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Vienna, Austria

• Optimized existing processes (and set new ones) to improve the workflow of the design team and its connection with other areas such as Product Owners and Developers, as well fostering growth within our team.
• Established new ways to report and share our work across the organization, for Design and Research practices, using workshops, periodical publications and other engaging methodologies.
• Managed the design system’s designer to bring Bitpanda's design system to the next level.
• Devised the strategy for scaling the team (together with the Head of UX and the design leadership).

Linz, Upper Austria, Austria

• Initiated the user research practice in the company: responsible for defining the vision, strategy, processes and roadmaps of the Research team.
• Conducted mixed methods research projects across the organization.
• Assisted the UX team by proposing and facilitating UX methodology that suits their needs.
• Worked together with designers, product managers and engineers to enable teams and increase the overall UX maturity of the organization.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

• Contributed to the redesign of the product, with an emphasis on improving the information architecture and visual design, resulting in a 40% increase in CTA conversion.
• Contributed to establishing the core rules to maintain the design system.
• Designed, researched and created the visuals for several features, working very closely with the product owners to shape the vision of the product.
• Facilitated UX workshops & design sprints with members of multiple departments.

Campinas Area, Brazil

• Managed a team of 10 UX Designers working on multiple projects for BT (British Telecom), ensuring a strong design process and making sure the team was engaged and in top performance.
• Managed a team of 3 UX designers on a biometrics tool for 3M that was adopted by the Brazilian Federal Police for passport issuance and police reporting.
• Worked as a UI/UX designer on various mobile projects, managing Agile teams and interfacing with the clients.

Campinas Area, Brazil

• Worked on an online cross-platform/web version of Settlers of Catan, an internationally famous board game franchise.
• Managed a team of 12 developers and contract artists.
• Prototyped core game concepts, content and interfaces.
• Conducted a beta launch, analyzing the metrics and getting in touch with players via forums and newsletters.

Campinas Area, Brazil

• Designed casual games for iOS: puzzle, strategy and idle/incremental titles. These games were published by well-known companies such as Mobjoy, 6Waves and Chillingo.
• Worked on all aspects of game design (with SCRUM/Agile responsibilities) at a small gamedev startup company within Ci&T.

• Worked on a project for the iOS, as a Level Designer for a mobile First Person Shooter.

• Designed various games for multiple platforms (PC/Mac, Nintendo DS, iOS).
• Assignments involved game design, balancing levels & economy, writing cutscenes, UI design and animation, and producing the game (contact with publishers and leading a team of 6).

• Designed several video assets and animations for the social and educational projects of Natura, Brazil’s largest cosmetics company.
• Other projects involved animating assets and segments for documentaries and educational pieces.

• Designed several graphical projects for this elementary school, hot-sites for special presentations and updated and redesigned the main website.

• Internship on an advertising agency.
• Designed and helped to implement various websites (mostly on Flash).
• Designed prints for flyers, leaflets, posters and banners.

Extension Course, Coolhunting And Innovation Management

Course, Creative Writing

A 10 week course with lectures and exercises on creative writing

Extension Course, Social Branding

A 16 hour course on marketing and branding on social media.

Course, Digital Cinema

A 160 hour course on digital cinema, covering all the aspects of the media - technical and creative.

Extension Course, Project Management

A 48 hour extension course on Project Management. This course is certified by PMI.

Extension Course, Actionscript And Oo Programming Basics

Two courses on the basics of OO Programming and actionscript, with a total of 40 hours.

Bachelor, Graphic Design