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Who is 'left'?

'Left' is Stefan Koopmanschap, Zend PHP5 Certified Software Engineer and Professional Services Consultant at Ibuildings. In his spare time he works on developing tons of sites and has a big love of Open Source Software as well as music, his wife Marjolein, son Tomas and daughter Yara, and reading fantasy, science fiction and just about anything else.

After the first time he saw the symfony framework, he was immediately impressed and can be seen as a symfony advocate at this point, especially aiming at The Netherlands. He does this by doing presentations, by writing weblog posts, by working on symfony projects both in his hobby projects as well as professionally, and by running the website symfony-framework.nl .

Aside from symfony, Stefan is a big enthusiast of PHP5 and the more professional way of development it supports. He is also a very big supporter of an agile approach of project management and execution. He does believe that there is no true agile system, but that most projects/companies benefit most from a combination of SCRUM and XP.

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Personalia

Name: Stefan Koopmanschap
Date of birth: 16-06-1978
Marital state: Married

Education

School for Communication Systems
Faculty for Communication & Journalism
Hogeschool van Utrecht

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Zend PHP5 Certified

Skills

PHP (excellent), MySQL (excellent), Linux (good), Apache (good), XML (good)
Dutch (as mother language), English (spoken and written)

Work experience

2007 - current: Software engineer / Professional Services Consultant
Development of web applications, mainly using the symfony framework. Zend Professional Services consultancy. Used: symfony, ATK, Zend Framework, PHP5, MySQL
Ibuildings, Vlissingen/Sittard/Amsterdam, Netherlands / London, UK

2006 - 2007: Lead Software Engineer
Development of websites, CRM systems and more, based on open source applications. Migration from PHP4 to PHP5. Leading the development team. Technology selection. Used: symfony, PHP5, MySQL
Dutch Open Projects / Jongeren in Beeld, Leusden, Netherlands

2005 - 2006: PHP Developer Content & Services
Development of serverside applications for the TomTom PLUS services. Development of XML server component, amongst other things. Used: PHP5, MySQL, XML
TomTom, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2004 - 2005: Self-employed
Development of webbased systems, such as custom Content Management Systems, custom intranet. Used: PHP4/PHP5, MySQL, XML, (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX
Stefan Koopmanschap, Woudenberg, Netherlands

2004 - 2004: Front-End Developer
Linking up existing back-end systems with designs using PHP, HTML, CSS
Araneum Interactive Solutions, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2001 - 2004: Software Developer
Developing custom Content Management System for a variety of customers, including dutch government, transport organisations and media. Used: PHP3/PHP4, Mysql, HTML, CSS
NMG Nieuwe Media Groep, Utrecht, Netherlands

1999 - 2001: Lotus LearningSpace support
Support of Hogeschool van Utrecht professors in the use of e-learning platform Lotus LearningSpace. Writing of a manual for professors and students on the use of Lotus LearningSpace.
CETIS, Hogeschool van Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Interests and non-work activities

  • Open Source Software
  • Symfony advocate
  • Music (electronic, rock, soul, and more)
  • Volunteer work
  • Board position in Dutch PHP User group
  • Former Team Leader of the phpBB Support Team

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