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UX Content Designer/ UX Researcher - MSc. Software Engineer - MA Cultural & Creative Industries
Bogotá, Colombia

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Jobs 45% verified
  • Blackboard Inc
    UX Content Designer
    Remote experience
    Blackboard Inc
    Oct 2020 - Current (3 years 7 months)
    Blackboard is a leading EdTech company serving higher education, K-12, business and government clients around the world. We connect a deep understanding of education with the power of technology to continuously push the boundaries of learning.
  • Bunny Studio
    UX Researcher
    Verified experience
    Remote experience
    Bunny Studio
    Jul 2020 - Oct 2020 (4 months)
    - To support and advise in a freelance capacity the efforts of the UX Research team for the Bunny Studio platform further development.
  • Rose Global
    Product Designer (Freelance project)
    Verified experience
    Remote experience
    Rose Global
    Oct 2019 - Jan 2020 (4 months)
    Freelance Product and UX Designer
  • Torre
    UX Researcher
    Verified experience
    Remote experience
    Torre
    May 2017 - Nov 2019 (2 years 7 months)
    • UX Researcher within the Company's Product Department in charge of devising, reporting and performing several tests including usability, desirability, exploratory, automated and accessibility tests as well as their correspondent analysis for the core business engine and other R&D special projects. Worked very close with Product Design (UX Design) and reported directly to Product Management. • Shape and create the role within the team as the product development advanced, leading to its consolidation and training other aspiring UX Researchers from other company units in the process, leading the corresponding UX Braintrusts. • Part of the core, original team behind the new remote work disrupting platform Torre.co which has been more than two
  • Torre
    UX Researcher and tester
    Verified experience
    Torre
    Mar 2017 - May 2017 (3 months)
    Junior UX Testing Coordinator within the Company's Product Department in charge of performing several tests including usability, desirability, exploratory, manual regression, automated and accessibility tests for the core business engine and other R&D special projects, as well as the correspondent analysis. Support Product Managers in their testing duties and the technology and operations teams in general with all feedback, ideas, and improvements for running and prospective products, by including a client's perspective.
  • Bunny Inc
    UX Testing Coordinator
    Verified experience
    Bunny Inc
    Jan 2017 - Feb 2017 (2 months)
    Junior UX Testing Coordinator within the Company's Product Department in charge of performing several tests including usability, desirability, exploratory, manual regression, automated and accessibility tests for the core business engine and other R&D special projects, as well as the correspondent analysis. Support Product Managers in their testing duties and the technology and operations teams in general with all feedback, ideas and improvements for running and prospective products, by including a client's perspective.
  • Fundación Teatro Libre
    Deputy Director (Subdirector)
    Fundación Teatro Libre
    Nov 2012 - Aug 2015 (2 years 10 months)
    • Main advisor in all areas for the Executive Director, primarily those related to managing special projects and external relations. Cultural, creative and administrative liaison for the Theatre Company and top-level national and international partner institutions, and representation for the Theatre at international business fairs as VIA (framed at the Iberoamerican Theatre Festival in Bogotá), and MICSUR (first international culture market of South American industries in Mar del Plata, Argentina). • Project manager for the different initiatives of cooperation between the Theatre and the public sector (Colombian Ministry of Culture, IDARTES, City of Bogotá's Culture and Sports Secretary, several embassies, etc). Participation of the Theatre
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    Assitant to Director
    Remote experience
    Colombiage
    Jun 2011 - Nov 2012 (1 year 6 months)
    The role was performed in parallel to the MA of Art studies, while writing the final dissertation paper, with the purpose of getting work and charitable work experience in London, striving at the same time to support Colombian culture knowledge, and efforts of this Colombian community to promote its goodness and richness to the UK and London people. Some of the role's many tasks comprised: • Front of the house officer for both internal and external customers. • Programming the different events, including liaising with artists, venues, providers and customers, and fundraising initiatives. • Updating and managing the Festival’s website and social media platforms. • Serving as a fixer/translator for BBC Radio 4 projects, partially based in Co
  • K
    Student Ambassador
    Verified experience
    King's College London
    Oct 2010 - Jan 2012 (1 year 4 months)
    Awarded with the ‘Highly Commended International Student Ambassador Award’ 2010 – 2011 for this position. The role of Student Ambassador was performed In parallel with the MA studies for the International Marketing Department of the University on a casual basis. It comprised tasks such as: • Internet marketing research for new opportunities in Latin America and consolidation of the information related both in a database and on the official University's marketing website. • Counseling, practical information provider, office and events assistant and tour guide for campus and residence tours for international academic officers, prospective students and parents. • Marketing efforts and representation on-site for the University at student fairs
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    Computer & Software Engineer Consultant, Digital Artist, Web & Media Designer
    Freelancer
    May 2007 - Sep 2010 (3 years 5 months)
    As part of a much deserved and enriching freelance experience, many of the projects self-developed required: • Lead customer meetings and presentations to establish graphic and technical requirements for the current projects. • Negotiate budget, time, quality and software UI requirements with customers. • Supervise and manage junior developers to comply with the agreed graphic designs and user interface styles. • Design, create and deliver different graphic materials for web sites and printed uses such as media developments, animations, logos, product labels, and brochures. Customers included: Viale Food Products, CIFI Universidad de los Andes - Colombian Ministry of Communications and TICs, GestionTEK S.A., Parvasoft Ltda.
