João Aguiar

Past

• Traveller at Around the World
• Reception Manager at Casa Club Hostel Bar
• Freecycle Group Founder at Freecycle

• Analog Design Engineer at Chipidea / MIPS
• student at Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon), Portugal
• Manager / Editor at Skillz Magazine

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Education

• Escola de Socorrismo da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa
• Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
• Cambridge School

• Esc. Sec. Vergílio Ferreira
• Ext. Maristas of Lisbon
• Ext. de Alfragide

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Connections

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Industry

Renewables & Environment

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• Skillz Magazine website

João Aguiar’s Summary

I've been traveling around the world since February 2008, without a fixed date to come back to Portugal. I'm looking forward to work overseas during the trip.

João Aguiar’s Specialties:

Electronics engineering. Microelectronics. Social work, volunteering. Written and radio journalism. Starting up work groups. Promoting.

João Aguiar’s Experience

• Traveller

  Around the World

  (Hospitality industry)

  February 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 7 months)

  Since the 5th of February 2008 to the 22nd August 2009, I've been traveling around the world, on my own.
  
  It was a very strong experience for personal enrichment, and broadening of horizons developing business, management and team working skills, among other skills that one develops when working for long term alone.
  
  During this adventure trip had the opprtunity to work in Brasil, São Paulo on a hostel as recpecionist and barman. Also had several opportunities to do volunteering services in Mozambique, Brasil, Argentina and Australia.

• Reception Manager

  Casa Club Hostel Bar

  (Hospitality industry)

  August 2008 — November 2008 (4 months)

  Reception Manager and Barman

• Freecycle Group Founder

  Freecycle

  (Renewables & Environment industry)

  January 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  Founder and Moderator of Freecycle Lisbon group (with 3.000 members @ Dec 2008)

• Analog Design Engineer

  Chipidea / MIPS

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  November 2005 — September 2007 (1 year 11 months)

  Power Management Analog Design Engineer. DC-DC and LDO design experience

• student

  Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon), Portugal

  (Renewables & Environment industry)

  2001 — 2006 (5 years )

• Manager / Editor

  Skillz Magazine

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  November 2002 — August 2005 (2 years 10 months)

  Held the position of managing and editing the magazine.

João Aguiar’s Education

• Escola de Socorrismo da Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa

  Red Cross First Aider , First Aids , 2007 — 2007

  First Aider one week course, held by the Portuguese Red Cross school.

• Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

  Licentiate , Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Microelectronics , 2001 — 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  Radio Zero - http://radiozero.pt - radio show hoster, secretary, marketing department collaborator, technical department collaborator; Musical events organizer

• Cambridge School

  CAE (Certificate in Advanced English) , English , 2001 — 2003

• Esc. Sec. Vergílio Ferreira

  High School , Scientific , 1999 — 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Musical events organizer.

• Ext. Maristas of Lisbon

  High School , Scientific , 1994 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Voleyball ADM team player, Basketball player, Musical events organizer, Classica guitar student.

• Ext. de Alfragide

Additional Information

João Aguiar’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• Skillz Magazine website

João Aguiar’s Interests:

Talking with other people and learning the best of them. Electronics, analog circuits, DIY, informatic, internet, activism, environment, recycling, GMOs, Freecycle, Lisbon freecycle, urban cycling, public transportation, journeys, creating, internet, web sites, communicational sciences, radio broadcasting and radio listening, sociology, politics, Africa, philosofy, politics, ethics, free information, helping other people and communities, social associations, immigration, human rights, movies, art, street-art, postcards, flyers, world music, african music, reggae, funk, hip-hop, dubstep, dub, soul, ethnic music, rock, new rock, indie rock, jazz, ska, music in general, playing guitar, accordion, didjeridoo, djembé, drums, DJing, organizing parties, hanging out with my friends, stroll on the city, meeting people.

João Aguiar’s Groups:

Freecycle de Lisboa, Rádio Zero, GAIA, Aministia Internacional

•    Associação dos Antigos Alunos do Instituto Superior Técnico - IST Alumni
•    The Hospitality Club
•    IST Engineers
•    Rádio Zero

João Aguiar’s Honors:

IEEE PowerEng Conference 2007 - presenting the paper "Dead-Time Control System for a Synchronous Buck dc-dc Converter"

João Aguiar’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• reference requests