
Interaction design and development, Flash/Flex/AIR Technologies, User experience, Information Architect, Entrepreneur
London, United Kingdom

Interaction design and development, Flash/Flex/AIR Technologies, User experience, Information Architect, Entrepreneur
London, United Kingdom
I am an engineer focused on interactive applications development and information design. I started to work as a freelance in 1999 and I have a personal site called jocabola (www.jocabola.com). I am a developer with a feel for motion and graphic design, and I like to pay attention to details.
By the end of 2006, I founded Mocoro (www.mocoro.com) together with Hugo Ahlberg (www.melanchology.com), an excellent interface designer made by the Hyper Island school (crew 9).
We specialize in interface design and development, and we have been responsible of some web projects that have been recognized and awarded such as:
http://www.aaaid.net
http://www.filippasmedhagensund.com
https://www.cicatriz.se
Interface design, interactive applications development, Flash development, usability, information design, data visualization, user experience
(Design industry)
December 2009 — Present (4 months)
Creative direction and development for interactive, graphic & motion design.
(Internet industry)
1999 — Present (11 years )
• Interactive media, interface conception and information design.
• Information architecture
• User experience / Usability
• Flash / Flex development
• Flash Player / Adobe Air based solutions
• Data visualization
• Installations / Net art
• Cross-media: integrating / porting solutions to the web
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
January 2007 — December 2008 (2 years )
On January 2007, www.melanchology.com and myself (www.jocabola.com) have launched mocoro (www.mocoro.com), an interactive agency focused on interface conception / design and rich media development.
If you are looking for an advanced on-line interactive solution with the finest design and development, please contact us at info@mocoro.com
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — December 2006 (5 years )
Please visit my web space at www.jocabola.com.
Since 1999 I am working and collaborating with big agencies and designers on several web and interface projects.
With a passion for design, interactivity and a feel for motion, I have been working on interface and web developments very close to designers and trying to be very involved on any creative process.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2003 — May 2006 (3 years 5 months)
During my freelance collaboration with Fork Unstable Media Ost GmbH, I have been developing several interface projects and ideas basically using Macromedia/Adobe Flash.
Through the different projects I have been technically concepting some interfaces, helping with information's design, researchnig and integrating different technologies and building some tools and systems for creating interactive experiments.
During this experience I have been working with clients like adidas/salomon, sportscheck, transmediale, flora & fauna visions and Elternhaus.
(Design industry)
2002 — 2002 (less than a year)
I worked as a Freelance interactive programmer for a Pull&Bear clothing web project in collaboration with Vasava Artworks (www.vasava.es) and Xnografics (www.xnografics.com).
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
July 2001 — June 2002 (1 year )
Responsable of the production and development of agency's clients on-line needs. DHTML and Flash productions.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 9 months)
Interface development. Coordination work between designers and programmers. DHTML, Flash and Macromedia Director projects.
Engineer's Diploma , Research on music visualization and available technologies , 2002 — 2003
• Visualization for a music in motion, Engineer's diploma
• Available technologies evaluation
• Max/Msp + Jitter learning and experimentation
• State of Art: references to important artists and technologists of our history
• More @ http://vmm.jocabola.com
Engineer , Maths, Computer programming, signal processing , 1996 — 2000
First promotion of the Multimedia Engineers for La Salle Engineering School Barcelona (Ramon Llull University).
I studied different subjects in such areas as Virtual Reality, Digital Signal Processing, Maths, Computer Programming, Graphics Programming, Internet Programming and Multimedia Productions.
Involved in the Computer Animation Department following a tutorial program in the Alias MAYA software for 3D modelling and rendering over SGI workstations.
Diploma , Computer Arts, Computer Literacy , 1994 — 1996
Degrees from the Cambridge Information Technology (University of Cambridge, England):
Computer Literacy, Word Processing, Computer Draughting, Computer Art and Design and Desktop Publishing.
Official Autodesk Diplomas in Autocad R.12 and 3D Studio R.4.
Interactive arts, generative art, information visualization, cross-media, music, generative music
• The FWA, Site of the day 13th of August 2007 for the Filippa Smedhagen Sund make, 2007, http://www.thefwa.com/?app=winners&id=6351
• Flash forward Boston 2007 nomination: commerce category, 2007, http://flashforwardconference.com/finalists
• The FWA, Site of the day, 1st of June 2007, Cicatriz Clothing web shop, 2007, http://www.thefwa.com/?app=winners&id=6275
• Merit Award 2005, ADC Deutschland: adidas tennis website (Fork Unstable Media GmbH)
• Merit Award 2005, One Show Interactive, London: adidas tennis website (Fork Unstable Media GmbH)
• Cannes Media Lyons 2005, shortlisted: adidas tennis website (Fork Unstable Media GmbH)