
Information Architect
Modena Area, Italy

Information Architect
Modena Area, Italy
Andrea is an Information architect. He has a formal background in Architecture and Industrial Design and a long-standing experience of System and Network Administration. He's been practicing information architecture since 1999, and currently leads the Higher Education in IA Working Group.
Information Architecture, Classification, Wayfinding
Topic Maps, Folksonomies, Faceted Classification, Infovis
XHTML, CSS, PHP / SQL
Linux wizardry and geekery and deployement of web / mail / SQL server solutions
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
PhD Candidate in Legal Informatics
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)
January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years)
Courses on Content Management Systems (CMS) and Web UML, Master in Web Design
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2001 — December 2006 (5 years 11 months)
Information architect, CTO
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Executive Office industry)
September 1989 — April 2001 (11 years 8 months)
Network and system administrator on MVS/XA mainframes, Win32 and Unix networks
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
March 1996 — January 2001 (4 years 11 months)
Freelance Information designer
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 9 months)
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1995 — June 1997 (1 year 10 months)
Teaching assistant, developer and maintainer of the online didactics framework for the Dept. of Environmental Sciences (Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Architecture), Laboratory of Morphogenetic Design.
PhD., Computer science and Law, 2006 — 2009 (expected)
Applying topic maps, faceted classification and folksonomies to CMS for information retrieval and enhanced infovis, findability and usability of historical and juridical online databases and e-learning software.
Guest res., Informatics, 2007 — 2007
Guest Ph.D. researcher (June-September 2007)
Guest res., Informatics, 2006 — 2006
Guest Ph.D. researcher (June-September 2006)
PhD., History and Informatics, 2005 — 2006
Legal Issues for Web Designers and Content Managers 2005 — 2005
Network and distributed systems 2001 — 2001
Master, Architecture & Industrial design, 1986 — 1995
Dissertation: 'Sacred spaces' dealing with morphogenetic design and chaos theories applied to architectural spaces.
Board Coordinator
Italian IA Summit [www.iasummit.it]
Board member
OSCOM, The International Association for Open Source Content Management [www.oscom.org]
Education in IA Working Group Coordinator
Translation Initiative National Coordinator
Information Architecture Institute [www.iainstitute.org]
PhD Scholarship, University of Bologna, 2006
Marco Polo Research Grant, 2005