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Betta
Cristiano Gerard
BSc
June 29th, 1982, Naarden
MSc at
Delft University of Technology
Exhange student at
Imperial College London
CTO of
Education Made Easy V.O.F


Education

Delft University of Technology - Department of Man-Machine Interaction
Imperial College London - Department of Computing
MSc Media & Knowledge Engineering
Thesis: “Design and implementation of a simple weblecture deployment service for Imperial College London” - Expected graduation date around September 2007.
Advisor at the Delft University of Technology:
Dr. drs. ir. Charles van der Mast
Advisor at Imperial College London:
Dr. ir. Maja Pantic

Delft University of Technology - Department of Man-Machine Interaction
BSc Computer Science - Specialization Media & Knowledge Engineering
Thesis: “The OLF Project: A new approach to e-lecture systems providing a better online assessment and provision of appropriate feedback.”
Advisor: Dr. ir. Maja Pantic

Delft University of Technology
BSc Aerospace Engineering
Unfinished

Het Baken College, Almere
Secondary School - Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs
Followed a scientifically oriented course list including math, biology, chemistry and physics. Graduated third of class.


Teaching Experience

Delft University of Technology
Teaching Assistant - to associate professors Ir. H.J.A.M. Geers and Dr. P.G. Kluit in “Object Oriented Programming”
First year undergraduate programming course. Assigned to check the assignments made by the students during the 14 weeks of the course.

Delft University of Technology
Assistant Professor - to associate professor M. Pantic (2004-2005) and associate professor Dr. Drs. L. Rothkrantz (2004-Now) in the “Media and Knowledge Technology Project 2”
First year undergraduate AI project. Involved in designing project assignments, manuals and software. Through various (new) didactic measures, which come down to proactively helping and monitoring the students, and forming the groups according to the level of the students (as measured by our individual ‘filter’ assignment), the project is one of the best regarded projects of the curriculum. Responsible for the design and instruction of an assignment involving the use of Semantic Networks to analyze the Internet Movie DataBase.

Delft University of Technology
Teaching Assistant - to associate professor Dr. P.G. Kluit in “Data-structures and Algorithms”
First year undergraduate advanced programming course. Assigned to check the assignments made by the students during the 7 weeks of the course.

Delft University of Technology
Assistant Professor - to associate professor M. Pantic (2004-2005) and associate professor Dr. Drs. L. Rothkrantz (2004-2006) in the “Knowledge-Based Systems Project (IN2420)”
Second year undergraduate AI project, for about 150 students. Project about detecting what emotion is present in a movie. Project is split up into 3 assignments (A,B,C) which took seven weeks to complete. Was responsible for developing software and manual for part of assignment B. Closely involved in kick-off of project, instruction of assignment theory, and organization of project.



Extracurricular Activities

teachr.tv
Producer of teachr.tv video podcast
teachr.tv is a specialized video podcast that tries to explain the modern social online concepts to teachers. Ranging from advise on handling online content to tutorials on how to create their own online content.

FourStarters
Author on FourStarters weblog
FourStarters is a weblog written by a group of (former) students detailing their experiences around university and their exit strategies from it. Two are in startups, three live in The Nertherlands, and one has a new start in London.

Education Made Easy
Co-Founder of Education Made Easy V.O.F.
The goal of Education Made Easy (Ed-ME) is to provide educational software to lecturers. After a weak start the goal shifted to provide software services in general, from which the webservice
tipit.to arose without my ongoing participation.

Student Organization for Math and Computer Science “Christiaan Huygens”, Delft university of Technology
Chairman of the Lecture Response Committee for the fourth year (CRI4)
Chairman of the CRI4 that meets regularly each semester to review the quality of the 4th year curriculum and its organization.

Student Organization for Math and Computer Science “Christiaan Huygens”, Delft university of Technology
Member of the Lecture Response Committee for the third year (CRI3)
Member of the CRI3 that met regularly each semester to review the quality of the 3rd year curriculum and its organization.

Student Organization for Math and Computer Science “Christiaan Huygens”, Delft university of Technology
Member of Algorithm Programming Contest Team
Representative for the Delft University of Technology at multiple Algorithm Programming Contests including the Dutch final in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and the North-West European final in Sweden in 2004. Highest ranking was a second place at the Delft Algorithm programming contest.


Languages

• Dutch – native language
• English – Fluently spoken and written
• Italian – Moderately spoken


Programming Skils

• Java
• Cocoa
• Objective-C
• C++
• C#
• XML
• PHP
• Javascript
• HTML


Hobbies

Apple Computers
Presenting
Photography
• Blogging
• Programming
• Interface Design
• Italian Cars


External Links

Four Starters - A four person view on life after study
teachr.tv - A video podcast for teachers
Flickr library - Quick look on digital photography