walter

Blockchain/ Smart Contract Developer

Hello!
My name's Walter, I have a background in academic archaeology. 
My company Genesys Antica specializes in antiquities provenance security via digital ledgers/ smart contracts.
We as a company develop trusted provenance infrastructure for cultural heritage collections. We focus on provenance transparency, secure documentation management, interoperability, and anti-illicit trafficking support, while remaining fully aligned with museum ethics and institutional governance requirements.



Experience: 1 year

Yearly salary: $64,000

Hourly rate: $75

Nationality: 🇳🇱 Netherlands

Residency: 🇳🇱 Netherlands


Experience

Security Guard
CTSN
2025 - 2025
Service orientated security guard, concerned with security checks, passenger crowd control, luggage check.
Collections manager
Antea Group - Engineers
2022 - 2024
Manager of the archaeological warehouse with an engineering company. Tasks are control of the physical objects and digital documents that accompany the excavations. Preparation of the finds and documents for official transfer to the archaeological warehouses of the provincial or municipal warehouse for structural archiving.
Appraiser
New York Art Forensics
2018 - 2020
Provenance- authenticity research of antiquities from museums and private collections. Focus on ancient Near Eastern antiquities, ancient Egypt, Classical world.
Security Guard -Part Time
City Museum
2017 - 2020
Hosting of visitors, monitoring of safety of the visitors and objects. Providing a comfortable visit for interested people to the museum.
Appraiser
Auctionata
2012 - 2016
Appraising and authenticating antiquities from the Classical World, Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt and Sudan.
Researcher- Lecturer
Humboldt University- Free University Berlin
2012 - 2015
Academic research to ancient Egyptian- Nubian economic- and proto globalization processes. Objective was to gain insight into various institutes of the administrative system during the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period. Lecturer course Ancient Nubia.
Registrator
Naturalis Natural History Museum
2010 - 2012
Digitization of museum objects into a database. Project's name was 'Live Science' and took place within the museum in a theater exposition room. With a team we worked on a large collection of tropical shells.
Assistant Curator
University Library Leiden
2007 - 2010
Section Special Collections- Arabic Manuscripts. Collections management and digitization of letters, pictures and personal effects of the 19th Century islamologist Snouck- Hurgronje.
Lecturer
House of Horus
2007 - 2010
Lecturer in Egyptology and History of Egypt at Egyptology Academy ‘House of Horus’. Courses: Egypt & the Bible, Pharao Shishak & the Conquest of Israel, Narmer and the Rise of Pharaonic Egypt, Ramesses III and the Sea Peoples, Egypt and the Ancient Near East.
Assistant curator
Provincial archaeological warehouse Northern Holland
2005 - 2008
Registration in a database of archaeological objects, ranging from prehistory to early modern time. Selecting for restauration, deselection, incidental guided tours for schools. Climate control of wood and metal. Assisting in expositions in the region of the province Northern Holland.

Skills

nft
solidity
english
arabic
dutch
french