Jerome Bertrand

Jerome Bertrand

Lecturer at Avans Hogeschool, Academy for multimedia and user experience (Breda, NL)

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Current
Past
  • (Free-lance) Trainer French language at Elycio Talen
  • Lecturer Visual Interface Design CMD VID at Hogeschool Rotterdam HRO
  • Lead, senior visual designer at Informaat, information disclosure

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Education
  • Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen
  • Lycee International Paris, France
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
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Jerome Bertrand’s Summary

Founded GeoGames http://geo-games.eu in 2007 to accommodate the growing market for integration of serious games (light-weight) with 3D web virtual worlds, geo-information and mapping services (aka Mirror Worlds).

Services and products includes:
web design and user experience design prototyping, design of virtual worlds geo-browsers, game and simulations design, 3D web navigation (indoor and outdoor 3D routing) for corporate premises, facilities management and resorts presentation. Add ons: located transaction sites (e.g. Hotel booking in 3D scenery), real time tracking, mapping services, mobile and RFID location intelligence.

GeoGames creates and implements premium web 3D solutions and geo-services for large to mid-large companies under the motto: Playing Your World. Co-owner CEO, with marketing, sales and creative direction responsabilities.

Has lead teams as (senior) visual designer at Dutch user interface consultancy http://www.informaat.com. Responsabilities include team growth and in-house coaching of 12 expert co-workers.

Past positions as art director at RSCG/ BIKKER, in emerging new media (CD-rom production and internet websites)

Self-empolyed in designing interactive Medical training titles on the CDi platform for MSD, Bayer.

Had a number of all-round graphic design positions in multimedia, corporate design, packaging and audiovisual design projects.

Lifetime interests
Architecture (photography) and audio visual media (art, cinematography and serious gaming) , documentary film making, 3D simulation, Human Computer Interaction, Interaction design, e-learning, music and sailing.

Jerome Bertrand’s Specialties:

Web design prototyping (expert Axure designer),
Visual design,
3D modeling (expert SketchUp modeler),
Visual interface design (expert and lecturer),
Creative direction,
Coaching,
Teaching

Jerome Bertrand’s Experience

  • Lecturer in visual design and user experience design (Breda, NL)

    AMUX Academy for mutimedia and user experience

    (Privately Held; Higher Education industry)

    September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  • Founder, co-owner, managing director, head designer

    GeoGames

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

    Strategy, partnerships, clients.

    http://geo-games.eu

    http://takeoff.geo-games.eu

  • (Free-lance) Trainer French language

    Elycio Talen

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2008 — September 2009 (10 months)

    French in the instruction languages: Dutch, English and French (native).

    All levels of proficiency. Face-to-face training and e-learning support.

  • Lecturer Visual Interface Design CMD VID

    Hogeschool Rotterdam HRO

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2006 — 2007 (1 year )

    VID course development (BA, BCMD), teaching and member of the examination committee.

  • Lead, senior visual designer

    Informaat, information disclosure

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 1998 — June 2005 (7 years 4 months)

    Lead (senior) visual designer Informaat, an IT consulting & products company in the Netherlands. Part of the coach Team. Duties centered around growing the visual design core competencies and developing the team of 10+ members. Clients included multinational companies in banking (ING Bank and ABN-AMRO banks), insurance (Centraal Beheer, ING Insurance/Nationale-Nederlanden), electronics (Phillips), petrochemical (Shell), database/ERP software (Baan), telecom (Nokia, Ericsson, Telfort-British Telecom, KPN, etc.), IT Consultants (Getronics, IBM, Cambridge Technologies, Anderson Consulting, Accenture) and pubishers (Reed RBI, Kluwer). Including responsabilities for the visual design of software GUI, websites look and feel, and web applications user experience design.

  • Lecturer UX design, visualisation

    HKU (KMT) Faculty of Arts, Media and Technology

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    September 1996 — June 2000 (3 years 10 months)

    Setting up the DMD curriculum for the Visualisation and visual design programs (4 years curriculum).

