Design Advisor at Namahn
Gent Area, Belgium
- Current
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- Design Advisor at Namahn
- Voorzitter at Gentblogt vzw
- Coach at Doorway Productions
- Principal at Zog.org (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Chief Editor at De Post
- Webmaster at College of Europe
- Managing Director at Netpoint NV
- Project coordinator at Netpoint NV
- Developer at Impakt NV
- Interactive at Griffo NV
- Webmaster at Impakt NV
- Projectionist at Studio Skoop
- Education
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- Universiteit Gent
- Universiteit Gent
- Central European University, Prague
- Sint-Barbaracollege
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Michel Vuijlsteke’s Summary
Application development. Interface design. Usability. Project management.
Particularly interested in large-scale, complex and/or interesting projects, with "interesting" defined as "offering the chance to learn new things".
Michel Vuijlsteke’s Specialties:
Information architecture, project management, usability engineering. And photography.
Michel Vuijlsteke’s Experience
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Design Advisor
Namahn
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
User-centred design consultancy. Accounts have included: SD WORX, Belgacom Mobile, Fortis, Electrabel, Boston Scientific, Belgian Post Group, Universiteit Gent, Fluxys, Sony.
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Voorzitter
Gentblogt vzw
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
February 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)
Editor of a collaborative weblog (http://www.gentblogt.be).
January 2006-February 2008: secretary of the non-profit (Gentblogt VZW) behind the weblog. From February 2008: chairman. -
Coach
Doorway Productions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
March 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)
Multimedia and internet consultancy; scenario and script doctoring.
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Principal
Zog.org (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2004 — Present (5 years 10 months)
Freelance development of smaller web sites, photography, Photoshop work, genealogy.
Design, implementation and maintenance of the Global Competition Law Centre web site, design and implementation of the Formaldehyde Sector Group web site, house style, design and implementation of the European Aliphatic Isocyanates Producers’ Association web site, etc. -
Chief Editor
De Post
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 3 months)
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Webmaster
College of Europe
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 10 months)
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Managing Director
Netpoint NV
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2000 — January 2005 (4 years 8 months)
General Manager. Daily and operational management of a company, part of Unit 4 Agresso, a multinational holding listed on the Dutch stock exchange with offices in Europe and North America. Team of 14 web designers, programmers, sales people.
Analysis, technical design and project management for website projects,
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Project coordinator
Netpoint NV
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 1998 — May 2000 (2 years 1 month)
Analysis, design and implementation of complex database driven websites for amongst others Pioneer Electronic Europe (main European web site, Norway, France, Germany, etc.), Province of East Flanders (public web site, intranet, several extranet sites), Copeland Europe.
Interface design for amongst others Plane (hospital planning software), Kluwer Rechtswetenschappen, Arab States Broadcasting Union.
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Developer
Impakt NV
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
April 1998 — April 1998 (1 month)
Design and implementation of the Impakt NV company intranet; javascript programming for Planet Internet portal site.
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Interactive
Griffo NV
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 1995 — March 1998 (2 years 7 months)
Design and implementation of web sites for Pioneer Electronics Europe, Van Halewyck and Imschoot Editors, Blauwe Maandag Companie, Kaaitheater, etc.
Intranet sites for amongst others Beaufour Ipsen International, Hoechst-Marion-Roussel, Pioneer Electronic Europe, etc.
Training, amongst others HTML, javascript, Photoshop, Illustrator.
Speaker at seminars, amongst others for IBM (internet), Macromedia (internet and multimedia), Belgian Telecommunications User Group (streaming audio & video over the internet). -
Webmaster
Impakt NV
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 1995 — August 1995 (2 months)
Webmaster, responsible for the design and implementation of their company web site.
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Projectionist
Studio Skoop
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
September 1994 — August 1995 (1 year )
Michel Vuijlsteke’s Education
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Universiteit Gent
History September 1994 — June 1995
No degree; stopped after first year to start work at Impakt NV.
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Universiteit Gent
Kandidaat , Law , September 1989 — June 1994
Stopped law (final degree: Kandidatuur Rechten) to take up history studies.
- Activities and Societies:
- 1991-92: board member of the Vlaams Rechtsgenootschap (editor-in-chief).
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Central European University, Prague
Central European Studies April 1992 — May 1992
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Sint-Barbaracollege
Wetenschappelijke B , maths/sciences , 1982 — 1989
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Michel Vuijlsteke’s Groups:
Member, IA Institute, European Youth Parliament
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GhentValley - professionals in or around Gent -
Wikipodium - a Belgian Wiki User Group -
Gentblogt
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