Wilbert Van De Ridder Email & Phone Number

Putten, GE, NL

Harderwijk, Gelderland, Netherlands

Shape and develop R&D roadmap. Direct and coach a team of development engineers. Lead projects on feasiblity studies, new product development, internal conultancy and new machine concepts. Internal alignment between R&D and business units. Setup and improve processes regarding innovation management, systems engineering and agile (software) development..

Harderwijk, Netherlands

Member of the AWL R&D department. Areas of work include: autonomous mobile robots, industrial robots and cobots, vision and deep learning.

Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands

Teacher at the school Engineering & Design. Researcher at the research group for Industrial Automation & Robotics.

Freelance work for numerous clients, including a Fortune 500 US-based company. Mostly focused on JavaScript library and front end development. Also, contributing to open-source initiatives.

Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea

• Development and implementation of a parallel-friendly algorithm to shorten processing time of deep tissue retina imaging data for 3D reconstruction.
• Designed and implemented solution using CUDA + MATLAB.
• Achieved a speedup of over 100 times.
• Worked experimentally with confocal and digital holographic microscopy.Pending publication, ~2019.

Enschede Area, Netherlands

• Integration engineer and team coordinator at project for collaborative aerial workers (drones) for industrial inspection and maintenance tasks.
• Development and implementation of hardware and software for custom drones.
• Set up a co-simulation environment, integrating ROS and Pixhawk, control method verification which shortened the feedback cycle from hours to minutes.
• Performed field-tests in northern Sweden working closely with partners.
• Project received a funding of €5.5… Show more Integration engineer and team coordinator at project for collaborative aerial workers (drones) for industrial inspection and maintenance tasks.
• Project received a funding of €5.5 million from the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. Publication in IEEE magazine, November 2018. Show less

Course: Real-time software development. Managed practical assignments, grading, and online material. Supervised students from Delft Technical University, Eindhoven Technical University, and University of Twente.

Amersfoort

Development of Magento-based webshops, websites (WordPress), and a local politics focused web platform. Involved PHP/JS development, setting up a container-orchestration system for automating deployment using Kubernetes and continuous integration pipelines,

• Participated as member of the international Reddit R-obotics team.
• C++/Python development using ROS platform.
• Set up Gitlab and Slack environments for code management and team communication.
• Developed a training simulation environment to on-board new members.
• Implemented a Continuous Integration pipeline which checked, built, and reported on latest code commits.

JavaScript front-end (involving custom framework using React.js) and back-end (Node.js) development. Teams employed agile development practices.

Enschede Area, Netherlands

JavaScript front-end (involving custom framework using Marionette.js and Backbone.js). Teams employed agile development practices.

Putten

Ermelo

Taught physics and chemistry at 2nd and 3rd year HAVO/VWO. This followed a minor to teach physics at secondary school level.

Enschede Area, Netherlands

Arranging and promotion of band concert nights and management of band studios.