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About myselfHi,
I was born in Amsterdam (1952) where I still live, in a small flat in the
south of the city. I earn a living as a systems developer and programmer.
I have a LAT-relation with my girlfriend Hetty.
I have worked for almost 16 years at Fokker Aircraft, but they went
bankrupt at march 15, 1996. As a member of the
IT department I could start the next week in a new company FAIR
information services, a Joint Venture of IBM
and Roccade where a large
part of the Fokker-IT-staff was employed.
At Fokker my job was mainly designing and coding Fortran programs to support
the engineering department. I also did some hacking with assembler, Pascal
and Visual Basic. At FAIR I worked mostly with Microsoft Access. In 1997
I started working at IBM for the Business Support Center, initially on
VM/CMS (back to the seventies!) and then two years in building a new
contracting tool under Lotus Notes.
After that I did some maintenance on the Notes applications at FAIR,
then poor business results forced me to leave.
I did an euro-conversion project for
Roccade Finance
where my Fortran skills suddenly were in demand again.
At the moment I am looking for a new challenge,
or in other words I am unemployed and looking for a new job. A CV (in dutch) is available.
At least it leaves some time for experimenting with my computer.
In my free time I used to do some birding,
but I am mainly an 'armchair biologist'. I have a collection of over 160
videotapes with natural history films, and a database describing not just
the films but also the animals featuring in them. To get some structure
into this I had to study some
systematics.
Since I am active on the Internet, I am also busy collecting images. I
am also trying to contribute some myself.
About once a year I travel to some
distant place to see what animals live there (usually I do already know
that, but sometimes you want to see them in the flesh as well). I also
try to make some photographs, as long as I can do it on the fly, or better
on the walk. I don't have the patience to sit for days in a hide. In september
1994 I visited Madagascar, my first third-world
country and a great experience. I managed to take some decent photographs.
The next year I visited Costa Rica, also a third world country but the
people seemed filthy rich compared to those in Madagascar. I saw lots
of animals there, some of which were very cooperative in posing in
front of my camera.
Apart from documenting my holidays, I also take photographs on other occasions
every once in a while.
As my job is also - to some extent - my hobby, I also spend lots of free
time behind my computer to figure things out and maintain my professional
skills.
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Remarks: mkramer@wxs.nl
Last update 19-april-2008