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Resume

Experience

Volunteer Product Designer

Sanmyaku Entertainment - Calgary AB
  • Directed Product Design initiatives for an innovative Healthcare platform startup, collaborating with international teams, conducting presentations, implementing tests, and crafting a design system.
  • Defined scope and requirements for innovative solutions through strategic application of design thinking.

Product Designer - Design System

DBC Company - Consulting for Edenred - Porto Alegre/RS
  • Ahead of Design System project, lead the development in Figma and Angular Library of components, defining standards, guidelines and documentation within IT Engineers and Design department.
  • Colaborated reducing costs and time by 30% both IT and Design departments and enhanced overall quality of digital products as design by introducing a Design System initiative.
  • Served as a bridged between Design and Development allways fostering accessibility and best practices.
  • Led the efforts to uphold legacy designs by analyzing new brand standards alongside existing legacy code, ensuring seamless integration and consistency across platforms.

Product Design

DBC Company - Consulting for Edenred - Porto Alegre/RS
  • Provided technical guidance for the team with workshops, fostering positivity and a collaborative environment.
  • Tailored design processes for multiple projects and deadlines, optimizing the ability to conduct assertive user needs assessments, empowering our team to excel in their performance in a fast-paced environment.
  • Assisted actively in the development of personas, user stories, prototypes, customer journeys and tests.
  • Incorporated accessibility principles into task and requirement documentation between IT department and Design deliveries, ensuring clarity for all teams and minimizing rework and misunderstandings, working collaboratively with Product Owners and Product Managers.
  • Created an automated test implementation process, ensuring adherence to deadlines and delivery timelines.

UI Developer - Accessibility Specialist

DBC Company - Consulting for Edenred - Porto Alegre/RS
  • Implemented WCAG guidelines to improve accessibility on the Sou Log Platform, resulting in a remarkable 90% enhancement. This initiative prevented the company from incurring a significant regulatory fee of 3M.
  • Created accessible and W3C Standard library of components to save time by 60% on front-end development.
  • Developed high-performance, pixel-perfect features in the Angular framework and contributed proactively for an agile environment within multidisciplinary teams.
  • Achieved proficiency in NGXS/NgRx for data and state, RxJS for reactive programming, and modern styling tools like SASS/SCSS, Flexbox, Animations, continuous integration, and automated testing tools.
  • Worked with the latest technologies for optimal quality and standards, on a B2B platform within the financial sector.

Product Designer & UI Developer

Agenciou! StartUp - Porto Alegre/RS
  • Enhanced the user experience on Real State Agency by crafting intuitive web and mobile screens, resulting in a notable 50% reduction in customer inquiries and interactions. Achieved through the meticulous application of design thinking and agile methodologies.
  • Established foundational elements including style guides, page templates, icon sets, and a custom CSS framework.
  • Developed Institutional website, web platform and Dashboards on Vue.js framework, ensuring seamless implementation of design concepts and accessibility.

Education

Post Graduation Strategic Design Management Specialization

Uniritter Canoas - RS, Brazil

Graduation IT Management

Uniritter Canoas - RS, Brazil

  • Elected to Class Ambassador for Students Class in 2019 and 2020.
  • Elected to lead most of the group projects.
  • Awarded honor for the highest grade in the class.

Product Management

PM3 - May 2022

Scrum Foundation Professional Certificate (SFPC)

CertiProf - Jun 2020

Stack

Full-stack Designer

  • Design System
  • UI UX Design
  • Product Design
  • Customer Needs Assessment
  • Design Thinking
  • Figma
  • Adobe Suite

Front-end Developer

  • Html 5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Angular
  • React
  • NextJs
  • VueJs
  • WordPress
  • W3C, WCAG Standards
  • GIT
  • Azure DevOps
  • API Integration

Languages

  • Portuguese: Native
  • English: Fluent
  • Spanish: Intermediate