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Resume

Tiago Miguel dos Santos Almeida
Born 1984 in Lisbon, Portugal

EDUCATION

Escola Secundaria Padre Alberto Neto
Technological Design Course (EU level 2)
Concluded in 2002

Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa
Degree in Equipment Design (5 years)
Concluding the last year

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Deep End Studio, Jonesboro, Texas (USA)
2000 through 2001
Several Digital Coloring commisions

inLisboa.com (PT)
June through September 2002
Graphic and Web Designer (intern)

Stepstone Portugal
Various occasions from 2003 trough 2006
Web Designer and Webmaster (substitute)

Advertising and Infographics Section
June through October 2005
Full-time Graphic Designer

Edimpresa, Impresa Group (PT)
Visão brand magazines
Various occasions from 2008 to 2009
Editorial Designer

Mundideias
February through April 2009
Merchandise Designer

Shiu! Magazine
May trough July 2009
Editorial & Web Designer

Ray Gun - Creativity Worldwide
Since January 2009
Designer & Illustrator

PRO BONO

Designer at pro-vegetarianism non-profit, Centro Vegetariano since February 2008

Founder of Associação Ophiusa at http://www.criatividadeportuguesa.org

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE

Adobe Photoshop, Image Ready, Illustrator, Pagemaker, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Freehand, Premiere and After Effects, Autodesk AutoCAD and 3D Studio MAX (with V-Ray), Dassault Systemes Solidworks, Microsoft Outlook, Office, Notepad and Money, QuarkXpress, Corel Draw and Open Office, Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird

OTHER KNOWLEDGES

2D and 3D technical drawing and visualization, illustration (artistic and archaeological), comics or BD (art and writing) and photography (analogical and digital)

Html, CSS and basic knowledge of ASP, Javascript and Actionscript

Some experience in the portuguese tourism sector, including the elaboration of maps and travel plans with focus on monuments, local history and leisure areas

LANGUAGES

Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and a little of Italian

OTHER INTERESTS/HOBBIES

Literature in general but especially 19/20th century portuguese (Eca de Queiros, Virgilio Ferreira, Fernando Pessoa...)

Classical studies (Plato and Aristotle) e Psychanalisis (Freud)

Classical and modern music, amateur guitar player and colaborator with music themed portals (www.xuxajurassica.com and www.absolutepunk.net)

Basketball (ex-player), bodyboard and extreme sports in general (paintball, rappel, climbing and orientation)