[Biojava-dev] I am interested to contribute to the bioJava-project.

[cor.lieftink at xs4all.nl]

Hi all,

I am interested to contribute to the bioJava-project.

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cor Lieftink, I live in the 
Netherlands and work as a system-developer in Oracle & Java at a 
international bank in Amsterdam. Besides working with informatietechnology 
in the area of financial information, I am interested to extend this into 
the area of genetic information. As the best way to do this I see 
contributing to a open source project, like BioJava. Besides that, of 
course I will be studying books in these area, like Bioinformatics from 
David Mount.

My educational background consists of studies in Psychology and Business, 
both at the university of Groningen here in the Netherlands. After 
finishing these studies in 1988 I moved into the field of information 
technology, programming in Pascal and working with webtechnology, as well 
as doing projectmanagement. In 1999 I followed a five month fulltime course 
in Oracle technology and worked with Oracle databases and tools 
(Developer/Designer) for the next 5 years. Last year I acquired four Sun 
Java certificates: Programmer 1.4, Web Component Developer, Business 
Component Developer and Architect for J2EE (theory part) , and passed the 
IBM Test 287 Enterprise Application Development with Websphere 
Studio.  July last year I started my job at the bank storing financial 
information in Oracle databases, and retrieve and present it using IBM 
Websphere Application Developer and Application Server, as wel using 
Hibernate, CVS and JUnit.

I hope to hear from you if, and if yes, how I can contribute to the bioJava 
project.

Regards,

Cor