Remco Kalf

Current

Freelance web developer at Edenspiekermann
Co-founder / vice-president at Stepping Stones for Africa Foundation
Independent consultant, webdesigner and front-end developer at Remco Kalf

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Past

Senior designer and project manager at Ejok Design for Experience / Ejok Design for Industry
Research assistant at Technische Universiteit Delft, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering

Education

Technische Universiteit Delft
Pax Christi College Druten

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Remco Kalf’s Summary

• Web developer with focus on creating accessible, usable, standards-compliant websites.

• Web- / interaction designer with focus on creating beautiful, usable, readable, compelling websites that people love to use and clients are proud of.

• Graphic designer with focus on creating logo's and corporate identities that are a perfect fit for the clients identity and goals.

• Passionate photographer with an eye for landscapes and people.

Remco Kalf’s Specialties:

- Standards-compliant, cross-browser XHTML and CSS
- Semantic mark-up
- Application and adaptation of unobtrusive javascript
- Accessibility

- Usability
- Interaction- and webdesign

- Wordpress
- PHP
- Flash

- Graphic design, branding, corporate identities

- Photography
- Text writing for the web

Remco Kalf’s Experience

Freelance web developer

Edenspiekermann

(Partnership; Design industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

Building high-quality, standards-compliant website templates with XHTML, CSS and unobtrusive javascript. Projects are for Dutch government bodies, municipalities and large corporations and banks. Templates are built compliant to the Dutch Webrichtlijnen, W3C and WCAG/WAI guidelines.
Co-founder / vice-president

Stepping Stones for Africa Foundation

(Philanthropy industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

Stepping Stones for Africa is a Dutch charitable non-profit organisation, dedicated to improve the lives of people in African developing countries by supporting local initiatives and organisations.
Independent consultant, webdesigner and front-end developer

Remco Kalf

(Internet industry)

July 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

Indepent designer and consultant in the field of web design, interaction design and graphic design. Freelance front-end webdeveloper, with focus on creating accessible, standards compliant websites.
Senior designer and project manager

Ejok Design for Experience / Ejok Design for Industry

(Design industry)

June 1996 — June 2001 (5 years 1 month)

Senior designer and project manager for numerous industrial design as well as experience design projects.
Research assistant

Technische Universiteit Delft, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

November 1995 — February 1996 (4 months)

Assistant in a research project of the Ergonomical Department, which aim was to describe design-relevant characteristics of ageing users. In the research project, a group of a few hundred elderly were tested for a wide range of physical and psychological properties.

Remco Kalf’s Education

Technische Universiteit Delft

Master (ir.) , Industrial Design Engineering , 1989 — 1995

• Graduated with honors. Graduation project: the design of a mechanical tree-injection system against 'Dutch Elm Disease' for Heidemij company (currently Arcadis). The device is still in production and used by tree services in the Netherlands.

• Internship at Flex Development BV (currently called FLEX/the INNOVATIONLAB), an industrial design agency in Delft (7 months, 1994).

• Study project/internship at Sarvodaya, the largest charity/development organisation in Sri Lanka. Study/consultancy project on the product quality of wooden toys for export (4 months, 1993).
Pax Christi College Druten

Atheneum , 1983 — 1989

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Remco Kalf’s Interests:

internet, new technology, design, photography, architecture, personal development, nature, mountaineering, spirituality, tai chi, wing chun, snowboarding, travel, reading