Experience
Studio Director // Maximum Entertainment
Remote, Brazil/US · Dec 2022 - Present
Responsible for managing Maximum Entertainment Studios Brazil and US, creating an environment where our international team can thrive and create our games.
My role as studio director is to manage the team and its objectives, the project budget and make strategic decisions.
Studio's projects: Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age (finalist for Best Multiplayer Game at Gamescom LATAM 2024), God of Rock (finalist for best fighting game at The Game Awards 2023) and Them's Fightin Herds.

Game Director // Loud Noises
São Paulo, Brazil · Feb 2013 - Present
Loud Noises is a Brazilian independent game studio that won several public arts funding grants to develop several projects, like Camera Blitz, XaxadoWare and GAEMS: Last Day of Vacation. The studio also develops serious games and gamification projects for big companies like Accenture, Vale, Modec, Xbox, etc. Other smallers projects from the studios includes Headblaster and Doti Doti no Gaea.
I was responsible for the concepts, prototyping, documentation and game balancing, as well as organizing tasks, monitoring deadlines and facilitating teamwork between the different teams. In some of the projects of the studio I was also responsible for the programming.

Product Manager // Kokku
Recife, Brazil · Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Responsible for ensuring that a product meets the needs of its customer needs and contributes to the business strategy, while managing a product or products at all stages of the product lifecycle. At Kokku, I was responsible for managing outsourcing projects using Unreal, most of them were games for mobile using established IPs.

Game Designer // Wildlife Studios
São Paulo, Brazil · Nov 2020 - May 2021
Wildlife Studios is one of the biggest mobile games studio in Brazil. I was working in the marketing team, responsible for creating game design for playable ads, so I created playable ads on a daily basis for their games like War Machines, Sniper 3D, Tennis Clash and Suspects.

Producer and Game Designer // InFunWeTrust
São Paulo, Brazil · Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
InFunWeTrust was a gamification company, specialized in recruitmnet and corporate training projects. I was in charge of managing teams making recruitment and training serious games for business. The teams are comprised mostly with freelancers, and I was responsible with multiple projects at the same time. Some of our clients are Modec, Renner, Serasa Experian and Accenture.

Game Designer // Skullfish Studios
São Paulo, Brazil · Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
Skullfish Studios is a Brazilian independent game studio that develops graphically innovating games for Virtual Reality by having an experienced team creating high quality and funny experiences for multiple platforms in order to stand out in this new market which is VR.
I was responsible for creating the concept and initial game design for the mobile game Mayara & Annabelle: Idle Battles. The project won the KOHQ 2 event.

Game Artist // i9Ação - Jogar para Aprender
São Paulo, Brazil · Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
i9ação is a gamification company. While I was working there, I was responsible for art development for serious games, in board and digital form.

Mobile Developer // eguru
São Paulo, Brazil · Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Responsible with prototyping mobile solutions for e-learning and serious games. The prototypes are showcased as proof of concepts to potential clients.

Producer // Aennova Decisionware
São Paulo, Brazil · Oct 2014 - Mar 2016
Aennova Decisionware was an gamification and serious games company that pioneered the use of more gamified experiences for corporate learning in Brazil. We developed games for companies like Bradesco, Mondelez, Postos Ipiranga and more. 
I was managing several serious game projects, responsible with team management, budget and schedule. These projects were board and digital games for business training purposes, the teams are comprised mostly with freelancers, and I was responsible with multiple projects at the same time.

Education
Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts
UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - São Paulo, Brazil
Feb 2006 - Dec 2010

Associate of Arts in Graphic Design
ETEC Carlos de Campos - São Paulo, Brazil
Feb 2003 - Jun 2004

Awards & Exhibitions
Best Environmental Game Award // BIG Festival 2016
Doti Doti no Gaea was finalist on the Best Environmental Game category.

Doti Doti no Gaea // Reverta - Arte e Sustentabilidade, 2015.
Doti Doti no Gaea was showcased at Reverta - Arte e Sustentabilidade exhibition in OCA, São Paulo, June 2015.

Headblaster // Print Screen Festival, 2014.
Headblaster was showcased at Print Screen Festival in Holon Cinematheque, Holon, April 2014.

Revelation Brazil Award // BIG Festival 2014
Headblaster was finalist  on the Revelation Brazil Award category.

LAUT // A Maze. / Berlin 2014
LAUT was a game developed at Goethe Institut São Paulo Game Jam and showcased at A Maze. / Berlin Exhibition, Urban Spree, Berlin, April, 2014.

Best PC Game // SBGames 2013
Headblaster was finalist on the Best PC Game category.

Activities
- Brazilian representative at GAIA 2019 - Game Arts International Assembly, the first international think tank for game arts ecosystem: event producers, community organizers and curators.
- Organized in 2019 Firmeza Fest, an independent game festival focused on upcoming Brazilian games and talks.
- Organized 2018 and 2019 editions of Glitch Mundo in São Paulo, a grassroots game festival, focused on homegrown titles.
- Organized in 2016 the arts & crafts and game event Glitch Festa, in Curitiba.
- Created and organized 22 editions of SPIN, from 2013 to 2015, a monthly meetup of game developers in São Paulo.
- Gave lectures and workshops on game design, the last of which was at 23º Cultura Inglesa Festival in 2019.
- Artist-in-residence on LABMIS 2012 with Malu Risi, with the electronic performative installation Maldita Parede.

Skills
Game Design, Gameplay, Digital and Analog Prototyping, Level Design, Gray-boxing, Pitching, Mentoring, Researching, Graphic Design, User Interface Design, User Experience Design.

Softwares
Unreal, Game Maker Studio 2, Unity3D, Playmaker, Construct 2, Twine, HTML5, Microsoft Office, Google Workspaces, Adobe Kit, Trello, Jira, Notion, Wiki platform, Git.


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