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    Front-end developer -> Deseloper -> QA Manager -> Project Manager
    Verified experience
    GestionTEK
    Jan 2003 - May 2007 (4 years 5 months)
    • Support the CEO Office and Marketing Department with project consultancy, prospective high profile customer presentations, videos and printed material for submission to clients. • Lead periodical high profile customer meetings related to the project development, timeline, budget, technical requirements, and graphic design as well as handling public relations. • Design, develop and produce all graphic interfaces and multimedia products, and establish the corresponding different user interface directives. • Supervise, guide and manage junior developers. • Produce user manuals and customer documentation for projects as well as for the Quality Assurance corporate system. • Key customers included: Colombian Ministry of Finances, Ministry of E
  • Portales Urbanos S.A.
    Webmaster
    Portales Urbanos S.A.
    Jan 2003 - Jun 2004 (1 year 6 months)
    Main responsibilities: • To design and develop the company's website for the project 'Portal de la 80' while the shopping centre was still under construction. • Corporate mail administrator. • Internal IT customer service and support on a part-time basis.
  • Alcatel-Lucent
    Webmaster/Assitant to the IT Director
    Alcatel-Lucent
    Mar 2001 - Dec 2002 (1 year 10 months)
    This role was performed in parallel with the MSc in Software and Computing Engineering studies on a part time basis. The main responsibilities of the role included: • Internal customer service and support for custom IT applications. • To perform as executive assistant to the IT Director and especially as a translator and support for the Latin American IT Board teleconferences, and communications with IT personnel in Canada and USA. • Design and development of graphic and text content for both Internet and Intranet in close liaison with Marketing and Quality Assurance corporate departments.
  • Opus Ingeniería
    Interface designer
    Opus Ingeniería
    1999
    This role was performed in parallel with the undergraduate studies to be awarded a Computer Science Bachelor degree, on a part time basis. The main responsibilities attached to it were: • Design and developing of the user interfaces for the biggest project in the company. A web portal for academic and administrative services for the public at the Educational National Service. • To produce all documentation and manuals for those developments.
  • Universidad de los Andes
    Arts and Humanities Department webmaster
    Universidad de los Andes
    Sep 1998 - Dec 1998 (4 months)
  • Universidad de los Andes
    DTI web designer
    Universidad de los Andes
    1998
Education 16% verified
  • Stanford University
    Endeavor
    Stanford - Endeavor Growth Innovation Program 2017
    Verified experience
    Stanford University, Endeavor
    Aug 2017
    The Stanford-Endeavor Innovation and Growth Program is designed specifically for Endeavor Entrepreneurs by Stanford GSB and Endeavor.
  • California Institute of the Arts
    Game Design: Art and Concepts Specialization
    Remote experience
    California Institute of the Arts
    Sep 2015 - Jan 2016 (5 months)
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    MA Cultural and Creative Industries
    King's College London
    Sep 2010 - Jun 2012 (1 year 10 months)
    Subjects included: • Analysing the Cultural and Creative Industries • Contested Culture • Art of Management & Management of Art (With Professor Nick Wilson) • Cultural Policy (With Professor Hye-Kyung Lee) • Research Approaches, and • Contextualising Creativity (With Professor Nick Wilson) Dissertation: "Following the Fox Trail: Animal representation in British animation for children"
  • Naska Digital
    Advanced 3D Animation in Maya (Character creation & rigging)
    Naska Digital
    Mar 2009 - May 2009 (3 months)
  • Universidad de los Andes
    MSc, Software & Computing Engineering
    Universidad de los Andes
    Jan 2001 - Sep 2003 (2 years 9 months)
  • Universidad de los Andes
    Engineer, Computer & Software
    Verified experience
    Universidad de los Andes
    Jan 1996 - Sep 2001 (5 years 9 months)
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    Children's books illustration
    RODEZ - Graphic Artist and Visual Communicator Workshops
  • Escuela Nacional de Caricatura y Comunicación Gráfica
    Fantastic illustration
    Escuela Nacional de Caricatura y Comunicación Gráfica
Projects 65% verified
  • Bogotá ACM SIGGRAPH
    ACM Bogotá SIGGRAPH
    Verified experience
    Bogotá ACM SIGGRAPH
    Feb 2019 - Current (5 years 3 months)
    - Board member - Volunteer - International speakers coordinator Bogotá ACM SIGGRAPH is the Bogotá located volunteer chapter for the world renowned ACM SIGGRAPH organization, which seeks to promote and educate the animation arts in Colombia.
