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After my study physics in 1996 I joined Prime Vision and I’m heading the group since the end of 1999. During my study I was already enthousiastic about image processing and was very happy I could extend those activities at Prime Vision. Amazing to be working for a company for such a long time, and still enjoying it every moment! Especially our international expansion and the growth of our customer portfolio really gives me a thrill. I think enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. So I’m keen on keeping pleasure in my life and work; for what soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. So fun at work is important, but I also get a lot of energy of all the things I do beside work. I’m enjoying golf very much, especially when I can do a round with my wife and kid. Golf sounds lazy, so in able to stay somehow fit, I also like running. Running is a perfect way of stop thinking and just go with the flow.

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My name is Michiel de Rijcke and I lead our Research and Development department, the Prime Vision department that is producing all “reading” and “identification” techniques that form the basis for our OCR software applications. My primary focus is to keep Prime Vision OCR technologies on its excellent quality level, for now and in the future. Besides. I am Deputy Director of Prime Vision.

In my spare time I like to do sports; I am a passionate (indoor) soccer player and like to jog, squash and play tennis. Furthermore, I love to play games (boardgames, cards and computer) and to solve difficult puzzles. And last but not least, Jannet and I are very happy and much occupied with our daughter Chris.

My name is Hans Kamperman and I am Operational Manager at Prime Vision. Besides Operational Manager I am Head of Speech Technology and heading the Dutchear group. I like to make complex technical projects into commercial successes for both the customer and Prime Vision. At home I enjoy my son Thijmen and daughter Merel (of course the greatest children in the world!). I also like to ride my motorbike and play squash.

I have been involved with automatic identification since leaving college in 1986. Though I had been the Australian Managing Director of a leading camera and scanner manufacturer for a decade, I feel my position with Prime Vision provides the ultimate environment to capitalize on the experience I have gained over the last 25 years.

I think the most rewarding part of my job is the bond created with clients after providing true value to them. There is no greater reward than the pride and the team relationship that exists between us, the customer, our suppliers and contractors once a system is up and running.

I enjoy spending time with my family and take the opportunity whenever we can to travel around the country. Like many Australians, I enjoy the outdoors, swimming at the beach or pool, barbecues and most sports, particularly football and cricket. Beyond my work and leisure pursuits, I proudly volunteer my time helping with Special Olympics and other such organisations.

I’m Richard Hagen and work for Prime Vision as Head of Sales. I joined Prime Vision in early 2003 when we were on the brink of an international breakthrough. Today, some of my old dreams have become true as we are now serving satisfied customers on four continents. My role in the team is to encourage and stimulate further international growth whilst maintaining and improving our technical capabilities.  I live in a small town near Amsterdam and like sports (fitness, squash, skiing and ice-skating), international travel and cooking.  My personal goals in life are remaining happy, healthy and bring people closer together. Give each other a hand, talk: communication is everything.

My name is Wouter Loomans and I am part of the Sales Team at Prime Vision as Account manager. After working 5 years for a supplier of Sorting Systems, I started in 2010 at Prime Vision. My primary focus will be on the OCRLite segment.  Also I will be responsible for Eastern Europe and the UK.

Besides hard working and travelling, I like to do running and meeting up with my friends.

I’ve always the Moto: Life is what you Make It So Let’s Make It Memorable

After my study mathematics in 1993 in California (United States) I moved to the Netherlands for a ‘back to your roots’ experience as my father is originally from the Netherlands. This ‘experience’ is still ongoing after more than fifteen years! After a technical start of my career and an MBA education I have primarily been commercially active developing business for innovative companies like RIM (Blackberry), Tele Atlas (now part of Tom Tom) and now Prime Vision! What do I do at Prime Vision? At Prime Vision I am part of the commercial team and have a focus on advancing our innovative Speech technologies! Aside from work I like to thoroughly enjoy our two small children, Jurriën & Famke. If I have time left over from that then I am busy with horses and, finally, if there’s still time left over then I’m allowed to pursue my classic car hobby, my specialty is cars in the sixties and seventies and especially Italian ones.

