PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UX Designer and Web Communication at Whizztek Oct 2012 > Aug 2015

. UX and UI co-conception / design / prototype (Axure RP Pro 7).
. Project manager of web & mobile app. projects, ex. Tweasy (Swisscom), Fan Valley.
. User Cases guideline and Q&A documentation creation / App tester.
. Social network manager: Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, Wordpress.
. Copywriting and translations (EN & PT). Translations management for 7 additional languages.
. Responsive web design integration of company’s sites.


Senior Graphic and web designer at horas cheias Jan 2011 > Aug 2012

. Company's (as well as most of it's client's) logos, brand designs and online presence.
. Company's site design and programming using XHTML, HTML and CSS with JavaScript / jQuery UI integration in a PHP environment.
. Co-responsible for the company's marketing campaigns, be they in print or web-marketing, from creating and copywriting the campaigns right up to the design and final art preparation of the materials.
. Responsible for all the phases of production of the company's Direct Marketing campaign: conception, design, contacting the printers for quotes, sending and controlling the campaign's production files.
. Copywriting and management of online campaigns using Google Adwords.
. Contact management of various national and international newspapers for ad insertion in those publications.
. Google Analytics integration for the Marketing Mix sites.
. Design and construction of the landing page for the commercial sales team's recruitment campaign.


Senior Designer at ZAIN Mar 2008 > Mar 2010

. Management of client's portfolios and their image, illustration, editorial pagination, catalogues, brochures, logos including and artwork of most of the company's projects.
. Iconography for Valença's Municipal Swimming Pool.
. Web design using Flash, CSS and HTML of the site www.minhofumeiro.pt.


Senior Designer at onprintline.pt Dec 2005 > May 2007

. Management of all the client's portfolios and their images.
. Logo, image and website design onprintline.pt.
. Logo and brand image design for GROWING.


Senior Designer at firegirl.co.pt Jan 2004 > Nov 2005

. Event flyers design for Helena Sá e Costa Theatre and NEC - Núcleo Experimental de Coreografia dance company.
. Poster, postcard and flyer design for ACP.
. ACP Informa magazine layout design - Associação dos Comerciantes do Porto.
. Design of the faculdade de Letras - Faculty of Arts presentation at University of Porto's expo., panel display and merchandising design: t-shirts, watches, backpacks and pins.


Freelance Designer

APCN - Ass. Portuguesa para a Comunicação em Nutrição 2012
Portuguese Association for Communication in Nutrition
. Logo and facebook page design and implementation for the association.

ILGA - Porto 2011
. Logo, posters, flyer and web page design www.porto.ilga-portugal.pt and production for the association.

AEFCNAUP 2004 > 2008
Students Association - Faculty of Nutritional Sciences - University of Porto
. Design and production of annual agendas/diaries: from 2004 to 2007.
. Layout and pagination of the faculty's newspaper O Provisório 2005.
. Design and production of the posters and flyers for their annual congress Semana da Nutrição 2006 and 2008.

Apple Pie (photographic studio) 2003
. Logo, image and stationery for Apple Pie.
. Design of the Weiss & Krohn port wine cellar's reception area information boards.

Câmara Municipal do Porto 2003
. Icon design for Porto Tours, Porto's City Council - Tourism Office.


Junior Graphic e Web designer at Evoluir Jan 2003 > Aug 2003

. Website design using Flash and HTML: www.iberotermas.pt.
. Design of client's portfolios and their images.


Internship at Designarte Aug 2002 > Dec 2002

. Logos, website layouts and client's advertisement design.


Personal Project 2001

. Publication of personal project - Metagramas in collaboration with Ecoteca, presented at a stationery fair in New York.    

Higher Education

. 5 year degree in Communications Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts - University of Porto 2001.
Licenciatura: Design de Comunicação. Faculdade de Belas Artes - UP


Complementary Education

. Workshop: Facebook Marketing.
Sisrede - Lisbon - Nov. 2011.

. Training: Migration from Freehand to Illustrator. ESAD Porto - Jun. 2008.

. Video Editing Course (Premiere Elements). Universus Porto - Aug. 2006.

. Initial Pedagogical Training for Trainers Course. Instituto de Informática do Porto Porto - Jan. 2006.

. Training: "Personnel Development for the New Economy - Web Design".
SPI - Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação Porto - Feb. > Jul. 2002.


Other Qualifications

Languages
. English and Portuguese, native speaker

Computer skills
Platforms:
. Macintosh, Linux and Windows.

Programs:
. Freehand, Indesign, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Coreldraw, Acrobat Professional, Premiere, Notepad ++, Google Analytics e Adwords, Word, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint, WinSCP, Komodo, Facebook.

Languages:
. HTML, XHTML, CSS. JavaScript / jQuery UI (integration). PHP (environment)


Hobbies

. Reading, Listening to music, drawing, travelling, cinema, gymnasium.
. Designer at Octopus, cinema club.
Póvoa de Varzim - 1997 > 1999.


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Curriculum Vitae

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