What do I want to do?

I want to find the way to transfer, develop and integrate my skills in my three professional passions: Design, education, ICT (Information and communication technologies).

I want to work on exciting projects that help people learn, participate and realize their ideas, I want to inspire and be inspired. I am interested in interaction design and experience design. I want someone to take me away from this computer and invite me for a walk on the beach.

And most importantly I want to make people smile and contribute in making the world an even better place to be.

What can I do?

Project - Process design
Innovation, entrepreneurship and social change.

For the last couple of years I have been designing and facilitating processes, conferences and workshops for different groups of people or organisations. Here are some of the people I have recently worked with:

Gabinete de iniciativa joven - Extremadura Spain

Espacios para la creación joven - Extremadura Spain

Universidad del país Vasco - Pais Vasco Spain

Latinoamerican Group - Norway

Multimedia related - web, web2.0, multimedia.

I have got experience developing a great variety of different multimedia projects: CD-ROMs, websites, educational games and viral marketing, to name just a few. I give consultations on many design, technical or content development aspects. I am a part of a global network of professionals who can offer solutions for a variety of interaction design and web 2.0 challenges.

Here is a selection of some of the projects I have worked on. I have chosen those that particularly appealed to me, due to their technical challenge and/or the degree of creative opportunity they provided. (you can see more examples on my visual CV).

Kaospilot

Using Opensource web 2.0 technologies I developed a system for the 2007 kaospilot Vancouver outpost to share their insights and learnings.

It consisted of a dynamic website and a central blog system where postings from seven satelite blogs were filtered and published. My work consisted in:

  • Develop site concept
  • Interface design
  • Information architect
  • Front-end / back-end programming
  • Site administrator

Dandesign

Based in Aarhus, Danmark, Dandesign offers a broad range of services, from web-design to communication and internet consultancy. Their very flexible way of working allowed me to develop my skills in the following areas:

  • Interface design
  • Design and Communication consultancy
  • Outsource of multimedia projects
  • Project manager

Some examples of my work with Dandesign:

Maileg - a danish lifestyle design company

Nuestra gran obra es ColombiaInterface Design, Flash and Actionscript for CMS integration.

Folk og Natur - Educational series

folk og naturInterface Design, Flash

OpenWebSoftware

Working partly from colombia partly from wherever I am in the world, My experience working with openwebsoft, an opensource internet solutions company, can be summed up as:

  • Interface designer
  • Design and Communication consultant
  • front-end developer

Some examples of my work with Open Web Software:

Nuestra gran obra es Colombia - Online version of a coffee table book

Nuestra gran obra es ColombiaInterface Design, front end building, CSS, XHTML, ActionScript

Open Web Software - Open source internet solutions

OpenwebosftInterface Design, Joomla CMS front end building, CSS, XHTML, Flash

Onscreen creative

As part of the onscreencreative team I worked developing actionscript code for a series of dynamic flash sites. These are sites that allow complete client control within a creative design layout where all images and text are updatable using a CMS (content management system). In general I was in charge of developing:

  • Frontend - backend communication (actionscript – php)
  • Site navigation
  • Site interactivity

Warren suicide - german rock band.

warren suicideThe message board in the community section, and the little mp3 player in the discography section.

Zero Seven - UK band

zero SevenActionscript for the dynamic content and images, and the mp3 player.

Love Actually the movie

love actuallyLoads of love, actually.

Tamarin design

The most interesting thing about the many projects I participated in while working for tamarin were the CD and website projects that involved the development of interactive multimedia for educational purposes. It ranged from simple flash games to more advanced applications such as drawing, animation, image, video and sound editing applications. It was both good fun and an immense source of learning and inspiration in three of my main interests, design, programming and education.

Examples can be shown on request.

Technical skills

Software - as a designer, as a teacher, as a student.

Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Freehand, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Image ready, inDesign, Acrobat, Sound forge.

Coding - as a programmer, as a teacher, as a student.

ActionScript, XHTML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. I have also been exposed to and possess basic knowledge of PHP, MySQL, C++, Java.