This human (Homo sapiens) is a primate of the family known as “Creative”. All creative homo sapiens are characterized by having a large inspiration with a particularly well developed drawing and visual perception skills, making them capable of create and use numerous technologies and arts, such as photography, graphic design, web design and so on.

This creative ability, combined with inspiration and an enormous adaptation to computer technology, has allowed creative humans like Paulo to make far greater use of graphic and programming software than any other known species on planet Earth. Creative Homo Sapiens are the only species known to build logos, websites, flyers, brochures, programming code and solving some communication problems of other well known species called clients. He is Portuguese and lives, currently, in the beautiful city of Lisboa.

Education / Training

Graduation

Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa 1994 – 1998

Communication Sciences

Expertise in Advertising

 

Training

FLAG 2007

Web Design (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash and integration)

 

Training

FrenetikPolis 2009

Adobe Graphic Design (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop Expert)

 

Training

FrenetikPolis 2013

WebDesign (HTML5 & CSS3 Dreamweaver CS5; JQuery)

 

Training

FrenetikPolis 2013

Joomla! 1, Joomla! 2 template development

Graphic Design

Printing projects to communicate your company including flyers, brochures, outdoors, roll-ups, etc

Web Design

Responsive websites, newsletters and digital campaigns.

UI / UX Design

Mobile apps

Editorial Design

Brochures, magazines, books, reports and accounts and various editorial content.

Content Writer

Online and print content creation and management.

Brand Design

Logotypes and stationery to communicate your brand.

Work experience

Smartmove, Serviços de Mobilidade

Employment Period: 2013 – now

Position: Web Designer / Graphic Consultant

Roles and Responsibilities: Design and development of graphic design projects for the web and for printing using Adobe Illustrator, manipulation and image processing in Adobe Photoshop, development of animated banners for the web in Adobe Flash and animated GIF's in Adobe Fireworks, development of graphic layouts for mobile (iOS and Android) using html5, css, css3, and Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

 

Escrita Digital - soluções e software

Employment Period: 2010 – 2011

Position: Online Marketing Technician

Roles and Responsibilities: Client support in development and content update in CMS, social network management, customer contacts management, monitoring web projects, usability and functionality tests on websites, layout design for web and printing, SEO e web marketing.

 

Freelancer

Employment Period: 2009 – now

Position: Web Designer / Graphic Consultant

Roles and Responsibilities: Creative writing, text revision, development of graphic design projects and editorial design in Adobe Illustrator, manipulation and image processing in Adobe Photoshop, pagination in Adobe Indesign, development of animated banners for the web in Adobe Flash and GIF's animated in Adobe Fireworks, websites development using the technologies html4, html5, css, css3, javascript, jQuery library using Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, site optimization for search engines, and development of websites using WordPress and Joomla.

 

PT - PRO (Portugal Telecom)

Employment Period: 2007 – 2008

Position: Data entry operator

Roles and Responsibilities: Word processing, data entry, cards activations, backoffice.

 

Pausa Criativa

Employment Period: 2003 – 2007

Position: Graphic Designer

Roles and Responsibilities: Creative writing, text revision, development of graphic design projects and editorial design in Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand, manipulation and image processing in Adobe Photoshop, pagination in Adobe Indesign, development of animated banners for the web in Adobe Flash and GIF's animated in Adobe Fireworks, support in events organization (photo exibitions)

 

Diximagem - publicidade e comunicação global

Employment Period: 2001 – 2003

Position: Copywriter

Roles and Responsibilities: Creative and concept development of communication content, text revision, catalogs pagination in
QuarkExpress.

 

IEFP (Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional)

Employment Period: 1999 – 2001

Position: Cultural / Social Animator

Roles and Responsibilities: Administrative support, support for young people's transition to the job market, dissemination of job offers and training, monitoring young people’s integration in enterprises.