Who is this guy anyway?

Name: Bas Scheffers
Date of birth: 2 June 1976
Place of birth: Classified
Nationality: Dutch
Height: 1.92m (6'4")
Weight: varies by season

The family
I have one older brother, Pascal, and a younger sister, Lotte. Pascal is a software engineer as well and Lotte is a stewardess at KLM. My mother, Paulien, is currently working to get VTE going in the Netherlands. My father, René, sadly died of cancer in 1989.

Education
School didn't like me and therefor I didn't like school. So we decided to part ways pretty early on. I tried a year of college electronics after high school but I couldn't see myself doing that for a career. And since I don't see myself doing any particular job for too long I figured: what's the point in studying something for 5 years when you probably will be doing it as a job for even less years. I had gotten into radio by that time and decided to go and do a six month audio engineering course. In hind sight that seems like a fair trade, six months of study and 4 and a half years working in the field. Now I just try to learn as much as I can where I work, which is easy with computer technology...

What I've been up to
I started my working career as producer/board-op at various radio stations and ended up working for Classic FM for three and a half years. There I also did engineering, music programming and designing our little website. But the the the net, linux and relational databases crossed my path and I was hooked. So I left to go work at Sonera as a software engineer and system administrator, but my main occupation there was Sonera Plaza, our website.

In june 2000 I moved to London to work for a dot-com name Puremix, another online radio venture that went bust. But boy did we have a good time there!

After Puremix's demise in February 2001, I joined Formicary.net, a consultany/software company catering the financial industry. There I have been working on a big project for German merchant bank WestLB, providing them with a platform to run all their inter-, intra- and extranet sites on. Corporate politics are not my favourite, but I stick around because I work with the finest crew I ever have; it's not often you work only with people you also call your friends.

Future plans
Marry Kylie! Move to Australia and either start my own company or help run the ever expanding Formicary empire and that part of the world. But before all that: there are still a lot of places to see in this world!