Resumé

Working experience

January 2001 – Present day
Waveweb, Lda – Webdesign company

Job title
Senior Web Designer

Job Description
Interface design; webdesign based in webstandards (XHTML / CSS); web applications workflow design; interface usability; corporate identity; graphic design; customer relations.

Main customers
Siemens; Nokia Siemens Networks; Siemens Enterprise Communications; Albano Alves

October 1996 – September 2001

The Business Directions Group LTD
Graphic design and marketing company

Job title
Graphic Designer / Creative

Job description
Corporate Identity; layout design for direct marketing campaigns; editorial design, graphic design; packaging.

Main customers
Nestlé, Kilom, Banco do Brasil

Academic studies, conferences attended and training

September 2008

Conference
Barcamp Portugal 2008

Subject
Customer relations; creative process workflow, Project management, Scrum, Webdesign, Web development

October 2007

Conference
An Event Appart – San Francisco, California

Subject
CSS e XHTML, customer relations; creative process workflow, project management

September 2007

Conference
Barcamp Portugal 2007

Subject
Customer relations; creative process workflow, Project management, Webdesign, Web development

September 2006

Conference
Shift 2006

Subject
Web 2.0 concepts

Julho 1996

College
IADE – Instituto de Artes Visuais Design e Marketing

Academic degree obtained
Degree in Visual Design

Classification
14 (on a scale from 1 to 20)

Personal Assets

Languages

Native Language
Portuguese

Other Languages
English (above average), Spanish (average), French (poor)

Social Assets

Good integration in multicultural environments and in diversed age groups. Good sociabilization and integration.

Corporate Organization

Good integration when working as a team member. Experience in preparing quotes for projects. Good self management and team management to complete projects within the deadline. Experience in briefing meetings with clients.
Experience in recruiting designers and developers.

Art Skills

Photography and drawing

Drivers Licence

European B category

Aditional Info

Hobbies

Digital photography
Reading
Blogging
Cinema
Wii
Surfing on the internet
Cooking

Summary

  • Art direction of Web Design projects to improve interface design, branding, and user experience.
  • Creation of visual concepts to be applied in Interfaces and web applications.
  • Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to develop websites and web apps.
  • Researcher of the web best practices, web standards, usability and new design trends
  • Senior webdesigner with strong skills in XHTML and CSS
  • Web applications workflow designer

My Goal is to continue in the Web industry developing my skills and sharing my experience with others.

Specialties
  • Experienced CSS and XHTML coder.
  • Experienced Wordpress Designer
  • Perfect knowledge of the concepts behind Web 2.0 and main trends in terms of design and usability.
  • Basic notions of PHP.
  • Able to integrate Javascript in layouts (Mootools, prototype, jquery, etc)
  • Experienced user of the following software: Adobe Photoshop (since version 2.5), Macromedia Freehand (since version 3.11) Adobe Illustrator, Flash, Indesign, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, QuarkXpress, and more.
  • Experience in sending design to print. Offset and CTP.
  • Experienced mac user since 1994
  • Internet user since 1995