Thomas van Zuijlen

As an interim engagement for Amsterdam-based agency Jungle Minds, I'm on loan as a UX designer to ABN AMRO's Private Banking branch. It'll be my job to improve the usability and increase the information accessibility of the Private Banking part of ABN AMRO's website.

Short-term engagement as a front-end developer (HTML, CSS, JS), to further facilitate the development of new websites for some IQuality's impressive clients, including Damen Shipyards, Hogeschool Windesheim and VelopA.

Under the Thomatronic banner, I was self-employed as an interaction and web designer, and front-end consultant. As with most every position I've held since, and before, I conceptualized, designed and built web sites, wrote some mean copy and talked (at length) about my passions. Via Thomatronic I worked, primarily, at neckermann.com and replacedirect.com.

Hired on to be a temporary part of the e-commerce development division at neckermann.com, one of Europe's premiere web shops, I was involved in a major user interface redesign of the website for the Dutch and Belgian market. Constantly balancing demands for new features with the improvement of existing functionality, it was my job to provide clear examples, designs and mock-ups and help guide them on towards neckermann's technical partners. I look back proudly on many hours of discussion, months of intensive development and heaps of cool interface designs -- all realized within a tightly knit team with a highly collaborative outlook.

Helping out to make things run smoothly at the 25th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, "imagine:", I'm alternately assigned as a spokesperson, a cashier, or as a runner in and around Amsterdam's beloved Tuschinski Theatre. Great way to be at work in an intense atmosphere as well as to get to know the inner workings of a middle to large sized film festival.

Interaction design and the further design of a flood of e-business applications. Concepts, use cases, wire frames, flow charts, usability consulting. Also one of those responsible for the graphic design of applications, web shops and web sites, based on aforementioned groundwork. As a member of the web development team, I was often also closely involved with the actual nuts-and-bolts construction of web shops and web sites. In short: I had an interesting part to play in the production process - from kick-off to completion and beyond. Additionally: Graphic design of and writing for promotional material, trainee supervision, marketing and the slightest of contributions to developing the prestigious RightClick e-business content management system.

First careful foray into doing business and creating websites for actual clients. Koekblik primarily serviced small to mid-sized clients; mostly, associations or consultancies in the not-for-profit, arts and education sectors.

Amsterdam

BSc in Political Science
Activities: Mede-oprichter studievereniging voor politicologie ismus

Frontlab

Getting to the bottom of things, user-friendly web application design, flow charting, wireframing, public speaking, agile work in tightly knit teams, theorizing, writing pitches and functional designs, reading graphic novels, listening to a wide variety of very good music