
Interactive Multimedia MSc student and Microsoft Student Partner at Microsoft
Portugal

Interactive Multimedia MSc student and Microsoft Student Partner at Microsoft
Portugal
I’m João, a 22 year old Multimedia Communication MSc (Interactive Multimedia branch) student at DeCA, University of Aveiro (Portugal). I have a big crush on web technologies and HCI interaction based on a front-end perspective. I’m a typography-based graphic enthusiast and I also do some audiovisual post-production freelancing and some print design to pay my bills.
Though I do not consider myself a core geek (I’m something more like a design-oriented cowboy coder), I do love XHTML/PHP, CSS and Ajax (jQuery) and I’m crazy about new fancy technologies, services and applications.
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
Microsoft Student Partner, representing Universidade de Aveiro
(Online Media industry)
2009 — 2009 (less than a year)
User interface and experience web design.
(Online Media industry)
2009 — 2009 (less than a year)
Developed a mobile browser-based app on XHTML Mobile Profile and Wireless CSS, Sapo Hey!, for sapo.labs @ DeCA (University of Aveiro).
(Media Production industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Designed fatinha.com, afwerkingsstudio.com, nicolegestels.com, amarelo.pt and a few more web design tasks.
(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Designed and illustrated two business and promotional flyers.
(Photography industry)
2006 — 2008 (2 years )
Designed, recorded and edited more than 30 movies and DVDs and designed estudiocruz.com.
Bachelor , New Communication Technologies , 2006 — 2009
High School (spanish) , Health Sciences , 2005 — 2006
High School (portuguese) , General Sciences , 2002 — 2005
I love to do some sunset reading in the beach and to brainstorm with a capuccino and a cigarrette. I know how to cook some crispy magic potatoes, too.
decART (founder), BEST Aveiro (former member)
Honorable Mention at the APEA photography contest, 2004; Best night shot at S. Gonçalinho Photo-Safari, 2005; Photographer of the Month at the “O Mundo da Fotografia Digital” magazine, 2005; Photographer of the Week at the Navigator Photography contest, 2007; Sic Radical TV and Creamfields poster contest, 2007; and somemore irrelevant stuff.