Some of the projects I have worked on in various roles, as a freelancer and at Syde.
Work
Willem Prins
Web development, history and (country) life.
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Relaunch syde.com (@ Syde)
In the weeks before and after Inpsyde’s rebrand to Syde in March 2024, I supported the marketing team as technical product owner to ensure a successful relaunch of the new website.
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Redesign and rollout of block-based editing for news.sap.com (@ Syde)
I supported the global SAP communications team with a complete redesign of their news platform, working as project lead and agency-side product owner.
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Meeting organization and workshop facilitation (@ Syde)
During my tenure at Syde, I coordinated and hosted several workshops and organized in-person, hybrid and online meetings for Syde until I moved into an official facilitator role at the agency at the end of 2024.
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Migrations, new features and technical maintenance for enterprise clients (@ Syde)
As technical project lead and maintenance team lead, I have managed multiple large-scale migrations, feature development and technical maintenance for websites of high-profile clients like SAP, Klingel, Strato and Spektrum.
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Content marketing platform for a laxative brand (@ Syde)
When Project A approached Syde to build a new website to kick-off a content marketing campaign for a laxative brand, I was one of two developers tasked with delivering the project within a month after being handed the design specifications.
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Sport1 Podcasts portal (@ Syde)
For German broadcaster Sport1, I developed a WordPress-based platform with intuitive editing tools and an integrated media player to help the company expand their podcast offerings.
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Relaunch Tandem for Culture
The Berlin-based non-profit organisation MitOst asked me to support the relaunch of the website for Tandem, their series of cultural exchange programmes. I developed an application focused on storytelling to match their kind-hearted, playful visual brand identity.
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Digital archive with Elasticsearch for Amstelodamum
For historical society Amstelodamum, I created an online archive powered by Elasticsearch to provide access to digitized scans of magazines and yearbooks dating as far back as 1902.
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Muziek Talent Express: a web application for music education
Together with Aslan Muziekcentrum in Amsterdam, I worked on an interactive web application to accompony their offering for continuous music education on primary schools.
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Relaunch aejm.org for the Association of European Jewish Museum (AEJM)
As project lead and web developer, I supported the Association of European Jewish Museums with their 2015 relaunch of aejm.org, featuring a Europe-wide exhibition calendar and project exchange, member-contributed news and a discussion platform for museum curators and educators.
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A participatory architectural knowledge base: Platform Wendingen
As project lead, product owner and content coordinator, I helped Amsterdam-based Museum Het Schip create a participatory knowledge base, inviting people around the country to contribute their experience, knowledge and personal connection with objects and artists the Amsterdamse School movement.
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A timeline to visualize the Dutch reception of David Hume’s works in eighteenth-century Dutch publications.
https://archief.somtijds.nl/hume-timeline About the Project To support the research for my MA thesis, I used two separate web-based tools: a blog and an interactive timeline. While the blog was mostly a way to keep track of loose thoughts and notes, the interactive timeline provided a unique way to present and explore a huge collection of sources.…