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Professional Experience
Ongoing
Creator and administrator of the Lisbon School of Magic
The Lisbon School of Magic is a multiplayer browser game. There, students can learn how to fly on a broomstick, study several spells, meet strange mythological creatures and they also get to have their own room in a medieval castle.

The Lisbon School of Magic was chosen as the winner, in Portugal, of the Best Content for Kids Award organized by Insafe and by the European Schoolnet. Here is some news about the award: VIDEO
September 2002 to present
Teacher of Informatics for the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science
Prizes won by my students whose work I oriented:
  • 2015 - eSkills for Jobs Competition – Young Competition digital talent - I oriented the students who won the first and the second places in the eSkills for Jobs Competition – Young Competition digital talent organized by the European Commission and by Cisco Systems. The contest was for people ranging from 16 to 30 years old and therefore my students, who were minors at the time, competed and won against adults. The prize was a trip do Luxembourg, for the award ceremony, and another trip to Berlin to participate in the CiscoLive! Academy Day. You can read about this competition in the Luxemburger Wort.

  • 2015 e 2014 - SeguraNet - I oriented the students who classified as winners in the 2014 and 2015 editions of SeguraNet, a contest about Internet security organized by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, by Direção-Geral da Educação, by Fundação para a Computação Cientifica Nacional and by Microsoft Portugal.

  • 2014 - Passatempo Comunicar em Segurança - I oriented the team of students who won the second place in the elementary education category, and the third place in the secondary education category, of the Passatempo Comunicar em Segurança 2014, a contest about Internet security organized by Portugal Telecom Foundation.

  • 2013 - Best Content for Kids – European Award - Young individuals or teams category - I oriented the team of students who was chosen as the winner, in Portugal, of the Best Content for Kids Award 2013, organized by Insafe and by the European Schoolnet. The students competed in the Young Individuals and Teams Category.

  • 2009 - Webmaster Contest - I oriented the team of students who won the first place in the Webmaster 2009 contest. Webmaster is a contest organized by Microsoft in Portugal.

  • 2008 - Webmaster Contest - I oriented the team of students who won the second place in the Webmaster 2008 contest. Webmaster is a contest organized by Microsoft in Portugal.
International projects I participated in:
  • 2014-2016 - Projet ERASMUS+ The Healthier! The Happier! - The project partners were Portugal, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Romania and Turkey.

  • 2013-2014 - Projet Comenius Verantwortungsbewusster Konsum - The project partners were Portugal, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Turkey and Hungary.
As a teacher I participated on a videoconference promoted by the Presidency of the European Union Counsel, during the Informal Meeting of the European Education Ministers, on 2 March 2003.
April 2014 to February 2015
Professor at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
September 2009 to August 2014
Researcher at CITI
CITI is a research institute at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa where I participated in several research activities.
January 2012 to April 2012
Intern at Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo - Barcelona
As part of my PhD I did an internship at Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, in Barcelona. At Telefónica I developed WaggleBee, an Android application that allows users to search the web via a mobile phone and share results, pages, images and maps.
July 2001 to September 2002
Computer programmer at Integer
At Integer I developed Java applications for ONI, a telecommunications corporation.
November 2000 to July 2001
Intern at Deloitte
During the final project of my Computer Science and Business Management degree I worked at Deloitte as an intern. At Deloitte I developed a project where I studied technologies like ADSL, GSM, GPRS, UTMS and interactive television. I also created an interactive television site for a travel agency.
March 1998 to March 1999
Computer programmer at Adetti
Adetti is a non-profit research institution aiming at the development of Information and Communication Technologies. At Adetti I elaborated the site for the Portuguese Management Magazine. This site allowed the papers from the magazine to be sold through the Internet. I also collaborated on the CHICCO Project that consisted in the creation of a stores server for Chicco. This project was developed in association with Pararede.



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