Curriculum Vitae Koen Vyverman Last update: April, 2009

Main Topics

Scientific Research

Basics

Name:	Koen Vyverman
Date & place of birth:	1st of July 1967, Aalst (Belgium)
Address:	Amstelveen (the Netherlands)
Phone:	please inquire
Fax:	please inquire
E-mail:	k o e n @ s a s - c o n s u l t a n t . c o m

Present Position

Since 02/02

SAS Institute B.V. - the Netherlands Manager Technical Support & IT/MIS (05/06 - present) Responsible for the customer support call centre, internal IT systems, and MIS services. Senior Consultant (02/02 - 04/06) Specialising in Marketing Automation, Campaign Management, Data Mining. Consulting projects in telecommunications, banking, healthcare, research.

Past Employment

Higher Education

1985-1992

Graduated in Astrophysics in September 1992 with a thesis titled "Interaction between Radiation and Matter: the Accelerated Lambda-iteration." Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics (Licentiaat in de Toegepaste Wiskundige Wetenschappen) from Brussels Free University (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

Part Time Employment

1992 - 08/97

Brussels Free University & Belgian Royal Observatory Scientific Collaborator Data Analysis Organising Events (conferences, summer schools) Scientific Publishing

General Computer Skills

Platforms	Sun (Solaris/UNIX) Apple (OSX) PC (Windows) Mainframe (MVS/TSO)
Programming	Pascal SAS
Applications	DTP: TeX, LaTeX, Word, Pagemaker, Dreamweaver, InDesign Databases: Filemaker, Access Math / Stat: Matlab, Mathematica, JMP Imaging: Photoshop, Freehand, Illustrator Multimedia: Director, Powerpoint, Premiere, Flash

SAS® System Skills

General	SAS Institute Certified Developer since 1997. Proficiency in SAS Base, SAS macro facility, SQL, SAS/ODBC, SAS/EIS, SAS/INTRNET, SAS/GRAPH, Data Mining, Marketing Automation. Regularly taking SAS Institute classes on new Products and Solutions.
Special Interests	Automating SAS output to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint via Dynamic Data Exchange. High-performance SAS programming techniques: hashing, and direct addressing. Integrating SAS with other applications. Regular contributor to the SAS-L mailing-list.
Conferences	Attended various SASTEK, BLUES, SUGI, SEUGI, SESUG, and SGF user / developer / executive conferences, notably: SEUGI 18, Dublin, 2000: contributed paper, best paper award. SUGI 26, Long Beach, 2001: invited speaker. SUGI 27, Orlando, 2002: invited speaker. SUGI 28, Seattle, 2003: invited speaker. SESUG 2003, St. Pete's: invited speaker. SUGI 29, Montreal, 2004: invited speaker. SUGI 30, Philadelphia, 2005: invited speaker. SUGI 31, San Francisco, 2006: invited speaker. SGF 2008, San Antonio: invited speaker. SGF 2009, Washington DC: invited speaker.
Publications	Some 15+ published papers on a variety of topics are available. Rather than listing them all in this CV, a page with links to the papers (PDF-format) and associated code, can be found here.

Languages

Dutch, English, French, German.

Personal Interests

Desktop and web publishing, digital photography, alternative music, reading, concerts, sports, science-fiction, Apple Macs. Actively participating in the Vance Integral Edition, and supporting Totality Online.

Scientific Research

Publications

• Sterken C., Vyverman K., Spoon H.W.W., "Time of light maximum of BW Vulpeculae," 1993, Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, No. 3901.
  
  
• Vyverman K., Van Rensbergen W., Vanbeveren D., "On the relation between the mass loss rate and the stellar parameters of OB-type stars," 1994, Space Science Reviews, 66, 191.
  
  
• Israelian G., Vyverman K., "On the Wind Momentum Problem of O-type Stars in the Galaxy," 1997, Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 254, Issue 1, p. 51-60.
  
  
• Blomme R., Runacres M.C., Vyverman K., Cohen M., Leitherer C., Owocki S.P., Haas M., "ISOPHOT Observations of Early-type Stars," 1997, Astrophysics and Space Science, v. 255, Issue 1/2, p. 145-146.
  
  
• Blomme R., Runacres M.C., Vyverman K., Cohen M., Leitherer C., Owocki S.P., "Far Infrared ISO Observations of HD 160529," 1997, Luminous Blue Variables: Massive Stars in Transition. ASP Conference Series; Vol. 120; ed. Antonella Nota and Henny Lamers, p. 41.
  
  
• Blomme R., Runacres M.C., Vyverman K., Cohen M., Leitherer C., Owocki S.P., Haas M., "ISOPHOT Observations of Wolf-Rayet winds," 1999, Wolf-Rayet Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies. Proceedings of the 193rd symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 3-7 November 1998. Edited by Karel A. van der Hucht, Gloria Koenigsberger, and Philippe R. J. Eenens. San Francisco, Calif. : Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p.96.
  
  
• Rons N., Vyverman K., De Greve J.P., "Accretion in Interacting Massive Binaries," in preparation for Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  
  
• Lobel A., Vyverman K., De Greve J.P., "The Influence of Accretion on the Mass Ratio Distribution in the Formation of Wolf-Rayet Binaries," in preparation for Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  

Conferences & Workshops

• "47'ste Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie," 1992, the Netherlands: contributed poster-paper "Accelerated lambda-iteration."
  
  
• "48'ste Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie," 06-08/05/93, De Haan: member of the Local Organizing Committee. Contributed poster-paper "Accelerated lambda-iteration in the co-moving frame."
  
  
• "Evolution of Massive Stars," August 1993, Brussels: member of the Local Organizing Committee. Contributed poster-paper "On the relation between the mass loss rate and the stellar parameters of OB-type stars."
  
  
• "Laboratory Spectroscopy in Astrophysics," December 1994, Brussels: Member of the Local Organizing Committee.
  
  
• "9th Predoctoral Summer School of the European Astrophysical Doctoral Network," September 1996, Brussels: Organisation and administration.
  
  

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