Bart Claeys

Current

Owner at Creativeskills.be (Self-employed)
Owner at BarClaey.com

Past

Interactive Art Director at Openhere
Interactive Art Director at Saatchi & Saatchi Brussels
Web Developer at Sportpaleis / PSE-Belgium / TeleTicketService / Goformusic

Flash Developer at Projector.se [Stockholm]
Content Management Integrator at Vidax.com [San Francisco]

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Education

Vlerick Leuven-Gent Management School
Hogeschool Antwerpen
Brunel University

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Bart Claeys’s Summary

Highly motivated designer with a Master's degree in Product Development and additional training in Brand Management. Specialized in web design & development, user interfacing, content management, branding, search engine optimization and on-line marketing. Strong coding skills: XHTML, CSS, XML, jQuery, PHP & MySQL. Wide experience with Flash Actionscript programming, graphic design and photography. Strong interest and junior experience in 3D development and rendering.

Bart Claeys’s Specialties:

web design, web development, user interfacing, content management, branding, social media, search engine optimization, on-line marketing, photography.

Bart Claeys’s Experience

Owner
Creativeskills.be (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

December 2005 — Present (4 years )

Creativeskills.be is the number 1 portfolio & job website in Flanders targeted towards creative professionals. Because there was no creative job board in Flanders when I entered the job market in 2005 I decided to develop one myself. Currently more than 8.000 people are registered and 800 jobs have been posted so far. And the good news is, it is profitable!
Owner

BarClaey.com

(Internet industry)

June 2000 — Present (9 years 6 months)
Interactive Art Director

Openhere

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

March 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Developed interactive campaigns for Eastpak, Rabobank, Scarlet, Het Belang Van Limburg, Trustmedia, Bicky, 4FM, Scripta, Me by Metro, DLA Piper, Netmining.

My role was to translate traditional advertising ideas (TV, print) to interactive online campaigns using a mixture of tools: websites, viral movies, Facebook / Twitter / blogs,... I took the wireframing and design for my part, made technology decisions and outsourced, budgeted and followed-up developments.
Interactive Art Director

Saatchi & Saatchi Brussels

(Public Company; PUB; Marketing and Advertising industry)

October 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 6 months)

Developed interactive campaigns for: Toyota, Sony, Duvel, Carrefour Group, University of Genth, Lexus, Uplace, Rail1, CD&V, Fost, IBVV.
Web Developer

Sportpaleis / PSE-Belgium / TeleTicketService / Goformusic

(Internet industry)

July 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 3 months)

Developed online projects for Sportpaleis, TeleTicketService and Goformusic including front-end & back-end design and development.
Flash Developer

Projector.se [Stockholm]

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2002 — September 2002 (3 months)

Using my experience from my previous trip to San Francisco I decided to spend my summer holidays working and exploring Stockholm, Sweden. Upon arrival, Projector - one of the leading Scandinavian interactive agencies - hired me to develop a Flash project for the travel magazine RES.se.
Content Management Integrator

Vidax.com [San Francisco]

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2001 — September 2001 (3 months)

The dotcom bubble was growing so I decided to spend my summer holidays in San Francisco to see what was going on. Unfortunately upon my arrival the bubble burst. Vidax.com - a content management provider - offered me a place in their office and I brought in a new project. They got a new client and I got a project to work for. Win-win!

Bart Claeys’s Education

Vlerick Leuven-Gent Management School

Brand Management 2005 — 2005

Vlerick is a great place to meet like-minded people and to network.
Hogeschool Antwerpen

Master , Product Development , 1998 — 2003

The main things I learned from these studies are methodologies to solve complex problems.
Brunel University

Product Design 2001 — 2001