My History & Skills

Over 25 Years of Experience

Experience

2020-Present
Webedia

Creative Director Webedia Portugal

As the creative director of Webedia I have been in charge of creating conceptual solutions for brands like Imovirtual, Betclic, several Unilever brands and many others. Also have been in charge of the creative team, from designers, copywriters, video makers and etc not only in Portugal but also in Brazil
2021-2022
Jellyfish

Creative Director Jellyfish

In Jellyfish I worked as a creative director for projects related with Nike, Google, Yahoo and many others
2018-present
Unyolo

co-founder of Unyolo

Co-founded a blog about cinema with my daughter and grew it to over 25k followers with clients like Vue in the Uk.
2016-Present
Startup Lisboa, Vodafone Labs, Pitch Bootcamp and many others

Mentoring

I always felt that I learn as much as I teach when being part of this programs so I always been involved with many different projects.
2014-2022
Cuckuu

Co-founder and CEO Cuckuu

With only an Idea on paper I co-founded cuckuu and got an investment of 300k euros to start the project. Moved to India and created a development team there and made cuckuu one of the most successful startups in Portugal, with many awards and clients like Benfica, Fitness Hut we were named by Sony as one of the best apps to keep an eye in the future and got over a million euros in investement.
2013-2022
Ake Ideas

Co-founder and CEO Ake Ideas

Co-founded the parent company of Cuckuu and in there we developed concepts for applications for IOS and Android
2011-2013
Etic Algarve

Head of Photography

Was in charge of all of the Photography courses in Etic Algarve including the Photoshop modules. Also was in charge to create partnerships with brands so the students could have real clients to work with. Some of this brands included No Solo and Primark
2000-2013
Pure Image

Owner and CEO Pure Image Studios

After some time as a freelancer I decided to create my own company and keep working with some of the best modelling agencies in Portugal and started working in advertisement with brands like Monarch Travel group
1995 - 2000
Freelance

Freelance photographer

Worked as a freelance fashion photographer with some of the best model agencies in Portugal and UK like Central models, Elite Models, Storm UK and etc. Took pictures for Moda Lisboa, MaxMen, Vogue, etc.

Education

1996-1998
Escola Profissional Gil Eanes de Portimão Portimão, Portugal

Advance Multimedia

Languages

Portuguese

95%

English

95%

Soft Skills

creative thinking

90%

Problem Solving

95%

Team management

90%

Project management

85%

Public speaking

90%

Hard Skills

UI/UX Design

70%

Print Design

80%

Graphic Design

80%

Photo editing

90%

video Editing

75%

creative writing

80%

Softwares

Photoshop

90%

Ilustrator

80%

Premiere

75%

wordpress

75%

Office

75%

Spark AR Studio

60%