Résumé

Contact

  • Name: Boris Doesborg
  • Telephone: +32 472 016 293
  • Email: bdoesborg@gmail.com
  • Date of birth: December 10th, 1971. Venlo, the Netherlands.

Professional experience

2011 - now: Web developer, So Nice, Brussels.

  • Project management Drupal websites.
  • Analysis, write specifications & develop wireframes.
  • Development Drupal websites.

2010 - 2011: Project manager, Connexion, Brussels.

  • Project management Drupal websites.
  • Analysis, write specifications & develop wireframes.
  • Development Drupal websites (mainly configuration, little coding).
  • Training & writing user manuals.
  • Lead development team.

2008 - 2010: Web coordinator, Erasmushogeschool Brussel (EhB), Brussels.

  • Manage the university college's websites & maintain the CMS.
  • Write copy.
  • Support and train staff in maintaining their websites.
  • Manage web server.
  • Develop and maintain website templates & custom modules.
  • Develop EhB's communication policy.

2004 - 2007: Communication specialist, Artificial Solutions, Barcelona.

  • Project management.
  • Developing and maintaining virtual assistants with speech recognition and text-to-speech functionality.
  • Designing, developing and maintaining the company's intranet and the issue tracking system.
  • Training staff in web server management and using XML.
  • Managing web server and developing maintenance scripts.

2004: Freelance Information designer, Barcelona.

2000 - 2004: User interface specialist, Competitiveness net solutions, Cerdanyola del Vallès.

  • Analysing, developing and designing web based applications (product catalog, intranet, survey and on line marketplace).
  • Building HTML prototypes.
  • Designing, develop and maintain the corporate web site, the intranet and micro sites.
  • Training staff in using and maintaining web sites and intranet.

1998 - 2000: Communication specialist, Dutch Customs, Apeldoorn.

  • Advising and training staff on written communication.
  • Designing, developing and managing the corporate intranet.
  • Seting up the communication department.
  • Writing user manuals, on-line help, brochures, newsletters and web publications.

1997: Communication specialist, Pecoma Collage b.v., Amsterdam.

  • Developing courses & on-line help systems.

Education

Skills & competencies

  • Knowledge of Drupal CMS, framework and community.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Dutch. Good communication skills in Spanish and German. Mediocre in French.
  • Copy writing and editing.
  • Translation of client business rules and practices into functional requirements for information projects.
  • Intermediate between technical and non-technical staff.
  • Create software project analysis with wireframes, HTML-prototypes, specifications and use case diagrams.
  • Experience with usability tests, user interviews and observations, surveys and focus groups.
  • Advising organisation's management on use of web tools.
  • Using web standards to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability.
  • Creating light weight, user friendly and easy maintainable web sites and publications.
  • Mark-up languages: XML, XHTML, CSS.
  • (Web) publishing: Dreamweaver, QuarkXpress, office productivity suites.
  • Image processing: Photoshop, Inkscape.
  • Scripting languages: PHP.
  • Database: MySQL, mssql.
  • Content management: Drupal, Openacs, Ezpublish.
  • Certified to rock score: 5.

Other activities

Elsewhere on the web

Example web sites

Role(s) between brackets

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