Joost de Valk

Current

• Programma directeur at Search Engine Strategies Amsterdam
• Internet Strategist at OrangeValley
• Eigenaar at Yoast.com

• Committer at WebKit Open Source Project
• Owner at CSS3.info

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Past

• Search Strategist at Onetomarket
• SEO Consultant at Onetomarket
• Administrator at OpenDarwin

• Commercial Manager at IC&S
• Account Manager at First8
• Manager at Diogenes

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Joost de Valk’s Summary

Ik heb een passie voor het web, en al zijn eindeloze mogelijkheden. In mijn werk en in de open source projecten waarin ik betrokken ben heb ik steeds meer ervaring in en kennis opgedaan over het succesvol managen van online marketing en web development projecten. Mijn focus ligt op web analytics, zoekmachine optimalisatie en conversie optimalisatie.

Ik vind het geweldig om bedrijven te helpen om meer rendement uit hun online presence te halen, door ze te helpen zinvolle conversaties te voeren met hun consumenten.

Joost de Valk’s Specialties:

Met mijn brede ervaring in web development, analytics en SEO projecten help ik bedrijven om online meer rendement te realiseren.

Mijn specialiteiten en kennis velden:

Diepgaande kennis van de volgende web standaarden:
- (X)HTML
- CSS
- JS
- SVG
- P3P

Ik heb gewerkt met de volgende analytics pakketten:
- Google Analytics
- Google Website Optimizer
- SiteSpect
- NedStat
- Omniture
- Mint

Joost de Valk’s Experience

• Programma directeur

  Search Engine Strategies Amsterdam

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2009 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Verantwoordelijk voor de programmering van de sessies op deze Nederlandse uitgave van s'werelds grootste search marketing congres.

• Internet Strategist

  OrangeValley

  (Internet industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

• Eigenaar

  Yoast.com

  (Internet industry)

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

• Committer

  WebKit Open Source Project

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2006 — Present (4 years )

  I'm a committer and Quality Assurer at the WebKit Open Source Project, a project started by Apple and joined by Nokia and Adobe among others. The project has it's website at http://www.webkit.org.

• Owner

  CSS3.info

  (Internet industry)

  January 2006 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  Offering CSS related news!

• Search Strategist

  Onetomarket

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  As search strategist, I'm responsible for developing search engine marketing strategies and tactics for our clients, promote these strategies and tactics towards them, and make sure these strategies get carried out.
  
  This means I'm busy with all the aspects of Search Marketing, ranging from paid search, to organic SEO, to Search Engine Reputation Management, and so forth.

• SEO Consultant

  Onetomarket

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  At Onetomarket I'm responsible for my own set of clients. I run search engine optimization projects with these clients, making sure they rank better in the major search engines. While doing that I also provide usability and web browser interoperability advice.

• Administrator

  OpenDarwin

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  I was an administrator at OpenDarwin, a large open source platform, maintaining their Bugzilla amongst other things, OpenDarwin is at the moment in the process of closing down.

• Commercial Manager

  IC&S

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2005 — February 2006 (9 months)

  Responsible for marketing and selling the products and services of IC&S: open source software support, webhosting and consultancy. We specialize in managing complex webapplications and internet environments and high network traffic optimization, using open source solutions.

• Account Manager

  First8

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 6 months)

  At First8, I was responsible for client contact, project management and sales.

• Manager

  Diogenes

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  October 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 6 months)

  Diogenes was a large student assocation with about 600-800 members, we employed between 15 and 50 people at any time. I mostly dealt with the daily (financial) management.

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