About

Combination of creative talent in visual arts and technological insight: graphic designer and illustrator, with over 19 years experience in Editorial, Literature and Advertising, and software engineer, with over 23 years experience in full-stack Web and Mobile development.

Currently

He works at his illustration studio developing several illustration, graphic design and multimedia projects.

He is a professor at Senac, teaching system development, graphic design and drawing classes.

He helps organize sketching meetups like Urban Sketchers and World Wide SketchCrawl.

He teaches courses, workshops and lectures about techniques and the illustration market.

As Graphic Designer and Illustrator

  • Several courses with professionals active in labor market
  • Specialization in identity, UI/UX and illustration
  • 19+ years in the labor market

UX/UI

  • Proficiency in Adobe graphic pack (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Animate)
  • Experience with Design Thinking approach
  • Knowledge of Google's Material Design guidelines
  • Knowledge of Figma and Adobe XD

Books

  • Experience with style and visual flow development of book
  • Proficiency in publish layout
  • Proficiency in book illustration

Corporate

  • Proficiency in comprehensive branding/ID development (logotype, lettering, business card etc.)
  • Proficiency in brand use manual development
  • Experience with annual report design
  • Experience with design for newsletter and email marketing
  • Experience with design and management of endomarketing

Illustration and animation

  • Experience with illustration for advertising, identity and marketing
  • Proficiency in illustration for children's book, picture book and textbook
  • Proficiency in illustration for magazine, newspaper and periodicals
  • Experience with character design
  • Experience with 2D animation and motion graphics
  • Proficiency in whiteboard animation
  • Proficiency in animation with Adobe Animate — and experience with Adobe AfterEffects
  • Experience in digital sculpting (Z-Brush, Mudbox)
take a look at my work

As Software Engineer

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
  • Lato sensu specialization in Mobile Application Development
  • 23+ years of programming experience in corporate environment
  • 10+ years experience developing mobile applications
  • Experience with several programming languages such JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, Java, PHP, C/C++, ActionScript — and knowledge of Objective-C, Swift and Phyton
  • Experience with design patterns
  • Knowledge of SOA — and experience in development of REST API development
  • Experience with XML and JSON
  • Experience with Git and with GitFlow branching model — and knowledge of GitHub and BitBucket platforms
  • Knowledge of Agile methodology and Scrum
  • Experience with VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) development
  • Experience with development using Unity

Front-end

  • Proficiency in HMTL5 and CSS3/SASS
  • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Proficiency in React and Next.js frameworks
  • Knowledge of GraphQL
  • Experience with Vue.js and AngularJS
  • Proficiency in JavaScript libraries as Bootstrap, jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile
  • Knowledge of Google's Material Design Guidelines — and experience with Material Design components libraries

Back-end

  • Knowledge of Linux, Windows and macOS operating systems
  • Experience with Node.js and Express
  • Proficiency in PHP and experience with Composer
  • Experience with PHP framework Slim for developing REST API
  • Experience with customization of Wordpress and WooCommerce (child-theme, plugin creation, hooks, shortcodes)
  • Experience with relational databases (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server)
  • Knowledge of NoSQL databases (MongoDB)

Mobile

  • Proficiency in Android native development using Java and Kotlin — and experience with Room and Retrofit.
  • Knowledge of iOS native development using Objective-C and Swift
  • Knowledge of React Native
  • Knowledge of Maven and Gradle
  • Knowledge of CocoaPods
  • Experience with Play Store and App Store publishing

Work Experience

Eldes Studio2000/may – PresentOwner / Art Director / Illustrator

  • Children's book and textbook illustration
  • Magazine, newspaper and periodicals illustration
  • Advertising, identity and marketing illustration
  • Animation
  • Character design
  • Concept art
  • Type design

Frux Design2008/oct – PresentPartner owner and founder / Art director / CIO

  • Project management
  • Software architecture
  • System development
  • Art direction
  • UX/UI design
  • Type design
  • Illustration

Senac (National Service for Commercial Education)2002/jun – PresentTeacher in:

  • System development (software enginering, object-oriented programming)
  • Web development (HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, PHP, Wordpress
  • Mobile development (Java, React Native)
  • Graphic design (color theory, typography, UX/UI)
  • Graphic apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
  • Animation (concept e techniques)
  • Digital sculpting (ZBrush, Mudbox)
  • Illustration (character design, observational drawing, drawing techniques, digital painting)

MZO Interativa2000/jan – 2006/decPartner owner and founder / Art director / CIO

  • Project management
  • Software architecture
  • System development
  • Art direction
  • UX/UI design

Education and training

IFSP2014 – 2016Post Graduate lato sensu Specialization in Mobile Application Development

  • I completed all the instruction-hours, except the presentation of capstone project

USP1993 – 1999Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

  • Research in Scientific Data Visualization
  • Capstone project in Multimedia Project Development