Engineer Manager

Arjen deKlerk

Email: *********@********.***

Address: *** ******* ***

City: Clovis

State: CA

Zip: 93611

Country: USA

Phone: 559-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $120,000

Willing to Relocate

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Arjen de Klerk

559-***-**** *****@*******.** www.linkedin.com/in/arjendeklerk

S U M M A R Y

Innovative Development Director who ensures optimal usability of hardware and software products through quality driven processes. Attends to details and runs multiple concurrent projects on time with focus on a good balance between business goals and user experience design. Displays a passion for great design through out-of-the-box thinking, visionary approach, and applies a broad knowledge of design and development methodologies. Recruits, builds, motivates, and leads great teams to conduct research that effectively enhances the customer experience.

Expertise includes

Enterprise Application Interaction Design Design Thinking

Information Architecture Ethnographic Research Mentorship

User Experience Architecture User Research Talent Development

Industrial Design Usability Testing Leadership and Management

User Experience Design Prototyping

User-Centered Design Visual Design

P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC, Clovis, CA 2004 2012

Director, User Experience 2010 2012

Reported to CTO, Senior VP Solutions and Technology Office. Managed a staff of 8 UX, visual, software, and industrial designers in 4 remote locations. Designed and defined User Experience for all video security products.

Led user research for cloud based video systems and these results were applied to new products.

Provided ethnographic customer visit-training sessions to engineering, marketing, and sales resulting in behavioral techniques that yielded better customer requirements.

Instigated a customer visit program, 2 visits per month with 8 engineers and marketers that increased customer understanding.

Set the visual design guidelines and established standards as a member of the corporate EcoStruxure workgroup.

Produced 3-minute videos showing Solutions and Technology Offices future vision of video security, which was implemented throughout the organization.

Director, User Interface Development User Experience 2004 2010

Directed research and development of hard and software products, acted as project engineer for multiple products, direct reports 6, indirect reports 30, and matrix reports 25.

Drove on-time delivery of multiple concurrent product developments.

Released a Digital Video Recorder by acting as product engineer; managed 40 engineers in the design and the development.

Formed a product development team in less then 6 months by hiring 20 new engineers.

Started the User Experience Group that set the User Experience and Visual directions for all products. Expanded this group to 8 members.

Created a product experience that opened new markets for the company by combining the UX team with the outside design firm frog design.

SECURITY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRAL TECHNOLOGIES, Milwaukee, WI 2002 2004

Director, Engineering

Managed 2 engineering departments in 2 locations directing a total of 30 engineers.

Reorganized the test group and improved test procedures resulting in less bugs and shorter test times.

Cross-trained the 2 engineering departments in new technologies that led to a new and improved development vision.

HONEYWELL, Milwaukee, WI 1997 2002

Manager Software Engineering

Managed 10 developers in research, design and development of Access Control Systems and Security Management Systems.

Worked with third party suppliers, integrating Digital Video Systems, CCTV, intercom, paging, etc. resulting in more advanced Security Management Systems.

Enhanced the application User Interface resulting in more appealing and easier to use software.

P R E V I O U S P O S I T I O N S I N C L U D E D

CARDKEY, Simi Valley, CA

Director, Software Engineering

Turned around a failing software development project and released it in time by reorganizing the team and redesigning the

product.

ATLAS SOFTWARE B.V., Harderwijk, Netherlands

Technical Manager

Responsible for design and development of various software products e.g., third party mainframe interfaces, government

public water control systems, cable television maintenance reporting, and variable data printing.

MULTILOGIC, Nieuwegein, Netherlands

Owner, Designer, Developer

Designed, developed and released a multitasking access control security system with a graphical user interface.

ASINT SOUND BENELUX B.V., Nieuwegein, Netherlands

Manager, Service Department

Managed the service department and planned and organized the installation and service of background music systems.

K&M SOUND RECORDINGS, Nieuwegein, Netherlands

Owner, Sound Engineer, Electric Engineer

Sound recording in studio, on location, and at live performances from Punk to Classical music.

T E C H N I C A L S K I L L S

Development Tools VB, C, C++, C#, Object C, MFC, .NET, WPF,QT, Flash, Flex, HTML5, CSS, Java, JavaScript, Xcode

Operating Systems Linux, UNIX, Embedded RTOS, Microsoft Windows, OS X, iOS

Databases Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL

Design Tools Axure, Balsamiq Mockups, Omnigraffle, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Fireworks, Silverback,

Morae, Final Cut Pro, Keynote, MS Office Suite

E D U C A T I O N

BS, Electrical Engineering (evaluated equal), MTS Albertus Magnus, Breda, Netherlands

Open University, Coursework: Law, Statistics, Management, Economics, Technical Sciences,

Utrecht, Netherlands

AMBI EXIN, Certifications, Computer Science, Pascal, C, Database Manipulation, Amsterdam, Netherlands

P R O F E S S I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N S

IEEE, ACM, SIGCHI

P A T E N T S

200********, Method and Apparatus for Configuring Storage of Video Data from a Plurality

13/332,768 Filed, Show / hide gaps in a video recording timeline

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