Michele Velastri

Current

• Senior User Experience at Nokia

Past

• User Experience at sMeet Communications GmbH
• Head of Product Management Music Players at Jamba GmbH
• User Experience and Design Manager - Music Players at Jamba GmbH

• Content Producer - Innovation Team at Jamba GmbH

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Industry

Entertainment

Michele Velastri’s Summary

Detail and goal oriented User Experience designer with a strong insight and innovation in creating and refining product concepts and design. I gained experience in the field of Marketing, User Interface Design, Software Development and Project Management.

Speaker at World Usability Day Stuttgart:
http://www.worldusabilityday.de/stuttgart/

Michele Velastri’s Experience

• Senior User Experience

  Nokia

  (Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

• User Experience

  sMeet Communications GmbH

  (Entertainment industry)

  May 2008 — February 2009 (10 months)

• Head of Product Management Music Players

  Jamba GmbH

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

  May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Leading the efforts and motivation of a 5 people team with the aim to define the Music Player product with a strong user oriented approach.
  + Supervise product and brand image consistency within the different platforms of the service and company portfolio.
  + Escalation point, in accordance with Product and Project Management feedback, about deliverables timelines, features and optimisation of the release plan.

• User Experience and Design Manager - Music Players

  Jamba GmbH

  (Public Company; Entertainment industry)

  October 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  Responsible for User Experience & Design initiatives related to the Music download solution. Interpret business requirements and usability best practices to create a music download experience that converts and retain customers.
  + Led efforts to develop a User Interface that will be leveraged across different mobile platforms (S60, UIQ, J2Me, Windows Mobile, RIM Black Berry)
  + Directed the prototyping process and usabitlity testing related to the several platforms of the system, PC and Mobile, coordinating the activity of internal graphic designers and external contractors developers.
  + Cooperated strongly with the marketing and technical members involved in the project to create customised look & feel solutions up to business partner brand image
  
  Product Awards
  +Best Mobile Music Service - GMC Award, 2007: http://www.gmcawards.org/awards/awards10.htm
  +Short-listed at Deutscher Multimedia Award, 2007:
  http://www.deutscher-multimedia-award.de/dmma_nominierte_2007.html?&L=0

• Content Producer - Innovation Team

  Jamba GmbH

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

  January 2005 — September 2005 (9 months)

  Responsible for the development, interaction design, information architecture and low level project management for several first class mobile application aimed to customer light entertainment.
  + Company mobile and PC user interface designer.
  + Worked on conceiving, research and prototyping for innovative mobile products aimed to integration of mobile devices into everyday life.