Alexandre Paes De Barros Email & Phone Number

Porto Alegre Area, Brazil

Porto Alegre Area, Brazil

Responsible for design strategies and product development for the company. Design team management and also responsible for brand image. Works alongside R&D manager and CEO in order to concieve innovative products that can maintain the company at the front edge of automotive performance.

Florianópolis Area, Brazil

Currently employed as Innovation in Design director for the experience design company. Several projects include interactive ambients, multi-touch products and interactive softwares which sum up to learning & training group and individual experiences for the oil & gas company Petrobras, as well as several other solutions for government and retail clients.

Florianópolis, Brazil

Lead product designer for the experience design company. Main products conceptualized and developed under my supervision and conceptualization include multi-touch capable group computers for 3 to 7 concurrent (presential) users. To this day I have developed form concept to production 4 products for the company. Also developed several experience design lounges for a variety of clients. This is the first company established in the Sapiens Park (www.sapiensparque.com.br), the biggest innovation park in the southern hemisphere.

Lead designer for the multitouch group computer E-Cog P100.

New line of POS products for the Grendene shoe company. Designed for the Rider brand relaunch in the Brazilian market as a freelance designer for the "O Estúdio" design studio, Rio de Janeiro.

Was employed as Producer and lead artist at Hoplon‘s serious games department, having produced one training game for a major Oil and Gas company, and two other titles for the brazilian government. Previously employed as lead artist and lead game designer at Hoplon’s entertainment department. Responsible for level design, asset development and technical art direction for the sci-fi-themed action MMOG Taikodom.

Product and graphic designer in the development of new aircraft products and concepts for EMBRAER, considered by many as being the world’s third largest aircraft manufacturer. Have successfully worked as project manager and lead designer for two important product design concepts - one for commercial aircraft and one for business aircraft. Roles performed at EMBRAER include interior design of several corporate jets, exterior graphic design for several aircrafts, development of new corporate processes and standards for design production and validation, both internally and with clients, as well as design and development of entirely new concepts, from aerodynamics to interior design. Gained lots of experience with the high-luxury and commercial airline market.

Employed as product and graphic designer for the American POS design and manufacturing company CORMARK. Worked with design concepts of point of sales products for diverse companies such as Staples and Home Depot, among others.

Designer & Architect for several in-house projects.

Advanced design research for the ITAFE digital inclusion initiative. Collaborative project including companies such as Cisco, AMD, Intel and Accenture for designing the 2015 1 computer per child strategy. My role was design researcher representing ESDI.

Interface designer for the Pedagogy e-learning team.

Employed as lead game designer and lead artist at Paralelo, one of the first Brazilian video game developers. Worked with the well-known Computer Graphics author and researcher Fabio Policarpo on several game projects, such as Conquest of Titan (2005), a spaceship arcade game for the Globo TV channel; STJ Virtual Walkthrough (2004), an interactive 3D multimedia system for the brazilian Supreme Court; MetalMorphosis (cancelled in 2003), a sci-fi action game; and several other small games and demos for the Fly3D family of graphics engines.

Product & Graphic designer for Nokia's new mobile phones point of sales products and packages and point of sales concept designs for mobile phone carrier TIM.

Worked with design concepts for the maritime industry, including sail yachts, catmarans, powered single-hull yachts and speed boats. Learned how to design with composite materials and expensive metals. Earned vast experience with the luxury market in brazil.

Master'S Degree (Incomplete), Strategic Design Management

Activities and Societies: Experience design research group; Earned CNPQ (Nation Council of Scientific & Technological Development) funding.

Bsc., Industrial Design

Incomplete Bsc, Materials Engineering

Incomplete Bsc., Engineering