Vitae
Personalia
| Name: | Daan Laurentius Ruijter |
| Address: | Polanenstraat 267 |
| Postal code: | 1013 VV |
| Residence: | Amsterdam |
| Place of birth: | Zaandam |
| Date of birth: | 01-12-1984 |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Marital status: | Unmarried |
| Telephone: | 06-15178860 |
| E-mail: | daan_ruijter@hotmail.com |
Education
| 2008-2011 | Master of journalism at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam Master thesis: ‘But just answer the question…!’ -a conversation analytical study concerning question evasion tactics of the Dutch Minister-Presidents Ruud Lubbers, Wim Kok, Jan-Peter Balkenende and Mark Rutte |
| 2005-2007 | Master of economics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. With master courses microeconomics and public economics Master thesis: ‘Is the United Kingdom ready to introduce the Euro?’ |
| 2002-2005 | Bachelor of economics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam Bachelor thesis: ‘What made it possible that China’s economy grew so rapidly over the last decades?’ |
| 1996-2002 | Gymnasium with Latin en Greek at Het Zaanlands Lyceum |
Bachelor thesis economics
Master thesis economics
Master thesis journalism
IT-activities
| 12/2019-03/2020 (expected) | Full Stack Javascript (MERN) web development study with Ubiqum Academy Amsterdam |
| 06/2019-present | Self study in html, css en JavaScript through:
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| 07/2015-08/2015 | Online courses in JavaScript through Khan Academy |
| 01/2015 + 04/2015 | Creating my own website daanruijter.eu with html and css |
| 01/2015 | Online courses in html, css through Khan Academy |
Work experience
| Rodi Media, Purmerend | |
| 05/2015-06/2019 | Editor of various local newspapers, currently among others Zaanstreek op Zondag and Zaans Stadsblad Executing the concept ‘On the Rodi’ at flexible workspaces with a colleague, working in the ‘news region’ to come in contact with the locals; Editing and writing different local news articles, also for the Rodi web site; Having (on phone) interviews for writing cover and commercial articles/advertorials; Actualising social media channels; Accompanying a trainee; Publishing a local sports paper; |
| 02/2015-04/2015 | Editor Purmerend op Zondag and Purmerends Nieuwsblad |
| 09/2013-09/2014 | Editor The work was as described above N.B. First year internship, aferwards employed |
| 12/2014-present | InDutch, Amsterdam Tutor/language coach Practicing the Dutch language with expats, immigrants, students and tourists during different types of practice sessions, for example in a cafe; Developing a special session: ‘Met Daan naar de Zaan’: Practicing Dutch during a visit to the Zaanse Schans (Zaandam)  |
| 01/2014-09/2015 | Tennis.nl, Sassenheim Web editor (voluntary) Writing different (match) news articles about national and international tennis as a web editor for the Dutch web site www.tennis.nl |
| 12/2012-04/2013 | Valkering Media, Amsterdam Internship as an editor at Valkering Media for its web site Ajax Showtime (Re)writing articles about Ajax and soccer in general and publishing them on the web site with the content management system |
| 07/2012-11/2012 | Internet company User.nl, Purmerend, Purmerend Internship marketing department Setting up a media plan for User with the goal to create more visibility for the company |
| 05/2012-04/2013 | Hilton Meats, Zaandam Project assistant Making protocols and working instructions concerning safety and ‘ARBO’ (working conditions); Making a scenario for the Hilton Safety Film for new personnel; Checking manuals and protocols on content and language errors; Processing data with the database-/data processing program Ultimo; Advising colleagues about their theses for their ‘Middelbaar Veiligheidskundige’ (a safety class) course and editing those theses |
| 03/2012-05/2012 | BaanStede, Purmerend Internship marketing & communication department Activities concerning communication and marketing at BaanStede: Editing the new website (correcting textual, language and layout errors, finding dead links and looking for missing content); Making a plan for a continuous delivery of (missing) content; Making a plan to reclassify and improve the intranet environment; Writing an instruction for the project ‘Alfacheque’ (help in housekeeping); Doing interviews and writing articles for the internal magazine BaanStedeling; With the team and the external internet company User.nl assisting in setting up Social Media for BaanStede |
| 11/2011-03/2014 | Camping de Duinvoet, Schoorl Writer Writing a book about Camping de Duinvoet, a small campsite in the foothills of the Schoorl dunes Click on the book to see its Facebook-page and on the video to watch the book presentation (in Dutch, sorry!) 
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| 06/2009-07/2009 | Hilton Meats, Zaandam Translate machine protocols from Dutch to English |
| 09/2007-03/2008 | Sandd, Wormerveer Carrying mail |
| 06/2006-07/2006 | Tandt Soccer, Loveland, Ohio, VS Assisting with soccer clinics for children in the age of 6-14 |
| 02/2002-12/2002 | Kaasboerderij Catharinahoeve, Zaandijk Working the register; Restocking the shelves |
Talen
Language courses
| 08/2009 | Spanish course in Barcelona, B1 level at CaminoBarcelona (2 weeks); |
| 09/2010-06/2011 | Italian course A2 level at Studiolingua, Amsterdam; |
| 09/2011-06/2012 | Italian course B1 level at Studiolingua, Amsterdam; |
| 01/2012-02/2012 | Italian translation course at Studiolingua, Amsterdam; |
| 09/2012-06-2013 | Italian course B1+ level at Studiolingua, Amsterdam; |
| 09/2013-04/2014 | Italian course B2 level at Studiolingua, Amsterdam; |
| 09/2014-03/2015 | Italian course B2+ level at Studiolingua, Amsterdam; |
| 09/2015-03/2016 | Italian course C1 level at Studiolingua, Amsterdam; | 11/2016 | Spanish course in Valencia, B1 and B2 level at Costa de Valencia (2 weeks); | 10/2017-11/2017 | Spanish course in Málaga, B2 level at Cile (3 weeks); | 11/2018 | Spanish course in Málaga, B2 level at Instituto Picasso (3 weken) |
Other (journalistic) activities
| 08/2007-06/2008 | Editor of the club magazine at Tennis Club de Balk, Zaandam; |
| 10/2009-01/2010 | Every two weeks active as an editor/interviewer with the sports program Saensport Life from the local broadcasterZaanradio (Zaandam & region); |
| 04/2012-12/2013 | Writing different articles and news items about the sport of tennis for the web sites www.tennishome.nl andwww.tennisinfo.be of Tennisplanet; |
| 01/2014-present | Active as an editor for the ‘Zaanse’ futsal clubFCZSW(among other things publishing a club magazine) and the ‘Zaanse’ Tennis ClubDe Gouw |
| 10/2014-present | Editing of master theses |
| 01/2017-04/2017 | Course in Literaire non fiction with the writer Judith Koelemeijer |
| 05/2017 | Course 'Zelf geschiedenis schrijven Gemeentearchief Zaanstad' (writing about history at the community archive) with Mirjam Janssen |
| 05/2017 | Course in photography at Speer Fotografie Amsterdam with Peter van der Meer |
Computer knowledge
Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, the video editing program Adobe Premiere Pro and different content management systems.
Other
Volunteer work: in anticipation of the council elections in 2006 I’ve participated in the “Working Group Quality of Lives in Quarters” for Groenlinks Zaanstad, the regional department of this political party. Goal of the working group was to come into contact with the citizen in order to notive problems in quarters in Zaanstad and to report them to the council.
Hobbies/Interests
Tennis, soccer, table tennis and (ball) sports in general, writing, language (as of june 2015 frequent visitor of Amsterdam Language Cafe), programming, photographing, music, travelling, politics, economics, news & actualities and nature
