André Ribeirinho

Current

Co-Founder at Adegga.com

Past

Lead User Experience Designer at PT.com, SAPO
Web Developer at PT.com, SAPO
Internet Consultant at log - Open Source Consulting

Founder at Mobile Pay

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Education

Instituto Superior Técnico
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Eduardo Manchón (ainda.info) and Miquel Gallardo (www.evolucy.com)

Peter Merholz
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

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Industry

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André Ribeirinho’s Summary

André Ribeirinho, 30, is the co-founder Adegga.com, a Social Wine Discovery service that helps people to choose wine and wine producers to promote their brand. He's also a co-founder at Filmz.pt and an advisor at Tarpipe.

In the past his roles have included User Experience Designer, Usability Specialist and Information Architect. He's a Web Developer with broad experience in large scale Web Applications using open source technologies. André performs his best while working between technology and business development.

André Ribeirinho is very customer oriented and has strong entrepreneurial and business skills. He's knowledgeable about web marketing and search engine optimization. André is fluent both in English and French and he has been writing a blog for over 5 years.
In his spare time, Andre is an avid crafter with a thing for lamps. He can be contacted at andre@adegga.com

André Ribeirinho’s Specialties:

Entrepreneurship, bootstrapping business development, community management, social media specialist, user experience, information architecture, entrepreneurship, web development, search engine optimization, online marketing, web marketing, blogs, content management systems, LAMP, Perl, PHP, Smarty, Mason, XHTML, CSS, MySQL, Web Services

André Ribeirinho’s Experience

Co-Founder

Adegga.com

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

March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

Business development and Web Development
Lead User Experience Designer

PT.com, SAPO

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PT; Internet industry)

January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)

User Interface, Information Architecture, user-centered design techniques, design, development and testing.

Consistency - collaborate with project teams in the organization to establish, maintain, and apply a consistent visual design language throughout the company products.

User Experience Design Standards and guidelines – Ensure user experience design concepts and solutions are captured and factored into the company’s knowledge repository and shared throughout the organization.
Web Developer

PT.com, SAPO

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

March 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 11 months)

Web Developer, Managing, Planning and Developing large scale Web Applications, Deployment of Content Management Systems, Bricolage, User Experience, Usability and Information Architecture Consulting, Perl, Mason, PHP, MySQL, PostGresSQL, XHTML, CSS and SOAP programming.
Internet Consultant

log - Open Source Consulting

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

November 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Web Developer, Managing, Planning and Developing large scale Web Applications, Deployment of Content Management Systems, Bricolage, User Experience, Usability and Information Architecture Consulting, Perl, Mason, PHP, MySQL, PostGresSQL, XHTML, CSS and SOAP programming.
Founder

Mobile Pay

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

September 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 7 months)

Business Plan development, Venture Capital presentation, Business Strategy.

André Ribeirinho’s Education

Instituto Superior Técnico

Engineer , Computer Science , September 1996 — December 2005

Activities and Societies:

Subjects and projects include Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Networks, Compiler, ComputerGraphics and Artificial Intelligence.
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‘Building of Basecamp’ Workshop

The process of concepting, designing, developing, marketing, supporting, and maintaining a web application used by tens ofthousands of people worldwide (www.basecamphq.com).

Several different subjects were covered throughout the workshop: Strategic Thinking around the Product, Interface Design and Usability, Development and Engineering, Promotion, Testing and Updates, Help and Support.
Eduardo Manchón (ainda.info) and Miquel Gallardo (www.evolucy.com)

Specialized Course in Usability Methodologies

Theory and practice on the following Usability Methodologies: HeuristicsAnalysis and User Testing.
Information Architecture: the Card Sorting method.
Usability in other devices: mobiles, ATMs and tactile screens.
Peter Merholz

Designing the Next Generation of Web Applications

Elements of User Experience, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Strategy.
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Entrepreneurship course and Business Plan competition