My name is Dave Wurz and I’m a consultant for Prime Vision.  I have been with Prime Vision since February 2008; I am impressed with the technical skill, responsiveness and overall dedication of the team at Prime Vision.  I am based in the USA.  I’m a former owner of Accu-Sort Systems and have been involved in the Automatic Identification industry in a variety of roles for 20 years.  My wife Karen and I have 3 children: Kristen, Caitlin and Colton and we enjoy spending time with them.  Other interests include skiing, volleyball and travel.  I am active in my community; I coach my kids in soccer and volleyball and am a member of the Board of Trustees of a local early American history museum.

I joined Prime Vision in January 2011 to lead the Project Management department. In the years before I was a Business Project Manager at TNT. This is where I learned to execute projects in a complex environment. An important aspect of running projects apart from the result is the way to reach the result. People should enjoy being “part of the team” so joy, communication, understanding and an open mind are essential. But! In the end the (project) result has got to work; for the customer as well as for the people who use it.

Furthermore I am totally addicted to the game of golf. I spend as many moments on the golf course with my ten year old son as I can. Within three years I am probably not good enough to carry his bags, but I take that for granted. In the meantime my tennis game and running are suffering from my addiction. Other passions are good food (eating not cooking), music & concerts (all kinds but mostly jazz) and comic books.

Personal motto:

“Achievements provide joy and satisfaction in working and private life as well. Set yourself therefore realistic ambitious goals and go for it!”

My name is Rob Pieterse and I am Senior Project Manager at Prime Vision: senior not only due to a few grey hairs!, but also over 25 years of experience in managing complex production-related projects ranging from research and development through to OCR. An important part of my role is to share the benefit of this experience with my younger colleagues at Prime Vision, I am a professional coach and over the years have coached many people. I’m married to Floor and we have two beautiful daughters Anne and Jet. I like to prepare (and eat!) good food with a nice glass of wine. Also in my spare time I enjoy cycling and spending time in the coastal area of Holland.

In 2010 I lead the TNT shore project that won the price for Postal Automation Technology of the year. I’m very proud that my team and I reached this!

My name is Bram Verlaan and I am a project manager at Prime Vision. In the last ten years, I have built up a wide experience in managing and developing postal projects in the Netherlands as well as abroad. Besides, I use my knowledge for several interesting opportunities in the pre-sales phase. In my spare time, I enjoy sports like mountain biking, soccer and swimming. Other passions are photography, nature and of course my children.

After finishing the study of Artificial Intelligence at the university, I joined Prime Vision in March 2005 as a member of the research & development team. Together with a growing number of enthusiastic colleagues I am responsible for developing Prime Visions recognition software, which typically means solving brain-crunching problems on a daily basis. To clear my mind at the end of a busy day I enjoy different sports, such as volleyball, indoor cycling and running. If there is wind, chances are you’ll find me at sea or on some lake at the helm of a sailing boat!

My name is Tanaka Moyo and I am a Project Manager at Prime Vision. With a background in Aerospace Engineering shifting focus to recognition techniques and solutions is one of those learning challenges I thoroughly enjoy at Prime Vision including of cause the challenge of managing some new exciting projects. 

As though I don’t have enough challenges at work, in my spare time, I am learning to speak Romanian fluently so I can use it for the charity work I am involved in.

I also enjoy traveling with my wife Cristina, swimming and reading. As they say, “All work and no play makes’ Johnny a dull boy”.

My name is Bram Vromans. I work as a Project Manager for Prime Vision and Dutchear. Since 2004 I have been delivering successful projects for all kinds of customers, from large corporate and governmental organisations to small enterprises of only a few people. I love the process of creation, where something that is only an idea at the start of the project is running 100.000 jobs a day at its completion, impacting people in their everyday life! I also enjoy the new intercultural experiences that international projects present me.

In addition to working as a Project Manager I have more than 12 years working experience in software engineering, software architecture design and innovation mostly in the field of speech recognition/synthesis/voice biometrics and telecommunications. This experience helps me to value the IT challenges that many of my customers face.

See you at the next milestone!

Bram

My name is Mark Andrew Ryder and I am Head of Marketing at Prime Vision.     I’m very passionate about marketing and Prime Vision, therefore you can imagine I have a really cool job!  I also enjoy visiting with friends & family, graphic design, reading and a nice pint of Guinness….but not at the same time!

My name is Pim Struik. I am head of Support and Project Manager at Prime Vision.

In the Support Department, response time and continuity is everything. We are continuously improving our processes to guarantee high quality support to our customer’s business. We always cooperate closely with the customer in a flexible and cooperative way. “Following procedures when we can, but being practical when we must” is our motto.

