Web designer, UI developer and web architect with a 10 years experience designing and implementing websites, web portals, catalogues, blogs, online newspapers and web-based GUI in general. His diversified background and his large set of skills let him focus on user experience without leaving out the technical, aestetic and functional aspect of the job.
from February 2005
Informa plc, London, UK
Responsible for the design of the look & feel, branding, UI/UX of several web portals, intranets, epapers and web based applications.
Implementation of XHTML/CSS templates supporting all the major browsers, implementation and debugging of Javascript scripts using Prototype, YUI and EXTjs, implementation of those templates on the application itself using JSTL in Spring/Hibernate/JSF apps.
Prototyping, wireframing, producing mockups and liasing with management to get designs, project plans or ideas signed off was also one of my main duties and was a big boost for my communication skills.
Being hired with the position of "Web Usability Evangelist" I would often be asked to give advices to management and/or to train developers on new technologies like CSS positioning and SEO techniques.
from February 2004 and December 2004
Methezine Consulting, London, UK
Assembly, co-ordination and instruction of a team of developers, designers and database programmers on the creation of a highly sophisticated web administration system in conjunction with a dynamic web portal for the public registration of non profit organisations & charities.
from April 2003 and December 2003
Truelite s.r.l, Florence, Italy
Design of the corporate logo, desing of a few printed brochures, design and implementation of the first corporate web site and of several UI for several web-based applications. Implementation of a few Drupal and Wordpress templates.
All of the mentioned jobs were assisted just by free software (Scite, Gimp, Sodipodi, Inkscape) on Debian machines, languages used included BASH, PHP and Python.
from April 2003 and September 2003
Itti.it, Florence, Italy
Design and implementation of UI/UX for web applications based on Jboss, using STRUTS.
Design and implementation of dynamic Flash catalogues (web and cd) rich in Actionscript.
from March 1999 and July 2003
Filarete.net, Florence, Italy
Design and implementation of the UI/UX of a quite complex portal for online hotel bookings (www.filarete.net), using STRUTS, Javascript for the admin section and Flash for the maps; tasks included Linux server management, Tomcat and Apache configuration, Mysql databases management, promotion on Google, marketing.
Design and implementation of dynamic Flash catalogues (web and cd) rich in Actionscript.
from September 1999 and September 2003
University of Florence, Italy
Passed many exams but never got the degree.