Ivo Gomes

Current

Usability @ SAPO at Portugal Telecom
Owner at MyTVShows (Sole Proprietorship)
Board Member and Founder at APPU - Associação Portuguesa de Profissionais de Usabilidade

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Past

Usability Consultant at log - Open Source Consulting
Partner at Portlock
Industrial Ergonomics Consultant at Volkswagen Autoeuropa

Researcher / Consultant at Ergonomics Lab. Technical University of Lisbon
HCI Consultant at Iconmedialab

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Education

Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

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Ivo Gomes’s Summary

I studied Ergonomics at the Human Kinetics Faculty in Lisbon and I specialized in Informational Systems Ergonomics, or, if you prefer, Usability.

During the last year of the course in 2003, I worked at IconMedialab as a trainee in the HCI (Human Computer Interaction) Group where I met a bunch of very interesting people and it was also my first experience in this area.

After finishing the course, I had the opportunity to work with one of the biggest companies in Portugal: Volkswagen Autoeuropa. It's an automotive industry and at the time they manufactured three vehicles: Volkswagen Sharan, Ford Galaxy and Seat Alhambra. I worked there as an Industrial Ergonomics Consultant to help the paint line workers who where complaining of strain injuries in their lower limbs.

In September of 2004 I joined log as a Usability Consultant. log is an Open Source driven company that works mainly with Internet solutions. I worked with the application development team and was responsible for the usability and accessibility in all projects. I've learned a lot there and the work helped me to increased my experience level, wich was great.

In 2009 I was invited to join the SAPO team to lead their Usability Department. SAPO is the biggest portal in Portugal and it will be fun to work alonside the most skilled people in the country.

Ivo Gomes’s Specialties:

Ergonomics, Usability, Information Architecture, Webstandards, Accessibility, HCI, User Experience,

Ivo Gomes’s Experience

Usability @ SAPO

Portugal Telecom

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)
Owner
MyTVShows (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Internet industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

MyTVShows is a web app that let's you kepp track of the episodes of the TV Shows you're currently following.
Board Member and Founder

APPU - Associação Portuguesa de Profissionais de Usabilidade

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

July 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

Founder and board member of the Portuguese Usability Professionals Association.
http://www.usabilidade.org
Usability Consultant

log - Open Source Consulting

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2004 — February 2009 (4 years 6 months)

Usability consultant and user-centered designer for the web.
Interaction Designer with focus on usability, web standards and accessibility.
Partner

Portlock

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Building Materials industry)

February 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Industrial Ergonomics Consultant

Volkswagen Autoeuropa

(Automotive industry)

July 2003 — February 2004 (8 months)

Ergonomic Analysis of the paint line workstation.
Development of solutions to solve the problems of stress and strain musculoskeletal disorders on lower limbs.
Researcher / Consultant

Ergonomics Lab. Technical University of Lisbon

(Education Management industry)

September 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 6 months)

Usability analysis of several websites.
Ergonomics consultant on several areas of research.
Usability consultant and beta tester for an educational videogame.
HCI Consultant

Iconmedialab

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

December 2002 — May 2003 (6 months)

Developed a usability study about portuguese e-commerce websites.
Helped to create a succesful Intranet for the biggest private bank in Portugal

Ivo Gomes’s Education

Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Honours , Ergonomics / Human Factors , 1998 — 2003

Ergonomics is the scientific discipline concerned with designing according to the human needs, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance. The field is also called human engineering, and human factors engineering.
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

Biotechnological Engineering 1997 — 1998

Attended only the first year of Biotechnological Engineering.