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john hammink , with his ecuadorian guitar -lsb- http://www.johnhammink.com www.johnhammink.com -rsb- peter coon d.s. 80 's -- present cleveland , ohio , united states studio höör yes 1 may 1970 non_vocal_instrumentalist vocals electric bass , drums , percussion , dulcimer , drum , machine , synthesizer guitar , banjo , contrabass , fretless acoustic word performance art rock rock pop world music electro poetry spoken john hammink -lrb- 2007 -rrb- . jpg john hammink

john hammink

john hammink -lrb- born may 1 , 1970 -rrb- is an american engineer , musician , artist and linguist from ohio .
hammink was born in cleveland , ohio , and graduated from eastern michigan university in 1993 with a b.a. in linguistics .
he emigrated to finland in 1996 to lecture at jyväskylä and kajaani polytechnics , and to estonia in 2003 .
as of 2007 , he has taught topics related to product realization and testing for software and consumer electronics at universidad técnica federico santa maría in valparaiso , chile ; escuela superior politécnica del litoral in guayaquil , ecuador and has advised startup companies worldwide .
as of 2011 , he worked at mozilla , where he led early quality assurance efforts on firefox os .
in 2008 , after a long campaign , he found a company willing to support his work on a managed care system for diabetic patients .
hammink established a certification program for voice over ip provider skype , which aims to measure the quality of the user experience for all facets of hardware and software products that integrate with skype 's open api .
the skype certification program merges practical application of the metaphysics of quality as proposed by robert m. pirsig and principles of software inspection as proposed by tom gilb .
he has also toured and recorded extensively as a solo acoustic guitarist , bassist and vocalist with russian music producer peter coon and others .
in november 2010 , he performed with vepsian language lineup jousnen jarved at liet minority-language music festival in lorient , france .
