Owen van Dijk
I like Flashy stuff. I'm Director of Flash at USSR Studio. USSR is part of the CZAR/CCCP/KGB group. We are an online production company specialized in rich, immersive and interactive 'microsites' for brands such as EA Sports, Canon, Philips, Omega, Centraal Beheer Achmea and Leffe.
The past two years we've won several awards for our clients such as a Bronze Cyber Lion in Cannes, a SpinAward, an AMMA, a Webby Honoree, a ESPRIX nominations, 2 FWA's and the list goes on...
In addition i'm Program Director at the Adobe User Group, which i cofounded in 2007. I speak regularly on industry events about the tools and technology of the techworld. Please see for a detailed CV my LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/ohwhen
Things i did earlier in my life:
Flash Developer at Clockwork, started my own company, initiated the dutch Macromedia Usergroup that grew into the Adobe User Group, DJ'ed at illegal warehouse raves in London, France and Czech Republic, organized a grassroots initiative called the NMUF all over the world ( London, San Francisco, New York, Cape Town ), studied Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence, travelled the globe with a skateboard, wrote crossbrowser videoplayers at TROS, hated Netscape 4 for that, made a bet in senior year that i could eat my whole name in chocolate. Lost that bet and was sick for a week...