I have operated in many departments in Prime Vision (R & D, Software Engineering, IT and Project Management) and therefore I have wide perspective on the way Prime Vision operates it’s business. My project vary from delivering Parcel Vision and mail solutions for international parcel/mail distributors to creating critical web services.

My name is Peggy-Ann Kosters and I am the HR and Office Manager at Prime Vision. In my spare time I like to do sports especially playing tennis. Reading a lot of books is also a hobby of mine, Dan Brown is one of my favorite writers. My biggest hobby is travelling around the world and meeting a lot of people from different cultures. Luckely we have enough free days at Prime Vision.

My name is Rutger Sluiter and I am the Finance Manager at Prime Vision. I started work here in February 2007 after having been at TNT, the majority shareholder, for 7 years as a business controller. I enjoy working here since the work atmosphere is very nice and the whole team is involved in the solutions we are providing for our customers.  My wife Judith and I have two daughters and a son. The youngest son and daughter are twins.   In my spare time I love to play golf and cook. I also like to go swimming with the kids and generally spending time with family and friends.

As a senior R&D team member at Prime vision I really enjoy working in this High Tech environment. I am also very pleased that I manage to learn something new every day, even with 10+ years of experience in the Computer Vision field. Besides work, I find great joy in my family; Marjolein and our two young rascals, Marianne and Casper.

My name is Wouter Homan and I am a member of the Research and Development team. My main goal is to develop new  OCR and vision techniques and to improve the existing techniques we already have. Beside work I like photography and traveling. Both hobbies resulted in the founding of the Prime Vision Photoclub. You are invited to take a look at our pictures on the photoclub tab on this page

My name is Theo van der Donk and I am a developer at Prime Vision. Besides doing development, I’ve spent a lot of time modularizing our recognition software, so that now it can easily be reused in new customer projects. I am also co-organizer of the yearly Prime Vision Ski Event—so far we’ve been to Val Thorens, Kaltenbach and Valloire, and I wonder what next year will bring! My hobbies are (beach) volleybal, playing piano and exploiting the effects of global

My name is Sergey Verzakov. I have joined Prime Vision in 2007 as an R&D engineer. Working for this company gives me a lot of opportunities to apply classical data analysis techniques and to create new ones. It is really amazing to see how all this stuff works in the real world! In my free time, when I have it, I do a lot of sport, read books and listen to all kinds of music from Hip-Hop to Baroque.

My name is Jan-Willem Vesseur, I work at Prime Vision as a senior software engineer. Together with my colleagues in the SE team our main responsibility is the development and maintenance of the system integration platforms MailMatch and ParcelMatch. My wife Merel and myself are expecting our first child in 2011, so we are looking forward to a big change in our lives. Besides the care of our newborn, we hope to remain active members of our tennis club.

Hi I’m Alexander Reeves and I am the newest member of the Prime Vision Support Team. My time outside the office I fill with playing cricket and help running a sports bar in the centre of Delft.

I am Ben Schellingerhout, Support employee at Prime Vision. My job is done when the Customer is happy. With lots of happy customers, I go out making music, reading a good book or running in the woods with my best friend.

My name is Richard Scheppink and I’m a senior software & support engineer at Prime Vision. As a software engineer I joined the support team to manage the configuration & release process. It’s a rewarding challenge being able to design, develop, test, deploy and support our products & services.

In my spare time I like listening to music as well as playing piano and guitar. Other hobbies are flight & race simulation, photography, mountain biking and table tennis.

My name is Marina Skurichina. I joined Prime Vision in November 2006 as Researcher and Developer. I have a Ph.D. degree in Pattern Recognition received at Delft University of Technology. I like my work at Prime Vision. Especially I like to solve different problems in recognition/reading of postal addresses. In my free time I like reading a good fantasy/science fiction book, watching an intelligent romantic comedy, gardening and spending time with my family (my mom, husband and two naughty sons).

After my study Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Delft, I joined Prime Vision as a R&D engineer in 2004. I enjoy the challenge to solve recognition problems in order to work towards dependable solutions for our customers.

Outside office hours, I take care of my 3 children, Jara and twins Olaf&Yme, together with my husband Norbert. When there is any time left, I like to defeat the stress by playing (beach) volleyball and working in the garden.

