Coen De Jong Email & Phone Number

The Netherlands

As of July 2022 I'm transitioning into the field of tourism / leisure industry to create, prepare and guide adventurous outdoor travel experiences, mainly hiking and biking journeys in Europe. I do this self-employed under Zwerflust and with other organisations like NIVON.

The Netherlands

shifthappens is my freelance business, started formally in march 2009, after having done various projects as a programmer since 2005. I specialize in interactive web applications using modern web techniques like PHP, JavaScript, Meteor, ReactJS and HTML5/CSS3.I have experience in the following frameworks and tools:* CodeIgniter (favorite framework) (PHP)* Yii (PHP)* Laravel (PHP)* jQuery (JS)* Vanilla JS (no framework)* WordPress (active theme and plugin development)* ReactJS + Reflux

Eindhoven Area

Education Innovator through IT solutions. To make the live of students, teachers and staff easier and more fun!

Tilburg Area, Netherlands

My tasks include:* Managing and implementing new IT systems such as the FontysConnect Portal, 100+ Macintosh work stations and the digital examination and feedback system* Being a linking pin between students and the IT department and management teams to support the students in their IT needs* Helping the institute become more digital and efficient* Advising management on innovation in the digital landscape* Advising management on information security* Managing information flows within the faculty* Evaluating and updating information system processesI do this mainly at the Fontys Academy for Creative Industries, but often collaborate with colleagues from other faculties and the central offices.

Leeuwarden Area, Netherlands

Zwerflust (Wanderlust) is a travelers collective that gives lectures on schools and presentations on festivals about adventurous travels and tries to inspire the youth to consider self-planned and "off the beaten track" travel as an alternative to studying or working. I am one of the people that give lectures about volunteering work, hitch hiking and general backpacking.

Netherlands

Young Talents on Tour is a network of young creative professionals helping organisations with communications problems and business challenges.Cases are almost always at the client's primary location, so we can "infiltrate" their organisation to get a good feeling of how they work.My tasks include getting leads for new clients and cases as well as participate as a creative professional when we go out to help a client with a case.

Brasov, Romania

Volunteering for Centrul de Jocuri Mirakolix in Braşov (Romania) in the PLAYRIDE project. The project involved teaching kids and youngsters from as young as 3 years and as old as 18 years of age the beauty of informal and nonformal education in schools and organizing cultural events.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Co-founder of The Unity Express project that started in CouchSurfing in Feb 2010.Past roles within the organization:* Initiator* Project Manager (1,5 years)* Fundraiser (3 months)* Event Organizer (continuous)

Leeuwarden Area, Netherlands

Working as the lead web developer and multimedia consultant for GH+O involves:* programming project websites* doing basic system administrative tasks* advising communication professionals about the utilization of (a mix of) online and social media for PR campaigns* making sure the user experience for our projects are the best possibleI set up the working environment for GH+O to successfully enter the digital world of communications and to offer a more complete package of services to its clients.

When time allowed me I attend writing sessions for the internationally known posters from Loesje, for Loesje in the Netherlands. It's a fun and creative process where we come up with statements for the day to day problems in the society like health care, education, politics, scandals, environment, IT, anything that Loesje has anything to say about.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Working as an intern at Woedend!, an internet company delivering high quality products for the web. I work at the webdevelopment department, programming and marking up websites, backends and web applications in html/css/php/mysql.Clients for whom I created things included ABN Amro, Amstel, Woedend! itself and Asics.Later on in the internship I developed a proof-of-concept interactive dashboard for all employees to see ongoing projects, search login information from servers, etc. A home page for all the employees. It is completely built in HTML, CSS and JS (PrototypeJS) and featured an app-like interface.

Leeuwarden Area, Netherlands

Instructor at the Learning Centre, part of the NHL, an educational institution in the northern part of the Netherlands.I gave courses to employees and students of the institution which varied from general computer lessons to Office to PHP to management trainings.

We developped a complete community system with weblog, discussion forums, photoalbum and backend for the Frisian Solar Challenge project. I did this together with the NHL, Ps-Produkties and 2 fellow students. The system was built using PHP and MySQL technologies and put together in less than 20 weeks.

Bachelor Of Multimedia, Communication & Multimedia Design, Excellent

Activities and Societies: Community representatives, Accreditation commission, Student facilities commission, CMD education commission.

Havo (Higher General Secondary Education), Culture & Society

Vmbo Tl (Preparatory Secondary Vocational Education), Technics