Frank van der Most (PhD)

Skills :

  • Database design and programming
  • Conceptual and analytic thinking, interviewing and case studies
  • Languages: Dutch, English, Swedish, and some German, French and Spanish
  • Non-fiction writing: reports, papers, blog
  • Repairing stuff

Personal qualities

  • Pragmatic idealist
  • Get along well with people
  • Keep overview and mind the details
  • Work well independently and in teams
  • Honest and straightforward

Passions and interests :

  • Hiking & bird watching
  • Saving the planet
  • Lego design
  • Photography
  • Solving problems and puzzles

Rubber Boots Data is my one-person company. I have a double background, both in computer science and in science studies.

In science studies, I learned to study how science works: how it was organized, how it was funded, and how scientists conducted their research. In doing so, I collected data through semi-structured in-depth interviews. Such interviews will also be at the core of finding out what solutions you need for your data. Learn more …

I started building database applications to support my research in science studies. In 2014, building a multi-user database for science became my full-time job as a research engineer at the Department of Economic History at Lund University.

In 2020, I took sabbatical leave and worked on the data of a sea turtle conservation project on the Osa peninsula in the far South West corner of Costa Rica. There, I experienced the difficulties of conducting fieldwork in remote locations. I also experienced how rewarding it is to apply my skills to the pressing concerns of nature conservation, biodiversity and sustainability. The founding of Rubber Boots Data is the result of this life course change.

I am an active member of the FileMaker developers community, where I used to co-organize the FileMaker for Research User Group. FileMaker is the database software of my choice : easy but not simple, effective and available for Windows, Mac and iOS. See my Claris credentials below.

Download a one-page resume here and a full CV here.

Check out my LinkedIn profile here.

References and accreditations

Frank has done an outstanding job. The database he created in Claris Filemaker Pro has far exceeded our expectations. Frank quickly had a workable version up and running, and then creatively expanded the functionality with solutions I had not even thought would be possible. ( Geir Frivold, Chair, Board of Directors Tropical Health Alliance Foundation )

If you explain the basic requirements, he has no problem whatsoever in taking up the task, independently coming up with quality solutions for how to architecture and implement the feature. … Frank is always ready to tackle problems he hasn’t encountered before, and does so with a combination of reliability, persistence and creativity that makes him great to work with. ( David Wikström, CamelCase data )

 

 

 

 

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