André Avorio Email & Phone Number

State Of São Paulo, Brazil

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

At Coherent Digital, we tame wild content—so researchers can do their work, educators can teach, scholars can publish, and organizations can disseminate their knowledge to a global audience. Through Coherent, information is preserved, uniquely enriched, and made discoverable.Our products defy simple categorization. They’re part discovery service, traditional aggregation, curation service, repository, social network, publication, hosting service, reference manager, preservation service, and analytics tool, all tied together in a coherent organized way.

Alexandria, Va, Us

Alexander Street pairs exclusive multimedia content with cutting-edge online tools and digital technologies to transform the way people research, learn, and teach.

London, London, Gb

• Strategy: Develop product vision & strategy with the Executive Chairman and CEO.• Technical Implementation: Collaborate with Engineering and Research/IP teams on Agile technical implementation methods and product delivery plan.• Product Development: Manage all aspects of product discovery and development, i.e. value proposition, user definition, personas, prototyping, user testing, product concepts and specifications, product roadmap, delivery schedules, metrics and KPIs.• User-centred Design: Build a strong understanding of user goals and needs through regular user testing and interactions with prospective users. Represent the voice of the user to ensure a balanced prioritisation of product and other business needs.• Data-driven Development: Identify and manage metrics for measuring success and product performance. Connect strategy & KPIs with product features and use cases.• Communication: Own product roadmap, forecasting and reporting against plan. Regularly synthesise, contextualise and communicate product updates to entire company.

London, Greater London, Gb

• Teaching: Prepare and deliver seminars for 2nd and final-year undergraduate students in the department of Management Science & Innovation at UCL.• Assessment: grade and provide feedback on coursework and end-of-year exams.• Topics covered: business strategy, scenario planning, organisational change, innovation, project management and digital product development.

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Gb

Action-Research Project OportUnidad, co-funded by the European Commission.• Policy & Strategy: Develop strategies that embrace principles of openness and online collaboration in higher education, and their respective implementation plans, in partnership with the management team of several universities in Latin America.

• Product Development: Responsible for the conception, implementation and successful launch of Brazil's first collaborative online radio station: RadarCultura.• Change Management: Coordinate the transition to an Internet-centric paradigm within the Radio division. Conduct workshops to more than 30 journalists, radio producers and managers, connecting feedback with product development.• Web Development: Lead the development of a community-driven website where listeners can interact with one another and the team of producers to create radio programmes.• Partnerships: Develop and manage strategic relationships to strengthen the product’s proposition whilst ensuring its competitive differentiation.The project has received international press coverage:

BarCamp is an international network of unconferences primarily focussed on digital technology and the societal implications of the web. They are open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focussed on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social software, and open data formats. As the “ambassador” of BarCamp in Brazil, I organised a series of unconferences in Florianópolis, Porto Alegre, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, laying the foundation of the Brazilian BarCamp community.

• Web Development: Collaborate on the development and launch of etribes, a product focussed on personal content publishing and sharing on the web.• Strategy: Work closely with the Product Manager, Marketing Manager and CEO on the definition and refinement of the business strategy and product roadmap.• Management: Lead the web team and train developers to work with Drupal.• UX: Manage all aspects of the product’s interaction design and user experience, including producing and testing new product concepts, interfaces and features.

In 2001, I started-up ‘blaz’, a boutique internet consultancy working with SMEs to understand, create and harness digital business opportunities. Apart from the overall management of the company and leadership, I worked as a consultant on a number of digital products focussed on enhancing organisational performance, implementation of content management systems, building international networks of collaboration for sustainable innovation, etc.

Msc (Oxon), Social Science Of The Internet

Bsc (Hons), Information Management For Business