Hi! My name is Tiago Pedras and I'm from sunny Porto in Portugal.
I'm an highly active web designer always looking for new parternships on creative and fun projects.
Personal traits
Creative, with a great sense of humor and a fun person to work with.
Loves to travel abroad, to get know different cultures and to bring home fresh new ideas from the people he meets.
Also does martial arts (ninjutsu) to ease the mind and teach the body.
Professional traits
Ease in communicating with a team and flexible while relating to people with different personalities and backgrounds.
Great organizational, project management and mediation skills. Very comfortable while speaking in public for small or medium audiences.
Skills
Good coding skills on ROR, PHP and Javascript + common frameworks.
Can handle HTML5 & CSS3 like a true ninja and knows is way around with ActionScript 3, Processing and MAX-MSP/Jitter and has experience with the most common Adobe products.
Work experience
- September 2009 - Today
Co-founder
of NetCar Exchange, a web app intended to help people buy a new car at the best price in the market. Currently operating in Portugal and soon to start in Spain and Brasil.- February 2007 - Today
Founder
at TPWD, Web Design Studio. Lead Web Designer/Developer in several projects developed for several business areas, including mobile apps.- September 2006 - Today
Web Design Teacher
at ESAD, Matosinhos School of Art and Design (Portugal).- August 2009 - April 2011
Web Designer/Developer
on ESAD’s Communication and Project’s Office. Responsible for some internal projects while giving support to external projects Quitted in order to pursue a less restrained creative path at TPWD.- February 2007 - April 2007
Web Designer
at Ideavity. A startup that was developing Mingle a social network for teenagers, later sold to a mobile phone company as their network for a teen-oriented mobile carrier TAG. Quitted due to college schedule limitations at the time.
Other work experience
- February 2006 - July 2007
- Camera operator and video producer on several independent and college related video projects.
- July 2001 - July 2007
- Freelance Web/Graphic designer and video producer.
Academic credentials
- 2010
- Masters in Design, Communication and Multimedia (ESAD) with 18/20 points.
- 2007
- Degree in Multimedia and Digital Arts (ESAD) with 16/20 points.
- 2003 - 2007
- Attended several workshops in areas such as Super8 cinema, VJing or Persuasive Speaking.
Events
- 2010 - Today
- Speaker and mentor at a fair number of events related to entrepreneurship and web-based start-ups such as Startup Pirates or Startup Weekend Porto.
- 2009 - Today
- Regularly attends several UX and Web related events such as Build Conference (Belfast, Ireland) and UXLx (Lisbon, Portugal).
- 2010
- Designed, implemented and organized The Golden Coconut Award, a research method/event that applied game-based learning techniques onto his Web Design class. The results where amazingly high levels of engagement, increase on learning speed of web technologies and several real world applications being published (to be published during this year’s edition).
- 2007 - 2010
- Designed and produced several multimedia and art installations such as REC - Random Experience Construction, RME'07 or Max Life.
Language skills
Very fluent in speaking and writing English and Portuguese (native) and quite good on the Spanish.
A bit rusty on the French but once it was enough to order a Gaufre au Chocolat in Paris.
Details
- Birthday
- May 17th, 1984
- Citizenship
- Portuguese
- Personal web site
- http://tiagopedras.com
- Professional web site
- http://tpwd.pt/
Contacts
- Skype
- tiagopedras
- @tiagopedras
- Personal E-mail
- tiago@tiagopedras.com
- Cell phone
- +351 916 906 242
- V-card
- Tiago_Pedras.vcf