who I'm I

My name is Fred van Reijswoud

  
I was born on January 25, 1965 in Rotterdam, the youngest of twins.
I am still living in Rotterdam, where I work as a Costumer Support Specialist at ABB Marine & Ports (Asea Brown Boveri).
Together with my twin brother Ed, we where born two months early, in 1965 twins were not an everyday phenomenon and we were born with great interest in the former hospital known as "Dijkzicht", now University medical Center Rotterdam (UMC Rotterdam)
After primary school and LTS, I started working at the age of sixteen as an electrical engineer in the low voltage panels (LVS) department at Asea Brown Boveri then called "Brown, Boveri & Cie".

In my first year of evening school, I started as an AutoCad Designer. I obtained my MTS diploma in Automation and energy technology in 2002 (graduated in four years instead of five), after which I got the position of Design Engineer,
I worked in the drawing department until my transfer in 2008 after 26 years at Low Voltage Systems to ABB Marine & Ports as a service coordinator.
In March 2014 I became a service support Specialist to support the sales, spares and service groups in selecting and researching old systems and offering replacement modern systems (Retrofit), on Oct 1th 2017 I changed function and become a member of the sales team as senior sales engineer for the Spares parts and retrofitting.
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What else do I do .....

Before the Military service, played in three orchestras first on trompet and later on the France Horn (F horn), but after the Military service the pession for music was gone and at the age of 19 I got interested in sports, even so much that from 1986 I worked as a sports instructor on the Thursday evening at the Gym of Look Hollander, where I did all the sports or activity that the gym had. until the gym went bankrupt in 2014 and the location was taken over by Basic Fit. I now train at a location of David LLoyd .

Or done ....

From 1985 to 2012 I did the noble sport of Kyokushinkai Karate, this is a full contact form of karate, In karate I can wear the brown belt.
I started karate at the dojo of Loek Hollander, one of the founders of kyokushin karate in the Netherlands, with Shian Peter Voogt, Vlado Haljer, Fernando Alonso.
later Shihan Vlado Haljer started his own Dojo and went with him, Sihan Haljer has two dojos in the places Rotterdam and Barendrecht "Katshu Heiwa" Have a look and or take part of one of the free lessons.

For a lot of things that I've done, I've received a certificate
Also did top roping at "Monte Cervino" , this is a artificial mountain where you can climb a climbing wall with friends on the inside.
My Certificate "A" for Paragliding in the French Alps, obtained at the first paragliding school in the Netherlands: Para Adventure by André Wieringa. The school has now been taken over by his sons but no longer making trips to France or other places, his son have started a school for paragliding with (auxiliary) engines