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Michael Westergaard

Personal

Date of birth	September 23, 1980
Place of birth	Herning, Denmark
Citizenship	Danish
Languages spoken	Danish (native), English (fluent), Dutch, French, German
LinkedIn
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Employment

April 2018-	Open Circle Solutions, Eindhoven, the Netherlands	Senior Consultant
July 2014-March 2018	Experis Ciber, Eindhoven, the Netherlands	Senior Consultant
June 2010-September 2014	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands	Post Doc
November 2013-May 2014	Civolution, Eindhoven, the Netherlands	Advanced Development Engineer
January 2013-October 2013	Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia	Lead Research Fellow
February 2001-May 2010	Aarhus University, Århus, Denmark	Student programmer (2001-2004); teaching assistant (2004-2007); and post doc (2007-2010)
August 1994-October 2000	Various part time jobs, including systems surveilence, part time-help in a bank, and part-time help at a library

Projects

• Lead Developer, Architect: Orchestration and Ordersystem; Stichting Bibliotheek.nl 2014, Koninklijke Bibliotheek 2015-present
• Lead Developer, Architect: Integration API; Essent STPA 2014-present
• Lead Developer, Architect: iStandaarden.nl; Zorginstituut Nederland 2015-present
• Lead Developer, Architect: Contracteinderegister; Energie Data Services Nederland 2016-present

Buzzword Bingo

• Roles: (Lead) developer, solution architect, teacher
• Areas of expertise: Object-oriented programming, enterprise intergration, managed systems, functional programming, web programming, low-level programming, formal modeling and verification, data modeling
• Programming languages: Java, C++, XSLT, PHP, Beta, Standard ML, bash, C, Pascal, x86 assembler/intrinsics, …
• Specification langauges: UML, (colored) Petri nets, XML Schema, RelaxNG, …
• Application servers: JBoss EAP, JBoss Fuse, Keycloak, Wildfly, Tomcat, WSO2
• Frameworks: Spring, Blueprint, CXF, …
• Databases: SQL, Hibernate, MySQL, h2, MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, EnergyWorx
• Testing/CI: JUnit, ReadyAPI/SoapUI, Gitlab CI, Jenkins/Hudson, model-based testing
• Random names of tools: Eclipse, CPN Tools, ProM, Declare
• Analytics/reporting: Grafana, Jasper Reports, Google Analytics
• Containers: Kubernetes, Docker
• Version control: git, Subversion, CVS
• Build systems: Maven, ant, Make, CMake
• Operating systems: Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, generix Unix (Solaris/SunOS, Irix, FreeBDS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SCO OpenServer), OS/2, DOS, …

Certifications

• Certified Developer, WSO₂ API Manager 4, WSO₂, 2015
• Certified Developer, WSO₂ ESB 4, WSO₂, 2015
• Certified Professional, Java SE 7 Programmer, Oracle, 2015
• Certified Associate, Java SE 7 Programmer, Oracle, 2015
• IPv6 – Advanced Features and Routing Protocols, Ericsson Telebit A/S, 2003

Education

• BSc in Psychology; The Open University 2016-present (part-time)
• PhD in Computer Science; Aarhus University 2003-2007
• Cand.Scient. in Computer Science; Aarhus University 2002-2005
• BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics; Aarhus University 1999-2002
• Mathematical High-school Student; Viborg Katedralskole 1996-1999

Honors and Awards

• Best Reviewer; BPM Conference; September 2014
• Lektor Sixhøjs Mindelegat (The Memory of Lecturer Sixhøj Scholarship); Viborg Katedralskole; 1999
• Viborg Bys Legat (Scholarship of the City of Viborg); Viborg Katedralskole; 1998

• Nobel Peace Price; 2012
• Time Person of the Year; 2006

Publications

See my Publication List.

Supervision

Recent Free Time Activities

• Cycling
• Cooking
• Web-application development
• Attending concerts