Jess A. Olsen
E-business Web Designer
Profile
Hello, I'm Jess and this is my humble website. I specialize in e-business design and love designing and testing sales sites for businesses.
On this site you will find a brief description of my short career and some contact information. You're always welcome to contact me, should you be interested in working with me on a project.
Skills
Web Design
Assertively exploit wireless initiatives rather than synergistic core competencies.
Interface Design
Credibly streamline mission-critical value with multifunctional functionalities.
E-business
Proven ability to lead and manage a wide variety of design and e-business projects in team and independent situations.
Technical
- XHTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- jQuery
- Ruby on Rails (views)
- Git
- Shopify
- Expression Engine
- Wordpress
Experience
Seismonaut
Interaction Designer
2008-2010
At Seismonaut I have been lead interaction designer, responsible for the design on a range of online projects. Ad some point these projects will be displayed on this site. In the mean time, take a look at Seismonaut, 48 Hours In Denmark, Headstart Network, Danmarks Fedeste Fritidsjob or Community Conference.
Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University
Online Projects Manager
2008
After the work I did at Strategy-Lab, I got asked whether I was interested in working on online projects for the department of communication at Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University. There I was involved in several projects, but after only eight months I left ASB do to internal conflicts with my patience for dealing with large organizations.
Strategy-Lab, Aarhus University
Online Communicator / Stormtrooper
2007-2008
As Stormtrooper responsible for online communication, my job at Strategy-Lab was to hone the message and get it out to the large community surrounding the research lab. In more practical terms I build a new website (on which the current site is based but not identical), created a new visual identity and ran online newsletter campaigns.
Strategy-Lab is to this date the funnest place I have ever worked. The combination of brilliant scientific personalities and hard working team of young Stormtroopers, resulted in one of the most motivating environments I have ever experienced in an academic institution.
A bunch of companies
Freelance contract jobs
2004-2010
During my time in university I have worked on a wide range of freelance projects, with a lot of different companies. I have taught presentational techniques to theologists, designed email newsletters for academic institutions, installed wireless network in an office environment for creative professionals, been a Mac IT-supporter for one of the best selling photographers in the world and have done interface design for an online game. Besides that I have done consulting work on online business design.
AirConnect
Partner & CEO
2003-2005
After graduating from Vejle Technical Gymnasium in 2003, I started a company called AirConnect with some friends from school. We developed some of the best (or so we believed) Wifi Hotspot solutions for independent setups. We failed miserably, but I learned a lot. For example:
- Don't start a company with your friends, just because they are willing to take a chance also.
- Make pessimistic budgets, then you won't feel like a failure right away.
- Sell your products, don't just develop them.
- Your website should look good, but that is not it's purpose.
Sonofon
Store clerk
2003-2007
I had a part time job working in a cellphone store for the danish telco Sonofon. Unlike working in a super market or having a paper route, this was a fantastic student job. I learned a lot about how to interact with customers and the immediate preference of industrial design over interface design. This job also taught me, the importance of having a boss that will take the whole company Go Carting.
Education
Aarhus University, Denmark
Ba.mag.inf & Stud.it.inf
The focus of my education has always been the space where man (or woman) meets technology. The years studying this field from various angles has taught me, that there is never one perfect way to design. All people are different and designing for everybody is the same as designing for nobody.
That said, for me the really fun challenges are to design spaces of possibilities for making people happy without knowing everything about them.
When you start to se web design as designing for e-business and not corporate self glorification, you force your self to focus on the users. That is also the topic of my thesis, wich you will be able to download on the site. (When it's done sometime in January 2010)
Jess Andreas Olsen — dkjess@gmail.com — +45 27 57 09 49