Dr. Jan Hein Hoogstad

twitter: @yeehaa
email: [email protected]
website: codingthehumanities.com
phone US: +1(415)549-6926
phone NL: +31(6)46177797

Skills

Web Development, Software Engineering, Behaviour Driven Development, Desktop Publishing, Databases, Data Visualisation, Front-End Design, Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Philosopy of Technology, Media Theory, Cultural Analysis, Human Resource Management, Process Management, Career Counseling, and Coaching

Professional Experience and Education

Project Leader, Coding the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, 2013 - Present
Lead Researcher, Augmenting Masterpieces, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam in co-operation with University of Amsterdam, 2013 - Present
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. 2005 - Present
Teaching Assistant, Dev Bootcamp, San Francisco. 2013 - Present
Human Resource Manager, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Amsterdam. 2011-2012
Visiting Assistant Professor, English, University of Minnesota. Fall Semester 2008
PhD, Philosophy, University of Utrecht. 2001-2005
Visiting Scholar in Cultural Studies, Humboldt-University, Berlin. 2001-2005
Management Consultant, van Meggelen Consultancy, Sliedrecht, 1999-2000
Teaching and Research Assistant, Philosophy, University of Utrecht. 1996-2000
BA and MA (combined) in Philosophy, University of Utrecht. 1995-2000

Projects

Coding the Humanities, 2013 - Present

Software Environment: AngularJS, Heroku, Sinatra, Redis
Development Tools: Vim, Yeoman, Sass, RSpec, Git
Responsibilities: Full-Stack Developer, Front-end Designer, Deployment
url: codingthehumanities.com

Coding the Humanities is a programming course for all humanities students at the University of Amsterdam that pilots in the coming academic year (2013-2014). We are currently reaching out to other universities and private parties to join us. This site functions as the central meeting place for this project. The simplicity of the project is only appareance. Apart from the welcome message, the site has neither static content nor a traditional backend. Instead, the content is stored in gists and then parsed through a sinatra server and stored in redis. The AngularJS app simply connects to these services.

Augmenting Masterpieces, 2013 - Present

Hardware Environment: Raspberry Pi, Arduino
Software Environment: TBD
Resposibilities: Project Leader

This project is a collaboration between the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam. The Rijksmuseum has a world renowned physical collection and an award winning digital collection (with a public API). At the moment, however, there is still little to no interaction between these two types of collections. The aim of this research project is to develop interfaces that connect the physical and the digital collection.

Lost and Found in Space, 2013 - Present

Software Environment: AngularJS, Heroku, Rails, PostgreSQL
Development Tools: Vim, Sass, Haml, Git, Jasmine
Resposibilities: Full-Stack Developer, Front-end Designer, Deployment
url: lostfoundspace.herokuapp.com (optimized for iPad2)

This single-page application grew out of my ongoing dissatisfaction with presentation tools (PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi). Instead of treating slides as stand-alone containers for information, they are now full database backed objects. On of my future goals is to extend its functionality by integrating real-time audience feedback in the application.

Medial Operations v2, 2012 - Present

Software Environment: Rails, MongoDB, Elastic Search
Development Tools: Sublime Text 2, Git, Sass, Haml, Nokogiri, Rspec, Cucumber
Responsibilities: Full-Stack Developer, Front-End Designer

After using the first Medial Operations Site for a while, I repeatedly ran into the limitations of WordPress and PHP. In the summer of 2012, I decided to switch to a custom developed rails environment instead. This project aims to remove redundant repetition from the workflow of academic teachers and researchers. The idea is that an interactive course environment can be set up just by parsing a markdown-styled syllabus. Currently, I am still actively developing this project.

Medial Operations, 2009 - 2010

Software Environment: Wordpress, BuddyPress, PHP, Javascript, Ajax, HTML, CSS, MediaWiki
Development Tools: Coda, Photoshop
Responsibilities: Front-End Developer, Deployment
website: www.medialoperations.com (no longer maintained)

This project started out as a simple blog on which to publish my research. It soon developed into an interactive environment for the courses that I was teaching. I connected these sites through a BuddyPress social network. I used this platform as replacement for the inflexible Blackboard environment used at the University of Amsterdam. Apart from only hosting my own sites, I also allowed students and colleagues to host theirs and to contribute to the main environment.

Awards and Fellowships

Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, 2007-2009
NWO Travel Grant. NWO (The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research), The Hague. 2005
Talent Fellowship. Nuffic (The Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education), The Hague, 2001-2002
Serge Heederik Award for best philosophical essay. Heerlen, 2000

Professional Training

Crazy Data Circles, Workshop D3 by Scott Murray, Eyeo Minneapolis, June 5-8, 2013
Semantic Sabotage, Workshop Real Time Text Stream Visualization and Manipulation by Eric Gunther, John Rothenberg, Justin Manor, Eyeo Minneapolis, June 5-8, 2013
Workshop Data Visualization by Andy Kirk, Berlin, November 27, 2012
Coaching and Peer Feedback. University of Amsterdam, 2007-2008
Workshop Time Management. Bergen, October 22-23, 2007
Basic Teaching Certificate (BKO). University of Utrecht, 2005

Books

Downbeat. Pluralizing Rhythm. Ed. with Birgitte Stougaard. Amsterdam, 2013.
Time Tracks. Utrecht, 2005

References

Available upon request

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