Davide Scalzo

User Experience Architect, Interface Developer

Having experience from working in both creative and technical positions, I have an understanding of how to meet the user needs without driving the developers mad. I aim to always improve my skill-set and the projects I am working on, and making money out of them for me and my employer (we all like money!).

Experience

QuBit Digital

User Experience Architect

February 2011

Preparing personas, taskflows, wireframes, prototypes. Conducting usability testing, paper prototyping, and developing interfaces for Analytics and Consultancy web-apps.

British Interactive Media Awards

Project Manager/ Information Architect

November 2010

Briefing and scoping of the project, defining user group and target location, defining personas, user journeys, defining information flow (both in physical and projected space), writing requirements for interaction designer and developer, designing database, ensuring effective time and costs management, developing of minor features as satellite comment website and dealing with suppliers.

TDG Integrated

Front End Developer

October 2010

Agency contract - Front end development for a global investment company website, the role involved the conversion of psd designs into a Word-presss template using XHTML, CSS, Javascript (JQuery), customization of PHPplug-ins.. Although it was a strictly front end position, it also involved fixes to the back-end MySQL database and usability and accessibility consultancy.

Green Lens Studios

UX / UI Designer and Front End Development

February 10 - September 2010

The role involved providing wire-frames to the designer, converting the designs in a Word-press theme using XHTML, CSS, Javascript (Jquery), usability testing, online marketing and accessibility consultancy.

Less Common More Sense

Interface Design and Development

November 09 - June 2010

The role involved designing site structure, information architecture writing UX requirements, designing wire-frames and producing Word-press theme with XHTML,CSS, Jquery, plug-ins tweaking, and customization of word-press platform native code, controlled vocabulary and usability testing.

Ecubing

Webmaster

February 08 - May 09

The role involved taking over web site projects from scratch to the final product. Briefing and scoping with the client, site structures, wire-frames, design, development (HTML, CSS, Flash), dealing with clients, estimating timing and cots and deploying on hosting platforms.

Education

MA Interactive Media

London College of Communication

2010

Dissertation title: Is it possible to combine sandbox mechanichs and emergent narrative succesfully?

Yacht Designer Diploma

Politea

2009

Autodesk Advanced Rendering Certifcate

Eureka

2008

(BA) Laurea in Disegno Industriale

Universitá degli studi di Palermo - Facoltá di Architettura (BA level, Industrial Design)

2008

Graphic Designer Diploma

Eris

2006

Main Skills

User Centred Design and Usability

Very Proficient

Axure/Visio

Proficient

Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver

Very Proficient

HTML/CSS/Javascript

Very Proficient

Wordpress/PHP

Proficient