# Alexandre Plennevaux 🇧🇪🇪🇺 (@pixeline.be)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/pixeline.be
Headline: Technology & Digital Systems Leader | Platform Architecture | Technical Team Leadership
Location: Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium

## About

Technology leader with more than 20 years of experience designing digital platforms and leading technical teams across software development, education and organizational transformation.I scaled a distributed team of technical trainers from 6 to 35 staff members over five years, delivering training programmes across five cities in Belgium, lead and coordinated IT research projects, and taught cohorts of young and promising UX designers and developers the tricks of the trade.Interested in leadership roles where technology, teams and institutions intersect.

## Experience

- **Web usability Teacher at Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard** (2009 – 2016)
  I teach web usability as part of a Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design at the Haute Ecole Albert-Jacquard in Namur, Belgium.
- **Pedagogic advisor at EUnited We Code** (2018 – 2019)
  Erasmus+ Project exploring concrete ways to support trainers in digital coding bootcamps (like BeCode) with tools and activities.
  
  In partnership with our friends at Simplon (FR), Simplon Romania, Factoria F5 (ES), PLS (BE). The project delivered the creation of a toolkit to help recruiters attract and interview potential trainers, the first iteration of an Erasmus-like exchange program for trainers across Europe and an online Q&A platform for trainers facing challenging situations.
- **Coach at BeCode.org** (2017 – 2022)
- **Senior Web Developer at AppTweak** (2022 – present)
  Technical Product Owner, Website & CMS at AppTweak  Own the AppTweak website and CMS as a business-critical platform, with responsibility for prioritization, technical health, bug triage, admin UX improvements, and internal stakeholder intake. Translate business needs into scoped backlog items and drive delivery across engineering, marketing, design, and growth.
- **Head of Pedagogy at BeCode.org** (2017 – 2022)
  Here to design modern training methodologies to match the needs and diversity of 21st century people, based on what neurosciences and my personal experience as a teacher /  continuous learner have taught me on how humans learn. My goal is that the learning user experience found at BeCode delivers concrete results, while at the same time be joyful, inspiring and uplifting for the incredible people who join our trainings.
  
  The other part of my role as manager is to make sure everyone in the staff feels empowered to have the maximum positive impact on our society.
  
  What I do :
  \- Find, hire and onboard the next generation of IT trainers
  \- Structure, update and align BeCode's active learning pedagogy throughout Belgium, using co-creation,  design thinking, Agile (I prefer to call it "failing forward" )
  \- Manage and support trainers in their day-to-day ideas and in their pedagogic upskilling using 1on1s (supervision), honest feedback and encouraging group dynamics of help (intervision)
  \- As part of BeCode's leadership team, I contributed in the growth of an ambitious startup of 11 people into a SME of 45 (and counting...) over 5 cities
- **Coordinateur scientifique at Haute École Albert Jacquard (HEAJ)** (2014 – 2017)
  I coordinated a research project on web accessibility issues experienced by folks affected by some degree of colour blindness. We used eyetracking tool to objectify color vision deficiency during UX testing sessions. Based on that research we built an online tool to help diagnose colourblindness : https://test-your.colour-blindness.org  This research was a collaboration between two academic institutions: HEAJ + UNamur, and a private business: Dogstudio. It was funded by the Region of Wallonia.
- **Teacher in Web Usability / Web project Management & Visual Communication / PHP coding at Haute Ecole Albert Jacquard** (2009 – 2016)
  Teacher in all things web to bright young design students. In that context, I loved project-based learning and tried to make it as much "learning by doing" as possible. To do that, I would turn my classroom into small web agencies. I would organize workshops on Data visualisation, Human-centered design, interaction design and storytelling. invite awesome people for workshops and seminars.
- **Freelance UX designer / developer at pixeline** (2003 – 2018)
  User-centered web design and development, tailor-made solutions for effective online presence.
- **Pedagogic Designer at BeCode.org** (2021 – 2022)
  Design and manage new training products, delivering great Learning User Experiences by harnessing the best of active learning methodologies and offering an environment optimized for learning.

