
Information architect at FatDUX and PhD candidate at the University of Bologna
Modena Area, Italy

Information architect at FatDUX and PhD candidate at the University of Bologna
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 has been practicing information architecture since 1999 and is currently pursuing a PhD degree focused on IA and UX for large complex online juridical and historical collections.
Andrea is on the Board of Advisors of the Information Architecture Institute, chairs the Italian Information Architecture Summit, is a founding member of the European IA Network and coordinates REG-IA, the Research and Education Group in Information Architecture.
Information Architecture, Classification, Way-finding
Topic Maps, Folksonomies, Faceted Classification, Infovis
XHTML, CSS, PHP / SQL
Linux wizardry and geekery and deployement of web / mail / SQL server solutions
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
The Journal of Information Architecture is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its aim is to facilitate the systematic development of the scientific body of knowledge in the field of information architecture.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
Architecta is the Italian Society for Information Architecture.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 8 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 , Informatics , 2007 — 2010 (expected)
PhD Candidate in Legal Informatics with a dissertation on 'Information Architecture Modeling for Historical and Juridical Manuscript Online Collections'
Information architecture 2008 — 2008
Guest Ph.D. researcher (June-September 2008)
Information architecture 2007 — 2007
Guest Ph.D. researcher (June-September 2007)
Information architecture 2006 — 2006
Guest Ph.D. researcher (June-September 2006)
PhD , History and Informatics , 2005 — 2006
Classification and findability issues for historical online databases. Application of topic maps, faceted classification and folksonomies to CMS for information retrieval and enhanced infovis, findability and usability of historical and juridical online databases.
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 of Advisors
Information Architecture Institute [www.iainstitute.org]
Board Coordinator & Chairman
Italian IA Summit [www.iasummit.it]
Board member
OSCOM, The International Association for Open Source Content Management [www.oscom.org]
Board Member
REG-iA, Research & Education Group in Information Architecture [http://reg-ia.org]
Editorial Board
Journal of Information Architecture
Erasmus Placement Internship Program, 2009
Information Architecture Institute Grant, 2007
PhD Scholarship, University of Bologna, 2006
Marco Polo Research Grant, 2005