Marketing Mgr. TENYUS SocialWare
Madrid Area, Spain
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- Marketing Mgr. at TENYUS SocialWare
- President at FUNDACIÓN TECNOLOGÍA SOCIAL (FTS)
- Freelance Consultant on training, information and social technology at Enrique Varela
- Head of R&D Department at FUNDACIÓN ONCE
- ICT translations and software localisation at Enrique Varela (Sole Proprietorship)
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- Director of Accesible ICT DPT at ABADÍA software
- Innovation, Accessibility and R&D at Il Village S.p.A.
- CEO at Technosite
- Head of R&D Department of CIDAT at ONCE
- Mgr of Tech DPT at CANAL 11
- Member of the General Council at Spanish Blind Organisation (ONCE)
- Education
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- ONCE (Spanish Blind Organisation
- Patrick Morrissey
- Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
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Enrique Varela Couceiro’s Summary
Enrique Varela Couceiro is the President of FUNDACIÓN TECNOLOGÍA SOCIAL (FTS) (social technologies foundation) which carries out plans and projects based on a friendly, usable and easy to use technologies for an inclusive society, as well as head of Accessible Technologies and R&D at the Fundación ONCE for solidarity and integration of persons with disabilities, which carries out projects aimed at training, employment and mainstreaming. This foundation is funded by 3% of the sales of the ONCE’s CUPON, a daily lottery hosted by the Spanish Blind Organisation (ONCE).
As representative of the ONCE and its Foundation, he is also member of the W3C Advisory Committee and the WAI (Web accessibility Initiative) Steering Committee.
As the President of FTS, he is member fo AAATE.
Amongst other current activities, he is one of the shareholders of ALTAIR Multimedia Solutions, a company especialiced in contents for e-learning, development of courses in different platforms and multimedia bassed courses.
Previously, he was CEO of one of the companies belonging to the FUNDOSA GROUP, TECHNOSITE, which specialises in developing internet technology.
He was also Head of the R&D Department of CIDAT, the ONCE’s research Center in technologies for the blind and visually impaired, and Technical Director of “CANAL 11”, an innovative project of radio broadcast system for Spain’s blind persons.
He has likewise held posts in the field of R&D within the ONCE itself, as well as having been a member of its General Council.
His broad experience covering over 27 years in technology has projected him to being a reference both in Spain and abroad in matters related to technologies, disabilities, and design for all.
He has participated as a speaker at several national and international congresses and in many working groups set up by the CEN, CENELEC and other bodies in Europe and the U.S.
Enrique Varela Couceiro’s Specialties:
European projects, web accesibility, ICT consultancy, testing new products, localisation.
Enrique Varela Couceiro’s Experience
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Marketing Mgr.
TENYUS SocialWare
(Retail industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
A company founded by 6 sharehonders from FTS as a Spin-off of this foundation.
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President
FUNDACIÓN TECNOLOGÍA SOCIAL (FTS)
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
FTS is a foundation to provide the society the best usable technologies, by the awareness of the producers, the design for all concepts etc. The main goal is to get the people using easy technology without having to learn how technology is made.
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Freelance Consultant on training, information and social technology
Enrique Varela
(Research industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Experienced in social technology, European projects, R&D coordination, asistive technologies, localisation, software and telecare.
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Head of R&D Department
FUNDACIÓN ONCE
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2002 — Present (7 years 1 month)
In charge of the relationship with almost all organisations of disabled people in Spain to help them to carry out their projects bassed on technology, design for all, etc.
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ICT translations and software localisation
Enrique Varela (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Translation and Localization industry)
March 1989 — Present (20 years 9 months)
Translations from english to spanish of manuals, software and firmware. High skill and large experience on terminology.
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Director of Accesible ICT DPT
ABADÍA software
(Computer Software industry)
February 2008 — July 2008 (6 months)
Responsible for all projects in the company related to social technologiy and accessibility.
ABADÍA Software is a company specialiced on the development of software for telecare, medicine, elderlies and dissabled people. -
Innovation, Accessibility and R&D
Il Village S.p.A.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
September 2007 — April 2008 (8 months)
He begun his co-operation with Il Village for the EzWalk Project.
EzWalk is the first ever dome GPS navigation system made from the very beginnin thinking on the demands for blind and partially sighted people, running on Symbian Phones an other mobile devices, it provides complete information on topics as: Where am I?, pedestrian route calculations and more.
EzWalk is not a software but a service include a sofware tool and also a comunity website to share routes, points of interest and more.
The future versions of EzWalk will allow people not just sharing routes and POIS but also being localiced if they want to.
He designed part of the interface and is makin all the feedback related jobs, as well as selings and other matters related to the development of this service. -
CEO
Technosite
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — May 2007 (4 years 9 months)
TECHNOSITE is a company in the e-business sector providing hosting, housing, e-learnign platforms and tools, website management and other services related to ICT and Internet. The company is part of the FUNDACIÓN ONCE's group of companies. FUNDACIÓN ONCE is part of the Spanish blind organisation dealing with trining and employment for disabled people in Spain.
That is why TECHNOSITE makes all their projects under W3C and WAI requirements of accessibility and usability. More than the 75% of the staff are disabled and they were 35-40 employees when he started ceoing it and left the company with more than 110. -
Head of R&D Department of CIDAT
ONCE
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
March 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 8 months)
CIDAT is the R&D Center of the Spanish Blind Organisation, ONCE, carying out projects on the high and low technology fields for blind and low vision people such as screenreaders, GPS, Mobile technologies etc.
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Mgr of Tech DPT
CANAL 11
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
January 1993 — March 1995 (2 years 3 months)
CANAL 11 was a codified radio system that transmited audio and data using the signal of a commercial station. The Spanish Blind Organisation ONCE used it to get their members up to date of news related their services. So this post is equivalent to any other related to the standard broadcasting companies.
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Member of the General Council
Spanish Blind Organisation (ONCE)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
October 1989 — January 1993 (3 years 4 months)
This position is one of the highest in the organisation because the General Council is also the top executive body of it. He was involved as a member in:
* International afairs comission.
* Coordination of seminars at an international level.
* Member of the technical Comission of the EBU (European Blind Union).
* Coordination of events in the 1992 Paralympic games.
Enrique Varela Couceiro’s Education
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ONCE (Spanish Blind Organisation
Training on ICT for Blind , Computin and blind people , 1997 — 2001
After having trained many of the training team at O N C E, from 1986, finally he became one of the members of the team.
- Activities and Societies:
- Teaching blind an partially sighted people on the use of ICT devices and apliances for their easier integration.
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Patrick Morrissey
High Level , English Language , 1990 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- Computer programmer, website designer, project management.
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Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
Computer architecture 1981 — 1982
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Enrique Varela Couceiro’s Interests:
new technologies, localisation, research, social matters, social technology, European projects
Enrique Varela Couceiro’s Groups:
W3C, AAATE
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