since April 2009
Web designer, UI developer and web architect with a 10 years+ experience designing, testing, refactoring and implementing websites and web applications in general: usability and user experience, implementation and scalability, look & feel and branding to data analysis and business strategies. His experience, boosted by working in many different international teams, ranges the small website for the local business, to the world large top5 travel portal; all this in the publishing, travel and fashion industry as well as of course the IT sector.
Experience
May 2005 - December 2010
Florence, Italy
Goldworld.it
Web designer, web master, project manager
February 2005 - February 2009
London, UK
Informa plc
Web designer
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.
February 2004 - December 2004
London, UK
Methezine Consulting
Web developer, web designer, project manager
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.
April 2003 - December 2003
Florence, Italy
Truelite s.r.l
Web designer, graphic designer / marketing
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.
April 2003 - September 2003
Florence, Italy
Itti.it
Web designer, web master, web developer, sysadmin
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.
March 1999 - July 2003
Florence, Italy
Filarete.net
Web architect, web master, web developer, sysadmin
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.
Education
University of Florence, Italy
Electronic engineering
September 1999 - September 2003
Passed many exams but never got the degree.
Liceo Scientifico Gobetti, Florence, Italy
High school degree
September 1993 - June 1999
Focused on scientific subjects such as Maths, Chemistry and Physics as well as Latin and Italian Literature
Languages
- Italian Mother Language
- I'm italian, born and grown up in Florence, where I lived for 24 years.
- English Fluent
- 5+ years in London did the trick.
- French Intermediate/conversational
- Learnt by chance over a 2 years period... for a girl of course.
- Spanish Basic
- I'm italian, I've been there many times... forgot how to speak while learning french.
Interests
- Photography
- Working mostly in digital lately, I'm yet another street photographer wannabe.
- Wildwater canoeing and kayaking
- more than 12 years at semi-professional level
Me online
- Flickr Photostream
- www.flickr.com/photos/fabiovenni
- Linkedin profile
- www.linkedin.com/in/fabiovenni
- www.facebook.com/fabiovenni
- Delicious
- www.delicious.com/fabiovenni
