Alberto LaCalle

Current

Founder and managing director at albertolacalle.com

Past

Content and design consultant at SERIKAT Consultoría e Informática, S.A.
Interaction designer / usability expert at hispavista.com
User interface designer at Medianet Software

Web Designer at Fundación Universidad de la Rioja

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Education

The Open University
The Open University
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

The Open University
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Tracor
Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Alberto LaCalle’s Summary

albertolacalle.com is a Spain based consulting and software design firm.

Our work ensures high-quality software with measurable performance.

We apply user-centered and usability engineering principles
to make your product more cost effective, efficient and useful.

Alberto LaCalle’s Specialties:

* Editorial content
* Functional design
* Information Architecture
* Interaction design
* Design and management of processes
* Usability evaluation

Alberto LaCalle’s Experience

Founder and managing director

albertolacalle.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Content and design consultant

SERIKAT Consultoría e Informática, S.A.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2004 — March 2008 (4 years 2 months)

Functions: Identifying requirements, developing user model, designing and prototyping UI for interaction and validation activities: Produce storyboards, scenarios, flowcharts, prototypes. Direct work with final clients.

Projects: Web, intranet and content management systems for bizkaia.net and ulma-c.es. Lecturer at European Software Institute.
Interaction designer / usability expert

hispavista.com

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

June 2000 — February 2004 (3 years 9 months)

Functions: User and task scenarios. Creation of interactive and workflow processes. Design of user interface prototypes. Usability evaluation. Information architecture analyses. Functional specification. Quality Assurance documents. Production code in web technologies.

Projects: All the portal channels and services with more than 3,500,000 visitors and 84 million hits per month. Lecturer for entrepreneurs at CEIN.ES
User interface designer

Medianet Software

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2000 — May 2000 (4 months)

Functions: Information architecture and solutions for usability and UI design problems.

Projects: Web yearbook for the El País newspaper. BSCH intranet analysis and development.
Web Designer

Fundación Universidad de la Rioja

(E-Learning industry)

June 1999 — January 2000 (8 months)

Functions: Collaborator in the first online degree in one public Spanish university.

Projects: University foundation web site. Multimedia art direction. Content information architecture and visual design development.

Alberto LaCalle’s Education

The Open University

Postgraduate Course, Business operations: delivering value (T883), 2008 — 2008
The Open University

Postgraduate Course, Fundamentals of Interaction Design (M364), 2006 — 2006
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Postgraduate Course, Object-oriented software engineering, 2005 — 2005
The Open University

Postgraduate Course, User interface design and development (M867), 2001 — 2001
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.

Postgraduate, Expert on Internet media, 2000 — 2001
Tracor

MFA, Master of Fine Arts and Multimedia, 1996 — 1997
Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

BA in Communication - Advertising 1995

Merits: 5 year degree plan made in only 3.