Tha Narie is the freelance company name and nickname of Arjan van Wijk.
On this site he shows his work and experiences around the Adobe Flash platform.
On an average day he is building Flash websites and applications, helping colleagues and friends with html/css/js/php/sql questions, and researching/experimenting with all the new stuff that is emerging on the web every single day.

Currently he is employed at MediaMonks where he also works on the Temple ActionScript Library.
In 2004 he joined FlashFocus as Technical Director.

When he is not ‘working’, he is playing soccer or futsal, gaming on his Alienware or watching a movie/tv-serie.

Curriculum Vitae

Name: van Wijk
First names: Aris Johannis
Date of birth: September 23th, 1983

Stoelenmakerslaan 102
3454 DW De Meern
The Netherlands

Programming knowledge

• ActionScript 3
• ActionScript 1 & 2
• PHP
• (X)HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• SQL
• Objective C (iPhone)
• And played around with a lot more…

Application knowledge

• Eclipse
• FDT
• FlexBuilder / FlashBuilder
• Flash IDE
• Photoshop
• (Tortoise)SVN
• Microsoft Office package
• XCode (iPhone)
• Windows (98, XP, Vista, 7)
• And a lot more…

Work experience

15 july 2005 – present
MediaMonks B.V. (Hilversum, http://www.mediamonks.com/)
Developer – ActionScript

2004 – present
FlashFocus (http://www.flashfocus.nl/)
Technical Director

2003 (3 days a week, for a few months)
DPDK (http://www.dpdk.nl/)

2003 – 2005
Tha Narie development (De Meern)
self employed

Internships

2003 (100 days)
Oosterlicht College (Vianen)
Systeembeheer

2002 (50 days)
Compaq (Utrecht)
Internal Technical Helpdesk

2001 (50 days)
Staro Automatisering (Montfoort)
Visual Basic

Education

1999 – 2003
ICT Academie Utrecht (Utrecht)
TI Niveau 4

1995 – 1999
St. Gregorius College (Utrecht)
Mavo (Wi:8, Na:8, Sk:8, Ec:8, Nl:7, En:6)

1987 – 1995
Christelijke Basisschool Koningin Beatrix (De Meern)