User Experience Lead at unic.com
Zurich, Switzerland
- About me
Hugo Schotman is a Dutch guy living in Zurich.
Currently working as an Information Architect at Unic.com.
Hugo has lived and worked in several countries, collaborated with and befriended people from many different cultural backgrounds and played many different roles in his career.
Examples of personal achievements:
- Early contributor to the community that started Podcasting.
- Creator of methodology that bridges technology, design and cognitive science in User Experience centers at Cambridge Technology Partners and Accenture.
- Becoming an internationally certified ski instructor (including off-piste guiding) next to my regular career.
- Serving as a member of the board of a student organization.
- Regular and ad-hoc volunteer work.
Hugo has over 10 years experience working in IT, consulting and technology (startup) firms with a strong focus on Internet applications and User Experience.
Hugo grew from being a consultant and developer on client-server projects to technical architect on Internet projects. He was the (front-end) technical lead for the User Experience groups at Cambridge Technology Partners (Amsterdam) and later Accenture (Zurich). Hugo has also acquired significant project management experience.
Before working at open Source IT consultancy company Optaros, Hugo co-founded an Internet Startup and was responsible for the technical architecture and infrastructure based on Ruby on Rails running in an environment with FreeBSD, Apache and MySQL.
Currently working as an Information Architect at Unic.com.
Hugo has lived and worked in several countries, collaborated with and befriended people from many different cultural backgrounds and played many different roles in his career.
Examples of personal achievements:
- Early contributor to the community that started Podcasting.
- Creator of methodology that bridges technology, design and cognitive science in User Experience centers at Cambridge Technology Partners and Accenture.
- Becoming an internationally certified ski instructor (including off-piste guiding) next to my regular career.
- Serving as a member of the board of a student organization.
- Regular and ad-hoc volunteer work.
Hugo has over 10 years experience working in IT, consulting and technology (startup) firms with a strong focus on Internet applications and User Experience.
Hugo grew from being a consultant and developer on client-server projects to technical architect on Internet projects. He was the (front-end) technical lead for the User Experience groups at Cambridge Technology Partners (Amsterdam) and later Accenture (Zurich). Hugo has also acquired significant project management experience.
Before working at open Source IT consultancy company Optaros, Hugo co-founded an Internet Startup and was responsible for the technical architecture and infrastructure based on Ruby on Rails running in an environment with FreeBSD, Apache and MySQL.
- Where I grew up
- The Netherlands
- Places I've lived
- Boston, MA; St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Talahassee, FL; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Companies I've worked for
- Optaros; Siemens; Skischool Arlberg; Accenture; Cambridge Technology Partners
