Joost Doevelaar

Hi, I am Joost Doevelaar, CTO of Agoda.com living in Bangkok (Thailand)

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Currently working at Agoda (a Priceline Company) in the role as Chief Technology Officer, where I am tasked to lead the architecture and design team in establishing the new generation enterprise architecture for this travel related information and booking provider. During my career I have established a specialization in pragmatic yet advanced systems- and database architecture which leverages on solid foundations, code generation and re-usable components. Having up-to-date development experience in C#, .NET3.5 and MS-SQL 2008, design and prototyping are closely coupled to make use of all new productivity enhacing features of the latest technology. Besides the architecture and design capabilities, I have managed technical departments with 80+ staff, been part of the executive team of Internet Service and Access providers and have managed budgets in excess of US$ 10m.

Managing director at IBL Asia Co., Ltd.

March 2005 - January 2007

Managing director of IBL Asia Co., Ltd, an consultancy company for ICT architecture and design in Bangkok (Thailand)

Executive Vice president, CIO & CTO at Asian Centre for Consulting Excellence

March 2005 - June 2005

Responsible for all ICT projects within the Asian Centre of Consulting excellence, sourcing high impact teams out of a pool of high level, result driven ICT professionals, project director of ICT projects, Principal requirements analyst, ICT developments and strategy

CTO & VP of technology at M-WEB (Thailand)

July 2002 - February 2005

CTO of the combined M-Web (Thailand) and KSC Commercial Internet company which is the leading internet portal company in Thailand and one of the leading Internet Service Providers for both the residential as business market.

Chief Technology Officer at KSC Commercial Internet

July 2002 - February 2005

CTO of the combined M-Web (Thailand) and KSC Commercial Internet company which is the leading internet portal company in Thailand and one of the leading Internet Service Providers for both the residential as business market.

CTO at MWEB Thailand

2002 - 2005

Technical consultant at MIH

1998 - 2005

R&D manager Broadband solutions at United Broadcasting Corporation

May 2001 - June 2002

Work as R&D manager to define the Broadband architecture and strategy for UBC. Architecture of organisation, procedures, ISO-Standardization, Integration of IT and broadcasting operational systems. Followed training for processing broadband video content with RealSystems products. Build prototype for broadband portal, SQL server based website for easy maintenance and scalability.

Technical manager Interactive TV at United Broadcasting Corporation

January 2001 - June 2002

Work as IT consultant for an interactive TV project, where vieuwers can interact with the broadcast through telephone (premium call rate) and SMS (Premium SMS rate). Architecture of organisation, procedures, ISO-Standardization, Integration of IT and broadcasting operational systems. Build prototype for management system, IVR integration, SMS integration and real-time visualisation for broadcast services.

SMS Project Manager at United Broadcasting Corporation

October 1998 - January 2001

Worked as a SMS project manager at UBC (Bangkok, Thailand) with a team of 9 business analysts to improve the internal organisation and support for the business in IBS, the Subscriber Management system from Mindport IBS. Set up new support plans and reorganised billing & logistic procedures.

Chief Technology Officer at MasterNet Communications b.v

January 1996 - September 1998

Managing director at All-round Informatica Partner b.v.

August 1992 - September 1998

Web-dynamics information management Design, development and set-up of architecture for the establishment of company and product information in relational databases and the publication of this information through industry standard media, CD-rom, lntranet, Extranet, lnternet and information pillars. Steered and guided Phase 1 developments, personally developed elements on the basis of Unix, Netscape server technique, Oracle databases, "C" and Oracle Power Objects. This tool, Web-dynamics, is owned 100%. Worked as leader of the Web-dynamics development team. Since January 1998 Web-dynamics has been on the market and has been enthusiastically received in various fields, including construction because of its perfect alignment with the standardisation within the industry. Recently, the larger software companies and even several multinationals have shown interest in the application in order to achieve total heterogeneous operability and openness within existing IT.

Chief Technology Officer @ agoda.com at Agoda Services Co., Ltd.

June 2005

Chief Technology Officer for www.agoda.com, a Priceline company

Software architecture, Infrastructure, Flying, Swimming