Personal details
Name: Andra Veraart
Address: Boomgaardsstraat 112, 3012 XE – Rotterdam
Phone number: 06 – 13 55 67 63
Email address: mail [at] andra [dot] nl
Date and place of birth: august 1st, 1981 in Halsteren
Gender: male
Nationality: Dutch
Driver’s license: B, car available
Work experience
11/2012 – 01/2013 and 05/2013 – 07/2013
Student Assistent – Cryptography for Beginners
01/2010 – 02/2013
Junior Webdeveloper @ Hoppinger
Finding and fixing bugs in existing websites and -applications. Installing and styling WordPress instances. Writing manuals for back-end users in Dutch and English. Building newsletter templates.
09/2003 – 12/2009
Audio and video engineer @ RBS Groep, Rotterdam
Andra’s primary task consisted of recording and editing voice overs for commercials, corporate videos, educational programs, voice-prompt systems (navigation- or telephone systems) and games.
He has worked on several large multi-lingual projects, like the game The Chronicles of Spellborn, and car-navigation system Route 66. On these bigger projects, he was also involved in planning, briefing production partners and checking deliverables.
He also did video-editing, -compositing and -compression for various projects (again: commercials, corporate videos etc.).
He has built several company websites, like www.eurovoice.nl, www.rbs-group.nl and www.multimediamatters.nl.
For four years, He has been a course leader at the Sound Seminar, which was part of the RBS Group. Among other things, he taught lessons in analogue and digital audio editing (using quarter inch tape and Digidesign Pro Tools, respectively).
03/2002 – 03/2003
Administrative archive assistant @ Philips Lighting Roosendaal
Andra’s primary task was to check whether the transition from a paper to a digital archive was successful. This meant comparing a lot of paper drawings to their digital counterparts in a systematical fashion, and rescanning groups that had too many incorrect scans.
01/2002
Shop assistant @ Music shop “Koster Muziek”, Bergen op Zoom
09/2001 – 12/2001
Administrative assistant @ P. Jansen Installatie Techniek B.V., Bergen op Zoom
08/2001 – 09/2001
Production assistant @ Budelpack Co-packers, Poortvliet
2000 – 2001
Freelance Lighting- and sound-engineer @ Muziek- en Balletschool / Centrum voor de Kunsten, Bergen op Zoom
09/1999 – 2001
Volunteer Lighting- and sound-engineer @ Poppodium BoHo / CKB Underground, Bergen op Zoom
Education
09/2010 – 10/2013 (expected)
Information Technology at Rotterdam University (Hogeschool Rotterdam)
Institute for Communication, Media and Information technology (CMI)
Successfully completed the Honours Programme
2002 – 2003
Sound Seminar
Audio engineering course in Rotterdam
Graduated in 2003
1993 – 2001
R.K. Gymnasium “Juvenaat” ‘t Heilig Hart in Bergen op Zoom
Type of education: VWO Gymnasium
Followed courses: Dutch, Latin, English, Geography, Math, Physics, Economics
Graduated in 2001
Software
Audio software:
Pro Tools – very proficient (particularly editing)
Sound Forge – very proficient
Video software:
Media 100i (8.2.3) – very proficient
Final Cut Pro – proficient
Motion – basic
DVD Studio Pro – very proficient
After Effects – proficient
Graphic software:
Photoshop – proficient
Lightroom – very proficient
Webdesign/development:
HTML and CSS – proficient
PHP – basic
Flash – basic (particularly Action Script 2)
Other software:
Mac OSX – proficient
Microsoft Windows – proficient
Microsoft Word – proficient
Microsoft Excell – very proficient
Languages
Dutch – Very proficient in speech and writing
English – Very proficient in speech and writing
German – basic in speech
French – basic in speech
Hobby’s
Games
Music
Guitar & Bass Guitar, proficient
Drums, very proficient