My name is Elena Ranguelova and I joined the R&D team at Prime Vision in September 2008.  Having a PhD in Computer Vision/ Image processing and years of experience in the research community, I am very happy to apply my knowledge in real world problems and applications as well as learn many new things from my colleagues. A nice achievement, obtained by applying my expertise and research skills and the new knowledge and experience in PV, is the innovative solution for automation of  the postal stamp recognition, enriching our portfolio. In my spare time I like to read, watch a good movie or go to concert, meet my friends and very much to travel and discover new places.

“Recognition, the final frontier… This is the work I enjoy: to explore strange new fields of application, to seek out new methods and new algorithms, to boldly program what no one has programmed before.” 

And, as if this is not enough, at home there is even more to enjoy! Raising four beautiful kids, playing piano, singing and arranging music for my choir. 

By the way, don’t get fooled by the cartoon: my hair is half gray. Guess that’s why they call me senior…

I am Ellen Brender à Brandis and I work in the marketing department. Mainly I take care of the communication inside and outside the company.

I am happy that I can share our successes with our existing and potential customers and make them aware of our solutions and expertise.

Just like most of my colleagues I like to read a book but most of the time there is no time for it as I am also a fanatic aerobic teacher and have two sons and a husband who also need a lot of attention. If there is some time left I love shopping, playing tennis, cooking, skiing and making nice pictures of my kids who gradually seem to be professional models.

I have studied Physics at the University of Bucharest (1998) and obtained a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Groningen (2007). My research work focuses on image analysis and pattern recognition (document processing and retrieval, handwriting recognition, writer identification, camera-based OCR). After following a course on neural networks during my university studies, I have become passionate about pattern recognition: the fascinating process by which continuous and variable shapes are assigned to a set of discrete classes using statistical methods (learning from examples). Postal automation is the ideal application area to see how advanced pattern recognition methods yield concrete results in practice. I have joined Prime Vision in 2009 and my role is to develop technological extensions and improvement to our software library. I am married to Monica and we have two great kids, Ioana and Stefan. I enjoy spending time with my family, jogging, photography and cooking.

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My name is Jochem van Vroonhoven and I am a R&D engineer at Prime Vision. I have studied Game and Media Technology and joined Prime Vision during my Master Project in 2009. After my graduation I joined the R&D team of Prime Vision. I really enjoy working on solutions for the pattern recognition and OCR problems we encounter.

In my spare time I like to play and program computer games, find some hidden ‘treasure’ with my GPS (GeoCaching) or go to a concert.

My name is Bram Doornbos. I play an important role as Support Engineer at Prime Vision, solving software issues most of the time. The other part of my job is being a Software Engineer. It’s really an exciting combination and also quite a challenge. Mainly because my task is to build bridges from support to software engineering and the rest of the organization. All with quality and process improvement in mind. Aspects that always need attention in every (growing) organization. There’s a lot to do! Sometimes its hard, but it in the end it gives a good feeling when things improve.

My private time I love to spend with my family: My wife, 3 years old daughter Lieke and baby boy Mees. I’m also try to be a fanatic athlete when I have time. The long distance running is my favorite sport.

The rest of the time I like to play musical instruments like the flute and piano. Also when the weather is possitive, I take my Topper (sailboat) out of the backyard and head off to the Zevenhuizerplas.

Hello, I am Leon Roos van Raadshooven.

After having worked for several years in R&D oriented companies (KPN Research, TNO) I recently joined the software engineering group as a senior software engineer.

Prime Vision combines being at the forefront of technology in OCR and integrating it in complete systems. This is the type of work I enjoy most.

Once in a while I like to travel to foreign countries and get to know about the people in these countries. Furthermore I enjoy listening to music (all kinds) while reading an entertaining book.

My name is Nils van der Struis. I studied mechanical engineering, but found out that I liked making software much better. Therefore a couple of years ago I decided to pursue a job in technical software engineering. After some years as a software engineer in the world of fruit sorting, I decided to accept a more interesting challenge at Prime Vision. I joined Prime Vision on December 1st 2010 as a senior software engineer. I will be reinforcing the Software Engineering department.

My hobbies include sports, mainly running and cycling, traveling, sailing and going out

My name is Rinke Couvreur and I am since this year in the team of Prime Vision. I’m working as Office Management Assistant and I am also a so-called assistant of Peggy and Ellen.

