Background

Interactive media are my home from home. As a six-year old, my family's Atari and later our Mac quickly drew my fascination. Their visual language intrigued me to no end, and soon enough I wanted to create my own interactive experiences. I began writing quizzes in BASIC on the Atari, and built interactive slideshows in HyperCard on the Mac. Ever since, visual language is my first language, and programming is my second.

The power of programming initially drove me to take up Computer Sciences at the College of Amsterdam. Disillusioned by the lack of creative outlet in this course, I quit after a year and signed up for Digital Media Design at the Utrecht School of Arts. There, I graduated Master of Arts on the subject of design strategies for user generated content platforms.

Today, I work as a freelancer in the merging fields of tech and design. The last few years I've been specialising in apps, platforms, APIs, responsive design and lean startup.

Education

I graduated Master of Arts in Digital Media Design at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU).

My graduation paper and research covered the topic of the intelligence of user masses on the Web: how interaction design strategies - for user generated content - can make the result of the input of masses of users, intelligent. This paper was rated 'cum laude' by its examinators.


2005 – 2006 Digital Media Design (Master)
Utrecht School of Arts /
Open University of London

2002 – 2005 Digital Media Design (Bachelor)
Utrecht School of Arts

2000 – 2001 Hogere Informatica
Hogeschool van Amsterdam

Career

After I graduated, I worked at several companies that focussed on interactive media. Initially as a web developer, later as a concept developer. In 2009 I started to work for myself.

2009 - now
Freelance web developer/designer
jor.is

2009 – 2012
Founder
Trackie

2008 – 2009
Concept Developer
88concepts

2007 – 2008
Back-end Developer
FlashClub

2006 – 2007
Interaction Developer
ON. Networks

2005
Web Designer (internship)
RVU/// Educatieve Omroep

2002 – 2006
Tech support agent (2nd tier)
XS4ALL Internet BV

2000 – 2001
Mac systems administrator (ad hoc)
Coenen/Heunen/Van De Ven
Accountants & Belastingadviseurs

For a portable version of all the above, download my CV.