Joelle Alcaidinho
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With a wide range of experience in a variety of fields, Joelle has been referred to as the Swiss Army knife of consultants.
She has worked with a variety of tech startups, including apps, as well as both large and small educational institutions and retail organisations.
Having done everything from UX, mobile design, event planning, press outreach, MDM, photography, site building, and copywriting, she opts for clients with intriguing products, ideas, and services.
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With a wide range of experience in a variety of fields, Joelle has been referred to as the Swiss Army knife of consultants. She has worked with a variety of tech startups, including apps, as well as both large and small educational institutions and retail organisations. Having done everything from UX, mobile design, event planning, press outreach, MDM, photography, site building, and copywriting, she opts for clients with intriguing products, ideas, and services.
- Experienced journalist, copywriter, photographer, blogger, manager, and consultant.
- Apple IT maven, with Apple hardware, software, implementation, MDM, training, and support guide creation experience.
- Event planner and UX consultant
- Mobile designer
- Experience creating marketing, educational, and PR content for various forms of social media, including Twitter.
- Former Trainer responsible for facilitating and delivering training sessions for retail employees across the southeast United States. Training sessions led included new employee orientations and product launch support.
- Retail planogram creation experience.
Specialties: Writing, Consulting, startups, Apple IT, MDM, OD, new media, iOS, mobile design, UX, merchandising, education, training, photography, event planning, knitting and knitwear design
Experience- Nov 2012 - PresentCo-Founder / Freelance Department
Find better work & work better. Changing the way freelance creative professionals find work in 2013.
- May 2011 - PresentEditor-in-Chief / The Tech Bird
The Tech Bird is a site for smart ladies of all ages that love technology and travel. At the Tech Bird you'll find reviews, travel tips and all manner of delightful things curated by The Tech Bird team and founded by Joelle Alcaidinho, the geeky brain behind TTB. The Tech Bird team are based in London, Sydney, and New York City.
- Nov 2009 - PresentWriter / Apartment Therapy
Writer for Apartment Therapy. Apartment Therapy is the online destination for all things home and reaches over 7 million unique visitors a month. The focus of the Apartment Therapy is on people- friendly, design- forward technology and ways it can be incorporated into homes.
- Aug 2009 - PresentDesigner / the little burrow
Designer of knitwear for children at the little burrow
- May 2012 - Nov 2012Director of Educational Technology / MetSchools, Inc.
Created deployment plan for technology across 7 schools. Implemented new technology as well as professional development training programs for faculty and staff.
- Dec 2011 - Mar 2012Community Manager / Mixel
Community Manager for a new iPad app, Mixel. Responsible for the company blog, social media channels (including Pinterest), event planning, corporate communication, service escalation support, tutorials, and PR support.
- Dec 2010 - Jul 2011Director of Information Technology / The Mandell School
IT Director for The Mandell School, a nursery to middle school in Manhattan. Responsible for making all the Apple technology work well and for delivering training to all teachers and staff to help them get the most out of their devices whether they are iOS, laptops, desktops, or Apple Server Wikis and Blogs.
- May 2010 - Nov 2010Social Media Marketing Director / MiMedia, LLC
Social Media Marketing Director in charge of Internet marketing campaigns for online storage start up.
- Feb 2009 - Aug 2009CAS / Apple
- Sept 2008 - Nov 2008Visual Merchandiser / The Sarut Group
Visual Merchandiser for 5 trend setting Manhattan gift stores. The VM
creates innovative concepts for merchandising presentation,
produces, installs and maintains window and in-store displays, and
coordinates and produces signage throughout the stores. - Aug 2006 - Sept 2008Computer Teacher and Technology Liaison / PS 41
Computer teacher for grades K-5 and Technology Liaison for the Greenwich Village
School. Responsible for network administration and technical support for over 800
users and 180 computers. Designed and implemented an upgrade/replacement for
the technology in the computer lab. - May 2003 - Mar 2006Artist & Trainer / Stila Cosmetics
Artist and trainer for Stila Cosmetics. Travelled to various locations in the southeast
United States training employees and assisting in planning and implementing
promotional events. - 2004 - 2005Photographer / The Indie
- Aug 2003 - Jun 2005Mac Specialist / Apple
Responsible for computer sales and consumer education. Taught one-on-one
customized technical support courses in digital imaging and film editing. - Sept 2002 - Feb 2004Stila Specialist / Bloomingdales
Assisted with opening new location. Established clientele and pursued customer
relations. Planned promotional events. Responsible for meeting sales quotas and
providing personalized customer service.
Education-
2006 - 2008Fordham UniversityMS in Education
- University of Central FloridaBA
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Interests:new technology, mobile, knitting, studying languages
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- @surface Yes
- @surface It did eventually power on. It has difficulty reliably turning on and waking from sleep.
- I tried on #glass http://t.co/El6kETzvMM
- Pretty sure it’s completely normal for a freelancer to forget when Memorial Day is.
- @JaneAudas yeah I can hardly wait for the desktop version
- Coffee break time. Thanks for the flowers, Marjorie, Melanie, and Lionel! http://t.co/Yg204Vm92z
- @JohnnyJet @Delta wow, I haven’t had that happen yet. Often I’m the only woman there or there might be one other.
- @JaneAudas why is it so difficult to make a solid desktop email experience?
- #pr protip send pitches to the right person at the publication you’re pitching to and make sure to spell the name of that pub correctly
- In which I enthuse over #toyota collaborator http://t.co/jPbbDZoEp0 as the most fun I had in the #googleio sandbox
- The more I use @mailbox on my iPhone the more I’m convinced the desktop app is going to be…wait for it…legendary.
- amazing subway entrance that looks like a tram burrowing underground http://t.co/GNoVGRUkJF via @designtaxi I’d enjoy riding the subway more
- This week my #startup tshirt collection grew by 3, if you count Google. New additions from @Dropbox & @tonxcoffee both cute.
- Wuzzah, after 4 attempts the #surface will now power on. Hooray!
- @nateog mirrorcast for all!
- @nateog I think Google has got to get that sorted for their Nexus tablets in order to get into K12 now that they are doing MDM and VPP.
- With the uptick in hot shirtless men in ads I see now why there are so many ads with scantily clad ladies since only straight men buy stuff
- @nateog the thing I love about Apple TV is the mirroring. It’s awesome.
- Well that didn’t last long.
