Nathan Van Ginkel Email & Phone Number

Service provider of business transportation and as a designated driver (Dutch: BOB). I ensure that the customer arrives at their destination or appointment as comfortably and safely as possible while they can work (or sober up) peacefully in the back seat of their own vehicle. I travel to the customer (and back home) by my own or public transport.

Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

Maintaining, developing, and expanding Q&A Retail's internally developed web applications for dashboarding, survey distribution, and information management, among others, primarily through PHP (Zend Framework / Laminas), MySQL, and HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

The alumni relations committee is responsible for the organisation of the almost-annual reunion event for alumni of the student association, as well as writing newsletters to our alumni network throughout the year.Part of the committee as a student association member until Jul 2023.Part of the committee as a student association alumnus since Aug 2023.

• Involved in the student association's search for permanent housing.
• Conducted research on various topics regarding student club housing
• Wrote a project plan
• Created an extensive project report for internal communication
• Contacted several other student clubs with their own properties for advice on various topics, including fundraising, organization, maintenance, maintenance costs, permits, brewery contracts, and other practical matters.

• Providing solicited and unsolicited advice to the Board of the student association for the seasons 2020/21 and 2021/22. This advice is based on forwarded minutes of board meetings, three-weekly phone conversations with.
• Successfully upgraded the advisory board from a neglected body to a serious factor within the organisation.
• Adjusted the composition of the advisory board to allow one board member to remain involved with the board for a second year to improve the continuity within the board (preservation of knowledge and experience).
• Introduced three-weekly phone conversations with the Praeses, which improved the communication with the Board of the student association, strengthened the information position of the advisory board, and boosted the.
• Introduced an online reporting form where members can communicate anonymously with the advisory board to share their compliments, criticism or flag issues within the association. This advisory board can then decide to.

• 2022/23
• Jaargroepnestor - Official representative within the student association for the people who joined in 2018.
• Kringleider - Responsible for the planning and organisation (providing locations, appointing tasks to members) of a Bible study group of 8 people for one year.2019/20
• Kascontrolecommissie - Conducting an official check on the treasurer's bookkeepings for the year 2019/20.
• Sociëteitscommissie - Serving as a bartender during association activities. Responsible for committee finances.
• StuDIA - Organising guest lectures and discussion nights on scientific and social-cultural topics. Responsible for committee finances.2018/19

• Writing Dutch news articles, game reviews, in-depth feature items, and reports of hands-on events (invitations at Nintendo Benelux and trade shows such as Firstlook Festival and gamescom).
• Proofreading and final editing for reviews and editorials written by other contributors.
• Guiding new contributors through the CMS, writing style guidelines and duties of a contributor; proofreading news articles during their trial period and first months with the team.
• Regular participant in a weekly(-ish) podcast talking about the latest news and newly released games for Nintendo platforms (Jan 2017 - Oct 2018).Click on the images below to read selected articles from my portfolio.

• Writing Dutch news articles, game reviews, in-depth feature items, and reports of hands-on events.
• Proofreading and final editing for reviews and editorials written by other contributors.