Joost de Valk

Current

• Programming director at Search Engine Strategies Amsterdam
• Internet Strategist at OrangeValley
• Owner at Yoast.com

• Committer at WebKit Open Source Project
• Owner at CSS3.info

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Past

• Search Strategist at Onetomarket
• SEO Consultant at Onetomarket
• Administrator at OpenDarwin

• Commercial Manager at IC&S
• Account Manager at First8
• Manager at Diogenes

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Joost de Valk’s Summary

I have a passion for the web, and all of it's endless possibilities. In my work and in the open source projects I've been involved in, I have acquired more and more experience in managing successful online marketing and web development projects, with a focus on open source, web analytics, search engine optimization and last but not least conversion rate optimization.

I like showing companies how to get the most out of their online homes & outposts, and love to help them increase their online revenue streams by engaging in meaningful conversations with their customers.

Joost de Valk’s Specialties:

With my broad experience in web development, web analytics and SEO projects, I can help companies make more money online.

In-depth knowledge of web standards like:
- (X)HTML
- CSS
- JS
- SVG
- P3P

I've worked with the following analytics packages:
- Google Analytics
- Google Website Optimizer
- SiteSpect
- NedStat
- Omniture
- Mint

I'm also very experienced in building WordPress sites, themes and plugins.

Joost de Valk’s Experience

• Programming director

  Search Engine Strategies Amsterdam

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  I'm responsible for programming the sessions at SES Amsterdam.

• Internet Strategist

  OrangeValley

  (Internet industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Helping companies use the internet to it's fullest extent, in communication, marketing and sales.

• Owner

  Yoast.com

  (Internet industry)

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  I blog about and maintain a mailing on WordPress, Analytics & SEO.

• Committer

  WebKit Open Source Project

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  I'm a committer and Quality Assurer at the WebKit Open Source Project, a project started by Apple and joined by Nokia and Adobe among others. The project has it's website at http://www.webkit.org.

• Owner

  CSS3.info

  (Internet industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Offering CSS related news!

• Search Strategist

  Onetomarket

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  As search strategist, I'm responsible for developing search engine marketing strategies and tactics for our clients, promote these strategies and tactics towards them, and make sure these strategies get carried out.
  
  This means I'm busy with all the aspects of Search Marketing, ranging from paid search, to organic SEO, to Search Engine Reputation Management, and so forth.

• SEO Consultant

  Onetomarket

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  At Onetomarket I'm responsible for my own set of clients. I run search engine optimization projects with these clients, making sure they rank better in the major search engines. While doing that I also provide usability and web browser interoperability advice.

• Administrator

  OpenDarwin

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  I was an administrator at OpenDarwin, a large open source platform, maintaining their Bugzilla amongst other things, OpenDarwin is at the moment in the process of closing down.

• Commercial Manager

  IC&S

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2005 — February 2006 (9 months)

  Responsible for marketing and selling the products and services of IC&S: open source software support, webhosting and consultancy. We specialize in managing complex webapplications and internet environments and high network traffic optimization, using open source solutions.

• Account Manager

  First8

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 6 months)

  At First8, I was responsible for client contact, project management and sales.

• Manager

  Diogenes

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  October 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 6 months)

  Diogenes was a large student assocation with about 600-800 members, we employed between 15 and 50 people at any time. I mostly dealt with the daily (financial) management.

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