## BIO
## Education
The University of York, York, United Kingdom MSc in Archaeological Information Systems, September 2010 Grade: first degree Major in Archaeological Information Systems Main Topics: Web Design, Database Design, Geographical Information Systems & Virtual Reality Minor in Zooarchaeology Main Topics: Bone Chemistry and Location, Diagenesis, Sampling & Data Analysis Thesis Topic: Digital Medieval Graffiti; Using online-GIS to display and edit non-geographical data
## Languages
Native language Dutch and fluent in English, with an IELTS score of 8.5 out of 9 (in 2009). Also some knowledge of German, and to a lesser extent, French.
## Publications
H. Paijmans & A. Brandsen (2010). ’Searching in Archaeological Texts. Problems and Solutions Using an Articial Intelligence Approach’, PalArchs Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(2).
## Conference Publications
H. Paijmans & A. Brandsen (2009). ’What is in a Name: Recognizing Monument Names from Free-Text Monument Descriptions’, Proceedings of the 18th Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning. Tilburg centre for Creative Computing, Tilburg.
## Presentations
(2009) ’What is in a Name: Recognizing Monument Names from Free-Text Monument Descriptions’, The 18th Annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning.
## Professional Experience
Freelance Web Designer / Web Developer. September 2010 - now BioArch, University of York. York, United Kingdom Internship: Assistant Web Developer. January 2010 - June 2010 Assisted David Harker in developing SHAARKWeb, a web-based user interface that inputs and processes information from users of the NEAAR lab. Used Object-Oriented PHP, Propel, XHTML and CSS to develop parts of the system; mainly the login system, AJAX dropdown boxes populated by external database queries and programmatically importing MS Excel spreadsheets into the database. Antiquity Journal. York, United Kingdom Internship: Assistant Web Designer. October 2009 - December 2009 Assisted Patrick Gibbs in creating a new Project Gallery Archive homepage. Converted Project Gallery articles from older Antiquity styles into the new format. Department of Archaeology, University of Leiden. Leiden, the Netherlands Student Supervisor April 2009 Supervised the practical on the use of the Total Station for first year archaeology students. Marked assignments. The Open Boek Project, at the RCE. Amersfoort, the Netherlands Internship: Assistant Web/Software Developer November 2008 - March 2009 Assisted in making the smart index- and search engine ’Open Boek’ usable by archaeologists. Prepared the system for implementation in the DANS system. Adapted the system to be able to process Dutch texts as well as English texts. Gained experience with LaTeX, MySQL, PHP, AWK and Bash-shell scripting. Centrum Indicatiestelling Zorg, Appeal department. Alkmaar, the Netherlands Administrative employee December 2005 - July 2006 Entered data from objection letters in client tracking systems. Planned hearings with clients. Other administrative activities.
## Extracurricular Activities
Study association for Science Based Archaeology and Prehistory “Johan Picardtâ€. Leiden, the Netherlands Board member; Assessor September 2007 - August 2008 Lead committees. Planned and organised educational activities. Other related activities such as administration. Chairman of the archaeological trip committee December 2007 - May 2008 Responsible for the planning, organising and leading an archaeological and educational roadtrip through Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, with 30 students from Leiden University.
## Area of Expertise
Programming: JavaScript, PHP, SQL and to a lesser extent AWK and UNIX shell scripting. Also some experience with XML/GML. Web Design: (X)HTML and CSS. eCommerce: Magento. Computer-Aided Design: AutoCAD and Google Sketchup. Geographical Information Systems: MapInfo, Surfer, ArcGIS and OpenLayers. Ground Penetrating Radar: Ekko view, Ekko view Deluxe, Ekko Mapper 3, GFP Edit, Voxler en Surfer. Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows family and Linux. Computer Applications: TEX (LATEX, BibTEX), Office packages for Windows and Linux and some experience with GIMP/Photoshop.
