Peter Maeseele

Current

Guest Lecturer at Devine
Owner at Usersense

Past

Functional Analyst at SD WORX
Functional Analyst at The E-corporation
User Interface Designer & Information Architect at Net It Be

Webmaster/Network Administrator at Fibrecount

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Education

Hogeschool Antwerpen
TIHF Bruges

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Industry

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Peter Maeseele’s Summary

Working as a freelancer & subcontractor, I try and manage to work on a diverse range of analysis & design assignments, mainly working on web projects, as a new media strategist, interaction designer & usability engineer.

Formally trained as an industrial designer, I’ve always approached the web from a usage-centered point-of-view, seeing technology mainly as a catalyst for improving business processes & social interactions.

I employ neither motto nor method. Throughout the years, I’ve adapted my personal goals to any formal methodology that came and went, be it waterfall, (R)UP, or Scrum, balancing between business and IT. A lot of my time is spent understanding the clients’ business goals, their customers’ needs & wants and technical constraints. When it comes to building software, I’m torn between (an ideal) belief in the software factory and the (more pragmatic) designer-as-artisan. It’s where the modernist and the artist meet. As a designer, I prefer a decisive minimalist approach. My ‘design thinking’ is influenced by people like Donald Norman, Jef Raskin and Edward Tufte.

Although I tend to work on the human side of HCI, my angle is systemic rather than humanist. Technology isn’t ‘user-friendly’ in se, and interaction design should focus on both man and machine. However, wherever possible technology should be build around people (i.e. be user-centered), since history has shown that the other way around doesn’t work (so far.) Machines are far more adaptable than people.

With over ten years of relevant internet experience, I’ve employed my skills in both a service & a product design context. In recent years, I’ve mainly worked on large enterprise business applications & community-building tools.

Peter Maeseele’s Specialties:

My main competences include:
- Business & Functional Analysis;
- Object-Oriented Analysis & Design;
- User Interface Design & Front-End Development;
- Usability Engineering, User-testing & Statistical Analysis;
- Information Architecture.
Experienced in many, many buzzwords, even the lesser known.

Domain expertise: payroll & HR services, online banking & social networks.

Peter Maeseele’s Experience

Guest Lecturer

Devine

(Higher Education industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

Guest Lecturer on New Media History: computer graphics, New Media Art & webdesign
Owner

Usersense

(Internet industry)

January 2000 — Present (9 years 11 months)

At Usersense, I work as a freelance business consultant, interaction designer and usability engineer, specializing in new media, mainly web & mobile.

Recent work:

For the Flemish government I’ve analyzed the use of social networks to improve structural cooperation between subsidized organizations focusing on innovation & entrepreneurship.

For the largest Belgian payroll & HR services company, I delivered a complete functional analysis & prototype, conducted the follow-up and coordinated the user-testing of a generic .NET WinForms GUI framework, to function as a superstructure for the creation of in-house applications for payroll management.

As member of a Software Architecture Team, I was responsible for coaching a team of some 15 functional analysts.

For a large Belgian Bank, I designed the GUI & prototyped a large portion of an update to the online banking application.

A detailed list of references is availably by simple request.
Functional Analyst

SD WORX

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Human Resources industry)

January 2002 — December 2005 (4 years )

- Business & functional analysis for internal and customer applications, mostly in a Windows/DB2 desktop/mainframe environment.
- Functional (use cases) & non-functional requirements gathering, domain modeling (UML), logical data design and ERD-modeling.
- Prototyping and user-testing of both WinForms & Web applications.
- Functional testing of deliverables.
- XML schema design.
- In-house training on DHTML & CSS.
- Occasional ASP.NET & DHTML development.

Domain areas: Payroll Management, application security, output management, Customer Relationship Management.
Functional Analyst

The E-corporation

(Internet industry)

December 1999 — January 2002 (2 years 2 months)

- Business & functional analysis for external clients, Web development on Java & ASP platforms.
- Business Consultancy (Belgian Armed Forces).
- Functional (use cases) & non-functional requirements gathering, domain modeling (UML).
- Prototyping and user-testing of Web applications. Functional testing of deliverables.
- Functional analysis for Content Management Application: MIDA.

Customers: Dexia, Bank Card Company, Belgian Armed Forces, Danfoss, De Persgroep, Deutsche Bank, Dupuis, Electrabel, EuroNext, Sony, The E-corporation, Vacature.com, VBO.
User Interface Designer & Information Architect

Net It Be

(Internet industry)

January 1999 — December 1999 (1 year )

- User Interface Design & Information Architecture.
- Functional (use cases) & non-functional requirements gathering, domain modeling (UML).
- Prototyping and user-testing of Web applications.
- HTML coding.

Customers: Axion (Dexia), Beurs van Brussel, Biblo, Bouwkroniek, De Tijd Uitgeverij, Electrabel, Gemeentekrediet, Imperbel, Isabel, Net It Be, SD WORX, Sony, Vacature.
Webmaster/Network Administrator

Fibrecount

(Environmental Services industry)

October 1997 — December 1998 (1 year 3 months)

- Design and implementation of the company Website.
- Administration of a small Apple/Macintosh network (15 PCs).
- Occasionally, some asbestos measuring.

Additional Information

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Peter Maeseele’s Interests:

Finding the perfect work/life balance can be tricky. I’m pretty passionate about what I do professionally, so a lot of my free time is spent reading about & toying with new internet-related technologies & web services. Any free time that’s left is divided between one too many hobbies: playing (bass-)guitar, learning Japanese (JPLT4), drawing, reading, Dungeons & Dragons & rock concerts. And last but certainly not least, I’m a family guy. I live in Hoboken, Belgium with my wife Bie and my two beautiful daughters, Luka & Janne.