Robert Aarts

Current

Advisor on paragliding and anything else at Lokkilok

Past

Chief Architect at Netcycler
Senior Fellow at Zipipop
Senior Architect at Hewlett-Packard

Director of Engineering at Trustgenix, Inc.
Senior Architect at Nokia
Senior Research Scientist at Technical Research Centre of Finland

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University
Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
Wageningen Universiteit en Researchcentrum

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Industry

Computer Software

Robert Aarts’s Summary

Technical expert with broad experience. Practical and pragmatic visionary with insight in business issues. Independent thinker with good collaboration skills.
Interested in technical advisory and support roles, but not afraid to roll up sleeves and help out with concrete tasks.

Robert Aarts’s Specialties:

Standardisation, XML, Java, federation, security, web applications

Robert Aarts’s Experience

Advisor on paragliding and anything else

Lokkilok

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Organizing group trips to interesting paragliding sites, providing guidance and instruction to less experienced pilots.
Given the right opportunity and timing (i.e. when it is not flyable!) ready to do some consulting, mainly for small companies and startups.
Chief Architect

Netcycler

(Consumer Services industry)

January 2009 — June 2009 (6 months)

Design and development of the Netcycler web service for environmentally inspired barter trading.

Happy People, Healthy Planet.
Senior Fellow

Zipipop

(Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — January 2009 (4 months)

Helping a team of enthusiastic young entrepreneurs to clarify their very creative ideas; both into clear business goals and plans as well as into product features.
Senior Architect

Hewlett-Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2005 — September 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Responsibilities included software architecture, design development, and leading overseas development work. Also strongly involved in several customer projects and pre-sales activities.
Director of Engineering

Trustgenix, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — December 2005 (1 year )

Employee nr. 5 at this California based innovative startup. Responsibilities for Product Engineering including software architecture, design development, end-user documentation, and leading overseas (outsourced) development work. Also led several customer projects and pre-sales activities. Trustgenix was acquired by Hewlett-Packard.
Senior Architect

Nokia

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 1997 — November 2004 (7 years )

Senior Architect for Web Services. Active participation in standards bodies such as the Liberty Alliance; editor of several specifications. Simultaneously drived product software design and supported development of product modules around these standards. Author and co-author of several patent applications.
Earlier project manager responsible for all SW development for complex network products; managing a total of 17 sub projects with approx. 75 people in 6 sites.
Senior Research Scientist

Technical Research Centre of Finland

(Biotechnology industry)

January 1990 — December 1997 (8 years )

Senior Research Scientist managing a group of 10 people conducting varied research in Bioprocesses. The group collaborated with many other groups of the institute and with many external clients, and operated a pilot plant.
Providing scientific guidance to co-workers and group members but also responsible for funding. Also actively participated in research in knowledge-based systems for bioprocess planning, especially for the brewing industry; in development of genetically engineered yeasts for metabolite production; as well as protein production with filamentous fungi.

Robert Aarts’s Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Planning and Scheduling at Robotics Institute 1993 — 1993
Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan

Dr. Tech. , Biotechnology , 1987 — 1992
Wageningen Universiteit en Researchcentrum

M.Sc. , Molecular Sciences , 1981 — 1988