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Carlos Alberto AlonsoCA

Carlos Alberto Alonso

Learning Experience Designer

£600/day
Toronto, CA
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Carlos Alberto

Digital systems designer with over 30 years designing institution-grade infrastructure for certification bodies, professional designation programmes, and corporate digital learning. Work spans curriculum architecture, competency frameworks, platform strategy, instructional design, multimedia content production, ecommerce integration, and AI-ready learning systems.

Through ALONSO.studio, I work with certification authorities and professional associations across finance, infrastructure, government, healthcare, and creative sectors to build durable learning systems designed to evolve rather than fragment under scale. Engagements are delivered through the orchestration of cross-disciplinary teams—technical writers, instructional designers, editors, multimedia producers, and graphic designers—aligned around a unified system architecture. Projects integrate communications, design, technical architecture, and content production as coherent, system-level solutions.

In parallel with my systems work, I maintain an active creative practice as a musician, designer, and writer. This work informs my approach to long-form system design, narrative coherence, and durability under complexity—particularly in contexts where meaning, interpretation, and human cognition are central—and directly shapes my ability to design learning and knowledge systems that remain coherent, expressive, and adaptable over time.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Toronto (up to 50km)

Experience

  • ALONSO.studio
    Managing Partner & Digital Systems Designer
    January 2017 - Today (9 years and 5 months)
    Toronto, ON, Canada
    • • Independent practice specialising in digital systems design for certification and designation programmes.
    • • Assemble and lead project-specific teams of senior specialists across content, design, engineering, and platform disciplines (typically 6–15 contributors per engagement).
    • • Defined curriculum spines and competency frameworks adopted across multi-course certification systems serving approximately 5,000–10,000 learners annually.
    • • Designed platform architectures supporting scalable, multi-year programme delivery and international localisation.
    • • Developed AI-ready infrastructure reducing content update cycles by approximately 30–40% for long-running certification programmes.
    • • Led full lifecycle delivery from discovery through system definition, UX strategy, platform implementation, and market readiness.
    Project Management Instructional Design Strategic planning Multimedia Production E-learning
  • MediaEdge Communications / Building Operations Designation (BOD)
    Systems Architect –
    January 2021 - Today (5 years and 5 months)
    Canada
    • • Lead architect for a national designation-level learning system serving infrastructure professionals across Canada.
    • • Designed curriculum spine and multi-tier programme structure supporting several thousand active professionals annually.
    • • Developed platform strategy and governance frameworks enabling long-term system evolution and regulatory alignment.
    • • Architected AI-readiness infrastructure to support adaptive learning pathways and credential recognition.
  • Escola de Arte e Superior de Deseño Pablo Picasso
    Systems Architect – Academic Integration & Localisation
    January 2024 - January 2025 (1 year)
    A Coruña, Spain
    • • Led academic integration and Spanish localisation of a professional certification programme within an institutional Canvas LMS environment.
    • • Aligned certification framework with European higher education standards and localisation requirements.
    • • Coordinated with academic faculty and administrators to ensure pedagogical and regulatory coherence across language contexts.

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Education

  • Diploma in Graphic Design & Illustration
    Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
    1991
    Post-secondary diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration, providing a rigorous applied foundation in visual communication, typography, and design systems, later extended through extensive professional practice in digital, multimedia, UX, and learning design.

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