magento business consultant, digital native
Utrecht Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Business Consultant at Realvine
- Community Manager The Netherlands at Varien, the Magento company
- Past
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- Board of Advice at StudentenGroep Sociale wetenschappen (SGS)
- Web development at OpenSourceSupportDesk.com
- Managing Director & Founder at Regenerate
- Business Development and Training at Jira ICT
- Organisation Joomladays at POST Foundation
- Open source education at 2value bv
- Joomla! Translation Coordinator for The Netherlands at Joomla! Translation Teams
- Founder and Managing Director at DutchJoomla!
- Board - Public Relations at StudentenGroep Sociale wetenschappen (SGS)
- High-performance swimmer at XLence Swimteam
- High-performance swimmer at National swimming team
- High-performance swimmer at National junior swimming team
- Education
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- Universiteit Utrecht
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Lingecollege
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Guido Jansen’s Summary
Open-sourcing The Netherlands.
Join any of my LinkedIn groups:
* Dutch Open Source
* Dutchento
* Connect Social Networks
* Utrecht University Social Sciences
Connect on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gxjansen
Guido Jansen’s Specialties:
open source evangelist, usability expert, (online) community manager/facilitator, research, consulting, training.
Open source software, eCommerce (Magento), CMS, (Joomla!, Wordpress).
Connecting and Optimization of Social Networks (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, blogs, feeds etc. etc.)
Guido Jansen’s Experience
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Business Consultant
Realvine
(Internet industry)
August 2009 — Present (8 months)
Realvine is a Magento ecommerce partner from The Netherlands. My role in the projects we do is that of 'business architect'. I create the Functional Design Specifications and I'm the main connection between our clients and the development team.
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Community Manager The Netherlands
Varien, the Magento company
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
For Varien I manage Dutchento, the Dutch Magento community. In this role, I am also part of the Magento Community Advisory Board (CAB).
Varien is an experienced player in the Open Source e-commerce segment that has been, since 2001, leveraging the power of open source technology to help on-line merchants fulfill their business goals. And, at a fraction of the cost and time of proprietary e-commerce solutions.
The Magento open source project is Variens main product and was a direct response to the emerging new needs of today's online merchants.
Dutchento is the platform for Dutch Magento users, developers, designers, etc. We organize the Meet Dutchento conferences, the first one was in January 2009. -
Board of Advice
StudentenGroep Sociale wetenschappen (SGS)
(Education Management industry)
September 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 1 month)
The Board of Advice gives (un)solicited advice to the executive board of the organization and is appointed by all the members of the organization.
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Web development
OpenSourceSupportDesk.com
(Internet industry)
January 2009 — August 2009 (8 months)
For OSSD I worked on the websites Usability, SEO (optimizing pages) and SEM (through social networks).
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Managing Director & Founder
Regenerate
(Internet industry)
April 2004 — August 2009 (5 years 5 months)
I advice about/ help with:
* The choice and the implementation of (open source) software (mainly CMS and/or e-commerce solutions)
* website usability
* how to connect and automate Social Media (see http://www.connectsocialnetworks.com) -
Business Development and Training
Jira ICT
(Internet industry)
March 2009 — June 2009 (4 months)
For Jira ICT I teach and organize Joomla and Magento Training courses and help developing their (online) business.
I also helped out with Yireo.com. Yireo is a Building Bridges (software) and Sharing Knowlegde (tutorials) online members club. I take care of brand development and strategy, web site traffic growth, usability and online (video) tutorials. -
Organisation Joomladays
POST Foundation
(Internet industry)
January 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 6 months)
For 2009 (June 12 and 13th), I had the lead over the organization team (10 volunteers) for the whole event.
I also took part in the organization team of the Dutch Joomla! days in 2008. Among other things, I help out with public relations, event promotion and internationalization of the www.joomladays.nl website. -
Open source education
2value bv
(Internet industry)
May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)
For 2Value, I organized and coordinated courses in open source system engineering.
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Joomla! Translation Coordinator for The Netherlands
Joomla! Translation Teams
(Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — March 2008 (3 years )
I helped translating the Joomla! core files and lead a team of volunteer translators for the Dutch language. I translated blog postings, coordinated Joomla! events and managed the Dutch forums.
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Founder and Managing Director
DutchJoomla!
(Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — October 2007 (3 years )
I founded DutchMambo in 2004, turned it into DutchJoomla in September 2005 and been with it untill fall 2007. I coordinated a team of around 15 volunteers who contribute to the project with translations, moderating forums, making news items and documentation.
I took care of brand development and strategy, web site traffic growth and advertising revenue. -
Board - Public Relations
StudentenGroep Sociale wetenschappen (SGS)
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
September 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 1 month)
For a year, I was responsible for brand strategy and promotion of the whole association, and for the activities of the different committees. I also coordinated several of the committees and managed the website.
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High-performance swimmer
XLence Swimteam
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year )
During my career I won various medals at Dutch Championships, primarily at the 50m. breaststroke and attended to several European Championships
I joined the swimming team, proudly sponsored by the XLence Human Resources Group. Famous world-class swimmers joined the team in 2004, like Olympic- and world champion Marleen Veldhuis, Olympic medallists Johan Kenkhuis, Chantal Groot. -
High-performance swimmer
National swimming team
(Sports industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
I participated in several international swimming events and championships representing the National swimming team.
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High-performance swimmer
National junior swimming team
(Sports industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years )
I participated in several international swimming events and championships representing the National swimming team.
Guido Jansen’s Education
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Universiteit Utrecht
MSc , Applied Cognitive Psychology , 2005 — 2007
I researched the Center-of-Gravity model and the influence of shadow on the predictions of the model with help of the Eyelink II Eyetracker.
- Activities and Societies:
- Boardmember StudentenGroep Sociale wetenschappen (SGS) 2006-2007
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Universiteit Utrecht
BSc , Psychology , 2002 — 2005
I researched Motion-Induced Blindness (MIB), a phenomenon of visual disappearance or perceptual illusions in which salient visual stimuli disappear as if erased in front of the observers eyes (for more information, see http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/masagi/MIB/mib.html).
Our research found an effect for distance (increased distance -> increased MIB) and for direction (more MIB in the upper left visual field).- Activities and Societies:
- StudentenGroep Sociale Wetenschappen (SGS)
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Universiteit Utrecht
Economics 2001 — 2002
- Activities and Societies:
- ECU'92
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Lingecollege
Havo, VWO 1994 — 2001
Additional Information
Guido Jansen’s Interests:
Open Source, Online Community Building, marketing, Search Engine Optimization, CRM, CMS, Online Software, Psychology, swimming, squash, snowboarding, photography, movies
Guido Jansen’s Groups:
2Value, Stichting POST, Magento Community Advisory Board.
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Ubuntu Users ( 10.000+ members ) Official Group -
2Value -
Dutch Open Source -
Open Coffee Utrecht -
Tweeple -
Open Ambassadeurs -
Ergonomics -
Magento Users Group -
Utrecht University Social Sciences -
Dutchento - Magento™ Users Nederland -
Alumni of StudentenGroep Sociale wetenschappen -
Wuala - The Social Online Storage -
KassaNova - Open Source Point of Sale -
Yireo -
Experts @ Computable -
ConnectSocialNetworks -
Webshop Professionals
Guido Jansen’s Honors:
Top athletic career as a swimmer:
From 1995 until 2004 participated in many competitions - both National and European. I won several swimming awards (e.g. multiple Dutch Champions at the 50 meter breaststroke).
