resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Bram Kok",
    "label": "Frontend developer",
    "picture": "https://en.gravatar.com/userimage/7444984/460928b9fa592d73407442cc59ba01c1.jpg?size=250",
    "email": "bram@bramkok.com",
    "phone": "+31629256607",
    "kvk": "74183745",
    "website": "http://bramkok.com",
    "summary": "I'm a frontend developer with 13 years of experience in developing, designing and architechting web-based products and applications.",
    "location": {
      "address": "Rooseveltlaan 45-2",
      "postalCode": "1079 AC",
      "city": "Amsterdam",
      "countryCode": "NL",
      "region": "Noord-Holland"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "bramkok",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bramkok"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "bramkok",
        "url": "https://github.com/bramkok"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "bramkok.com",
      "position": "Owner",
      "website": "http://bramkok.com",
      "startDate": "2018-12-01",
      "summary": "Development, design and architecture of web-based products and applications."
    },
    {
      "company": "iBOOD.com",
      "position": "Frontend developer",
      "website": "http://ibood.com",
      "startDate": "2017-07-01",
      "endDate": "2018-12-01",
      "summary": "iBOOD is Europe's first and largest daily deal site. For ten years, iBOOD has offered a brand new A-brand brand at the very best internet price.",
      "highlights": [
        "JavaScript (ECMAScript 2015), React, Next.js",
        "Modernized the frontend web stack from PHP/jQuery to React/Next.js.",
        "Developed a high traffic page with dynamic viewing capabilities in React.",
        "Learned how to do agile development properly within a large team of developers."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Personal",
      "position": "Sabbatical",
      "website": "http://bramkok.com",
      "startDate": "2016-08-01",
      "endDate": "2017-07-01",
      "summary": "A year of personal sabbatical after having worked for ten years.",
      "highlights": [
        "Photography: developed a clear style and aesthetic by doing photography on a full-time basis.",
        "Technology: broadening of skills in React, Node.js, Python, Bash, Docker."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Simple Check B.V.",
      "position": "Software developer",
      "website": "http://simplecheck.nl",
      "startDate": "2014-08-01",
      "endDate": "2016-08-01",
      "summary": "Simple Check offers businesses a medical check-up to prevent disease and absenteeism. With a mixture of positivity and new technology, they offer employees ways to improve their health.",
      "highlights": [
        "JavaScript (ECMAScript 2015), AngularJS, D3, Node.js",
        "Managed a group of outsourced developers working on the backend product.",
        "Developed the front-end product (Angular.JS) consisting out of a 'Health Dashboard' for customers to gain insights in their health and to improve their health and well being.",
        "Developed marketing, brand, and content strategy around Simple Check.",
        "Hired a full-time content marketeer and became an authority on the subject of Health Checks.",
        "Developed a sales strategy with an interactive product demo for sales calls."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Team Loyalty B.V.",
      "position": "Software developer",
      "website": "http://teamloyalty.nl",
      "startDate": "2014-08-01",
      "endDate": "2016-08-01",
      "summary": "Team Loyalty turns happy customers into loyal customers. They apply a method called 'event matching' that improves customer relationships by investing in the professional and personal interests of the customer.",
      "highlights": [
        "JavaScript (ECMAScript 2015), D3, Node.js",
        "Developed the front-end product for a SaaS solution that offered customer deep insights into their customer relationships.",
        "Managed a group of outsourced developers working the backend product.",
        "Renewed marketing, brand and content around Team Loyalty.",
        "Developed a sales strategy with an interactive product demo for sales calls."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Zelfwerven.nl",
      "position": "Software developer",
      "website": "http://zelfwerven.nl",
      "startDate": "2010-06-01",
      "endDate": "2015-07-01",
      "summary": "Zelfwerven.nl offers intuitive recruitment software for publishing vacancies, receiving applications, reviewing applicants.",
      "highlights": [
        "PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript",
        "Designed and built a web-based product from the ground up with the insights gained from working on a prior recruitment system.",
        "Applied flat design to the interface before it was cool based on products coming out of the 2008 web scene in New York.",
        "Learned how challenging it is to change people their professional working behavior and habits.",
        "Learned how bad it is to be stuck in the design phase of a product for too long.",
        "Learned how bad it is to say yes to every feature request."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Bureau REIN",
      "position": "Software developer",
      "website": "http://bureaurein.nl",
      "startDate": "2009-04-01",
      "endDate": "2014-07-01",
      "summary": "Bureau Registratie Integriteit Volkshuisvesting provides integrity screenings. Bureau REIN informs, screens and commits supervisory board members, directors and managers using an online questionnaire and a report created by a compliance officer.",
      "highlights": [
        "PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript",
        "Created a full-stack environment for creating and filling out questionnaires",
        "Worked together with compliance officers and learned a lot about laws and policies concerning governance",
        "Learned how supervisory boards that consist of conservative old-boys networks don't embrace innovation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "CBK Profiling People",
      "position": "Software developer",
      "website": "http://cbk.org",
      "startDate": "2009-03-01",
      "endDate": "2014-07-01",
      "summary": "CBK Profiling People is a recruitment agency that recruits people for temporary and permanent positions mostly in the Dutch social housing sector.",
      "highlights": [
        "PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript",
        "Built a Content Management System and Applicant Tracking System",
        "Started new projects within the company related to industry it operates in." 
