I am a pro-active, entrepreneurial and experienced UX/Product Designer with a unique combined view due to artistic training and background complemented with years of professional technical work, fully capable of working on any role in the entire website lifecycle.
I possess an excellent ability to identify, analyse and solve complex problems, with efficient, cost-effective, money saving solutions that meet the company’s philosophy and quality standards.
Available from Q4 2018
Product/UX Designer at Your Company?
Jun’16 - Jun’17
Head of Product & Design at TenderScout
May’15 - May’16
Principal UX Architect at Logentries/Rapid7
Oct’14 - May’15
Information Architect / Design Lead at Fidelity Investments
Feb’13 - Jun’14
Senior UX Manager at Apierian Learning
Jul’11 - Aug’12
Web developer at Jugnoo, Inc.
May’11 - Feb’13
Founder at mblz.me
2002 - Today
Independent Consultant
I started working in Tenderscout in June 2016. Due to the small size of the team, my role is hybrid and spans multiple departments and responsibilities from which I highlight:
On Nov 30th, at the 21st eir Spider Awards, Tenderscout won Best Digital StartUp of the year and received The Grand Prix award, the highest accolade of The eir Spiders, for outstanding levels of achievement in the areas of technology, innovation, functionality & interactivity coupled with a world class user experience.
In May 2015 I began working as the Principal UX Architect for Logentries, an Irish startup leader in Log Management & Real-Time Analytics, where I lead a small team responsible for the entire in-app UX/UI and reporting directly to the VP of Product. I brought processes and methodologies that made Logentries a more user-centred organisation, and planned and executed on a large number of short to long term projects ranging from strategic to tactical to operational.
In October 2015, Logentries was acquired by Rapid7, a leading provider of security data and analytics solutions that enable organisations to implement an active, analytics-driven approach to cyber security, where I became UX Lead for the Search product.
From October 2014 till April 2015, I have worked as an Information Architect / Design Lead (contract) for Fidelity Investments, one of the largest mutual fund and financial services groups in the world, in their Continental Europe Site Redesign project, which aimed primarily at establishing a consistent Fidelity Digital User Experience across all European websites, while preserving the unique qualities of each local business and market. Under this scope, I was responsible for, and supported the team in:
From February 2013 till June 2014, I have worked as a Senior UX Manager for Apierian Learning, an Irish company based in Oslo.
My main duties were IA, UX, UI, CX, Web Design and Development, managing contractors and reporting directly to the COO.
Planned, designed and developed a niche online eLearning courses website in 3 months (clevercourses.ie).
Under this scope, I was responsible for:
On Nov 30th, at the 21st eir Spider Awards, Tenderscout won Best Digital StartUp of the year and received The Grand Prix award, the highest accolade of The eir Spiders, for outstanding levels of achievement in the areas of technology, innovation, functionality & interactivity coupled with a world class user experience.
From July 2011 to August 2012, I have worked as a full-time Consultant for Jugnoo, Inc, a Social CRM startup company based in Toronto, Canada. My main duties were planning, development and maintenance of all company’s web properties reporting directly to the CTO, which included:
In May 2011 I opened a small web studio, mblz.me (mobilize me), mainly devoted to mobile development, migration and integration in an effort to answer the growing volume of work I had in this area and to officialise a partnership with Pagelines, a SF based company, developer of the most advanced Wordpress Framework, of whom I was a recommended Professional partner. A month and a half later mblz.me led me to be contacted and offered a contract by Jugnoo, Inc, thus being placed in stand-by.
From October 2002 to present day, I have been working as a Freelancer, delivering services in Graphic and Web Design, Web Development, Consultancy, QA and Software Translation among others, for several clients based mainly in Europe and North America. Main areas of work include Web Marketing, Content Management & Strategy, Information Architecture, Advertising, SEO, SEM, Social Networking, e-Commerce, Responsive Web Design, Mobile conversion and optimisation, and Mobile UI & UX.
From 1999 to 2002, I worked at Cubo Mágico, LDA., as a Web Designer/Developer, Graphic Designer, and Project Manager in a multidisciplinary team who launched, managed and maintained a 19 website network in services, information and entertainment. http://web.archive.org/web/20031122062146/http://rede.aeiou.pt/
Internet Start-Up's pioneer in Portugal, as a co-founder of Prodigio – Produções Digitais Online (a company later on purchased by the Sonae Group) and of Ideia Visual – Comunicação e Design Interactivos, Lda., a company later on integrated into Esoterica – Novas Tecnologias de Informação, S.A., the first private ISP to operate in Portugal, where I held the position of Web & Product Development Manager from 1997 to 1999
ESAD - Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Higher School of Fine Arts and Design) — 3rd Year Attendance, 1993 - 1996
Hospitality exchange networks aim at making the world a better place by promoting tolerance, cultural interchange and personal development values, enabling a new way of traveling, bringing travellers closer to the places they visit, as well as their culture, habits, language and above all their people.
In the specific scope of CouchSurfing.com, the world’s largest web-based non-profit International Hospitality Exchange Organisation, I have performed the role of City Ambassador since the end of 2006 and became one of the 1,600 volunteers who manage 2,5 million members and did, among others, translating, group managing, event organisation and new members welcome.