Professional experience
Usability Manager at idealista.com.
Madrid, Spain.
Jan2005 - Today
Idealista.com is the leading real estate website in Spain.
It is one the most visited spanish websites around the world. Different
specialised medias mentioned it as a reference in terms of simple interface
and easy to use.
I’m the UX manager of a young, dynamic and polyvalent
team of people from Italy, Uruguay, Portugal or Spain, created from the scratch. Knowledge targets concerns
ergonomics, industrial design, advertisement and contents management.
We develop unique solutions, focused on the users who visit our website and on the inner needs of the Idealista Group. My job responsabilities are coordinating projects, gathering user needs, following implementations, helping team while designing prototypes or developing user test, or searching for new trends to apply to our interface.
idealista.com
Teacher. Open University of Catalonya. Madrid, Spain.
Feb2006 - Jul2006
Teacher for the Computer Engineering Graduation at the
UOC. I teached online contents related to the subject of "Human interaction
with computers".
uoc.edu
Interaction designer. Terra Networks
S.A. Madrid, Spain.
Nov2003 - Dec2004
Leader website specialist in digital contents in Spain
and South America. One the main internet companies in USA, Europe and
Asia.
At a member of the UX team, I developed and defined corporate
websites and applications for the Telefónica Group, in Spain and
South America. I was in charge of defining user tests, information arquitectures, mockups,
wireframes and conceptual models.
terra.com
/ telefonica.com
Human - Computer Interactor (HCI).
Iconmedialab.com. Lisbon, Portugal.
Sept2002 - Oct2003
Iconmedialab is one of the first companies specialised
in digital solutions focused on the users.
Nowadays, IconMedialab keeps on creating solutions
for many markets : e-procurement, contents and documentation management,
e-commerce, e-payments, intranet-extranet, e-learning, corporate communication,
multichannel or applications.
As a member of the HCI Team, I worked on the creation of digital solutions such as the corporate intranet for the main private bank group in Portugal (BCP) and three of the Portugal´s main e-commerce websites: Fnac,
Worten and Shoppingdirect).
iconmedialab.com
/ millenniumbcp.pt
Ergonomics Department - Faculty of Human Kinetics. Lisbon, Portugal.
Jan 2002 - Sept2002
I developed heuristic evaluations, users tests and focus-group
for the creation of interfaces used in the department.
fmh.utl.pt/ergonomia
Journalist / Free-lance. Lanetro.com.
Lisbon, Portugal.
Jan 2001-Jan2002
Leader company in local information and technology with
a strong national and international presence.
In Lanetro I was a free-lance journalist, writting news, interviews
and reports about day-by-day streetlife in Lisbon city.
lanetro.com
Training
MIT Sloan School of Management: Boston, MA
Apr2008
Attended two seminars with the focus on how to manage innovation in technological enviroments: "Reinventing Your Business Strategy"and "Building, Leading & Sustaining the Innovative Organization".
mitsloan.mit.edu
Presenting data and information: Seattle, WA
Jul2007
Attendee at the one-day course teached by the Information Design guru Edward Tufte. During the training we focused on the fundamentals that must be had into account when presenting data.
edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses
Usability Week: London, UK
Apr2006
Attendee at the training course organized by the usability consulting firm NNGroup. During those days the essencials of Interaction Design were analised as like as resources to improve the user experience when interacting with interfaces.
nngroup.com/events
CHI 2005: Portland, OR
Apr2005
Volunteer for the CHI2005 organization (Premier international conference of HCI), celebrated in Portland (OR).
chi2005.org
Bachelor’s degree in Ergonomics.
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Sept1998-Jun2003
Graduated by the Faculty of Human Kinetics, specialised
in Ergonomics, Human Factors and Information Design.
fmh.utl.pt/ergonomia
Graduated in Education. University
of Extremadura. Badajoz, Spain.
Sept1995 - Jun1998
Graduated by the Faculty of Education, with an specialization
in Psicomotricity.
unex.es
Certificate on english language. Badajoz, Spain.
Sept1995 - Sept2000
At the Spanish Official School for Languages (5 Year degree).
eoibadajoz.com
Groups, events and contributions
- Active member of the Cadius Community (Spanish usability &
information arquitects community). Also moderator of the online usability
list.
cadius.org/lista/moderadores
- Speaker at the University Juan Carlos III during the event about "Content management in web environments of documental interesest" (Jan. 2008), presenting "Click aquí: O el doloroso camino hacia una tecnología fácil de usar" (sorry, I live in Spain, most of my work is done in spanish).
- Speaker during the 2004 Interaction congress at
Lleida (Barcelona) with the following topic:”De
la teoría a la práctica: Técnicas de usabilidad aplicadas
a sites institucionales”
griho.udl.es/i2004/i2004/industr.htm
(* presentations availables upon request).
Languages
- English: High level written and spoken. Graduated
from the Official Languages School. Lived and worked in the UK and many
travels to English spoken countries.
- Portuguese: High level written and spoken. More than five years living
in Portugal for University graduation.
- I can also speak some French and Italian but just spoken and in a basic level.
web: seisdeagosto.com (since 2002)
other projects: seisdeagosto.com/indica; zaunka.com
personal: my del.icio.us and flickr.com/people/seisdeagosto
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