mantruc : author : resume

Design effective IT systems that balance the needs of the project's stakeholders with the user's experience.
Help development teams adopt User Centered Design processes.
Design usable interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction.

IAInstitute.org
Institute for Information Architecture
Advisory Board 2002 - 2004
evolt.org
Web Developers International Community
Steering Committee 1998 - 2003
IA & KM Masters Program
Kent State University
Advisory Board
2005

Editor:
Boxes and Arrows Magazine, 2005.
Guest Editor:
Transactions on Information Systems,
ACM, Feb 2005.
Publicity Co-chair:
First Latin-American Web Congress, (November 10th - 22nd, 2003)
Organized by the Center for Web Research, DCC, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Technical Committee:
7th Information Architecture Summit(2006)
Organized by ASIS&T.
Technical Committee:
6th Information Architecture Summit (March 3 - 7th, 2005)
Organized by American Society for Information Services and Technologies, Montreal, Canada.
Technical Committee:
5th Information Architecture Summit (February 27th - 29th, 2004), Austin, Texas, USA.

IAInstitute.org
Institute for Information Architecture
Charter Member
2002 - to date
evolt.org
Web Developers International Community
Founding Member
1998 - to date
AIChile
Information Architects group in Chile
Lead Founder
2001 - to date

March 2004 - to date
Principal / Information Architecture Consultant

mantruc communication
July 2003- to date

Content Administrator
Millenium Scientific Initiative, Ministry of Plannification and Cooperation, Government of Chile.
2003 April - to date

Information Architect & Affiliate Researcher

Center for Web Research, Department of Computer Sciences, Universidad de Chile.
Spring Semester 2004

Adjunct Faculty Instructor : NMD102 - Fundamentals of Information Systems

Department of New Media

University of Maine
April 2002 - March 2003

Lead Information Architect

Copesa - Publishing Group.
December 1999 - March 2002

Web Designer/Lead Information Architect

MSM Interactive - nurun Chile.
July 1996 - November 1999

Director

mantruc comunication
- Web Design and Development
- Multimedia
- Photography
- Graphic Design: Corporate Identity, Posters, Printouts.

Conference Presentation:

The Experience is the Message

6th Information Architecture Summit, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. March 2005.
The User Comes First

at panel:University Digital Libraries Architecture in the International Scenario

III International Conference on University Libraries

October 28-29, 2004. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico - UNAM, Mexico.
Conference Presentation:

Information Architecture and Communication

September 18, 2004, at TOevolt.org
Published Article:
Arquitectura de la Información y Usabilidad en la Web
In collaboration with Dr. Ricardo-Baeza-Yates and Cuauhtémoc Rivera Loaiza
El Profesional de la Información Magazine, Bercelona, Vol 13 N 3, 2004.
One-day Seminar:

Information Architecture and Usability for the Web: Designing the User Experience

In collaboration with Dr. Ricardo-Baeza-Yates and Cuauhtémoc Rivera Loaiza

June 2003 Center for Web Research, DCC, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Tutorial:

Information (Architecture), Ubiquity and Usability: How to take advantage of the Web

XVI Systems Engineering Workshop, Casapiedra, Santiago, Chile. (July 15th 2003)

In collaboration with Dr. Ricardo-Baeza-Yates and Cuauhtémoc Rivera Loaiza
Poster:
The User Experience from Design to Use, and Back: A Causal Model.
Developed with Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates
5th Information Architecture Summit, Austin, Texas, USA. Feb 2004.

Mass Communication with specialization in Graphic Design
Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera.
Degree September 1997
Advertising
Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera
Degree September 1995

Javier Velasco Martín