## Education

- **Haute Ecole 'Léonard de Vinci', Bruxelles** — Master's Degree (1993 – 1995)

## Skills

- Team Leadership
- Leadership
- Interaction Design
- Web Application Development
- n8n
- WordPress
- HTML5
- PHP
- People Management
- Web Design
- Designs
- Svelte
- HTML
- Espagnol
- Back-End Web Development
- Teamwork
- français
- Teaching
- jQuery
- User-centered Design
- User Interface Design
- Web Development
- Ruby
- Data Build Tool (DBT)
- AT Protocol
- Progressive Web Applications (PWAs)
- Content Management Systems (CMS)
- Convincing People
- ActionScript
- XHTML
- JavaScript
- design
- Wordpress Development
- Wireframing
- UX Research
- User Experience Design (UED)
- Project Management
- Information Architecture
- Coaching
- create
- Front-end
- english
- Flash
- MySQL
- HTML 5
- CSS
- Usability
- Web Project Management
- User Experience
- AI Code Generation

## Certifications

- Nielsen Norman Group UX Certificate — Nielsen Norman Group (https://www.nngroup.com/ux-certification/verify/)
- HTML — BeCode.org (https://t.cred.ly/jX0AyS1mktikCv8ol9YnAQ,,$$$eV5WStciIwBkMCWvLy5ympDTVMW7rgHVqT2UpmGJ4dnOt-feGapaq8b28DFM9ZlqwkYg686_FVULEqNaWLErTZvPCNfQemm19yj7OmxJEpc,?r=https%3A%2F%2Fcredly.com%2Fcredit%2F14099048&t=1502402483&c=lip)
- Product Designer - level 2 — BeCode.org (https://badgr.com/public/assertions/VGi8w0ABTzGEosS8i38CQg)
- Open Water Diver — SSI Scuba Schools International (https://www.divessi.com/en/get-certified/scuba-diving/open-water-diver)
- dbt Fundamentals — dbt Labs (https://credentials.getdbt.com/a7c7f436-79bc-4767-a971-25a48811265f)

## Projects

- **Mathr**
  Mathr is a brain building game to improve your math calculation skills. Practice arithmetic and level up!
- **That's The Spirit!** — https://thatsthespir.it
  Inspiring quotes for the creative soul
- **ATproto Brussels**
  At first, an AT Protocol PDS (Personal Data Server) located in my house, this grew into a bigger project to help onboard people to the fast-growing ATmosphere, a decentralized ecosystem of apps and opportunities. As usual, personal projects are great to self-learn so I experiment with Caddy and Typescript, alongside Sveltekit.

