WELCOME!



First of all, thank you for spending some time around.

My name is Sara, I'm 21 years old, I'm portuguese and I've just finished my degree in New Communication Technologies at Universidade de Aveiro. I'll be working in London for the next few months at Alpine Interactive.

I'm a web designer/web developer and I have a passion for yellow (as you should have noticed) and by strong colors. I like to travel, and there are some places that I want to visit, like Scotland, India and Japan. Also, there are some places where I want to return, like Stockholm. I have a passion for music and I have played piano and guitar for some years; unfortunately the lack of time and a muscular problem in my left hand made me temporarily quit musical studies.


Professional profile

I completed secondary school at Vila Real, Portugal, having as main area Arts. After finishing, I attended the first year of Design at Universidade de Aveiro. As weeks passed by, I understood that Design was not my main area and I switched to New Communication Technologies (NTC), a course mainly multimedia oriented. Although, I think that year was very valuable in order to provide me some basic principles of design that later I would apply at NTC and I don't regret have taken it.

There, I learnt how to use a large pack of Adobe programs and some web programming languanges; I also have knowledge in video and sound editing and 3D modelation/animation.

During my period at NTC I attended my Erasmus experience at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. There, I studied Information Technology, a course where I had some principles of Telecommunications and Programming Languages, as well as Databases. I particularly enjoyed the Principles of Programming Languages' course. Also, living in Finland was an unique experience and I loved the peace and the nature there (the snow, lakes, forests and the small animals you can see around - the squirrels are particularly funny, if you have food they will certainly stalk you).

During this last year, the course's final project took almost my entire spare time. It was very tiring but the final result was very fullfiling and I had the opportunity to learn some new technologies and languages, such as ActionScript 3.0, Papervision3D and Flex, which one may consider a valuable skill. I want to do work on more experiences with Papervision and some 3D engines for Flash like JigLib, and improve my knowledges in JavaScript and AJAX. I have some ideas that I would like to develop in the next months, so please stay tuned! =)


Technical skills:

Fell free to donwnload my CV or visit my Linked profile.

Softwares:

- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Flash
- Adobe Flex Builder
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Fireworks
- Adobe Premiere
- Macromedia Freehand
- Sony SoundForge
- Steinberg Cubase
- Steinberg Nuendo
- Propellerhead Reason
- Autodesk 3D Studio Max
- Autodesk Maya
- Autodesk Autocad
- Maxon Cinema 4D
- Google SketchUp
- MySQL GUI Tools
- MySQL Workbench
- FlySpeed SQL Query


Languages and Technologies:

- HTML and XHTML
- XML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- AJAX

- PHP
- MySQL

- ActionScript 2.0
- ActionScript 3.0

- Papervision 3D