Jan Fokke
Pensionada at Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW)
Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Fokke is a seasoned care professional and former manager with over four decades of hands-on experience in disability and elderly care, now enjoying retirement while staying actively involved as a mentor, vertrouwenspersoon and volunteer driver. He led teams and organizational units across multiple Dutch care organisations, worked as an interim manager and ran his own consultancy providing interim management, coaching and mediation. Although retired since 2018, he continues to contribute practical expertise to care and welfare projects and has applied his communication skills to improving technical documentation for an open-source game framework. Based in Zwolle, he combines deep sector knowledge in financial and organizational management with a practical, can-do approach—equally at home fixing things around the house, cycling or planning trips. His profile reveals a rare blend of operational leadership, caregiving roots and a lifelong enthusiasm for mentoring and community engagement.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Kaderopleiding, Kaderopleiding at Stichting Ortho-Agogische beroepsopleidingen, Hilversummanagement development traject, management development traject at De Baak DriebergenFinancieel management, Financieel management at Hogeschool van Arnhem en NijmegenOpleiding Z verpleegkundige, Opleiding Z verpleegkundige at 's-Heerenloo-Lozenoord, ErmeloVSID-DVO, VSID-DVO at Stichting opleidingen voor de ambulante zwakzinnigenzorg, Amsterdam
Github Skills (14)
nem10
docusaurus10
monogame10
documentation10
csharp9
fn9
dotnet-core9
content-management-system8
graphic8
content-management8
ui-design7
tiled7
collections7
pooling7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
prime31/Nez
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Nez is a free 2D focused framework that works with MonoGame and FNA
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:27 commits, 32 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on enhancing the documentation for the Nez framework, as indicated by the addition of a Docusaurus-based documentation site. They migrated existing documentation and added new content, including guides for features like tweening, collections, and pooling. Furthermore, they updated the structure and organization of the documentation, incorporating new features like sprite lighting and tiled map support.
monogamefnanezfarseerphysics
janfokke/StardewValleyDutch
May 2019 - Sep 2022
Nederlandse vertaling voor StardewValley
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 15 commits in 3 years 4 months
translationstardewvalley
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