## Publications

- Positionner sa marque sur Bluesky — ideanation.offprint.app (https://ideanation.offprint.app/a/3mmuhzu5oz223-positionner-sa-marque-sur-bluesky)
- How to set up your brand on Bluesky — ideanation.offprint.app (https://ideanation.offprint.app/a/3mmt2y3muca23-how-to-set-up-your-brand-on-bluesky)
- How to Say the Hard Thing Without Starting a War — ideanation.offprint.app (https://ideanation.offprint.app/a/3mklmytlmzh23-how-to-say-the-hard-thing-without-starting-a-war)
- Apollonia Saintclair’s Female Gaze — ideanation.offprint.app (https://ideanation.offprint.app/a/3mi2oqhzekr23-apollonia-saintclairs-female-gaze)
- La Guerra del Amor — ideanation.offprint.app (https://ideanation.offprint.app/a/3mi2sas3g2m23-la-guerra-del-amor)
- X is a dump. Long live Bluesky 🦋 — ideanation.offprint.app (https://ideanation.offprint.app/a/3mi2nlziskh23-x-is-a-dump-long-live-bluesky)
- To the EU: remove links to GAFAM on europa.eu — ideanation.leaflet.pub (https://ideanation.leaflet.pub/3mgnbw2qtr22x)
- The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace — ideanation.pckt.blog (https://ideanation.pckt.blog/the-erotic-ontology-of-cyberspace-tsz2qge)
- Installing an AT Protocol PDS on a Synology NAS — ideanation.pckt.blog (https://ideanation.pckt.blog/installing-an-at-protocol-pds-on-a-synology-nas-qzd29a9)
- Mayor of Kingstown Review — ideanation.leaflet.pub (https://ideanation.leaflet.pub/3mag3dhtepk2c)
- Europe, Know Thy Enemy: Steve Bannon — ideanation.leaflet.pub (https://ideanation.leaflet.pub/3m7fdjipmxs2g)
- Back quality independent media to save democracy — ideanation.leaflet.pub (https://ideanation.leaflet.pub/3m4bn2p3ock2m)
- How engineers can influence politics at a company — ideanation.leaflet.pub (https://ideanation.leaflet.pub/3m2jd67jxo22y)
- How Many Politicians Is Enough? — ideanation.leaflet.pub (https://ideanation.leaflet.pub/3lpwo3ndmhk2v)
- Bluesky: Decentralization Done Right — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2024-11-18/bluesky-decentralization-done-right)
- Anni Jyn's erotic body of work — ideanation.offprint.app (https://ideanation.offprint.app/a/3mklujdh32d23-anni-jyns-erotic-body-of-work)
- Constructivism as a teaching strategy — ideanation.offprint.app (https://ideanation.offprint.app/a/3mklsloqrpq23-constructivism-as-a-teaching-strategy)
- We Need To Stop Calling Entertainers ‘Artists’ — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2023-05-17/we-need-to-stop-calling-entertainers-artists)
- BTCONF was 🤩🤪🚀 awesome — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2023-04-29/btconf-was-awesome)
- Fatigué — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2023-04-09/fatigue)
- Constructive assertiveness — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/journal/2023-02-16/constructive-assertiveness)
- 3 questions to help you (and your team) prioritize — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/journal/2021-03-29/3-questions-to-help-you-and-your-team-prioritize)
- How to deploy a Sapper PWA on GitHub Pages — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/journal/2020-02-10/how-to-deploy-a-sapper-pwa-on-github-pages)
- Gamifying a coding bootcamp: the BeCode LUX — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/journal/2019-12-16/gamifying-a-coding-bootcamp-the-becode-lux)
- Automate deployment using GitHub hooks — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2019-08-13/automate-deployment-using-github-hooks)
- Helping your team become more focused — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2018-04-05/helping-your-team-become-more-focused)
- Progressive Enhancement is non-negotiable. — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2018-02-09/progressive-enhancement-is-non-negotiable)
- The easy way to turn a website into a Progressive Web App — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/journal/2017-11-21/the-easy-way-to-turn-a-website-into-a-progressive-web-app)
- After the golive. — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/journal/2017-09-22/after-the-golive)
- A new turn — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2017-09-02/a-new-turn)
- Designing from the outside, looking in. — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/journal/2017-05-31/designing-from-the-outside-looking-in)
- Comprendre le daltonisme. — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/journal/2016-12-25/comprendre-le-daltonisme)
- Tooth fairy — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2016-12-14/tooth-fairy)
- Ode to the prototype — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2016-10-24/ode-to-the-prototype)
- The 5 dysfunctions of a team — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/rants/2016-09-07/the-5-dysfunctions-of-a-team)
- The Reductionist Manifesto — pixeline.be (https://pixeline.be/journal/2015-10-06/the-reductionist-manifesto)

## Volunteering

- After‑school tutoring at L'Ilot ASBL
- Coach at BLACK RICKERS BASEBALL & SOFTBALL CLUB

## Languages

- English (native)
- French (native)
- Spanish (professional_working)
- Dutch (limited_working)
- Portuguese (elementary)

## Other profiles

- website: https://pixeline.be
- github: https://github.com/pixeline