Frans-Anton Van Gils

Current

Panel Manager at MetrixLab
Project Manager Website of the Year at MetrixLab

Past

Usability trainee at MetrixLab
Owner at SetFocus (Sole Proprietorship)
Lecturer at Willem de Kooning academy

Search Engine Optimizer at OneToMarket
Web Strategist at X-Hive Corporation
Web Developer at Cobeco Pharma

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Education

WdKA
Hogeschool Rotterdam
Sancta Maria

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Frans-Anton Van Gils’s Summary

Firestarter with extensive experience in online marketing, usability, user experience, communities.

Frans-Anton Van Gils’s Specialties:

Communities, Usability, USX, Start-Up's, Online Panels, MultiMedia, Web 2.0

Frans-Anton Van Gils’s Experience

Panel Manager

MetrixLab

(Privately Held; Market Research industry)

June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

Responsible for the development, experience and strategy of the OpinionBar panel at MetrixLab
Project Manager Website of the Year

MetrixLab

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Market Research industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )

Each year I organize the international Website of the Year awards, an online people's choice initiative where we reward sites for their quality (content, navigation and design). The award is currently organized in: NL, DE, UK, US, IT, FR, ES, RU, CN, IN.
onlineawards.nl / websiteoftheyear.co.uk / websitedesjahres.de / sitedelannee.com / lamejorpaginaweb.com / stranitsagoda.ru / websiteoftheyear.us / websiteoftheyear.cn / stranitsagoda.ru / websiteoftheyear.co.in /
Usability trainee

MetrixLab

(Internet industry)

August 2004 — July 2005 (1 year )

During my intern I conducted a benchmark research in the automotive industry where we compared the usability on websites of the 20 top selling car brands in the Netherlands. Results are publicated in the Marketing Magazine of February 2005.
Owner
SetFocus (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )

Advising companies with new media / content solutions and management of the implementation and design. Working field: Content Management solutions, interactive advertisement, corporate websites, mailing list solutions, education.
Lecturer

Willem de Kooning academy

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

2004 — August 2005 (1 year )

Educating Flash MX / ActionScript (1.0)
Website Tips 'n Tricks, including SEO, online marketing, project management etc.
Search Engine Optimizer

OneToMarket

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )
Web Strategist

X-Hive Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Design of print and digital media, Search engine optimization, Web presence, logo design for X-Hive/DB
Web Developer

Cobeco Pharma

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )