André Conti Silva Email & Phone Number

Milan, It

Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Research Center for Interaction with the Cultural and Creative Industries (CRICC) and Advanced Design Unit (ADU).

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Professor, teaching in the following:- Master in User Experience Design- Comics and Visual Storytelling Undergraduate Program- Creative Technologies Undergraduate Program- Graphic Design & Art Direction Undergraduate Program- Foundation Year- Semester Abroad and Summer Intensive

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Netherlands

Florence, Italy Metropolitan Area

Firenze

• Designed 27 new certificate learning programs, divided in 4 new departments and two updated ones, involving 20+ team members and stakeholders.• Acting Supervisor for the Graphic Design Department. 20+ faculty management.

Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido

International volunteer, managing communication and media students (filmmakers, journalists, designers, PR professionals), establishing goals, scopes and strategies for online and offline media insertion of UCL MAL's Experimental VR Heritage project.

Campo Bom/Novo Hamburgo

• Successfully conducted on-site in market research, design-driven innovation, product and service systems, and consumer behavior in the context of an innovation cluster with 70+ resident companies, 450+ indirect jobs, and a yearly income of more than $50 million.• Individually mentored 30+ start-ups in marketing strategies, product placement and consumer behavior. • Delivered customized growth strategies, supporting entrepreneurs in market and consumer research, product and service marketing, retail, user experience.• Performed complementary design thinking workshops, guidance on ethnographic methods, focus groups, UX research, design thinking workshops and agile methods implementation.

Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil

• Co-managed 4 undergraduate programs: Graphic Design, Games Design, Animation and Digital Filmmaking (aproxim. 200+ students and 30+ faculty members).• Coordinated a team of 15+ professionals (professors, technicians, researchers, academic secretaries, and higher management) in the updating/elaboration of the curricula of 6 undergraduate programs.

Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil

• Planned, organized, and delivered 20+ courses, supervised 50+ hons and dissertations and participated in 100+ final examination sessions. • Awarded in-class approach for the development of creative and innovative student outcomes.• Active role in research groups with a focus on the development of the creative industries, including 37 works published or presented and 48 supervised research projects in applied arts, design, and media communications.• Participation in social-inclusive projects, supporting the development of endangered populations.

Rolante, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil

• Development of the marketing department, with 11 cross-functional professionals selected, hired, and trained.• Launched two new brands (200+ SKUs) for the national market, with distribution in 25 states, with 12 sales representatives and an e-commerce platform.• Collaborated with the market and sales department, defining KPI’s, and both B2B and end consumer data collection for stablishing sales funnel.• Defined trade marketing-based strategies focused on the relations with the 30+ international B2B partners (private labels) and several other stakeholders (logistics, representatives, etc).

Riihimäki, Finlândia Meridional, Finlândia

Lecturer at IP Smart programme, using design thinking methods for innovation in robotics and engineering applications.

Lecturer of the "Graphic Production" module of the postgraduate course (lato sensu) "Advertising creation"

Lecturer on communication, marketing and applied arts courses, such as Advertising and Marketing, Public Relationships and Fashion Design

Porto Alegre E Região, Brasil

Lecturer on the Multimedia Production undergraduate program.

• Planned, budgeted, managed teams and tasks, and controlled costs on several • independent and/or authorial productions.• Short and medium length films, documentaries and web series. • Includes international collaborations, with a short fiction film shot in the UK ("Next Session", 2014). IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5800581/

Caxias Do Sul E Região, Brasil

Canoas, Rs

• Managed communication projects, gathering informations from internal stakeholders, planning, organizing, budgeting, interacting with advertising agencies and media. • Honed the insertion of the public administration in digital platforms (social media and an exlcusive space for open audiences)• Improved the use of marketing techniques on the governmental context.

• Hired, trained, and managed a 7-member cross-functional team with projects shared with three media companies (newspaper, radio and TV). • Championed the project of insertion of the TV Channel in the market, managing the creative branch of the marketing department, collaborating towards 51% audience and 25% share increases in a period of two years.

São Leopoldo, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

Classroom support; Video production studio management, Schedule and control of equipments and external video activities; Educational video production and editing.

São Leopoldo

Teacher on filmmaking technical courses, complementary to the regular high school classes.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Strategic Design, Narrative Design

Activities and Societies: Researcher at the Digital Artifacts Lab - https://www.ufrgs.br/lad/- Research on the development and management.

Spcialization, Project Management

Specialist, Creative Writing

Research Period For Phd Studies (Doutorado Sanduíche), Linguistics

Activities and Societies: European Narratology NetworkFunded by the CAPES/PDSE 2017 Grant (Brazil).

Summer Specialist, Film Making

Master Of Science - Ms, Strategic Design

Activities and Societies: Paper presented at the Design and Emotion Society conference 2012.Research on the early development of YouTube.

Specialist, Executive Producer For Television And Cinema

Bachelor'S Degree, Advertising And Marketing