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.
- Design and develop web sites and surveys for among others Nederlandse Taalunie, ESADE Business School, and The Global Movement for Children.
- Advise on the use and implementation of content management systems.
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
- 1992-1997: University of Utrecht, MA, Dutch Literature and Linguistics. Specialisation: Business communication.
- 1990-1991: Catholic University Nijmegen, Town and country planning.
- 1984-1990: R.S.G. Den Hulster Venlo, Atheneum.
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
- 2010 - 2011: lead organizer Drupal Developer Days Brussels.
- 2009 - now: member Drupal documentation team.
- 2007 - now: organise Drupal-events (Fosdem devroom, DUGs) in Belgium & the Netherlands.
- 2000 - now: develop & manage websites friends, families, clubs and non-profits.
Elsewhere on the web
- Profile on drupal.org
- Photo's on flickr
- Twitter account
- No, I don't use Facebook
Example web sites
Role(s) between brackets
- European Heating Association (project management, analysis, development, user manual, training)
- Information about Nucleair Risks by the Ministry of the Interior (project management, analysis, user manual, training)
- European Crop Protection Association (project management, analysis, development).
- Drupal Developer Days Brussels (analysis, development, content authoring).
- Erasmushogeschool Brussel (project management, analysis, development, theming, content authoring).
- Rits, Erasmushogeschool Brussel (project management, analysis, development, theming).
- Rits student café (project management, analysis, development, theming).
- News and events EhB (project management, analysis, development, theming, content authoring).
- Job database for EhB & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) (project management, analysis, development, theming).
- Student job database for EhB & VUB (project management, analysis, development).
- Dutch speaking Drupal community (maintenance, development, content authoring).
- Learn Dutch in Spain or Portugal, Nederlandse Taalunie (project management, analysis, development, theming, content authoring).
- Virtual assistant Anna of IKEA Belgium (development).
- Virtual assistant Anna of IKEA Netherlands (development).
- Virtual assistant Vida of the Slovenian Tax Authority (project management, development).







