I am a creative freelance web designer based on Cascais/Portugal with over 10 years commercial experience. I specialize in front-end development through XHTML/CSS but I have other complimentary skills.
I have a passion for website design and development, branding and advertising materials. I like to focus on simple, clean and attractive design and comply with today's web standards.
Experience
My experience comes from training people and working in web and eLearning projects since 1999. I must say training people can be very challenging but in the end my knowledge and skills have always improved some how.
While working as a primary consultant, I organized and supervised different processes in web and e-learning solutions development both as a leader and a team member as a:
- web designer;
- multimedia analyst;
- e-Learning developer;
- web design trainer;
- instructional designer;
- developer of rich media solutions.
Competences
- Certificate in training of trainers;
- profound knowledge on implementation and customization of several Open source solutions like Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, Elgg, CMS Made Simple, DSpace , OsCommerce, etc.;
- web and print publishing: Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, PhotoShop;
- programming languages and others: Smarty; PHP, MySQL, Actionscript, DHTML (JavaScript and CSS) and XHTML;
- frameworks: jQuery, JqueryMobile, BlueprintCSS;
- learning management systems: Blackboard (Multi-Language, Academic Suite and Portal System), Moodle , Dokeos , Interact, Atutor , Claroline;
- authoring tools: TrainerSoft, Lectora, Microsoft Producer; Viewlet Builder, Articulate, ReadyGo WCB, Captivate;
- audio, video conference an collaboration platforms: Elluminate and Wimba (Live Classroom) , Yugma;
- Final Cut;
- operating systems: Mac OS, Windows and Linux.
