Pieter Smits

Current

manager France at Diskad
manager France at International Hydro
Consultant at JS-Vosges Search & Consultancy

Owner at JoliSoleil - Holiday rentals in the Vosges, wine tastings in the Alsace.

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Past

Managing Director at Disk@d
Team member at VSOM
Manager co-op advertising at Cebuco

Marketing assistant at Reed Elsevier

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Education

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Rhedens Lyceum

Connections

177 connections

Industry

Information Services

Websites

Pieter Smits’s Summary

I am a ‘electronic publishing’ consultant, with over fifteen years of experience. For Diskad, I contribute to interesting publishing projects on the French market using the Publish One suite and search tools based on GLucene.

Next to that, I assist International Hydro in penetrating the French hydro-energy market.

In 2003, after emigrating to France, I started the Sarl JoliSoleil, an investment and renting company for chalets, apartments and farms in the French Vosges mountains. Please check out: www.jolisoleil.com and/or the 'Jolisoleil weblog' at: http://jolisoleil.blogspot.com

JoliSoleil Alsace is organizing (Alsace) wine tastings and wine tours. Please check out http://wijntoer-frankrijk.com and my 'Alsace wine weblog' at: http://elzaswijn.blogspot.com
Join our Alsace.Wines fanpages at: http://www.facebook.com/alsace.wines

Finally check out the many photos on the 'Vosges, France Group' on Flickr! (and of course 'Flickr JoliSoleil')

Pieter Smits’s Specialties:

Negotiation skills, creativity, flexibility, overview, management skills.
Speak four languages fluently.

Pieter Smits’s Experience

manager France

Diskad

(Information Services industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)
manager France

International Hydro

(Environmental Services industry)

February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Consultant

JS-Vosges Search & Consultancy

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

Via JS Search & Consultancy I am doing my 'old' job: consultancy on ‘electronic publishing’. I added ‘search marketing’, sharing my practical experience on that matter.
Owner

JoliSoleil - Holiday rentals in the Vosges, wine tastings in the Alsace.

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

September 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)

Via 'JoliSoleil' I let several vacation houses and organize winetastings. I am developing the brand 'JoliSoleil' to be a label for quality. Goal is to make 'JoliSoleil' an exclusive brand: a quality label for fine wine, food and restaurants, but also things like clothing (fine linnen from the local LinVosges factory for example). You will find me on the website 'Luxury Lifestyles'.
Managing Director

Disk@d

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1992 — May 2003 (10 years 6 months)

Started diskette advertising at the end of 1992. Soon we added Cd-rom and Internet technology. Worked for large companies like Philips, Canon, Seat and BMW.
From 1996 onwards we concentrated on publishing technology in a standardized way using standard production tools like the inhouse developed Publish One and search tools from Verity (Autonomy) and Nextpage (Fast/Microsoft). Worked for Kluwer, Brill, IBFD and many other companies.
Team member

VSOM

(Information Services industry)

1989 — 1993 (4 years )
Manager co-op advertising

Cebuco

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

November 1986 — December 1992 (6 years 2 months)

Developed joint promotion programs to be used by dutch newspapers (members of Cebuco). Organized yearly dutch Co-op conference. Developed contacts with English and American colleagues and organized yearly incentive programs and study trips to England.
Marketing assistant

Reed Elsevier

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; REL; Publishing industry)

March 1983 — 1986 (3 years )

Worked for book- and magazine publishers of UME. Also delivered data and reported to headoffice in Amsterdam.

Pieter Smits’s Education

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

drs. , Economics , 1976 — 1981

Geinteresseerd en afgestudeerd op het vakgebied, cq. het raakvlak tussen marketing en informatica.

Activities and Societies:

Vice-voorzitter Nima MIT groep. 1985- 1994
Mede organisator congres MIS '86
Rhedens Lyceum

1970 — 1976

Additional Information

Pieter Smits’s Websites:

Pieter Smits’s Interests:

internet, new technology, investing, search technology, tourism, marketing, wine, creativity, passions in people, music, twitter

Pieter Smits’s Groups:

Universiteit Groningen, TTP/Disk@d, D4C, Disk@d, Nima MIT groep, Flickr: Vosges France Group, Flickr: JoliSoleil, JS-Vosges, JoliSoleil, Final Electrostatics, Avalon Acoustics, Spectral Audio, Jadis tube-amps, winetasting, gites.nl