Culemborg, Gelderland, Netherlands
I was born in the early '60 and still remember the energy crisis of 1973: car-free Sundays, gasoline on tickets, we had to lower the room temperature and conserve energy. Later in 1976 I remember the dry hot fields of the first mega drought in Holland. This formed my worldview and I wanted to study something to do with the environment, pollution, water. I tried biology but ended up with waste and wastewater technology at the HAS Den Bosch. My major was on wast collection and waste watertreatment. For my first job I contacted Grontmij Engineering company who were going to do a pilot wastewater treatment plant at the Volgermeerpolder waste dump site. This iconic dump was heavily polluted by oil drums full of chemical waste (monochlore-benzene, and the scare of the '80's: dioxine). Volgermeer together with Lekkerkerk and the Griftpark (Utrecht) and many abandoned Military sites - are iconic polluted places still hunting us today. https://onh.nl/verhaal/de-volgermeerpolder-van-gifbelt-tot-waterlandse-sawa I spent one full year on the dump in 1990-1991. And then I opted to do research abroad. I joined the Hogeschool Zeeland MSc course development cooperation and was sent to Thailand so sort out some water and environment related issues in a coastal river (at CORIN University of Songkla - HatYai Southern Thailand). I finally graduated with an MSc. at Lincoln University in the UK on the implementation of a spreadsheet based salinity intrusion model to estimate freshwater flow in a coastal river. It was the boom and bust time of economics in Thailand, where I met my wife and stayed on until the Asia crisis of 1997 (where I worked at ground zero of the crisis at silicon valley of Bangkok - Texas Instruments / bub-micron technology). https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB863110606408068000 Well it was time to head home, start over, find a job, start a family. I have continued to do innovative work, related to water, data, remote sensing, GIS systems and especially: video: knowledge capturing. And I am still rooted in the vision that we are on the wrong road; as pointed out in the 1972 Limits to Growth study: scarce resources, nature, climate, pollution and inequality will force mankind to change its course. And now I am back on my Rebel-Base - for a fighting chance to keep our planet alive, healthy and green for our future generations. Not as an 11 year old on a highway on a car free Sunday but as a rebel on A12. Have a look at www.xrtv.nl Portfolio: https://www.watertv.nl/voorbeelden/ Stefan J. Flos People are 60% water - 99% knowledge - 100% dreams.
Expert in applying laserscanning data / remote sensing data and field observations in dike safety management and asset management projects.
Knowledge on Video: water - watersafety - Geo/GIS - physical safety. This is an ongoing quest to capture the rich and unique Dutch knowledge on water - water management - asset management and watersafety construction. With more than 1300 presentations online the knowledge base is growing. see http://www.h2video.nl and http://www.waterTV.nl
Met drie dochters (11 - 13 en 15 jaar) toegelaten tot de Nationale Ballet Academie - gelieerd aan het nationale Ballet van Nederland - draait thuis alles steeds meer om ballet. Vanuit deze betrokkenheid ben ik samen met de sichting DaMu-scholen (hbo-vooropleidingen -Dans en Muziek) een petitie gestart voor een OV studentenkaart voor jonge dans en muziek talenten: www.ov4damu.nl
Projectleader of water information projects and laserscanning projects for dike safely and maintenance projects. Focussing on application and usage of the data and developing user driven software tools for use in GIS systems.
Self employed consultant in SE- Asia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam. Main focus: watermanagement, informationmanagement, transfer of technology, change management.