.Biography.

Introduction. My name is Jan van Sinten, a 31 year old graduated Automotive Engineer from the Netherlands. I grew up in a village called Best, near Eindhoven. When I started my education at the HAN Institute of Automotive Engineering, I moved to Arnhem during the week where I was renting a room. At the weekends I stayed in Best at my parent’s house to be with my friends and work on my hobby. My education. After my four years at secondary school, I went to study at a Dutch intermediate technical school for Civil Engineering. During the four years at this school I got my driving license and, of course, a car. I was always talking about cars and people asked me why I was not studying to be a mechanic. I

told them that cars are my hobby but civil engineering would be my job. However during my final internship for civil engineering, I realized that I wanted more variation. So After I finished Civil Engineering and got my diploma, I went and registered to study at the HAN Institute of Automotive Engineering. My Hobbies. Since the day I got my driving license and my own car, I have always been busy with my car. In the beginning I would only carry out minor modifications like fitting different rims. Since I was studying at the HAN institute I got the idea to buy a second car as my ‘project’ car. I have rebuilt the engine of this car, just to learn about it. I have found out that there is nothing better than hands on experience. I now use this car for track days and am still working on it to make it perform better. Meanwhile I have learned to weld. Since I now have the knowledge to design and fabricate parts, I am putting this into practice on my ‘track day car’. I am trying to do as much as possible myself, like redesigning and fabricating parts and also repainting the body shell. My other hobbies are the rally and race sport. During my study at the HAN University I was a member of the student rally team (HART). This is a group of about 30 students that is self supporting and are maintaining and driving a rally car in the Dutch Short-rally Championship. At times I also help out different teams as a service mechanic during different American Classic races and Dutch rally events. Since 2011 I became a technical team manager of ‘VDZ Racing’. This is a rally team owned by a privateer whom I help with the maintenance and evolution of his rally car.

Curriculum Vitae. Family name : van Sinten First name : Jan Address : - - Netherlands Mobile phone : - Telephone : - E-mail address : janvansinten@gmail.com Date and place of birth : 25th October 1983, Eindhoven Gender : Male Marital status : in a relationship Driving license : B + E (car and trailer) Language : - Dutch native speaker - English proficient - German basic Education:

- Diploma HAN institute of Automotive Engineering in Arnhem (2010) Main subjects: - Technical vehicle design;

- Mathematics; - Mechanics; - Dynamics; - Internal combustion engine; - Suspension design; - CAD design program (Solid Works and Cosmos/Simulation)

Minor: Industrial Product Design - Diploma Dutch intermediate technical school for Civil Engineering in Eindhoven (2005). - Diploma Secondary General Education in Eindhoven (2001).

Internships & projects during my education at HAN automotive university:

- Final thesis: ‘assembly manual for MBS’ at Weweler. (February ‘10 – may ‘10). Writing an assembly manual for a new Modular Bolt-on Suspension system.

- 2nd internship: project CN at ‘VA-Motorsport Engineering’. (September ‘09- January ‘10). Designing a new Sports Racing Car according FIA CN regulations. Reference: Ad Verkuijlen (owner VA-Engineering) +31(0)413475125 Wiet Huidekoper (owner MDC Ltd.) +31(0)681263349 www.va-motorsport.com

- School project suspension geometry (February ‘09 - June 2009). Designing a suspension geometry for a 400kg track-day-racer.

Reference: Dago Langen (educator HAN Automotive), e-mail: Dago.Langen@han.nl

- 1st internship: prototype chassis design at ‘Go-4-Dakar’. (September ‘07 -January ‘08). Redesigning and fabricating a prototype chassis for a Dakar vehicle.

Reference: Toin Peters (project manager) +31(0)628024691 www.go4dakar.nl Job experience:

- Automotive Engineer at Total Support Group, Eindhoven, Netherlands. (March ’11 to present) 40 hour contract as an automotive engineer. Sorts of projects I have worked on:

- Engine integration for a car company; - Small bag sorting machine; - Mobile water pump unit for firefighting application 50.000 ltr/m. & 18.000 ltr/m.; - 4 different foam firefighting vehicles; - Final design and detailing of a welding robot; - Adapting trailers with a walking floor system to customer specifications.

- Engineer at VA-Motorsport Engineering, Nijnsel, Netherlands. (August ’10 - December ’11) 8 hour contract in which I had the following assignments. - 3D Engineering of parts for different race car projects; - Research on different new business services; - Providing applications for roll cage certificates; - Project cost calculation;

- Ordering parts. - Engineer for a small formula race vehicle at ‘MDC Ltd’. (2010 - 2011). 3D body design.

Reference: Wiet Huidekoper (owner MDC Ltd.) +31(0)681263349 - Engineer for the project ‘CN’ at ‘VA-Motorsport Engineering’. (2010 - 2012). 3D designing for a Sports Racing Car according FIA CN regulations.

Reference: Ad Verkuijlen (owner VA-Engineering) +31(0)413475125 www.va-motorsport.com

- Business manager on Saturday’s en holidays at ‘Heuts automotive parts‘ (2007 - 2010).

Reference: Francois Beerens (Manager) +31(0)641063549 - Salesman on Saturdays and holidays at ‘Automotive parts Son‘ (2005 - 2007).

Reference: Francois Beerens (ex Manager) +31(0)646084811

Others:

- Technical team manager for VDZ-racing . (2011 – present) VDZ-racing started participating in the Dutch 205 cup rally from 2011 and from 2013 in the

Nissan 350Z challenge. My contribution is: - managing the service-team during events and in the workshop;

- determine car setup (tire compound, shockabsober setup, car height and alignment; - providing rally car maintenance advise; - engineering and developing rally car improvements; - setting up the seasons budget and keeping track of it. Reference: Roel van der Zanden (driver VDZ-racing) roelzanden@gmail.com - Member of the ‘HART’ (Hts Automotive Rally Team). (2005 - 2010).

