Guido Jansen

Hi, I’m Guido Jansen: Cognitive ergonomist, e-commerce business optimizer, digital native.

Childhood

I was born in 1982 in Zwolle, in the Netherlands. Until 1989 I lived in Hattem and after that I moved to Tiel. After a pit stop of three years in Amersfoort I now live in Utrecht. Until 5 years ago I spent a lot of my time swimming and I won several Dutch championships doing so. You’ll find out more about that under the tag ‘swimming‘.

Study

So atm I live in Utrecht where I studied ‘Applied Cognitive Psychology‘ at the University of Utrecht and I was on the Board of the Student Group of Social sciences (SGS) in ’06-’07 as coördinator of Public Relations. For more info about my study/CV you can take a look at my LinkedIn profile.

Open Source

Further on I’m quite busy in the Dutch ‘Open Source‘ community. I’m a big fan and user of many op source products like Ubuntu (Linux) and OpenOffice, you can take a look here to see all the software that I’m using on my computer(s). But my main involvement lies with web-based application and the communities around it. I founded one of the largest local Joomla! communities worldwide and was Dutch translation coordinator for Joomla! for some time. I also organized the two day event Joomladays in 2009.

Magento

After many years of Joomla!, I switched focus to e-commerce and one system in particular: Magento. I am the Dutch Community Manager for Magento and I’m also part of the Community Advisory Board. I work at the e-commerce company Realvine and I have my own company to do an occasional freelance project: Regenerate.

This Blog

My goal is to share my knowledge and experience and provide you with useful information to improve your online (business) experience. Have fun reading my thoughts here, I always enjoy it when you’ll leave a comment!

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