented design: CRC, UML (Rational Rose 98, Together/J)
  • Object-oriented development: Java, C++
  • Distributed OO design and development: Java, RMI, EJB
  • Logical database design
  • Procedural development: VB, PL/SQL, VBA, C, Pascal
  • Web/intranet development: servlets, JSP, EJB, ASP, DHTML, HTML, applets, VbScript, JavaScript, XML
  • GUI design and development: Java, VB, Developer/2000, VBA

Project management

Managed small groups of software developers in several calendar-driven projects.

Languages

Native Dutch, fluent written and spoken English and Japanese, intermediate German and French.

Experience

CTO of Azzurri
(Mar. 2001 - present)
Currently focusing on improving the software development process, both inhouse and at clients.
Independant consultant
(Oct. 1999 - Mar. 2001)
  • Zurich Insurance Japan, November 2000-present Designed and implemented multilingual web content management system, rewrote online life insurance application, consulted on web usability, consolidated the web development team, trained staff. (Java servlets, JSP, Websphere application server, DB2, AIX).
  • Winterthur Japan Swiss Insurance Company, March 2000-October 2000 Redesigned and implemented online car insurance quotation system. Implemented Winterthur's part of an insurance agency's web data collation application for comparing quotes. (Java servlets, JSP, XML, Websphere application server, DB2/400).
  • JBCC/Hiraga Printing Inc., February 2000-March 2000 Designed and implemented online brochure design collaboration system. (Java servlets, JSP, Websphere application server, DB2).
  • Sumisho Information Systems/Softbank, October 1999-March 2000 Participated as main Java adviser and tiger team programmer in design and implementation of large e-commerce web site. (Java servlets, JSP, EJB, Weblogic application server, Oracle, ObjectStore).
  • Nihon Advanced Systems, November 1999-January 2000 Implemented reporting tools for patent and trademark management system. (Java, Swing, AS400, DB2).
  • JBCC/Funakoshi, October 1999-November 1999 Designed and implemented web-based catalog search system. (Java servlets, JSP, WebSphere application server, DB2).
Employee of Computer Planex
(Sep. 1996 - Oct. 1999)
  • CSI, July 1999-October 1999 Designed and implemented an application server, client screens and reports for order-entry system using distributed objects (Java, RMI, Swing, Oracle).
  • Toshiba, July 1999-September 1999 Managed production planning system upgrade (Developer/2000, PL/SQL, Oracle).
  • Tokyu Dentetsu/Otsuka Shoukai, May 1999-August 1999 Managed and participated in implementation of intranet "time-card" system; designed and implemented master maintenance subsystem (ASP, DHTML, VbScript, Jscript, VB, PL/SQL, Oracle).
  • All Japanese Prefectural Government Offices, February 1999-May 1999 Implemented business report system (Excel/VBA, Oracle).
  • Canon, October 1998-February 1999 Managed and participated in implementation of stock management system (purchase subsystem) (Developer/2000, PL/SQL, Oracle).
  • Shrink-Wrapped Software February 1998-October 1998 Designed and implemented dentist package software (Java, Swing, RMI).
  • Toshiba, February 1998-June 1998 Designed and managed the implementation of production planning system (Developer/2000, PL/SQL, Oracle).
  • Mejiro Linen Supply, February 1998-May 1998 Designed, implemented and maintained billing data entry application (VB).
  • Aucnet, October 1996-February 1998 Implemented various parts and subsystems of online flower, car and motorcycle auction system (VB, Java, C++, Oracle, Btrieve).
Other experience
  • University of Limburg, University of Tilburg (Holland) April 1990-March 1993 Various artificial-intelligence research projects (Dos/Pascal, Prolog, Unix/C).
Certification
  • Sun Certified Java Developer, 2000
  • Sun Certified Java Programmer, 1998
  • Japanese Proficiency Test (level 1), 1996
Education
  • Graduated Intensive Japanese Language Course, Yoshida Institute of Japanese Language, Tokyo, 1993-1995
  • MA in Language and Computer Science, University of Tilburg, 1993
Interests

The game of Go (Japanese 6th "dan" level), photography, SF, music, sport (table tennis and fitness), camping and travelling.


Last modified: Sunday April 15, 2001, 16:17