Zulma Sofia

Education

2005 – 2008 Creative Business Design and Social Innovation
Kaospilot (Denmark)

2004 – 2005 PGCE Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Post-compulsory)
Institute of Education (University of London)

2002 – 2005 Higher National Diploma in Software Engineering
City and Islington College (London)

2002 - 2004 Teaching Certificate in Further Education Stage 1, stage 2
City and Islington College (London)

2001 - 2002 MA In Interactive Multimedia
London College of Communication

2000 - 2001 Access to Higher Education - Digital Media
City and Islington College (London)

1995 - 1999 BA (Hons) in Graphic Design
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Languages

2002 - 2003 Cambridge Proficiency Certificate in English

I speak Spanish as my first language, but I’m also fluent in English (written and spoken) and Danish (spoken) and have conversational knowledge of French.

Project
Experience

Project design feb – june 2007

Ecotrust Canada(Vancouver – Canada)

Ecotrust Canada builds the capacity of communities, institutions and businesses to participate in the conservation economy (where economic opportunity improves rather than degrades social and environmental conditions); raises and brokers capital to accelerate the transition to a conservation economy; and connects conservation entrepreneurs to each other, and to the marketplace.

I was part of a group of 4 people whom, in close collaboration with ecotrust, worked on a project with the vision of helping every company in canada become carbon neutral.

Download our final report.

Research, process design oct 2006 – jan 2007

CADEL (Bogotá – Colombia)

CADEL (local centre for educational administration). A body of the Secretary of education of Bogota that provides legal, administrative and pedagogical assistance to all educational institutions in the administrative areas of the city.

I was responsible on my own for designing and facilitating a process to be used in the school sector in Bogota to help them cope with the changes they were facing in relation to recent government legislation.

Download my final report.

Business concept, project manager May 2006 – to date

Talent-trafficking (DK – UK – Canada – Colombia – Cyberspace)

The result of my entrepreneurial endeavours. My growing, flexible, and beloved company specializes in outsourcing services in graphic design, communication and internet related technologies to European companies, collaborating with a pool of professional visual designers and programmers in Colombia.

Download the project outline.

Project design May - 2006

Yes Colombia (Bogotá – Colombia)

YES COLOMBIA is a network made of governmental institutions, NGOs and youth entrepreneurial associations. Their main goal is to support efforts for dealing with youth unemployment by focussing on three key strategies: Outreach and engagement, Knowledge building and Capacity building.

I was part of a group of 4 people whom, in close collaboration with the client, developed and carried out a series of workshops around the topics of leadership and entrepreneurship as key elements of social change.

Download our final report.

Work
Experience

Physical Computing Maker 2007

2C Visual Communications (Vancouver – Canada)

Immersive environments and Flash! While in Canada I worked writing ActionScript code to make flash work with a great physical computing solution developed by the 2C guys.

Flash talking to all sorts of external devices, position, motion and distance sensors, switches/buttons and RFID tags to control pretty much anything you could encounter in a physical space

Freelance Web Developer Feb 2006 – 2007

OpenWebSoftware (Bogotá – Colombia & Cyberspace)

This Colombian based company focuses on opensource internet solutions and Content Management Systems to offer fully dynamic websites.

For more than a year and on a project basis, I have been working as a project manager, interface designer, design & communication consultant and front-end developer for a series of internet projects. Some of this projects have been developed while I was personally in Colombia, but most of them have been developed and managed online. (Thanks computer mediated communication).

Web Designer/Art director Jan – Oct 2007

Dandesign (Aarhus – Denmark)

I was hired as an interface designer at this Aarhus based company. However, my role was very quickly broaden to other areas such as defining web strategies for companies and managing design and web projects that were produced externally.

Lecturer in Multimedia Feb 2005 – Jun 2005

Kingston University (Kingston – UK)

I worked at the university teaching on the Introduction to digital media unit for the first year students in the Media and Cultural Studies Degree.

Lecturer in Multimedia Aug 2001 – Nov 2004

University of Westminster School of Computer Science (London – UK)

I worked for the University of Westminster, teaching on the Web Design and Visual Communication evening courses for the department of Short Courses in Computing. I taught the following courses:

• Actionscript for Macromedia Flash
• Web graphics and animation (Flash MX)
• Web site design and Visual communication I
• Web site design and Visual communication II

Lecturer in Multimedia Aug 2001 – Jun 2005

City and Islington College (London – UK)

I worked for 4 years in this College as a visiting lecturer on the Access to Digital Media and the HND multimedia programme. The units I taught included both the practical and the theoretical elements of multimedia design and communication across the different stages of a multimedia project. From the initial brief to brainstorming to production, development, testing and evaluation. I taught the following units:

• Multimedia design and Authoring
• Professional Team Brief
• Multimedia authoring
• Multimedia scripting
• Main project brief

Actionscript developer Aug 2003 – Aug 2005

Onscreen creative (London – UK)

Working in a project based scheme my job was to develop Actionscript code for different flash projects and applications. Most of my work with this company involved developing dynamic flash sites which are updated using a CMS (content management system) and for which I developed the front-end / back-end communication in ActionScript.

Flash - Actionscript developer jun 2001 – Nov 2005

Tamarin Design Ltd (London – UK)

Working as part of a team of designers and web developers, I was part of the conceptualisation, design and production of various screen based design projects. Probably the most interesting thing of working at Tamarin was to have been involved in the development of educational games and activities for various online and CD-rom projects.

Actionscript developer Jun – Aug 2002

BIG:GROUP (London – UK)

As part of my masters programme I did my professional work placement with this company. I worked mainly in the development and design of a flash e-commerce site, using XML and Action Script integration to display dynamically generated content. I was responsible for the front end programming and back end integration.

References

Mikkel Sørensen – Manager
Dandesign
Mjølnersvej 6
8230 Åbyhøj DK
Tlf.: +45 8637 0666
Mobil: +45 2264 8322
E-mail: mikkel@dandesign.dk

Ian Busby – Coordinator for Multimedia
City and Islington College
444 Camden Road London N7 0SP - U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7700 8761
Email: ibusby@candi.ac.uk

Shariff Moossun – Studio Manager
Tamarin Design Limited
225a Camden Rd. London NW1 9AA – U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7267 8553
Email: shariff@tamarin.co.uk