Jeroen Frans

Current

Organiser, Technical execution at Metameets
Virtual World Technology Specialist at The Vesuvius Group, LLC
Blogger at SLOG

Virtual World Content producer at Second Life (Self-employed)

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Past

Workshop Teacher at Waag Society
Teacher at Zoomlab | ImagineIC

Education

Hogeschool van Amsterdam

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Online Media

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Jeroen Frans’s Summary

Jeroen is Internationally known as Frans, which is fitting because it is also his last name. He is one of the three Founders of the Vesuvius Group, LLC, and functions as a Virtual World Technology Specialist and Developer.

The Vesuvius Group is a Full Service Solution provider for companies and institutions who desire to develop a presence or experience in a virtual world, with expertise in the virtual world platform Second Life & OpenSim.

Jeroen is a creative spirit and futurist always looking forward to how innovative technology can be used and enhanced. This drives him to try his hand in many technologies, and his early adoption has resulted in a wide skill set in programing, 3D & web design, machinamatography, animation, etc. In short you can say he is a generalist or a Jack-of-all-trades.

His friends like to call him an International Metaverse Superstar, because he seems to be everywhere, and known widely in the Metaverse.

You can reach me here: frans@thevesuviusgroup.com.

Jeroen Frans’s Specialties:

Branding and Identity, usability, HTML, LSL, PHP, Second Life, Virtual Worlds, Metaverse, 3pointD

Jeroen Frans’s Experience

Organiser, Technical execution

Metameets

(Online Media industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

A European conference addressing the present and future of user-created virtual worlds such as Second Life, Active Worlds, OpenSim and more.

World-wide citizens from virtual environments met in person at the conference as well as at our cross-media events. Our speakers cover a range of topics including business, education, non-profit organization and cultural projects. Our aim is to exchange information and experience with a common goal. We are offering our conference participants the opportunity to build bridges among diverse virtual worlds. We welcome those keen upon illustrating the time-saving, cost-reducing and community engagement benefits.
Virtual World Technology Specialist

The Vesuvius Group, LLC

(Online Media industry)

September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Co-founder, Executive Director, Virtual World Technology Specialist, responsible for project building & management of virtual world spaces within Second Life and other online platforms.

Skills/Experience includes:
- Texture creation
- 3D Design & building
- Event planning and hosting
- Scriptwriting, storyboarding, filming & editing machinima
- Scripting/programming of interactive objects
- Web intergration into SL (rss/database backend)

Projects/Clients include:
- Bumbershoot Arts Festival/Sudo sim
- Ramapo, NY school district
- Poser 7 launch event/e frontier software
- Morpheus Media, NYC, NY

The Vesuvius Group is a collective of idea conceptualizers and techy creatives working together in Second Life on collaborative projects that make a difference. Our team members come to this virtual space with real world experience as the foundation of the services we provide including project management, event planning, marketing, art direction, design, machinimatography, scripting, 3D building and texturing.
Blogger

SLOG

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

SLOG is a group blog about Second Life. It focuses mostly about broad SL issues and events with some comic relief here and there.
http://secondslog.blogspot.com
Virtual World Content producer
Second Life (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

Freelance content creation for various entities within the Virtual World Second Life (www.secondlife.com).

Projects included work for:
- Cory Doctorow bookreader
- Burning Life
- Katrina Relief Fund
- Global Kids, Inc., NYC, NY
- Relay For Life

Own and operate a successful storefront in Second Life named Frans Innovations under the avatar name Frans Charming.

'Private Workspace', a build tool for within Second Life, is the most sold product on Slboutique.com

Personal brand development of the Frans Charming Brand.
Workshop Teacher

Waag Society

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 2008 — June 2008 (1 month)

The Waag Society collaborated with Zoomlab on a project called KidzConnect.
My functions where:
Teaching content creation and story telling with (in) Second Life to teens in Amsterdam and help them collaborate with teens in Tampa, Florida, USA, in the same Second Life space.

Development of curriculum for second life based skills.

http://www.kidzconnect.org/
http://zoomlab.org/
http://waag.org/
Teacher

Zoomlab | ImagineIC

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

June 2006 — July 2006 (2 months)

KidsConnect:
Teaching content creation and story telling with (in) Second Life to teens in Amsterdam and help them collaborate with teens in New York in the same Second Life space.