Jasper de Valk

Current

• Business Analyst at Deloitte Consulting

Past

• Information Manager at University of Amsterdam
• User Experience Manager at Acto Informatisering
• Usability Consultant at Acto Informatisering

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Education

• Universiteit van Amsterdam
• Universiteit Utrecht
• Gymnasium Bernrode

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• Deloitte Webstrategy

Jasper de Valk’s Summary

I hold a bachelor's degree in Information Science and a master's degree in Business Information Systems.

Working as a Web Strategy consultant at Deloitte Consulting.
Deloitte Web Strategy specializes among others in online strategy development, portal design and implementation, social media strategy, online marketing & sales and innovation portals.

I'm currently (since February '08) assigned at the municipality of Rotterdam (Gemeente Rotterdam) where Deloitte supports Rotterdam implementing the Wabo legislation.

Jasper de Valk’s Specialties:

Internet Strategy, Social Media, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Project Management, People Management, Conversational Marketing, Knowledge Management, Information Management, Design, Usability, Computer Mediated Communication, Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Interface Design, User Centered Design (UCD), User Experience (UX)

Jasper de Valk’s Experience

• Business Analyst

  Deloitte Consulting

  (Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Working as a Web Strategy consultant at Deloitte Consulting.
  
  Deloitte Web Strategy specializes among others in online strategy development, portal design and implementation, social media strategy, online marketing & sales and innovation portals.
  
  Since February '09 I am working at the municipality of Rotterdam (Gemeente Rotterdam).
  Our project concerns integrating the nationwide online portal (frontoffice) with the SOA midoffice system in Rotterdam as well as integrating the backoffice systems with the midoffice system.
  My role concerns supporting the architects, developers, designers, client and end users with this integration. Tasks are among others; project management, organizing system- and user tests, and serving as the main point of contact for those involved.

• Information Manager

  University of Amsterdam

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; UvA; Research industry)

  April 2008 — June 2008 (3 months)

  Designing a social software environment to support learning.
  More specifically we are creating an online (social) learning environment where students can collaborate on analyzing NASA data.
  
  The project, 'NASA in de Klas', is initiated by BOA (Breedband Onderwijs Amsterdam) and the city of Amsterdam. International partners are NASA & INGI (Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University).
  
  My role is both project lead & information management.

• User Experience Manager

  Acto Informatisering

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2008 — May 2008 (4 months)

  Responsible for the UX with our digital products.
  Leading UI design think tank.
  
  Analyzing user and business requirements.
  Creating conceptual & functional design and managing the prototype development process.

• Usability Consultant

  Acto Informatisering

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  Usability Engineer focused on creating a user-friendly, intuitive interfaces suited for a great variation of end-users.
  
  As consultant advising on how to integrate User Centered Design in organizations.

Jasper de Valk’s Education

• Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Master , Business Information Systems , 2007 — 2008

  Business Information Systems is a specialization of the Information Science Master taught at Amsterdam Business School

• Universiteit Utrecht

  Bachelor , Information Science , 2003 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  A-Eskwadraat

• Gymnasium Bernrode

  Gymnasium , Natuur & Gezondheid , 1996 — 2003

Additional Information

Jasper de Valk’s Websites:

• Deloitte Webstrategy

Jasper de Valk’s Interests:

Internet Strategy, Social Media, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Conversational Marketing, Knowledge Management, Information Management, Design, Usability, Project Management, People Management, Computer Mediated Communication, Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Interface Design, User Centered Design (UCD), User Experience (UX)

Jasper de Valk’s Groups:

UPA: The Usability Professionals' Association [www.upassoc.org],
CHI Nederland: Dutch chapter of ACM Sigchi [www.sigchi.nl]

•    Usability Professionals' Association International (UPA-I)
•    Chi Nederland
•    Deloitte.
•    Utrecht University Students
•    Universiteit van Amsterdam
•    Social Media Marketing

Jasper de Valk’s Honors:

Certificates in:

Leadership Essentials [Harvard University]
Leadership Transition [Harvard University]
Management Essentials [Harvard University]
Application Usability 1 [Nielsen Norman Group]
Application Usability 2 [Nielsen Norman Group]
User-Centered Design (UCD) [Namahn]
Commerciële communicatieve vaardigheden [Zenith]
Vergadertechnieken [Zenith]
Presentatietechnieken [Zenith]
First Certificate in English (FCE) [University of Cambridge]
Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) [University of Cambridge]

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