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Born in 1941. Married. Has two children. Lives in
the country at 20 kilometres from Eindhoven (NL). His background is
chemistry and theoretical physics. His final study concerned the
fundamentals of physics, in particular quantum logic and quaternionic
quantum mechanics. Hans started his carrier in 1970 in the development
department for high-tech electronic devices. Stayed there for more than
fifteen years. He built or changed most of his measuring equipment. In the
beginning wit analog techniques later with digital technology. During that second
period Hans used software increasingly for simulation and measurement
control. As part of his job he participated in the standardisation
commissions that established the ISO and the IEC standard for measuring the
optical transfer function (OTF, MTF). In 1987 Hans changed his job
direction and joined an internal software house. He participated in several
large and very complicated projects and did a series of single person
projects. Mostly it was work that others did not dare to touch because of
the complexity and the scientific depth involved in the subject. In this
way Hans learned the programming metier the hard way. In this way he became
a senior and he has experienced most of what can go wrong and what goes
well in software engineering. In the process Hans developed a vision on
software production that he likes to share with you.
Since July 2001 Hans is retired from his job as a
senior system software engineer at a local semiconductor company. From that
instance until 2004 he proceeded with the work that he started in 1995 and
spent all his time and energy in the development of ingredients that are
needed to establish an open market for embeddable software components.
These components are aimed at resource-restricted real-time embedded
systems. Tools and technology have been created that support the universal
creation, publishing and retrieval of formal specification documents. Tools
that will be capable to use formal specifications to create skeletons of
software components and working and testable prototypes of component-based
systems will follow. The tools are all crafted in C# and work on .Net
compatible platforms. From 2004 through 2006 Hans worked on the automation
of the expert work of a physiological institute. In 2006 Hans retired and
used his free time to study again the fundamentals of physics. He designed
an unorthodox way to do quantum physics.
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