Coen de Jong

Current

Volunteer at FON
Volunteer / Writer at Loesje
Owner at Shift Happens

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Past

Intern Webdevelopment at Woedend!
Dunamare eLearning project at Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden
Teacher-assistant at Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden

General Partner / Projectmanager at Socialive
KIK project at Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden
Freelancer at PS-Produkties
Ambassador for Nederlandse Hartstichting at Direct Dialogue Fundraising
Intern at Okergroep

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Education

Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden
Maartenscollege Haren
Maartenscollege Haren

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Coen de Jong’s Summary

Student Communication & Multimedia Design at Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden, currently living in Leeuwarden.
Several years of experience in the design industry and quite educated in programming in PHP/MySQL. Doing some occational Freelance work for small projects and clients in the North.

Currently feeling connected with concepting, a community of people who think outside the box, work with complex questions that need rethinking. Finding the roots of problems, figuring a way to solve them with multimedia technology.

Coen de Jong’s Specialties:

Overall:
* MS-DOS
* Windows 3.11 - Vista
* Windows 2000 - 2003 Server
* Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.5
* Microsoft Office
* Apple iLife and iWork suites

Design, Animation and (Motion) graphics:
* Adobe Photoshop CS series
* Adobe Illustrator CS series
* Adobe Dreamweaver / Flash MX - CS series
* Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - 6
* Adobe Premiere Pro

Programming:
* XHTML/CSS
* Javascript
* MySQL
* PHP 4 - 5
* Actionscript 2.0

Languages:
* Dutch
* English
* German
* French (minor)

Coen de Jong’s Experience

Volunteer

FON

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Doing several activities for the FON initiative to create a free wireless world for everybody. Including:

* Speaking at public events about FON
* Designing and translating promotional material
* Being enthousiastic about the initiative by blogging about it
* Beta testing new FON products before released to the consumer
* Talking to retailers to get Dutch stores that sell the FON products
* Convincing bars, restaurants and other public places to install FON for their customers.
Volunteer / Writer

Loesje

(Writing and Editing industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

When time allows me I attend writing sessions for the internationally known posters from Loesje, for Loesje in the Netherlands. It's a fun and creative process where we come up with statements for the day to day problems in the society like health care, education, politics, scandals, environment, IT, anything that Loesje has anything to say about. Loesje is a fictional character but with a lot of very real people that want to send a message by putting it in a surprising way, which lets you read it twice and gives you something to think about.
Owner

Shift Happens

(Internet industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

Shift Happens is my freelance business, started formally in march 2009. I specialize in interactive webapplications using modern webtechniques like PHP, Ajax, javascript and HTML5/CSS3.

Some of the projects I worked on:
* Converting sgtriaspolitica.nl from Joomla to Wordpress and do consultancy work to make their website popular again amongst their userbase.

* Working on a CRM system for krekelkoerier.nl. Wanted to easily track and manage orders from clients. Did the backend with PHP/MySQL.

* Building a jobsite for farmers and other agriculture workers (dutch and polish based) where they can search for professionals and part time workers for their business.
Intern Webdevelopment

Woedend!

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

February 2009 — July 2009 (6 months)

Working as an intern at Woedend!, an internet company delivering high quality products for the web. I work at the webdevelopment department, programming and marking up websites, backends and web applications in html/css/php/mysql.
Dunamare eLearning project

Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 2008 — February 2009 (7 months)

The Dunamare community of schools is experimenting with eLearning, and has requested us to help think of gaming concepts in which the student is learning real educational primciples by 'simply' playing the game. There is a serious decline in interest in technical professions, and Dunamare thinks this is due to poor innovation in teaching methods used in schools. By exploring the eLearning possabilities together with multimedia students, we hope to come up with the next generation of serious games, that can be used in stead of traditional books and tests.
Teacher-assistant

Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

October 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Might as well be called an instructor at the Learning Centre, part of the NHL, an educational institution in the northern part of the Netherlands.
I give courses to employees and students of the institution which may vary from general computer lessons to Office to PHP to management trainings.
General Partner / Projectmanager

Socialive

(Telecommunications industry)

August 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 4 months)

I started this initiative with one fellow student, Thijs Bekkema, somewhere in the middle of 2007. Our initial idea for starting the partnership was and still is to develop and market a bluetooth positioning system for medium to large sized events. The goal: to never loose your friends anymore and track them with technology everyone already has: the mobile phone.
KIK project

Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

February 2008 — July 2008 (6 months)

Together with the KIK foundation, we thought about creative ways to alter the image of problematic youth in the northern region of the Netherlands. Often these young people have real dreams and want to be given the opportunity to better themselves. If only companies believed them a bit more, they too could make the world a better place with their talent and ambitions. We as a team of students were asked to develop a plan to better the image of these people with multimedia.
We did our best and came with a marketing plan that consists of a three phased plan involving a viral campaign, a community website and concepts of real meetings between different groups of people (business, youth, public).
Freelancer

PS-Produkties

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

March 2007 — November 2007 (9 months)

We developped a complete community system with weblog, discussion forums, photoalbum and backend for the Frisian Solar Challenge project. I did this together with the NHL, Ps-Produkties and 2 fellow students. The system was built using PHP and MySQL technologies and put together in less than 20 weeks.
Ambassador for Nederlandse Hartstichting

Direct Dialogue Fundraising

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Fund-Raising industry)

August 2005 — December 2005 (5 months)

Raising charity money and letting people sponsor what the organisation stands for was the main purpose. I did this in Groningen and surrounding cities as Leeuwarden, Zwolle, Meppel, Emmen.
Intern

Okergroep

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

April 2003 — April 2003 (1 month)

Internship as part of my VMBO certificate at Maartenscollege at the Okergroup, situated in Groningen. Activities included mostly research, experiencing and observing.

Coen de Jong’s Education

Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden

Communication & Multimedia Design 2006 — 2010 (expected)

Attended PHP OOP course at Learning Centre (internal course, passed)
Attended Research (Part 1) at Learning Centre (internal course, not passed)

Activities and Societies:

Community representatives, Accreditation commission, Student facilities commission, CMD education commission, NHL Student commission (for and by all kinds of students), PR and promo activities (tourguide, information counters)

Exposure '07 crew, initiator of the Retro Console Day, Initiator of alt.lunch (alternative lunch) project

Minor Entrepreneurship, Minor Concepting, Minor Education & Multimedia
Maartenscollege Haren

HAVO , Culture & Society , 2004 — 2006
Maartenscollege Haren

VMBO TL , Technics , 1999 — 2004

Additional Information

Coen de Jong’s Websites:

Coen de Jong’s Interests:

Flash, webdevelopment, computers, social networking, Flash, coding, PHP, JavaScript, Actionscript, interaction design, MySQL, HTML/CSS, playing the drums, photography, cooking, reading books, traveling

Coen de Jong’s Groups:

Nieuwe Garde Leeuwarden, Minor Ondernemen, Minor Concepting, Atmosphere, Internet Academie lezing, 8 Uur Overwerken, KIK/Probleemjongeren, Communication & Multimedia Design, Cowork.in, Naamlooz