  • Torre
    WITs - Women In Technology (Torre Social)
    Verified experience
    Torre
    Jul 2017 - Current (6 years 10 months)
    - Leading the group for Q1-2018 Contribute to organize events Research Outreach to key people and institutions
  • Torre
    Torre
    Verified experience
    Remote experience
    Torre
    Jan 2017 - Current (7 years 4 months)
    - UX Researcher We are disrupting the the remote and freelancing arena with a revolutionary AI-supported platform that strives to truly make work fulfilling for all!
  • Fundación Teatro Libre
    En Voz Alta
    Fundación Teatro Libre
    Feb 2015 - Sep 2015 (8 months)
    - Original idea with Diego García-Moreno Created original idea for a TV educational series: 'En Voz Alta' (along with documentalist Diego Garcia from Lamaraca Producciones), and core production team participant. This TV series aimed to rescue and preserve valuable knowledge and experience from veteran actors of Teatro Libre Artistic Group in order to improve their financial income as well as to provide general audiences with an important and unique recorded source of knowledge available to all. A total of 17 episodes were transmitted starting on September 2015, via Canal Capital, Colombia.
  • Fundación Teatro Libre
    Festival Internacional de Jazz
    Fundación Teatro Libre
    Nov 2012 - Aug 2015 (2 years 10 months)
    - Organizing the festival line-up, Institutional contact, Contracts signing, Fixer, Translator.
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    B
    BBC Radio 3's 2012 World Routes Academy program
    Colombiage, BBC London
    Mar 2012 - Jul 2012 (5 months)
    - Guide, fixer and translator for the BBC Radio 3 production crew during their trip to Bogotá and Cartagena. A beautiful innitiative from BBC, Radio 3, where they pair the winner of a contest, a British musician of foreign ancestry to a Master mentor from the same country of origin of their ancestry, in order for the apprentice to learn and improve the traditional music of the aforementioned country. The 2012 World Routes Academy scheme focuses on Colombia, following 19-year-old accordion player José Hernando Noguera and his mentor Egidio Cuadrado, a leading Vallenato accordionist. The aim was for José Hernando to participate as a formal contestan at the Vallenato Legend Festival in Valledupar that year.
  • C
    Colombiage
    Verified experience
    Colombiage
    Jun 2011 - Nov 2012 (1 year 6 months)
    - Perform assistent duties to the Festival Director in all fronts. Webmaster. Voluntary work. The UK’s most influential celebration of contemporary Colombian arts and culture. Colombiage was launched in 2007 with the aim of showing the rest of the world the diversity of Colombian culture while giving birth to a creative platform of intercultural exchange between Colombia and the UK.
  • K
    CMMI Singers
    King's College London
    Nov 2010 - Jun 2011 (8 months)
    - Soprano voice
  • Universidad de los Andes
    University of Los Andes Choir
    Verified experience
    Universidad de los Andes
    Jan 1997 - Dec 2002 (6 years)
    - Soprano voice The University of Los Andes Choir ( Coro de la Universidad de los Andes) was founded in 1961 within the Singer Students Clubs movement (Clubes de Estudiantes Cantores) by Master Amalia Samper Gnecco, whom directed it for more than 40 years (1961 – 2003). It has been also directed by: Manuel Cubides Greiffenstein (2003 – 2004), Juanita Eslava (2005 – 2008) and Roger Díaz Cajamarca (2008). Since January, 2009 the Director is Carolina Gamboa Hoyos.
  • Torre
    Research: Torre Remote
    Verified experience
    Torre
    - UX Researcher Usability, desirability and value testing Product improvement from the users' perspective
  • Torre
    Torre Hackaton 2017
    Verified experience
    Torre
    - Character design, Computer graphics, Character animation, T-shirt logo design
Awards 40% verified
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    IDEO Org
    Statement of Accomplishment - Introduction to Human-Centered Design
    Verified experience
    +Acumen, IDEO Org
    May 2017 - Jul 2017 (3 months)
    Human-centered design (HCD) is a creative approach to problem-solving pioneered by the design firm IDEO. An intensive, hands-on learning experience that challenges students to get out of their chair and out into the real world to talk to people and test ideas, leaving them equipped and energized to apply the human-centered design process to challenges across industries, sectors, and geographies to generate breakthrough ideas.
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    Graduated with Merit
    King's College London
    Jun 2012
    - Dissertation: Following the fox trail: animal representation in Children's British Animation MA Cultural and Creative Industries
  • K
    Highly Commended Student Ambassador
    Verified experience
    King's College London
    Dec 2011
  • C
    Matrícula de honor (several times), Best ICFES of Class 1995
    Colegio Alvernia
    Dec 1990 - Dec 1995 (5 years 1 month)