Pascal Van Eck Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

The Software Improvement Groups (SIG) main offering is the Sigrid Software Assurance Platform. As Senior Developer, I work on Sigrid's backend Java and PostgreSQL code. My team focuses on reporting dashboards that integrate SIG's software quality models. As the team's feature lead, I cooperate closely with our Product Owner, our Platform Team and SIG's consultants.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

The Software Improvement Group (SIG) is a management consultancy that focuses on software-related challenges. SIG provides management with fact-based insight into their current IT situation, along with razor-sharp, pragmatic and highly actionable recommendations on how to improve on that situation. We know how to govern software projects effectively, when to invest in quality improvement, how to rationalise, and how to control cost. By consolidating low-level technical analysis and high-level financial analysis we make sure our recommendations are the best fit for your specific business needs.

Enschede, The Netherlands

Teaching in the Business & IT and Computer Science programmes, both at undergraduate as well as graduate level. Research in business-IT alignment, IT architecture and IT security. Supervised several Ph.D. candidates, leading to two successful theses. One of the leading persons in the Business and Information Technology (BIT) bachelor and master programs: responsible for the design of the program, chairman of the quality control committee, member of the examinations committee. According to Keuzegids Hoger Onderwijs (the most influential national study program guide) BIT is the second best information systems program in The Netherlands.Responsible for 3 courses per year in the BIT and Computer Science programs:- "Integration Project BIT" (bachelor level, 1st year): selection of software package based on case provided by local hospital. Students’ appreciation: 8.6/10 (2012), 8.4/10 (2013).- "Architecture of Information Systems" (master level).- "Advanced Architecture of Information Systems" (master level).Successfully supervised 80+ M.Sc. graduation project at many organizations, including Belastingdienst, BiZZdesign, Capgemini, Centric, Deloitte, Everett, EY, Getronics, InfoSupport, ING, IT-Eye, KLM, KPMG, NIBCapital, Ordina, Quinity, Rabobank, Shell, Stedin, UWV, Wavin.84 publications (list: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PEnurM4AAAAJ), over 500 citations. Topics include SOA governance, network analysis, metrics, outsourcing.Reviewer and/or program committee member for about 10 academic journals and 40+ international scientific conferences.Roles related to internal IT of University of Twente: member audit committee IT shared service center, member of the university IT Board.

Ph.D. thesis research in the Artificial Intelligence group (headed by prof. Jan Treur). Thesis topic: a formal, compositional semantic structure for the dynamics of multi-agent systems. Teaching assistant tasks in the area of knowledge-based systems

Den Bosch, The Netherlands

Summer internship. Successfully reverse-engineered BIOS configuration tool (written in C, about 100 kSLoC).

M.Sc. (Cum Laude), Dr., Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

Activities and Societies: Board member of STORM (student association Mathematics and Computer Science), Founding partner of SBBA, SIKS.

Vwo (Cum Laude), Pre-University Education