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(TA) Thieme Hennis 16-08-1981 +31 6 51855220 thiemehennis@gmail.com	http://www.hennis.nl http://myopen.org http://aboutpeers.com

NOW! Concept Cowboy @ Peers

I am currently working on the design of professional social networks. My main task is to translate ideas, problems, and demands into a viable and sustainable social network. Our networks intend to support and decentralize communication, collaboration and knowledge exchange. Strategically, I am co-responsible for decisions about new applications, and our development of the interaction system (which analyzes the interactions and online usage of information objects).

Preliminary education [course list]

Velsen, 1993-1999, Grammar School

Subjects: Dutch, English, Ancient Greek, History, Economics, Mathematics, Physics

Academic education [course list]

University: Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Discipline: System Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management (SEPAM)

Specialization: Logistics, System Analysis (Bachelor of Science, 2000-2005)

- Bachelor thesis on the improvement of accessibility of Bloemendaal aan Zee. Latest news on the subject here. [ISSUEPAPER & REPORT]

Education, Economy, IT, System Analysis (Master of Science, 2005-2008)

- Master thesis on the design and implementation of an online lab-environment for open educational resources (problem owner: Education and Student Affairs, TU Delft). Roadmap from current situation towards a future, community based model for the production of open online educational resources. [REPORT]

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University: Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (Barcelona)

Discipline: Telecommunication Engineering (2005-2006, 1^st semester)

Internship in Chile

Company: ING Chile (Santiago), March-June 2005

Description: After a number of large acquisitions ING Chile was in a continuing reorganization process. This included the implementation of Business Rules Engines into the process of underwriting (automation). For one specific department I have mapped, simulated and analyzed the whole ‘value chain’, with an advice about the possibilities on future automation. The analysis contained scenarios, calculations, and simulations. [REPORT]

Languages

Dutch (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), German (moderate), French (moderate).

Computer proficiency

MS Office, MS Visio, SPSS 10.0, VisSim, PowerSim, DEMO Professional, Arena, MediaWiki, TWiki, HTML

Interests and activities

Academic:	Networked learning, open education, social software and Web 2.0, contextualized attention metadata, open source economics (peer production, open innovation, collective intelligence, communities of practice), copyright and open licenses.
Sports:	Hockey, golf (Hcp. 9,5), tennis, surf, sail, chess, billiards.
Traveling:	Through space, over land, in books and minds. Other cultures, nature and people elevate me.
Other:	Writing, reading (philosophy/history/biology/psychology), music.

Conferences

SURF Education Days (Utrecht, NL) ’06, Online Educa (Berlin) ‘06, Online Connectivism Conference ‘07, SEPAM Management Workshops (Delft, NL) ’07, Future of Education (online) ’07, OpenLearn (Milton Keynes, England) October ’07, Ed-Media (Vienna) June ’08 (paper en video), PICNIC (Amsterdam) ’08 (report and video), Social Networking (Rotterdam) April ’08.

Past working experience/projects

· Organizer and participant of IDEA League Summerschool about Next Generation ICT at TU Delft, September 2008 (video).

· Assistant researcher Delft OCW project: setting up and taking interviews with students, academics, and company representatives, 2008 (Article presented at SEFI conference).

· Student Assistant at MSc course on ICT-infrastructures (DUT, faculty of SEPAM), 2007. [EVALUATION REPORT & PRESENTATION]

o Setting up, introducing, and maintaining TWiki environment as collaborative tool. [WIKI]

o Simon Peerdeman award for the most important contribution on educational innovation within the faculty.

· Assistant researcher for an e-learning project at DUT, 2006-2007

o Maintaining project’s wiki, researching alternative similar e-learning projects.

· Course E-Learning & Corporations - Benchmarking project concerning the On-boarding Program of Sara Lee International, 2006 (report not public).

· Mentor for foreign exchange students (DUT, faculty of SEPAM), 2003

· Student Assistant (DUT, faculty of Architecture), 2003

o Assisting students in the ‘SEPAM-approach’, through an interactive learning environment (STUDIO).

· Several other: Home care (Particura 2000-2004), night receptionist (5*-hotel Duin & Kruidberg, 2007), waiter, bartender, labor jobs, clerk, administrative, telemarketing.

Student committees

Several committees during and before my study, mostly at student associations Virgiel and Curius.

• Lustrum Committee, 2002-2003. Responsible for acquisition of and organizing the lustrum year of Curius, the student union of the faculty of SEPAM. End responsibility for the lustrum gala.
• Lustrum Sports Committee, 2002-2003. Member of the committee that organized a 3-day national sports event for 500 people during the lustrum of the largest student fraternity in Delft, Virgiel. End responsibility for opening, activities during the tournament, location and communication with sub-committees.
• Board of Golf association, 2002-2003. A one-year board member of the golf association of Virgiel. Treasurer and responsibility for clinics and tournaments.
• Other committees/activities; president Sleep-inn committee (Virgiel, 2002), Activities committee (Curius, 2001), Youth board (hockey club HBS, 1996-1998), coach and trainer for youth teams at hockey club HBS.

Travels

Kenia, 2009. Four years after experiencing the richness and poverty of the South-American continent, I traveled around Kenya, and saw both worlds again. The animals and endless savannahs, green hills of Mt Kenya, sunny and ancient coast town Lamu were all very impressive, as were the stories of many hopeless illegal immigrants and poor Kenyans (for instance about the corrupt government), the sight of immense slums, and the enormous differences between poor and rich.

Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, 2005. Before and after my internship for ING Chile, I spent time traveling and learning Spanish in the South-American continent.

Como/Milan, Italy, March 2004. A 10-day intensive course at the Politecnico di Milano called ‘Emerging Strategies and Tools in the Marketing Activity’ with several other students from universities around Europe.

Indonesia, Australia, New-Zealand, 1999-2000. An one-year trip through the extremes of Australasia and my own experiential world.

Bristol/London, England, summer 1998. An interesting cultural exchange with 40 people and 28 nationalities.

Other exchanges in Dortmund, Germany and Rammstein, a US air force base in Germany, where I was placed in foster homes.