Jevontech

About Jeroen Vennegoor op Nijhuis

  • Name: Jeroen Vennegoor op Nijhuis (more information on my last name here )
  • Country: the Netherlands (Holland)
  • Date of birth: 8th of August, 1982
  • Current occupation: Engineer at Philips Consumer Lifestyle (the Netherlands)
World Solar Challenge 2005 World Solar Challenge: 3000 km in a solar powered car PIRATE robot: My graduation project

Professional skills

  • Product development of electronic and electromechanic consumer products
  • Mechatronics and robotics development
  • Product architecture and requirements management
  • 3D CAD (Solidworks, Unigraphics NX )
  • Software development: C++, Java, C# , PHP
  • User interface design and testing

Hobbies and interests

  • Robotics and software development
  • Travelling: Discovering new cities and countries. I've been mostly to Asian countries, such as China, India, Nepal and Indonesia.
  • Reading
  • Asian cooking

Education:

  • Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
    2004-2007 University of Twente (Enschede, the Netherlands)
    • Graduation project: Development of a gas line inspection robot:PIRATE
      This project was presented at ICRA 2011 by my university; unfortunately my name is not mentioned anywhere. For more information on this project, take a look at the paper presented at IGRC2008
    • Internship at IMI Indoor Climate in Shanghai(China)
    • Member of the 1st Solar Team Twente. Me and the rest of the team designed and built a solar car and participated in the World Solar Challenge in Australia in September 2005.
      More info here
  • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
    2001-2004 University of Twente (Enschede, the Netherlands)
    • International summerschool at the University Dortmund, Germany in the summer of 2003
      Courses in chemical engineering, statistics and logistics
    • 1st prize Engineering contest "De onsteelbare fiets"
      I designed together with a fellow student a lock that would make bicycles much more difficult to steal.
      Dutch engineering magazine "De Ingenieur", Volume 115(year 2003) , No. 4
      www.ingenieur.nl
    • Student participant 34th ISC symposium (year 2004)
      St.Gallen, Switzerland
      http://www.stgallen-symposium.org/

Software knowledge

Windows

  • Office applications
  • Minitab(statistical analysis)
  • 3D CAD (Solidworks at university and NX6 for some time at Philips)
  • Matlab
  • Labview

Linux

  • Ubuntu and Mint distro(and in the past Mandrake & Suse)
  • Zentyal
  • Postfix
  • Zarafa
  • Apache
  • Samba

Software development:

  • C++ (mainly for Linux)
    • Boost C++ libraries
    • Poco C++ libraries
    • Apache Qpid (AMQP messaging)
    • Qt
    • Cmake
    • GDB and valgrind
  • Java
    • Desktop and JEEE
    • Spring
    • ActiveMQ(JMS)
  • C#
  • PHP