Curriculum Vitae

Me: Photo by Meinte Hornstra Moedt

Name: Jurriaan Mous
Born: 5-12-1981
Nationality: Dutch
E-mail: jurmous at this domain name
Website: jurmo.us

Overview

  • Interested in society and its workings
  • Interested in technology, currently primarily web & cloud-based. Likes the standards approach.
  • Likes to educate, present and act.
  • Deep knowledge in web, visual, interaction and 3D tech.
  • Knows how to program clean and structured. But mainly on the visual and interaction layer. Can understand and build lower levels but not his strength.
  • Loves to design and build visual interfaces.
  • Experience in multiple large scale projects with teams from 10-15 with some as a process leader.
  • Out of the box thinker and loves to find doable solutions for problems at hand.
  • Holistic thinker. Want to see the whole. Wants to find a point on the horizon to travel to. Loves to form a vision.
  • Is as good as the people around him. Works best with transparancy and sharing. Forms a vision by sharing ideas and discussing them.

Interests and ambitions

  • Society as a whole and all its parts.
  • Information & Social systems: flow, presentation & interaction
  • Intuition (gut-feeling) and emotions
  • Acting and presenting
  • Philosophy
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • 3D Design: Realtime and Animation
  • Passion
  • Bottom up structures – non hierarchical organizations
  • Holistic Design
  • Modern (media) art and architecture
  • Ancient cultures

Work Experience

Current:

March 1st, 2007 – Now

Founder and Creative Mind
Lable – a company reinvented

  • Explorer & Connector
  • Changing the world one step at a time

Past:

September 1st, 2006 - September 1st, 2008

Intercommunity Manager
Communication and Multimedia Design NHL – Andragogy based Multimedia Education Institute

  • Setting up information communication structures between same interest student communities
  • Seeking ways to improve inspiration flow for example in events and weblogs

March 1st, 2006 - September 1st, 2008

Founder, Evangelist and Creative Director
Lucid Media – 2D/3D Serious Games Developer

  • Setting up the business
  • PR and networking
  • Setting up the main technology and creative path

Summer 2005 – beginning 2006

3D Character modeller, texture artist and post production, Evangelist
Mata Hari, a 3D animation made for the dutch provence of Fryslan and for the promotion of the NHL.

  • Created the main character and some side characters.
  • Created various textures and shaders
  • Created the camera work of one of the scenes
  • Did most of the post-production
  • Presented the animation in progress and the final product on numerous occations.

Summer 2004 – summer 2005

3D modeling and texturing, evangelist
Maritiem Institute Terschelling

  • Created 3D models and textures for a simulation of a virtual 3D tanker environment.
  • Presented the model numerous times as example of a 3D sim for CMD

Summer 2004

Graphical Designer
Tresoar (historical insitute)

  • Designing and creating artwork for animations to celebrate the opening of new building and merging of 3 institutes.

May-Nov 2004

Experience Designer, Developer, Graphical Designer
Lootsma Label

  • Developed a front- and backend Rich Internet Application for a garden architect.
  • Designing a flash rich internet experience

April 2002

Designer and Developer
Keunstwurk

  • Created a basic project website
  • Set up a live link to stream webcam images onto the internet

Summer 2001

Developer and Designer
Voorheen de gemeente (art institute)
Project Home Made

  • Created a full working auction system (PHP)
  • Designed the whole website
  • Managed the content

Summer 2000

Developer and partially designer
Voorheen de gemeente (art institute)

  • Helped designing most of the basic layout
  • Created graphics
  • Developed the main website
  • Developed most of the sub-websites of the artists (Flash and HTML)

2000-2003

Designer, Programmer and Interaction Designer
Souris, computing with a smile

  • Designing and building websites
  • Developing a PHP Content Management System

Other Projects and Activities

aug 2007 – now

Member of cultural advice commission Gemeente Leeuwarden.

2007 – now

Member of board of Frisjes, an organization on growing entrepreneurship in Friesland. A part of the Cartesius Institute.

aug 2007

Jurymember for Frisian Design contest of Cartesius Institute. An international contest on sustainable solutions for the Frisian landscape and values.

2007

A member of NHL ICT in education strategy advice group

2004 – 2006

A member of STUVO. An advice group focussed on the student facilities within the NHL. I learned what it took to run a large educational institute with over 9000 students and could vote on several important subjects.

2003-2006

A member of various student and faculty advice groups on how to improve the faculty of Communication and Multimedia Design and it’s curriculum.

2000

Message in a Bottle

I created a documentary with Niek Scheepens for a school project on how to create a universal message for an unknown extraterrestrial intelligence. It contained interviews with experts and various animations on what the message should look like and how it should be transmitted.

May 2000

Afstandsbepaling tot de sterren – archive 2000 Thinkquest.nl

(Measuring the distance to the stars) The Flash site won a small price on Thinkquest 2000 in 16-19 age category. A good achievement for a small school project compared to the huge projects that won the big prizes.

Education

Official titles:
Bachelor of Multimedia

Sept 2002 till Aug 2006
Communication and Multimedia Design, Leeuwarden
Andragogy based multimedia study

Sept – Dec 2001
Technische Informatica, University of Twente

1997-2000
Jeugd Theater School Leeuwarden

1994-2001
Stedelijk Gymnasium, leeuwarden
Nature & Technology profile (Beta)

1986-1994
OBS Oldenije, Leeuwarden
Jenaplan school. Based on mixing years, sharing and on selfstudy.

Published Articles in Print

September 2003

3D User Magazine (Taiwanese 3D magazine)
4 pages. The article was a tutorial on how to create a realistic Earth looking planet in 3ds max. Written in English and translated into Chinese by publisher. My Earth image was also used on the contents page.

Experience with the following tools

Computers

Apple OS X Panther-Leopard
Windows 95 – XP

Bitmap Graphics and Photo/Layer Editing

Adobe Photoshop 5 – CS4
GimpShop
Pixelmator

Vector Graphics Editing

Adobe Illustrator 8 – CS4
Macromedia Freehand MX

3D modelling, texturing and lighting. Basic animation

3ds max 2.5 – 10
Modo 103-301

Interactive Environments/Applications

Macromedia Flash 2 – CS4
Grendel Games Game Engine
Unreal Engine 2
Quartz Composer
Macromedia Director 8.5 – MX 2004

DTP / Print

Adobe Indesign CS – CS4

Video Editing / Post Effects

Autodesk Combustion 4/5
Adobe Premiere 6.5 – 7 Pro
Apple Final Cut Pro 5
Apple Motion 2

Web

Macromedia Dreamweaver 2 – CS3
Ultraedit

Audio

Cool Edit 2000 – Adobe Audition 1.5

Experience with the following programming concepts

  • Object Oriented Programming
  • XML based data formats (Incl (X)HTML)
  • XML based application development (FLEX)
  • CSS based styling
  • JSON based information formats
  • Image based programming (Quartz Composer, processing)
  • Pixel shaders/stream processing/GPU (GLSL)
  • Ecmascript/Java based languages
    (Flash actionscript 1 to 3, Java, Javascript, PHP 4/5)
  • Python
  • Databases and SQL based communication
  • Webplatforms (AJAX, Flex,Ruby on Rails,codeIgniter,wordpress, google app engine,buddypress)