Activities: Head of Polyester & Carbon fiber, Research and development. Reference: www.htsrallyteam.nl - Service mechanic at ‘VA-Motorsport Engineering’ during different ‘American Classic races’. Reference: Ad Verkuijlen (owner VA Engineering) +31(0)413475125. www.va-motorsport.com - Experience in fabricating in steel, fiberglass, carbon fiber, Kevlar and wood. - Experience in welding with Mig and TIG. Other interests and hobbies:

- Race and rally sport in general; - Taking part in track day events; - Going out with friends; - Fitness; - Working on my own race car.

Circuit park Assen 12-04-2010

Impression of different projects. On the next pages, different projects will be shown in which I have participated. These will give an image of what I have done in the past. The projects are:

- Final design and detailing of a welding robot, Adapting trailers according customer specifications (2014-2015) - Design of 4 different foam firefighting vehicles and a mobile pump unit (2011 – 2014) - VDZ racing (2011 – present) - Weweler, assembly manual for MBS ( Final thesis: Feb. ‘10 – may ’10) - CN10 (2nd internship: Aug. 2009 – Jan. 2010) - Go-4-Dakar (1st internship: Sept. 2007 – Jan. 2008) - My own Peugeot 205 GTI circuit racer (Oct. 2005 –present) - HART (HTS Automotive Rally Team) (Aug. 2005 – July 2010)

Final design and detailing of a welding robot (May. 2014 – Aug. 2014). The rough general layout existed but the design of two welding robots needed to be finalized and detailed. http://www.kranendonk.com/shipbuilding/panel-welding

- Finalizing design;

- Detailing of the 3D design;

- Production drawings;

- Assembly drawings for the workshop;

- Shipping plan to transport the whole system by sea.

Adapting trailers to customer specifications (Aug. 2014 – 2015). Trailer specifications from the sales department had to be translated into a book which made it possible to build the trailer in the workshop.

- Adapting the standard trailer design into customer specifications;

- Detailing in 3D;

- Production drawings;

- Make folders which contains the information for the workshop to build the trailer;

- Guiding workshop.

Design of 4 different foam firefighting vehicles and a mobile pump unit. (2011 – 2014). These foam firefighting vehicles were designed and build for a Dutch firefighting department and for different industrial companies. My part in these projects:

- General layout of the whole unit and positions of the different components;

- Design of the driveline for the water pump;

- Design of the chassis support frame;

- Layout and design of the piping system;

- Design of the pneumatic scheme;

- Design of the control panel interface;

- Detailed engineering of all parts which need to be fabricated;

- Making of assembly drawings for the workshop.

VDZ Racing (2011 – present). My contribution is:

- running the service-team during rally events and in the workshop; - providing rally car maintenance advise; - engineering and developing rally car improvements; - Advise in car setup.

Project: Weweler Assembly manual for MBS ( Final thesis: Feb. ‘10 – may ’10) My final thesis project was at VDL Weweler in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. The goal was to make an assembly manual of a new sort of suspension system which is called MBS (Modular Bolt-on Suspension). I have worked on subjects like tolerance analysis, process flow chart and adaptation of the current tooling used for assembly.

Project: CN10 (2nd internship: Aug. 2009 – Jan. 2010) During my study I have completed my 2nd internship in the project CN10. I have worked with: Mr. A. Verkuijlen (owner of VA-Motorsport Engineering ); Mr. W. Huidekoper (owner of MDC Ltd.). Assignments:

- 3D designing of the whole rolling chassis in Solid works; - Providing engineering solutions for different parts of the vehicle; - Making a 3D movable assembly in Solid works; - FEA of different parts; - Making production drawings of different parts; - Adapting 3D files which can be used for laser cutting.

Project: Go-4-Dakar (1st internship: Sept. 2007 – Jan. 2008) During my study I have completed my 1st internship in the project Go-4-Dakar. I have worked with: Mr. T. Peters (Project leader Go-4-Dakar); Mr. A. Oomen (Instructor at the HAN); Motio Development, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Other students which participated in this project. Assignments:

- Re-designing a chassis out of 2 previous concepts; - Adapting this chassis design according the packaging; - Producing production drawings; - Fabricating the concept chassis; - Writing a production manual.

Project Peugeot 205 GTI Circuit racer (Oct. 2005 –present). This is my own project which I have started in 2005. The aim is to improve this car as a race car and in the meantime use it during track days. This way I can feel the different adaptations. Done so far:

- Rebuild the standard engine; building the standard engine - Build a rollcage; - Lighten the body; - Adjust the pedalbox to accommodate a brake balance bar; - Analyze and adapt the weight distribution.

Future plans:

- Analyze and adjust the suspension geometry; - Design and fabricate adjustable anti-roll-bar front and rear; - Design and fabricate a new pedal box and shift mechanism; - Building a race engine and gearbox;

HART (HTS Automotive Rally Team) (Aug. 2005 – July 2010) Since I started my study at the HAN institute of Automotive Engineering in Arnhem, I became a member of the HART. The HART is a rally team which consists out of about 30 students who prepare, maintain, adapt and drive a rally car to participate in the Dutch Short Rally Championship. The finance to run this rally team is supplied by different sponsors. The goal is to participate in the Championship, put our knowledge into practice and learn more about a performance car. Assignments:

- 1st mechanic front suspension of the Peugeot 106 MAXI kit car; - Head department of polyester and carbon fiber. Ford Puma S1600. - R&D / general adviser. Ford Puma S1600 & Peugeot 206.