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Sim D'Hertefelt (°1972) is a freelance architect of interactive ICT applications, such as websites, e-newsletters, intranet, software, presentations, multimedia... He works since 1996 as an analyst, designer, copywriter and usability consultant on ICT projects for banking, industry, telecom, government, airlines, automotive...

Contact & administrative info

Sim D'Hertefelt
www.InteractionArchitect.com
Tel. +32 496 25 83 29 | E-mailTo make sure that only real people contact me and no mail harvesting machines, you will have to copy the address  manually. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Gulden-Peerdenstraat 76A, 8310 Assebroek, Belgium
Fortis Bank 001-3389801-18 | VAT BE 0534.365.377

Expertise

  • Project definition and management: translating strategy into an ICT project plan, setting up project organisation and development process, documenting the business case and conditions, project execution follow-up and reporting, coaching the project team, quality and conformity control...
  • Functional analysis and design: requirements and needs analysis, user analysis, task analysis, use case modeling, logical data modeling, object modeling, sitemaps...
  • Interaction and information design: interactive concept design, storyboards, wireframe prototypes, page templates...
  • Copywriting and documentation: creative and technical writing for interactive systems, screen labels, content, user documentation, operational procedures, project plans, calls for proposals...

Professional experience

  • Freelance interaction architect, InteractionArchitect.com, Kwintessens,2002-current
  • Usability architect, IconMedialab, 1999-2002
  • Usability consultant, Delaware Computing/Arthur Andersen, 1998-99
  • Consultant/Project manager user interface design & technical writing, The Human Interface Group, 1996-98
  • Researcher, Science and Technology Assessment and Management Group (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), 1995-96

Relevant education

  • Creative writing: K.U.Leuven
  • Human-Computer Interaction: e.g. ACM-SIGCHI, Seattle, Den Haag, Pittsburgh
  • Project Management: e.g. PMI & The Human Interface Group
  • Object-oriented analysis & design (OOA/OOD) with UML: Delaware Computing
  • Technical writing: e.g. CEVORA
  • European Master Course (MA) on Problems of Society, Science and Technology: Rijksuniversiteit Limburg (Maastricht) & Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg)
  • MA sociology: Vrije Universiteit Brussel & University of Glasgow

Software & tools

Besides the usual Microsoft Office applications, he uses specialized software & tools for modeling, design, prototyping, planning...

  • Adobe Photoshop (graphical and web design)
  • EnterpriseArchitect (requirements engineering, UML modeling, CASE-tool)
  • HTML, Javascript, DOM, CSS (wireframe prototyping, web development)
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver MX (wireframe prototyping, web design)
  • Microsoft Project (project planning)
  • Microsoft Visio (UML modeling, workflow modeling, sitemaps, data modeling)
  • MindManager (brainstorming, documenting meetings...)

Languages

Dutch (native), English, French (speaking)

 

Read more about Sim's current activities: Copywriting by Kwintessens | Information architecture by Kwintessens (in Dutch)