Rui M. Andrés Email & Phone Number

Porto, Pt

A Creative Atelier and Online Arts & Crafts Store from the interior of Portugal. Currently helping a family business grow and scale beyond local-based trade fairs and clients. Work done: Product Definition, Management, Leadership, Web Design & Development, Marketing, Sales, and physical product design & production.

- Delivered over 200 projects for more than 20 clients across various industries and sizes, the work ranged from Web/Custom Development to Systems Integration as well as Product/Graphic Design.- Achieved a high rate of satisfaction leading to repeat business and referrals, with clients praising the attention to detail, creativity, and technical expertise.

Porto, Portugal

- Worked for high-profile clients including Airkit (acquired by Salesforce in 2023), Quantic.edu, and Veza. Led the technical strategy and development teams for different projects, from definition to scope planning to development.- Facilitated seamless collaboration between engineering and design teams by leveraging experience in both areas and ensuring a high quality bar in both product and user experience.- Validated design deliverables before development, catching issues before-hand that could impact timelines. - Provided technical and functional support to product teams in decision-making while optimizing development processes for efficiency to ensure successful project outcomes.- Conducted one-on-one mentoring sessions, performed performance reviews and facilitated career development for team members.- Used a diverse skill set to contribute and share knowledge across multiple departments, providing insights and support while fostering collaboration and showing the benefits of doing so.

Porto, Portugal

Lisboa, Portugal

- Contributed to defining, improving and documenting the company design & development processes to follow best practices.- Led the technology strategy definition and planning for projects and developed innovative solutions for notable clients including TVCine, KindaHome, and Seaside.- Designed, developed and fully documented a Shopify-SAP integration system for syncing products and other relevant data between the platforms, its tech stack was: Koa.js for API server; GraphQL for Shopify queries; MongoDB for configuration, logging, and job management; Vue.js for back-office dashboard; Bree.js for cron-like job scheduling.- Managed multiple teams and clients while ensuring on-time high-quality deliveries and managing expectations, which resulted on higher client trust and on-going relationships.- Contributed to business growth through crafting client proposals and performing accurate budgeting and time estimations.- Optimized and managed internal processes, tools and technology infrastructure.

Lisboa E Região, Portugal

- Defined the product vision, features, road-map and business plan for creating a location-based digital content platform on the web, gaining experience in full-cycle product development, from ideation to market testing.- Successfully pitched the project and was accepted into a entrepreneurship program, finishing as one of the winners, was also accepted in the Tourism Explorers acceleration program, gaining valuable insights into market fit and product viability.- Technologically it was an hybrid (native + web) application composed of: -- Frontend: Ionic Framework with Angular following component-driven development and Apollo GraphQL for Backend communication.-- Backend: a two-app structure using Elixir for high concurrency and fault-tolerance: API: Phoenix Framework and Absinthe for GraphQL support; Data: Ecto SQL for database interactions with PostgreSQL.- Designed all the brand visuals including a Design System to ensure consistency.

Lisboa, Portugal

- Founded a diverse collective of creatives, including developers, designers, and video editors and secured acceptance into an entrepreneurship program, being one of the winners of a €10,000 investment.- Conceived a professional hub inspired by personal freelancing experiences, addressing the fragmentation of existing platforms. Which was developed with a scalable business model, leveraging client work to fund the platform development while pursuing entrepreneurship opportunities.- Developed pre-alpha technology serving as a foundation for the Placesum app content creation tools using Elixir and the Phoenix Framework.- Worked with different clients and delivered projects from Marketing and E-commerce websites to Mobile and web apps, and some graphic and product designs.

Coimbra, Portugal

- Started as a Graphic Designer and rapidly advanced to lead the web design & development department due to proven expertise and quick growth.- Contributed heavily to the company's transition from Flash-based websites to modern HTML5 and JavaScript solutions and elevated the quality standard for web projects, introducing reactive websites with strong SEO performance.- Led R&D efforts, including the development of a 1st person-like web experience for 3D space exploration that was focused on tourism applications. It used WebGL to be universally accessible via web browsers.

Arganil, Portugal

Developed and Designed an web app built on WordPress that wanted to be a new way to share thoughts and cultural pieces within a community (medium-like at the same time that its first version also launched).

Certificate Of Pedagogical Skills

This certificate validates the teacher’s pedagogical skills, as well as ensuring that they have the necessary knowledge and skills.

Tourism Explorers

Accepted into the acceleration program with the placesum app and received great feedback from colleagues and mentors. It was during this.

Startupvoucher

We were accepted into this program with the placesum app, it helped greatly with the initially design and development of the app.

Empreendejá

Participated with metacosmic project and was one of the winners of a 10k€ investment. Included with the program were some mandatory.

Biodiversity And Conservation In Sustainable Development

Short-course that helped shine a new light and understanding in the importance of Sustainable Development and it’s impact to Biodiversity.

Permaculture Designer

In this course we learned how to use design principles centered on whole systems thinking, simulating, or directly utilizing the patterns.

Técnico Profissional De Multimédia, Multimédia

I concluded high-school with a final year project that consisted on a video-game prototype based on Unreal Engine, in which I designed.