Experienced Service Provider for the Costa Rican Offshore/Nearshore IT Sector
Costa Rica
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- Regional Coordinator - Costa Rica Office at AEG
- Production Manager at Schematic
- Project Manager & Creative Lead at AvVenta
- User Experience and Interaction Designer at AndreaTanzi.com (Self-employed)
- eBusiness Director at ArtinSoft
- Chairman at ACERPA
- Creative Lead at Azurian
- Project Manager at Cybernet (Sole Proprietorship)
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Andrea Tanzi’s Summary
I've worked within the Information Technology, Web and Software development sector in Costa Rica since the mid 90's. Most of the industry here provide off/nearshore services mainly to US, Canada and Western Europe.
I have an ample network of key players locally and internationally to continue helping the sector find new business opportunities and deals. That's the main goal of ITdecoded <www.itdecoded.com> my company that acts as an agent for Costa Rican companies that could provide the right value to a specific IT project or need.
I also provide thru AndreaTanzi.com <www.andreatanzi.com> the content/marketing services and resources needed to succeed in their business deals.
In summary I strive to promote the great and immense IT talent available here and which conditions are to great advantage to the IT demands worldwide.
Andrea Tanzi’s Specialties:
Sourcing and Recruiting focused on IT
IT production/development lifecycle
eBusiness Strategy and Marketing
Creative perspective
User Experience
and Client Services
Andrea Tanzi’s Experience
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Regional Coordinator - Costa Rica Office
AEG
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — December 2007 (3 months)
In charge of Recruiting, Regional Networking, Project Management, Process Quality Assurance and Opportunity Scoping
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Production Manager
Schematic
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)
Liaison of production of the Costa Rica office to our Los Angeles headquarters as well as out other offices in New York, Boston and Atlanta. This means coordinating production's resources for projects both client facing and internal; training for emerging technologies and for position upgrading. Constantly improving process and life cycle to best serve project's needs while maintaining best production quality and resource use mix.
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Project Manager & Creative Lead
AvVenta
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — January 2007 (3 months)
I manage the Interaction Agency accounts that give service to digital production clients such as BlackBerry.com and ESPN.com among many others. My team is in charge of web development and CMS actualization and renewal.
I also act as creative consultant on other PM's projects were the use of UXA tools such as Personas, Task Analysis, Wireframes, Scenarios and the likes are a relevant and decisive part of the direction in which application development goes. -
User Experience and Interaction Designer
AndreaTanzi.com (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
January 1997 — November 2006 (9 years 11 months)
I have been and still am an Independent Consultant specialized in eBusiness Projects, particularly the designing of the strategy, the user experience and the interaction. During the time I have also been employeed, but always found time to do consulting and training work on the side.
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eBusiness Director
ArtinSoft
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
November 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 4 months)
I was inn charge of eBusiness at this Software Development Firm, the biggest one at the time in the country. My responsabilities included, eBusiness roadmap, value creation estrategies, developments, implementations, integrations, marketing, positioning, ecommerce, project management. I had two employees under and worked side by side with Sales and Marketing.
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Chairman
ACERPA
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
2001 — 2004 (3 years)
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Creative Lead
Azurian
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
November 2000 — July 2002 (1 year 9 months)
I was in charge of the Creative Area of the Central American Division of this eBusiness Latin America Consulting Firm. Its headquarters were in Miami and it employeed people in 8 different countries in Latin America. We had international staffing meaning we would work in any project that required our expertise no matter the area. I had the most experience and training at this job that sadly ended because of bankrupcy due to the crash of the internet and lack of budgets sizeble enough. The Creative Lead supervised Information Architectures, User Experience and Interaction Designers, Content Editors and Creators, User Center Designers and Usability Engineers.
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Project Manager
Cybernet (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2000 — October 2000 (8 months)
I was the boss of 15 Graphic Designers and 10 Programers the produced mostly websites but also CD Roms. I would acompany Sales Executives to client's meetings, write requirements and business specs and develop documents for the Designers and programers to produce websites or cd's. I would be in charge of HR and production.
Additional Information
Andrea Tanzi’s Websites:
Andrea Tanzi’s Groups:
SIG CHI Costa Rica Chapter, SIG IA, Boxes and Arrows
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Hi-Tech Subcontractor and Outsourcing Network member
Andrea Tanzi’s Contact Settings
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