Alvaro Ortiz

Current

Founder and CEO at La Coctelera
Partner & User Experience Manager at nvivo.es

Past

CTO at The Cocktail
User Experience & Web Standards Consultant at The Cocktail
Founding Partner at Interactors

Freelance web developer at Freelance (Self-employed)
Diseñador Junior at Netjuice

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Education

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Alvaro Ortiz’s Summary

Exploring new ways of consuming media, its intersection with personal knowledge management and the building of social capital in networks, enhancing the user experience, marketing strategy, and product design using web standards and free software.

Alvaro Ortiz’s Specialties:

Communities, user experience, free software, open standards, semantic web, syndicating media.

Personal weblog: http://www.furilo.com

Alvaro Ortiz’s Experience

Founder and CEO

La Coctelera

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Partner & User Experience Manager

nvivo.es

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
CTO

The Cocktail

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 5 months)

Managing product development, hosting operations (production environment and internal tools), recruitment. We have built a production team from 0 to 15 people including frontend developers, Ruby On Rails developers and sysadmins.

Development from scratch of The Shaker a CMS and community platform build on Ruby On Rails - More info at http://www.the-shaker.com/
User Experience & Web Standards Consultant

The Cocktail

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

February 2004 — February 2006 (2 years 1 month)

User Experience, IA, Web Standards, Free Software consulting, Trend Analysis, Blog + Social Networks based Knowledge Management, new media product design and strategy.

Clients include Telefónica, Correos, Prisacom, Vocento, Fulbright España...
Founding Partner

Interactors

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

September 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 1 month)

Interactors is a free software company: we do consulting, development and training around free software.

We have helped and built OpenMute (Internet tools for cultural and community organisations - http://www.openmute.org), Eccoeuropa ECCE Online Campus...

http://www.interactors.coop
Freelance web developer
Freelance (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

February 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 8 months)

Freelance web developer working for small companies and developing my own projects (sonicwavemagazine.com, ania.urcm.net, otrademocraciaesposible.net...).

HCI, HTML+CSS, PHP+MySQL...
Diseñador Junior

Netjuice

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

July 1998 — February 2001 (2 years 8 months)

Graphic, HTML + CSS design for clients as Mapfre, Maninvest, Baquia.com, SportArea.com, Bodaclick...

Alvaro Ortiz’s Education

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Licenciado , Comunicación Audiovisual , September 1998 — June 2003

Additional Information

Alvaro Ortiz’s Websites:

Alvaro Ortiz’s Groups:

StreetTech
Cadius
Online marketing
Spanish Connection
Fireworks Users
vivu
Agile Project Managers
BarCampBank
GUERRILLA AND NON CONVENTIONAL MARKETING!
Social Media Marketing Spain
The Cocktail
Web 3.0 y Redes Sociales: diseño, programacion, marketing y publicidad. Socios, trabajos
International Entrepreneurs in Madrid
Club de Lectura de Marketing Online - The Monday Reading Club