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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-mail
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)
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