About me

This is the weblog of Johannes la Poutré.

Since 2006 I’m self employed as independent consultant and web architect. I use my experience from a broad background: Industrial Design Engineering (MSc), advertsing and media, and internet development (since 1996).

My expertise ranges from research and experiments with emerging technology, to hands on development using state of the art knowledge.

Clients range from the largest Dutch Internet Service Providers to small innovative start-ups.

My Resume on LinkedIn.

Johannes la Poutré

Connector, Creative Technologist

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Current

CTO at TAB Worldmedia
Internet Architect and Advisor at Squio

Past

Partner and Founding Engineer at Twones.com
Enterprise Architect and developer at Cendris
Web Architect at Gemeente Westland

Firefox Extension developer at Fleck.com
Web Developer at UPC NL
Ajax developer at XS4ALL Internet BV
Web Development Team Leader at Essent Kabelcom
Team Lead Content Software Engineering at Essent Kabelcom
Software Engineer at excite.co.uk
Content Software Engineer at @Home corp.
Technical Lead at Arthouse Interactive

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Summary

Excellence in Product Development for the Internet. Finding elegant technological solutions, combining knowledge and experience from industrial design engineering with hands on web technology.

Specialties:

Information Architecture, Information Processing, Semantic Web Technologies (web 3.0), Technical Project Management

Experience

CTO

TAB Worldmedia

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

March 2010 — Present (7 months)

The No.1 in Augmented Reality and Location Based Mobile Marketing

• Augmented Reality applications and media concepts
• Mobile location based marketing
• Mobile social media integration
Internet Architect and Advisor

Squio

(Internet industry)

May 2006 — Present (4 years 5 months)

Web architect, product development for the internet

Acivities: advice on innovative internet strategies and hands on product development.
Focusing on creativity, building prototypes and proof of concept showcases.

Phone: +31 6 14917441
Email: info(at)squio.nl
Partner and Founding Engineer

Twones.com

(Entertainment industry)

October 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 6 months)

Twones will liberate your music collection and unleash its social potential in meeting other people, follow your idols and get followed/stalked yourself.

It is my passion and responsibility to give twones a solid technical platform, build for the next generation internet (semantic web, sharing of social data).

Technology: architecture, systems design and administration, invention of the browser based music tracker (Firefox Add-on based on XUL/XPCOM technology).
Enterprise Architect and developer

Cendris

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2007 — November 2007 (6 months)

Architect and developer for a b2b internet application. Pushing PHP to its limits in a professional multi tiered infrastructure.
Web Architect

Gemeente Westland

(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

Architecture and implementation of a GIS application: publishing public geographic data on the map (using Google Maps API).
Firefox Extension developer

Fleck.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

March 2007 — April 2007 (2 months)

Advice and development of Fleck extension for the Firefox web browser (XUL, Javascript).
Fleck lets you annotate and share web pages, see http://fleck.com
Web Developer

UPC NL

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

September 2006 — March 2007 (7 months)

Technical Architecture and development of internal Business Information Reporting tools. Providing insight into customer order work flow and provisioning state. Technology: Web based, using Ajax with Oracle, Enterprise PHP 5 and the Dojo toolkit.
Ajax developer

XS4ALL Internet BV

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

April 2006 — August 2006 (5 months)

Design and development of Ajax based file manager. Technologies: Dojo toolkit, WebDAV.
Web Development Team Leader

Essent Kabelcom

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

January 2002 — April 2006 (4 years 4 months)

I'm working with the front-end web development team; our work defines the face of the Essent Kabelcom products for our endusers. This means the development of Internet portal frameworks and web applications, utility applications such as a Content Management System, and integration of third party content and services.
Technology: J2EE, Unix, XML, SQL, Web Services, Perl, PHP and quite a few special purpose applications as well.
Team Lead Content Software Engineering

Essent Kabelcom

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )

Start-up period of @Home Benlux as a joint venture of Excite@Home corporation and Essent Kabelcom. I was involved with all software engineering work required to run the subscriber web services (aka "The Portal"). A couple of spin-off projects followed, mainly building the Dutch localised version of Excite.nl
During 2000 I became team leader of the Content Software Engineers group.
Software Engineer

excite.co.uk

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

August 2000 — March 2001 (8 months)

Project: building the Dutch (localised) version of the Excite Web Portal, www.excite.nl. Being part of the Euopean International development team, London based. Activities involved engineering of the front-end portal framework, all based on a proprietary 3-tiered framework.
Content Software Engineer

@Home corp.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Technical Lead

Arthouse Interactive

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

May 1996 — March 1999 (2 years 11 months)

Co-founder of the interactive subsidiary of Arthouse (http://www.arthouse.nl). Technical Lead.