    Teaching all levels from basic to advanced (year 1-4) BA.
    Master of Arts course leader (DMD EMMA program)

  • Art director new media

    Euro RSCG 4D / BIKKER

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    January 1997 — April 1999 (2 years 4 months)

    Responsible for the creative team of designers. Worked on an advanced collaborative CD-rom project launch including the directing of external designers/ student groups for Client Kern Konsult (in Dutch: Cd-rom 'Projectmatig Creeren')

  • Visual designer

    bikker

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1997 — 1999 (2 years )

  • Graphic Designer - intern

    2D3D ontwerpbureau

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1986 — 1987 (1 year )

    All I needed to learn about graphic design practice and was happy to gain from a key Dutch graphic designers firm.

Jerome Bertrand’s Education

  • Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen

    BA , Graphic design and audio visual design , 1983 — 1988

    Activities and Societies:
    Multimedia design which we first did as mixed media (slide shows on time pulse video track). Theme: Study of th typical French innovative power in vernicular graphic design. (Video, 360 photography, stereo photography, super 8 mm, sound tracks). An installation's design.
    Documentary work on video (3 films selected at a number of Dutch festivals). Graduating with a documentary video (editing by Dutch broadscasting company NOS), and portratit of starting Turkish novellist Sadik Yemni.

  • Lycee International Paris, France

    Baccalautreat , Economics and human sciences , 1975 — 1980

Additional Information

Jerome Bertrand’s Websites:

Jerome Bertrand’s Groups:

IGDA, BNO, SIGCHI/ CHI

  •    Chi Nederland
  •    Innovation for Creativity
  •    EXPERTS FRANCOPHONES en GÉOSPATIAL
  •    GeoGames
  •    GIS
  •    GPS/GIS Jobs
  •    Generation Next
  •    Mashable France
  •    NIKI.nl
  •    Utrecht Netwerk
  •    Association of Dutch Designers (BNO)
  •    NLGD - Festival of Games
  •    User Experience
  •    Master of Arts in European Media (EMMA)
  •    3D Visualisation and Graphics Programming
  •    Avans Hogeschool - University
  •    Serious Games Research
  •    Metaverse Meetup
  •    Serious games people
  •    Water Network
  •    PICNIC
  •    Beyond Bikker
  •    Virtual Worlds Roadmap
  •    Trademissions.nl
  •    Chasseurs de Tendances
  •    Monobanda
  •    Mobile Mapping
  •    Elycio Trainers
  •    Communication and Multimedia Designers
  •    UX Book Club Amsterdam
  •    Dutch Media Intelligence
  •    Need a Hand?
  •    Informaat Alumni Netwerk
  •    Water Technologies
  •    Vrienden van BNR
  •    Innovation Awards 2009
  •    Web 2.0 to 3.0 for Real Estate
  •    Control Magazine
  •    STT Toekomstverkenning Serious Gaming

Jerome Bertrand’s Honors:

2 July 2008: Techopartner Award 2008

GeoGames in the Top 10 with UMC Utrecht:
http://www.technopartneraward.nl/

The GeoGames case with the Utrecht University Medical Center UMC:
http://www.technopartner.nl/wiki/pioniercommunity/tpaward/tpaward_2008/geogames?highlight=geogames



February 2008, The Netherlands.

Winning Second Price at Dutch Competition on 'Virtual Worlds for civil services' issued by Dutch Secretary of State Ms. Bijleveld (Ministry of Home Affairs), Monday 4 February 2008.

Dutch Platform for the Information Society:

http://www.epn.net/index.php?pagina_id=47


The second price of the Dutch 'Virtual Worlds for the city service' competition from the Ministry of Home Affairs goes to Jerome Bertrand, GeoGames and Barbera van den Berg, Dialogic for their joint concept:

‘Serious City, a game with a goal for civil services’.

http://www.platformvirtuelewerelden.nl
http://www.minbzk.nl

Updates at: http://geo-games.eu

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