Value acquired

+ Helped local media enterpre-neurs to grow their businesses through interactive design.

+ Solved complex challenges on content modeling, information architecture, and user experience design.

+ Designed, Produced and Relased a propietary Entertain-ment iPhone app.

Value acquired

+ Understood the relevance of Style when it comes to Human Interaction.

+ Helped the company increase sells though the improvement of their web design and management.

+ Managed relationship with media providers.

+ Enhanced sense of design with photography.

Canada CanadaFranceColombiaColombia

User Experience Designer / Mobile & Social Media@ Transcontinental Interactive

Value acquired

+ Design applications for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android, and Mobile Web platforms.

+ Constant learning of last software engineering practices and their integration to the interaction design process.

+ Optimize resources (time = money) and deliver innovation to the company by generating and implementing Design Thinking strategies and practices.

+ The big corporation work environment enhanced my sense of organization and systems thinking.

+Developed a new sense of holystic system design that handles both interactive design and experience design.

Relevant Experience

Summary

Relevant Skills

User Experience Designer / Creative Director/ Co-Founder@ Amapola Studio Inc.

Value acquired

+ Developed myself professionally within the software industry and its work environment.

+ Learned the business and practices of software and human-computer interaction.

+ Developed and mantained a rich portfolio of clients while being a young enterpreneur.

+ Managed a team of up to 10 diverse talents (graphics, code, music, motion).

+ Designed and directed rich interactive experiences for important clients.

Value acquired

+ Debuted into the mobile market with a successful and innovative mobile entertainment product.

+ Learned the state of art of mobile and the vision of future of different global industry liders.

+Developed skills as Mobile Designer and Art Director.

Interactive Designer / Creative Director / Co-Founder@ AUREA

Information Architect / Creative Director / Co-Founder@ Amapola Studio

Head Graphic Design Dept.@ Max Chaoul Couture

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

15 Fort York Blvd. Suite 2008. M5V3Y4. Toronto - Canada.

+1 (647) 829 8225

malejomarin@gmail.com

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/alejomarin

@montiniLab

My approach = Systems thinking + Visual thinking + Design thinking+ 8 years of experience in the creative and interactive industries accumulating knowledge, vision and success.Designed and Directed projects of up to $200.000Managed multidisciplinary teams of up to 10 people (visual designers, 3D artists, programmers, musicians).Self-starter (proven throughout my experience as enterpreneur).Team-player (proven thourghout my experience as employee and lider of different teams).Love learning and embrace challenge.

Visual Design, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Information Design, Illustration.

Fluent in English, French and Spanish. (All written and verbal).

Senior Visual Designer / User Experience DesignerAlejandro Marin

Most Relevant & Recent Work Samples

Mobile Pilot Program& Mobile Adoption Research

@ Transcontinental Interactivescreenshots on page 3 screenshots on page 4

Highlights+ Reduced development time and increased client satisfaction through the implementation of a proper information discovery process.+ Designed the in-store customer experience as well. Proof of concept of a hoystic system design model.+

Skills deliveredInformation Architecture, User Experience Design, and Graphic User Interface Design.

linkm.goodfoodpeople.ca

Mobile Multi-platform App@ Transcontinental Interactive

Highlights+ Integrated Mobile Marketing Strategy into Information Architecture and User Experience Design.+ Created an interactive language that the client decided to leverage onto other digital instances of the company.

Skills deliveredInformation Architecture, User Experience Design, and Graphic User Interface Design.

available onApple App StoreBlackberry App Worldsoon > Android App Storesoon > m.shoppersdrugmart.ca

Organizational Design Thinking@ Transcontinental Interactive

Highlights+ Created the Mobile Design Department plan.+ Created a knowledge management system that facilitates keeping company’s know-how alive.+ Helped company improve efficiency and client satisfaction throughout the implementation of Design Best Practices.

Skills deliveredDigital Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, and Graphic User Interface Design.

samplesavailable in person

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Online Radio Station Design@ Amapola Studio Inc.

Highlights+ Successfully translated business strategy into information architecture and user experience design.+ Helped enterpreneur understand future of digital media and interactive platforms.+ Increased business operability through the design of the website.

Skills deliveredDigital Strategy, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, and Graphic User Interface Design.

linkwww.indielove.ca

Relevant Education

Colombia1998 - 2004

Bachelor Visual Design @ Universidad de Caldas

Skills acquired and/or improved:creativeThinking visualThinking designFundamentals layoutComposition colorControl illustration motionDesign webDesign branding environmentalDesign visualLanguage psicologyOfPerception semiology researchMethodology

France2007 - 2008

Master Interaction Design @ Université Lumière Lyon 2

Skills acquired and/or improved:creativeThinking interactiveDesign artDirection usability ergonomics productDesign packaging webDesign actionScript CSS gameDesign

Canada2010 - 2011

Improvisation Program @ The Second City

Skills acquired and/or improved:creativeThinking adaptativeThinking storytelling humanInteractionsocialDynamics sceneGamesteamWork

Canada2010- 2011

Certificate, Cartooning & Character Design @ George Brown College

Skills acquired and/or improved:storytelling scenarioDesign characterDesign humanAnatomy bodyGestures illustration

CanadaOngoing

Self-directed study

Currently acquiring/improving:dataVisualization Processing dataArchitecture UML

Topics of Interest:upcoming technologies on HCI UXD robotics artificialIntelligence dataArchitecture IxD businessStrategy

Computational Skills Graphics: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesing, Fireworks, SketchBookPro. Motion: Flash, Final Cut Pro, ToonBoom, After Effects, 3D-Max

Interactive: CSS, HTML 5, ActionScript.Work environment & Management: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project. Web services like JIRA, BaseCamp, Replicon.

Main skill: Fast learner. Also, I am always interested on acquiring new skills.

UX tools: Omnigraffle, Visio, Axure, xMind, among other offline and online tools available on the market.