Boris Doesborg

Drupal developer in Utrecht

About

I'm Boris Doesborg (Venlo (NL), 1971) and I am a Drupal web developer, analyst and documentation writer based in Utrecht.
(That is me on the right)

Currently I am working as Drupal developer at Finalist in Rotterdam & Maarssen.

I have a masters degree in Business Communication (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands) and started my career authoring on line help systems and web sites.

After using many different content managment systems over several years I discovered Drupal (4.something). From then on I specialised in Drupal and worked as webmaster, developer, technical writer and project manager in various Drupal projects in companies and organisations in Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands.

I've been involved in the Drupal community as documentation writer, event organizer and volunteer. Currently I write and maintain documentation such as the Drupal 8 user guide.

I contribute to Drupal by organizing events, writing documentation, translating and helping out other users in forums, issue queues and Stack exchange.

Resumé

Professional experience

October 2017 - now: Drupal Developer at Finalist, Maarssen.

  • Backend development, configuration, analysis Drupal websites. Automatic tests. Continuous integration.

January 2017 - July 2017: Drupal Developer at Wunderkraut Nederland, Utrecht.

  • Development, configuration, analysis Drupal websites.

March 2014 - December 2016: Drupal Developer European Commission, DG Connect, Brussels.

  • Development, configuration, analysis Drupal websites.

2010 - 2014: Developer, Analyst, Project manager at Tilt Factory, So Nice & Connexion, Brussels.

  • Development Drupal websites.
  • Analysis, write specifications & develop wireframes.
  • Project management websites.
  • Training & writing user manuals.

2008 - 2010: Web master, 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 web developer, 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

  • Development, analysis and configuration of Drupal 8, 7 and 6.
  • Git
  • Continuous integration (with Jenkins)
  • Automated testing with Behat and BackstopJS
  • Object oriented programming
  • PHP, JavaScript, CSS, SASS & HTML
  • MySql, Docker, Docksal, Drupalvm, Drush, Drupal Console, Phing, Bash, PHPStorm
  • Agile
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Dutch. Good verbal communication skills in Spanish and German.
  • Copy writing and editing. Word, Markdown, Asciidoc
  • Analysis using wireframes, HTML-prototypes and mockups (Balsamic).
  • Web standards.

Other activities

Elsewhere on the web

Example web sites

Examples of websites I recently worked on. Role(s) between brackets.