Curriculum Vitae
adinolfi raffaele UX designer & team leader
personal details
date and place of birth 28/01/1977 Turin (Italy)nationality Italian
mobile phone +39 339 5676748 email address [email protected]
online portfolio www.raffaeleadinolfi.it
twitter @privacydenied
career objectives
My career objectives are primarily focused on user research, user-centered design and usability testing, in order to create great experiences on web, desktop and mobile applications.
To lead a project and a ux team from start to end, passing through all the 5 planes of UX (strategy, scope, structure, skeleton and surface).
To perform contextual user researches using quantitative and qualitative methodologies, providing functional specification documents approved by stakeholders and SMEs.
To design usable and compelling interfaces, giving particular attention to details and accessibility.
To build working prototypes using DHTML, CSS and JS for usability testing purposes and analyze the results.
To give final mockups for presentation purposes.
To play a significant role in the product improvement process, to co-ordinate workflows and strategies, to be user-advocate every day.
abilities
UX team leaderuser experience designer
software designer (assessed by ACS Australia) UI designer
usability expert
accessibility expert (W3C WCAG)
team leader and player in Agile environments (SCRUM) senior web developer (DHTML, CSS, Ajax, jQuery, PHP, MySQL)
CMS/CRM designer & developer graphic designer (medium)
network administrator (certified by CISCO) system administrator
generic IT consultant
ux skills
user research qualitative and quantitative methods (contextual inquiry, one-on-one interviews, surveys, card sorting, competitor review,shadowing, etc.)
design white napkins for sketches; Adobe Illustrator for IA;
Omnigraffle PRO or Axure RP for wireframes; Adobe Photoshop for mockups;
prototyping high fidelity prototypes in DHTML, CSS and AJAX / jQuery
usability testing paper and pen for brain recording;
Camstasia / Dragon Speech for digital recording;
evaluation heuristics and reports (most google analytics)
background
design 5+ years of user-centered design
development 12+ years of HTML, XHTML Transitional & Strict, DHTML, CSS 2.0, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, XSL, XML
oop 7 years on PHP / 3yrs on ASP, C++
dbms 8+ years on MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access
job environments Agile, SCRUM master and player
web applications Content Managament System (CMS), Content relationship Management (CRM), E-commerce with secure transitions (POS, credit cards, encryption data), Mail server
management, Fax server management, Sms gateway management, GPS web system management
networking CISCO Router management and configuration, CISCO Switch management and configuration, CISCO Firewall management and configuration, Routing protocols, troubleshooting on CISCO routers, switches and firewalls systems Installation, configuration and optimization of Windows,
Linux and Mac OS
dev tools Macromedia Dreamweaver, Aptana, Eclipse, Firebug, FTP clients, SQL clients
hardware installation and configuration assembled Pcs
education
Aug 2010 Master in IT - Human Computer Interaction
UTS Australia.
Dec 2006 Bachelor Degree in Computer Science - HCI
issued in 2006 by University of Salerno (Italy). Case of study: “University Content Management System: analysis,
design and development”
Jul 1996 Diploma
High Secondary School in Scientific subjects
Jun 1986 Diploma
International School of English (5 years)
certificates
Sep 2009 Australian Computer Society
software designer
Sep 2009 IELTS certificate
overall band score 6.5
Jul 2007 Industrial CISCO Certified Network Associate
CCNA 640-801
Jan 2006 Certificate of teaching
for XHTML strict and transitional, css, content management system and database design issued by University of Salerno (Italy)
Jun 2006 CISCO CCNA
Apr 2006 CISCO CCNA
Module 3 Certificate
Feb 2006 CISCO CCNA
Module 2 Certificate
Oct 2005 CISCO CCNA
Module 1 Certificate
May 2003 Security and Wireless Technology
Webbit Certificate
awards
2005 Progeto ABE - Abbattimento Barriere Elettroniche
1st classified for “best accessibility” at Web Designer
Awards sponsored by Macromedia
2004 XX Compasso d’oro ADI – Progetto Giovani
ADI Index Design publication of
“progetto ABE abbattimento barriere elettroniche”
2004 Usability Award 2004 sponsored by SIE
Italian Ergonomy Society
employment
2011 Indesit Company S.p.A. (Italy, UK, Poland, Russia)
UX team leader, UX assessment of company intranet system called Insight
Reference: Tina Maria Romano ([email protected])
2007 – 10 HRX Pty (Sydney)
UX designer and Senior web developer Reference:
David Parker ([email protected])
2005 - 07 Brain Computing S.p.A. (Rome)
UX designer and usability / accessibility expert Reference:
Carmine Lamberti ([email protected])
2003 – 05 University of Salerno (Italy)
Software Designer, Senior Web developer, accessibility expert
Reference:
2002 – 03 Progetto ABE Abbattimento Barriere Elettroniche
a project for realization of accessible and usable web sites
- Senior Web developer, usability and accessibility expert
Reference:
Vittorio Arenella ([email protected])
2001 – 02 ANS Ricerca e Innovazione (Italy)
an IT company for public institutes – web developer and web usability consultant
1999 – 01 GlobalInfoSystem (Italy)
Web developer, system and network administrator
1999 – 01 Teacher for ECDL (European Computer Drive License)
seminars and conventions
Aug 2009 UX Australia 09
Canberra
Mar 2004 Seminar on accessibility and usability of the Web
ISIA, Rome
Nov 2003 ICT Convention upon new technologies for disabled people
Caserta (Italy)
languages
English Ielts Certificate
expert level, both spoken and written
Spanish learning
Italian native
