Wouter Admiraal

Les Sapelettes 2
1532 Fétigny
SWITZERLAND
+41 78 742 60 28
wad@wadmiraal.net

Born on the 25th of February, 1986 in Amstelveen, Netherlands.

Front-end developer, passionate about web technologies. HTML/CSS specialist, with lots of experience in Javascript and PHP.

I'm looking for new challenges !
Could your company provide me some ?

Professional skills

Skill Level
Techniques and languages
HTML / CSS *****
PHP *****
Javascript (Vanilla) *****
Frameworks
Drupal *****
Silex *****
jQuery *****
Symfony ****
Backbone ****
RequireJS ****
QUnit ****
Jasmine ****
Tools
Photoshop *****
Illustrator *****
SASS / Compass ****
GIT ****

Languages

I speak French, English and Dutch fluently.

I speak German pretty well.

I have some basics in Spanish, which I would love to improve.

Professional experience

educa.ch (Switzerland, 2014 - ?)
Web developer
Front and back end development. Educa.ch provides services and web-based tools for schools and public institutions regarding education, networking, knowledge sharing, etc.
Connecti Sàrl (Switzerland, 2008 - 2014)
Web developer
Front and back end development. Connect-i is specialized in Drupal development. The company is active in the Drupal community, and I maintain several modules on drupal.org on behalf of the organization. Connect-i is also behind the Opigno project, an e-learning system based on Drupal, off which I was the co-lead.
The 3D Lounge (South Africa, 2007)
3D modeling
4 month internship modeling architecture and furniture in 3D. Done in the context of my studies as a multimedia conceptor at Eracom.
HEP in Lausanne (Switzerland, 2006)
Flash developer
4 month internship for the HEP in Lausanne. Done in the context of my studies as a multimedia conceptor at Eracom. My task consisted of creating 2 Flash based educational games.
The first game, called “Découverte de l'Image” (Discovery of images) is meant to familiarize children with the world of images via computers.
The second, called “Framlo” (this game is a proof of concept) is meant to help foreign children learn French.

School

ERACOM (Lausanne, 2005 - 2008)
Multimedia Designer (basically graphic design, but specializing in screens instead of print).
Ceruleum (Lausanne, 2003 - 2004)
"Preparatory" year in Visual Arts (basically, you get to do Art, a whole year—it's super awesome).
Ecole Roche (Lausanne, 2001 - 2003)
Type C Bacalaureat.

I am also a certified...

LPIC-1: Linux Server Professional
I maintain Linux servers, and am at ease with command line tools. More information about LPI can be found here.

Other personal information

Professional qualities
I am autonomous, I work hard and am passionate about web technologies. I love teamwork and discovering new things.
Some Open Source projects I worked on
Hobbies
Reading, electric and classical guitar, volunteering and web development.
Links
My , LinkedIn , Github and SlideShare accounts.
My blog, wadmiraal.net
I'm a member of the Swiss Tech Association and regularly attend the Swiss Tech Talks.
Contact me.