I find my job diverse and the collegues here are great. Before I came here, I worked for six and a half years at a bailiff as a support worker. I have a long experience as a office-employee. One of my specialities is working with Microsoft Excel.

My hobbies are: reading books, once in a week I do sport (spinning), and I am also interested in prehistory and astronomy. I spend my vacations in the outdoor-activities since 2005.

Designing and developing speech applications is my main activity. You could say at Dutchear/PV we make humans and machines talk to eachother, literally, using speech synthesis (or text-to-speech) and automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Having a degree in applied linguistics I worked as a software engineer for eight years in the fields of logistics and GIS, using Smalltalk and Java, until I decided in 2006 to combine my passion for human language with my technical skills. I joined Dutchear in 2009.

In my spare time I like to travel and learn foreign languages and on the weekends you may catch me performing live as a guitarist in a folk/pop band.

I was born in Italy and at the age of 26 I moved to The Netherlands for my thesis at the University of Delft. What was supposed to be a six months experience turned to be a lifetime change, and I decided not to go back to Italy. In 1999 I started my career as a software engineer at High Tech Automation, then moved to TNO Defence Security and Safety and grown into many roles, such as software and system engineer, solution architect, project leader, and group facilitator. My drives are achieving the results and fulfilling the customer needs. With this in mind, within Prime Vision, I will split my activities between the Software Engineering team and the Support team.

When I’m not at work I enjoy my family, husband John, and my two sons Alexander and Mathias, our huge dog Yuma and many other critters. I still can find some time for hobbies, such as water rescue with my dog, anything creative (painting, leaded glass, costume jewelry), and I am a volunteer at the hedgehog rescue center.

My name is Hans Jongebloed. I am the expert in the field of speech technology and I also

work in the OCR R&D team. Over the past 15 years, I’ve been working in the field of speech technology, including speech recognition, speech synthesis and (biometric) speaker verification. The ability of computers to understand human speech has fascinated me since I started studying artificial intelligence at the university of Groningen. I’ve been researching and implementing speech technologies in research groups at: university, IDIAP Switzerland, KPN Research, TNO ICT and Dutchear. Recently Dutchear and Prime Vision joined forces, which gave me the opportunity to work with both OCR and Speech technology; both being great examples of pattern recognition by computers. Next to improving the technology, I like to design systems that have optimal usability for the users.

In my spare time, I like to spend my time walking, running and watching wild life. Preferably, I go to the mountains for skiing, telemarking, climbing, walking and trail running.

My name is Thomas Smith and I work as Software engineer at Prime Vision.

I was born in the United States and moved to the Netherlands in 2006 to live close to my Dutch partner, Ariane. After learning the Dutch language I attended the Bachelors computer science program of the Hague University of Applied Sciences Delft campus. In the second half of 2009 I interned at Dutchear as part of my studies. After obtaining my Bachelors degree in 2011 I was eager to contribute further to the innovative speech and OCR technologies of Prime Vision and Dutchear. The part of my work I find most rewarding is being able to solve challenging software engineering problems while delivering maximum value to the customer.

In my spare time I enjoy reading, listening to electronic music, watching science fiction and cult films and spending time with my partner, Ariane.

After my study in Electronics I joined Shell for a long career (25 years) in programming and systems engineering. I joined Dutchear to continue programming in various languages, like VoiceXML, JAVA, Perl, C++. I enjoy trying out the latest software on various platforms, like VMWare, Linux, Mac OS and Windows for both work and pleasure. At the back of my house I have a large model railway layout, which in time will be controlled by computer. For sports I play golf once in a while and I play bridge in competition. Together with my wife we actively support VOEKS (http://www.voeks.nl/), which is an organization to support my old colleagues at Shell and in particular the very elderly.

After getting a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, I am happy to help developing software using several languages and to contribute to the technology of speech and visual recognition.

My name is Corien Brinkmeijer and I work in the financial department Dutchear/Prime Vision.

In my spare time I like running and I enjoy working in the garden, reading a book and spending time with my partner en two daughters.

My name is Maruti Agarwal. I studied Electronics Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, one of the prime technical universities in India. Being interested in Image Processing, I came to Holland to study Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. Image Processing and Pattern Recognition have been the key focus of my work here. For the same reason, Prime Vision offered me a job as research engineer in their R&D group.

In my free time, I usually watch movies or sometimes I do drawing or write poems as well.