The Team
European Service Network (ESN)
European Service Network (ESN) is a Brussels-based communications agency serving major European institutions, national authorities and corporate clients in diverse sectors. ESN's experienced, multilingual team pays careful attention to planning and management to ensure that our clients' messages reach their target on time, every time.
Here is the ESN team behind Citzalia.
Koenraad Tommissen | Managing Director
They were looking for a manager, and found me, almost the only BC (Before Computer) in the company. I am enthusiastic without understanding much about the techniques and marketing tools used. I simply want to help enable people to communicate about the European Parliament through a tool developed by ESN.
Michael Fallise | Senior Developer-Analyst
Michael started to write his first lines of code at the age of 13, frustrated by having so few good games on his PC XT. Since then he has not stopped programming applications and over the last decade has specialised in web technologies. He can be recommended for the creation of original concepts and Flash development, as well as working with Nicolas on architecturing IT platforms. Be warned: he gets grumpy when there is too much blood in his caffeine system.
Grégory de Latre du Bosqueau | Graphic Designer/Art Director
Gregory has 10 years' experience in the print department and has recently been working on web products, too. His role is the overall design of the Citzalia project. Because he is the person doing all the drawings, he has made himself look good and the others much less so, just so that he can stand out from the crowd a bit more!
Nicolas Stein | Senior Developer-Analyst
Nicolas is a senior geek who loves 'architecturing' large technical projects and deploying innovative designs to meet complicated technical challenges. He is connected to the open-source community and comes equipped with a four-wheel drive for off-road projects. Powered by green tea, he performs best when fed with good music and placed in the middle of a dynamic and humorous team.
Richard Cop | Senior Flash Developer
When I was young, three avenues were open to me: graphics, sports, computers...
I made a big decision to quit sport and decided to devote myself to an improbable quest: to transform the pixel square into a circle. This challenge prompted me to explore the limits of combining design and development. After 10 years' experience in the field, I have still not reached my goal but I do not despair! My role in Citzalia involves sharing my knowledge of the pixel with the rest of the world - well rounded.
Joel Devalez | Project Manager/Dissemination expert
Joel fell into the web 12 years ago. Since then, he has held several positions in web agencies and large companies - as a web designer, project manager and consultant in usability and e-marketing. His role in the Citzalia project includes promoting, advising and making bad puns during meetings... which he enjoys...
Paolo Malloggi | Project Manager
Paolo has an academic background plus 15 years of experience in information design and architecture. His natural understanding of the intuitive and fluid nature of architecture and his interest in technology has quickly led him to specialise in online media development. He has developed online tools and products for a number of private companies and their different target audiences.
Siggy Loenders | Developer
The urban legend goes that when Siggy was born he was carrying a computer in one hand and a coffee cup in the other. While growing up, Siggy always had a great interest in computer-related technology. It started with playing games and reading books and evolved into developing and analysing applications/projects. A couple of years ago he came into contact with the Python language, and started his main development using it "driven by lots of enthusiasm" and coffee.
Jean-Christophe Vanderstraeten | Developer
Jean-Christophe, also known as Junior, received his first computer at the age of 15. He did not even know how to use a word processor. However, two months later he was making his first little website and discovering the pleasure of making some crafty yet incomprehensible stuff for us common folk. Therefore the most appropriate quote for him is: "Why make things simple when they can be complicated?"
Also contributed to the Citzalia:
Erwan Martin | Project manager
Born in Bretagne, little Erwan dreamed of a career in the traditional ship-wrecking craft industry. In the end, he enrolled in the communication sector where the end and the means are usually quite similar. Erwan's passions include gardening, EU institutional affairs and World War II, literature, comics and video games, Bordeaux wines, Belgian beers, shellfish and pizza - if you look carefully you should find evidence of all those in the concepts behind Citzalia.
Ahmed ElAmin | Editorial
I write and edit the text and information, while also contributing to the team's strategy for Citzalia. For fun, I like to step on toes, dot my "T's", and cross my "I's" !
Dorian Carder | Editorial
Dorian is very into writing about the EU. After a short stint in writing about EU affairs with a Brussels media company, he now writes websites for various EU institutions. He enjoys a bit of EU political controversy, so be prepared for some debate if you come up against him in the world of Citzalia!
Dominique Carlier | CSS & Sound Designer
Polymorphic mutant composer bathed from an early age in the arcade machines, monstrous computers and synthesizers of the seventies, he will look very quickly to all kinds of technological delusions, futuristic or totally kitsch. Since the age of 15 he began to sequence orchestrations of all kinds and at this day, he composed hundreds of musical works in various styles ranging from ambient to neo-classical, electronica or tribal music.
Jessica Fitch | Intern
As a young, fresh and eager politics graduate currently focusing on achieving an MA in the field, Jessica is an enthusiastic trainee on the Citzalia project who is hoping to play her part in getting more young people interested in European politics. With plenty of relevant experience in writing and editing, she also has substantial expertise in social networking media, although she admits that her Facebook and Twitter accounts don't always revolve solely around the EU institutions...
