Marcelo Eduardo

Current

Manager, User Experience Design for SW&UI Team at Nokia Institute of Technology
Concept Design & Development Team Leader at Nokia Institute of Technology
Team Leader / Senior Interaction Designer at Nokia Technology Institute

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Past

Mobile Application Specialist at Nokia Institute of Technology
Game Expert at Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
Mobile Games Designer / Developer at INdT

Mobile Game Design Consultant at Sea Wireless
Senior frontend developer at Globo.com
Creative Assistant / FrontEnd developer at AgênciaClick

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Education

FIR
CEUB
UNB

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Marcelo Eduardo’s Summary

Creative mind with a "tech" background. This mix of interaction design with code understanding, enables me to create a efficient bridge between the 2 distinct profiles (Designers and Developers) and thus make sure the team is able to develop innovative concepts at Nokia's Technology Institute, a research company in Brazil. Working with spearhead products in the mobile world, taming the powerful Linux in embedded environments and developing mobile games has been a lot of fun.

Marcelo Eduardo’s Specialties:

Leadership, creative problem solving skills, product creation, deep understanding of mobile applications design and development, under Linux (Maemo) and Symbian OS.

Marcelo Eduardo’s Experience

Manager, User Experience Design for SW&UI Team

Nokia Institute of Technology

(Non-Profit; Telecommunications industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

To enable and be a hands on force on the amazing team that surrounds me to create daring and provocative concepts always aiming to improve the experience in INdT & Nokia's actual and upcoming products, specially in concept efforts for new platforms, emerging markets.

Responsibilities: Design Process improvements, Planning, Product UX strategy definition, Concept promotion and approve with stakeholders, Chief Product Owner (Scrum), Hands on interaction design! Customer interface for UX matters.

- Project gone public! : Home Control Center (previously Nokia, now owned by therecorporation) | Lead UX & Interaction Designer, guiding the GUI creation for S60 (Symbian, openGL based) + Mobile Web version + Maemo Linux UI. | http://www.therecorporation.com/
Concept Design & Development Team Leader

Nokia Institute of Technology

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Doing the impossible to make a multi-disciplinary (Designers and Developers) and multi-site team work as creative and productive as possible. Acting as product Owner (Scrum) and Creative leader in our really edgy cross-platform projects, from mobile to desktop, from health to in-car technology.
Team Leader / Senior Interaction Designer

Nokia Technology Institute

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

Product creation, UI concepts, UI prototypes, Usability testing, paper prototype, Mobile Games Development, Game character creation, Prototype coding, Team leadership, Multiuser applications frameworks. Maemo games development, Nokia 770 software and API development.
Mobile Application Specialist

Nokia Institute of Technology

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )
Game Expert

Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )
Mobile Games Designer / Developer

INdT

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 10 months)

concept creation, game design, gameplay definitions, character creation, art direction with game artists, quality assurance, j2me coding, debbuging, application certification, code optimization, Speaker on several events about mobility.(eg: Sun tech days brazil)
Mobile Game Design Consultant

Sea Wireless

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

Helped sea in the creation of it's first mobile game. Dino. Worked with game artists and developers to bring to life a simple mobile game to run on java enabled devices.
Senior frontend developer

Globo.com

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

September 2001 — February 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Front end coding for web applications ( Css, javascript/dhtml , *ajax before this ugly name exist* )
Creative Assistant / FrontEnd developer

AgênciaClick

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

October 2000 — September 2001 (1 year )

Site designing, online campaign creation, front end development ( javascript, dom, css (dhtml), crossbrowser madness) and chaos maker =)

Marcelo Eduardo’s Education

FIR

Bachelor , Information Systems , 2006 — 2006

on going
CEUB

Bachelor , Computer science , 2003 — 2005

Not finished
UNB

Bachelor , Industrial Design , 2000 — 2001

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Marcelo Eduardo’s Interests:

UI design / development, Mobile multiplayer Game development, Product design, Usability, smart coding (python), Game design, new media, interactive ads, snowboarding, hard languages (Finnish / mandarin) , music, eletric guitars and video games...all of them, every single one of them :)