2014 - presentSEO consultant
Maxlead
Maxlead is a medium sized internet marketing firm based in Oegstgeest, The Netherlands
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2009 - 2014SEO specialist /project manager /product owner
Mindbus
Mindbus is a medium sized web design firm based in Leiden,
The Netherlands, where me and my
girlfriend Karin started work after moving back from New Zealand. Mindbus
specialises in .NET e-commerce solutions and my main tasks lie in project
management, product ownership, search engine optimisation, e-mail marketing, conversion solutions
and integrating those into new and existing projects.
Through Mindbus I was also outsourced as a technical project leader for the 'Wegwijzer
Archieven WOII' website and, more recently, for the 'Nederlands Talen Instituut' (NTI) website, working as an
intermediate between client and solution provider. For NTI, I also did most of the functional design and advised on usabillity and search engine optimisation.
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Mindbus
2009 - presentOwner
Taranaki Internet Consultancy
Named after a beautiful volcano in a province of the same name in New Zealand, I started Taranaki Internet Consultancy with the idea to gap the bridge between companies and site builders by helping companies anywhere in the process of building or rebuilding a website or other kind of internet presence.
Because of my main job at Mindbus and the birth of my daughter Lux, Taranaki Internet Consultancy went on the back burner somewhat. It still exists, but is mainly active during dark winter evenings when I build small(er) sites to keep my skills up-to-date.
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2008 - 2009SEO specialist /functional designer /project manager
Efinity Group Ltd.
Efinity is a locally owned and operated web design firm in New Plymouth,
Taranaki, New Zealand. Working together with girlfriend Karin (again) we helped
Efinity make the transition to XHTML/CSS (and to an extent ASP.NET) and built
quite a few sites in the process. Within the team I acted as project manager,
SEO specialist, functional designer and helped maintain existing sites and
intranets.
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Efinity Group Ltd.
1998 - 2007Project manager /team leader /functional designer
Mediaweb Internet Integrators
Mediaweb is a small internet company (7 employees) with a large variety of
skills and services. My responsibility was to channel these skills and services
into web projects that ensured reaching the goals set by us and the customer.
Within those projects I was in charge of outlining the concept in a functional
design and having it built by a team of designers and programmers. Sometimes
working with the team in graphic design, interaction design, web standards,
search engine optimisation and quality control. I designed, built and managed
dozens of websites over the years. In recent years with more emphasis on
conversion tactics, web standards and search engine optimisation and marketing.
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Mediaweb Internet Integrators
1998Intranet coordinator
VNU Business Publications
(now VNU Media)
Graduation assignment: thesis on the company's intranet ("Intranet: an
evolutionary concept"). Wrote a plan to get the company's intranet up and
running and ready for controlled growth within 6 months. To get the project off
to flying start I set up a prototype with the elementary applications necessary
to make it a success.
1991 - 1998Several jobs
To pay for travel, passions, hobbies and education I worked several jobs in
the Netherlands and the United States, ranging from office clerk to lettuce
picker and from working a garbage truck to getting flowers ready for export.
One of the more relevant jobs was working on the helpdesk of an internet access
provider (World Access, now Planet Internet, the biggest ISP in the
Netherlands).
1990 - 1991Communications Expert
Royal Dutch Airforce
12 months mandatory service at the Royal Dutch Airforce Headquarters in The
Hague. Training in Nijmegen and Arnhem. Signed up for three extra months of
service.