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Luzac College",
      "position": "Frontend developer",
      "website": "http://luzac.nl",
      "startDate": "2009-01-01",
      "endDate": "2010-12-01",
      "summary": "Luzac is a private school with over twenty schools in The Netherlands where they offer education that's tailored to the student's needs.",
      "highlights": [
        "HTML, CSS, JavaScript",
        "Provided solutions to administrative tasks that allowed for teachers to spend more time on teaching instead of unnecessary logistics."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "TwitterMail",
      "position": "Founder & Frontend developer",
      "website": "https://twitter.com/twittermail",
      "startDate": "2007-06-01",
      "endDate": "2009-12-01",
      "summary": "Back in 2007, in the 'pre-iPhone era', Twitter offered only a simple web app and SMS for posting tweets on mobile devices. TwitterMail extended this with an email service that allowed users to publish tweets via a secret email address that was hooked up to the Twitter API. This was especially popular in Asia and among BlackBerry users who often could only use email for communication.",
      "highlights": [
        "HTML, CSS, JavaScript",
        "Meeting the Twitter founders who we're very happy with TwitterMail extending the Twitter ecosystem by building on top of the Twitter API.",
        "Receiving lots of appreciation from users who used the service for a wide variety of use cases",
        "Having 85000 users sign up for the service",
        "Building the service together with Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten who became a good friend during that time and has taught me lots of valuable lessons."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Twones B.V.",
      "position": "Frontend developer",
      "website": "http://twones.com",
      "startDate": "2008-03-01",
      "endDate": "2008-12-01",
      "summary": "Twones BV provides a music service to store, organize, find, and share music played over the Web or computer. It aggregates music online and offline in a single place, and enables users to socialize, and discover new music and music services.",
      "highlights": [
        "HTML, CSS, JavaScript",
        "Working in the Amsterdam Web 2.0 startup scene which a more 'gezellig' (cosy) version of today's startup scene in Amsterdam.",
        "Worked with artists like Pepijn Lanen and 'web stars' like Nalden on the Twones product.",
        "Applied flat interface design before it was cool based on products coming out of the 2008 tech scene in New York."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "PCzapper.TV B.V.",
      "position": "UI designer",
      "website": "http://ibood.com",
      "startDate": "2007-11-01",
      "endDate": "2008-11-01",
      "summary": "PCZapper.TV offers a way to view online video content on regular TV combining a hardware product and an online platform.",
      "highlights": [
        "Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, CSS",
        "Worked within a larger group of developers.",
        "Designed web interfaces for a KPN website that reached daily 100K+ visitors."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "RightDesign V.O.F.",
      "position": "Founder",
      "website": "http://ibood.com",
      "startDate": "2006-01-01",
      "endDate": "2007-01-01",
      "summary": "Founded the online media and design company RightDesign. RightDesign offered design and web development services.",
      "highlights": [
        "Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, CSS",
        "Learned what it's like to start a business and service clients.",
        "Learned that I wanted to keep building things for the web despite my initial intention of doing it for only a year."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "A. Roland Holst College",
      "area": "Culture and Society",
      "studyType": "High school / HAVO",
      "startDate": "2004-09-01", "endDate": "2006-06-01"
    },
    {
      "institution": "A. Roland Holst College",
      "area": "Economy",
      "studyType": "High school / VMBO-T",
      "startDate": "2000-09-01",
      "endDate": "2004-06-01"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Frontend Development",
      "keywords": [
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "JavaScript",
        "ECMAScript 2015",
        "React",
        "Next.js",
        "Node.js",
        "AngularJS",
        "D3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Backend Development",
      "keywords": [
        "Node.js",
        "BASH",
        "PHP",
        "Python"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Server Administration",
      "keywords": [
        "Node.js",
        "BASH",
        "PHP",
        "Python"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Agile Software Development",
      "keywords": [
        "SCRUM",
        "Kanban"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "Dutch",
      "fluency": "Native speaker"
    },
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Full professional proficiency"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Photography",
      "keywords": [
        "Street photography",
        "Analog photography",
        "Film scanning"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Music",
      "keywords": [
        "Composing electronic music",
        "Playing drums",
        "Going to concerts",
        "Classical, Modern, Electronic, Rock, Metal, Experimental, Hip-hop"
      ]
    }
  ]
}