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INTERMITTENLY SINCE JANUARY 2004

Freelance Senior Product Designer

I design user-friendly interactive solutions for web sites and applications, including content-rich, consumer-facing products. In-depth knowledge of user-centered design processes, techniques and tools as well as common user interface patterns.

APR 2016 – SEP 2018

Head of User Experience Design at The North Studio

An independent digital studio created to focus in building digital experiences through products, services and campaigns. Two side role, a product designer and a UX expert helper for the growing team.

SEP 2013 – APR 2016

Lead of Product Design and Co-founder at Apiumhub

Responsible of managing design teams based in Barcelona and Vietnam and designing projects of all nature following agile methodologies.

2016

Innovation Awards Honoree for Tech for a Better World

For Jacoti Hearing Suite, an assistive listening solution for classrooms,meeting rooms, and lecture halls that provides low-latency multi-peer audio streaming over consumer-grade Wi-Fi.

2012

Best design multiplatform application

Norman Nielsen Group Award for Dixio application (developed by Semantix) resulted awarded as one of the best design multiplatform applications in 2012.

ETERNAL LEARNER

I follow first class people and companies in the matter, read tones of newsletters and books and watch video channels to learn new skills.

2012

Normal Nielsen Group 

Amsterdam – Netherlands

2007 – 2008

Industrial Design, Technical Engineering

Fachhochschule Düsseldorf – Germany

2004- 2008 

Industrial Design, Technical Engineering

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia – Spain

2001- 2003 

Master in designing and creating websites

Madrid – Spain 

SOME WORDS THAT DEFINE ME...

Without fancy sentences, these words define me: friendly, outgoing, multicultural, nomad, familiar, nature, beach, sailing, animal lover, minimalism design, travel.

READINGS

I read a lot, mostly related with my passion which is design but I also have interest in topics such productivity, new skills, management and artificial inteligence among others.

SPORTS

I need to sport everyday. I’ve tried many kinds but lately I am enjoying a lot boxing mixed with HIIT and weight lifting.

TRAVELLING

Who doesn’t like travelling? I just love it. From time to time I like to plan a long trip, normaly I do solo travel but I try to meet other friends around the globe. Last one was Japan and Croatia and next one will be Australia.

EATING

Super big fan of fresh and homemade food. I cook a lot but I also enjoy eating outside. Super lover of sushi and Pho soup.

LIVING

Currently based in Barcelona but I’ve lived also in other countries such USA, Germany and Vietnam.

PHOTOGRAPHY

I love taking and editing pictures. Not a rock star about at all.

Some shots of my life...

CHECK SOME OF MY CASE STUDIES TO KNOW BETTER HOW I WORK

Ideation, creation and design of  an medical online network to help people with spine cord injuries.

Conceptualization and execution of a internal social platform to increase job employment.

Helping Hello Customer to increase their value to the users adding new features in their existing product.

Redesign to enrich users experience and add value of this online tool to preview 3D renders in the browser.

Strategy, ideation and design of a mobile payments solution for leisure events.

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