Guido Jansen
Cognitive Psychologist, Magento Evangelist
- Location
- Utrecht Area, Netherlands
- Industry
- Internet
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Guido Jansen's Overview
- Current
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- eBusiness Consultant at ISM eCompany
- Community Manager and Platform Evangelist at Magento, Inc., an eBay Company (X.Commerce)
- Usability & Conversion specialist at Regenerate
- Past
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- Magento business consultant at Realvine
- Board of Advice at StudentenGroep Sociale wetenschappen (SGS)
- Website optimization (Freelance) at OpenSourceSupportDesk.com
- Business Development and Training (Freelance) at Jira ICT
- Organisation Joomladays at POST Foundation
- Open source education (Freelance) at 2value
- Joomla! Translation Coordinator for The Netherlands at Joomla
- 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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- Google University
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Universiteit Utrecht
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Universiteit Utrecht
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Lingecollege
- Recommendations
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30 people have recommended Guido
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Guido Jansen's Summary
★ Advisor with strong analytical focus. I use my background in cognitive psychology to understand, cooperate with and, if necessary, teach professionals in other fields of expertise. I love working in multidisciplinary teams with developers, graphic designers, business consultants, SEO/SEM/SEA professionals and marketeers.
★ Primary field of interest is online persuasion, web usability (testing) and optimization for human beings. Secondary fields of interest are social media, web analytics and online communities.
★ Passionate about e-commerce in general and the Magento e-commerce platform in particular.
If you have any questions or would like to get in touch don't hesitate to contact me:
✉ guido (at) gxjansen (dot) com
✆ +31 6 420 939 76
Specialties
``` Cognitive psychology ``` Social Media Enthusiast ``` Persuasion & usability ``` Lifehacking & Productivity ``` Community building ``` E-commerce ``` Magento ```
Guido Jansen's Certifications
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Google Analytics Individual Qualification
- Google Inc.
- License 00028773
- March 2010 to September 2011
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Certified Partner
- Visual Website Optimizer (http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com)
- November 2010
Guido Jansen's Experience
eBusiness Consultant
ISM eCompany
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry
March 2011 – Present (1 year) Rotterdam Area, Netherlands
At ISM my goal is to evangelise Magento as a platform, both internal and external. In projects I have an advisory role on how to leverage the power of Magento to increase conversion rates.
Community Manager and Platform Evangelist
Magento, Inc., an eBay Company (X.Commerce)
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry
December 2008 – Present (3 years 3 months) The Netherlands
For Magento Inc. I manage Dutchento, the Dutch Magento community. In this role, I am also part of the Magento Community Advisory Board (CAB).
Magento is a feature-rich e-commerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their e-commerce store.
With over 90,000 merchants worldwide, Magento offers standalone, mobile and SaaS e-commerce products for enterprise and mid-sized businesses.
Dutchento is the platform for Dutch Magento users, developers, designers, etc. I founded the community platform and organize the Meet Magento conferences, the first one was in January 2009, the second in May 2010 and the third one in May 2011 (http://www.meet-magento.nl).
For my active role in the (Dutch) Magento community, I received the "Magento - X.commerce Community Builder Award" out of the hands of eBay CEO John Donahoe in October 2011 at the Innovate Conference in San Francisco.
Usability & Conversion specialist
Regenerate
Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry
April 2004 – Present (7 years 11 months)
I advice about/ help website owners with:
* (starting their) online business
* website usability
* ecommerce conversion optimization
This is my own company.
Magento business consultant
Realvine
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
August 2009 – February 2011 (1 year 7 months)
I use my experience with websites, usability and the Magento ecommerce platform to help new Magento clients. I advice on the implementation of the software into their business, create a functional design and provide training to use the software to it's full potential.
Realvine is a Magento ecommerce partner from The Netherlands. My role was that of 'Magento business consultant'.
Business Development and Training (Freelance)
Jira ICT
Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services 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
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 (Freelance)
2value
Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
May 2008 – August 2008 (4 months)
For 2Value, I organized and coordinated courses in open source system engineering.
Joomla! Translation Coordinator for The Netherlands
Joomla
Nonprofit; Myself Only; Internet 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.
Founder and Managing Director
DutchJoomla!
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)
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.
High-performance swimmer
XLence Swimteam
Privately Held; 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.
Guido Jansen's Skills & Expertise
Guido Jansen's Languages
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Dutch
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English
(Full professional proficiency)
Guido Jansen's Education
Google University
Google Analytics Qualified Individual, Google Analytics Individual Qualification
2010 – 2010
http://bit.ly/gxjansen-gaiq
Universiteit Utrecht
MSc, Applied Cognitive Psychology (Human Factors)
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
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)
Universiteit Utrecht
Economics
2001 – 2002
Activities and Societies: ECU'92
Lingecollege
Havo, VWO
1994 – 2001
Guido Jansen's Additional Information
- Websites:
- Interests:
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Cognitive psychologist (human factors), Usability, E-commerce conversion optimization, Open Source, Internet Community Building, swimming, snowboarding, photography, movies
- Groups and Associations:
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Magento Community Advisory Board, Web Analytics Association.
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- Honors and Awards:
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Magento - X.commerce Community Builder Award
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).
Google Analytics Individual Qualification (http://bit.ly/gxjansen-gaiq)
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