Hi, I'm Jonas Van Assche

Head of Technology for the whole company.

Management

• Recruiting and managing development teams to deliver small to medium sized web projects for mostly Fortune 500 companies
• Overseeing quality assurance and pushing TDD (test driven development)
• Vetting and co-writing digital project proposals
• Presenting digital solutions to international clients
• Performance reviews and setting out KPI’s for developers
• People management (making sure everyone is happy and in the right role)
• Setting up and maintaining a company’s IT infrastructure (Network, Hardware, Email suite, Fileserver, etc)
• Organizing internal technology workshops to promote and learn new technologies
• Supporting Account, Creative and Research teams with technological advise and solutions

Web Development

• Back-end development
• Front-end development
• Server and hosting platform management
• Uptime and centralized error monitoring
• Web analytics implementation and analysis

China specific

• 9+ years experience with the Chinese Firewall and how to optimize for it
• Recruiting and managing international  tech teams with Chinese developers (communicating in Chinese)
• Working with all types of WeChat official accounts, and implementing their API
• ICP license application
• Aliyun hosting and server management
• Office / network infrastructure for China locations

Worked as full stack web developer on various projects, mostly for the HR industry. Project sizes ranged from small front-end projects, like HTML5 landing pages, to full blown platforms such as a referral tool, an internal mobility platform, and others.

Most projects were tailored to the China market, with heavy WeChat integration for some.

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, Elasticsearch, HTML5, SASS, ReactJS, Linux, Docker, ...

Clients: HTC, H&M, FCA, Corning, Starbucks, Dulwich College, Yum China, ...

Building and managing a custom made PHP e-commerce website to sell wine on the Chinese market.

• Managing all IT related aspects of the company: Looking for a hosting company and overseeing server configuration, dealing with an SEO agency to improve the website's SEO (mainly Baidu), coding and overseeing EDM campaigns
• Recruitment and management of 2 developers
• Drastically improving the website's performance by improving the coding, implementing caching techniques and obtaining a CDN service
• Adding Chinese online payment gateways (Alipay + Bank of Communications)
• Created a subscription with Alipay payments in instalments
• Added various e-commerce promotions + redesigned big parts of the website built with the Symfony 2 (PHP) framework

Managing web projects developed by Chinese developers using the Drupal content management system.

• Managing multiple web projects simultaneously from start to end
• Interacting with (foreign) clients: taking website specifications, controlling the scope of the project through the development process and providing maintenance support afterwards
• Building UI mockups based on client's needs and converting them to designs by instructing a designer
• Managing a team of mostly Chinese developers throughout the development process of several web projects
• Choosing a suitable hosting company and supervising the deployment of several web projects
• Researching suitable solutions for complex client needs within the Drupal content management system
• Providing consulting sessions to a client on which development platform to use, and how to work out his rudimentary web project

I worked at THEM's (now Altima) office in Beijing, doing web development (mainly CMS - Drupal) and Search Engine Optimization.

• Building websites from design screenshots
• Rewriting existing Drupal modules
• Developing custom Drupal themes
• Making websites SEO friendly
• Integrating website design (CSS)
• Integrating multilingual systems for existing Drupal websites

Intern at the IT department of the company. Later continued into a one month summerjob. My work here consisted of help desk, computer hardware maintenance and replacement of broken components, installing new systems in new offices and backing up a server.