John Hammink
John Hammink | |
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 John Hammink, with his Ecuadorian guitar | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1 May 1970 Cleveland,Ohio,United States |
| Genres | Acoustic rock rock pop world music electro Poetry Spoken Word Performance Art |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals,Guitar,Banjo,Contrabass,Fretless Electric bass,Drums,Percussion,Dulcimer,Drum machine,Synthesizers |
| Years active | 80's–present |
| Labels | Studio Höör |
| Website | Johnhammink |
John Hammink(born May 1, 1970) is anAmericanengineer,musician,artistandlinguist.
Hammink was born inCleveland,Ohio,and graduated fromEastern Michigan Universityin 1993 with aB.A.inLinguistics.He emigrated toFinlandin 1996 to lecture atJyväskyläandKajaaniPolytechnics,[1]and toEstoniain 2003. As of 2007, he has taught topics related to Product Realization and testing for software and consumer electronics atUniversidad Técnica Federico Santa MaríainValparaiso,Chile;Escuela Superior Politecnica del LitoralinGuayaquil,Ecuadorand has advised startup companies worldwide.[2]As of 2011, he worked atMozilla,where he led earlyQuality Assuranceefforts onFirefox OS.[3][4][5]
In 2008, after a long campaign, he found a company willing to support his work on a managed care system for diabetic patients.[6]
Hammink established a certification program forVoice over IPproviderSkype,which aims to measure the quality of the user experience for all facets of hardware and software products that integrate with Skype's openAPI.[7][8]The Skype Certification program merges practical application of theMetaphysics of Qualityas proposed byRobert M. Pirsigand principles ofSoftware inspectionas proposed byTom Gilb.
He has also toured and recorded extensively as asoloacoustic guitarist,bassistandvocalistwith Russian record producer Peter Coon.[9]During 2008 and 2009 John recorded extensively in the now defunct studio called "Studio Höör" with record producer and sound technician Daniel Westin (now founder and owner of Studio Zero Latency Records). In November 2010, he performed withVepsianlanguage lineup Jousnen Jarved atLietminority-language music festival inLorient,France.[10]
References
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- ^Heilmann, Chris (1 December 2011)."State of the Web APIs – an interview with John Hammink".Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog.Retrieved1 August2012.
- ^Kerner, Sean Michael (29 November 2011)."Firefox 11 Gets Vibrator API".InternetNews.Retrieved1 August2012.
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- ^Dickler, Jessica (2 September 2009)."Unemployed? How workers can get a job despite a résumé gap - Sep. 2, 2009".CNN Money.Retrieved1 August2012.
- ^Wolff, Phil (1 January 2006)."Skype Channel Power - Leg 1 - Certification".Skype Journal.Retrieved1 August2012.
- ^"Skype Certification Guru John Hammink Interviewed by Share Skype".Mathaba.18 October 2005. Archived fromthe originalon 10 June 2015.Retrieved1 August2012.
- ^"SoundClick artist: John Hammink - World music songwriting that transcends the single band".SoundClick.2012.Retrieved1 August2012.
- ^"Liet International 2010: Jousnen Jarved".YouTube.29 November 2010.Archivedfrom the original on 2021-12-19.Retrieved1 August2012.