Curriculum
Alexandre Magno Teles Zimerer
October 6, 1982
Prefeito Dulcídio Cardoso St, Barra da Tijuca22640-085, Rio de Janeiro / RJ
+55 21 8429-2229
alexanmtz@gmail.com
http://blog.alexandremagno.net
@alexanmtz
http://www.github.com/alexanmtz
Profile
Seven years experience in web development. Graduate as System Analyst, I work as front-end engineer. I’m passionate for web technologies and software engineer. I’m very active in web development community, contributing with open source projects. As front-end specialist, I always aim to be multidisciplinary, since being part of the UX process to the back-end development with a good vision of product development.
EXPERIENCE
Front-end Engineer, Globo.com; Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil — 2009 (Current Job)
http://www.globo.com
Developing a large scale project CMS and news publishing, that would attempt a hundred of products of TV Globo, one of the major TV channels worldwide. I developed UI components for the news publishing system, building libraries widely used in their projects. The system uses jQuery, Django and MySQL.
Later I start to work at video publishing platform using Ruby on Rails. The company produce a thousand of TV videos per day. This time we had to build UI components focused in video on demand.
Team Leader, Use International, Belo Horizonte, RJ, Brazil — 2007-2009
http://www.useinternational.com
This company aims to bring the people and professionals together to promote the use of professional services. I started to work at this company when it was a startup with 6 developers that grow up to 21 team members. I become the user interface team leader. This time I had the opportunity to coordinate a team of 1 designer, 1 architects and two front-end developers. This team made all the project UI specifications, as well getting according with stakeholders and planning launch strategy for different services they provide.
Web developer – Mapa Digital — 2005-2007
http://www.mapadigital.net
This company was a new digital agency that started with just me and one designer. In 6 months the company reaches 16 peoples. I was a discovering developer that start to deal with all the emergent technologies, like jQuery, WordPress. As a PHP developer, I start to explorer the MVC structure working with CakePHP.
Others
- Webconsult – Digital Agency – 1 year
- Ao Cubo – Ad Agency – 2 months
EDUCATION
- System Analyst – Universidade Estácio de sá — 2011
- Scrum Certified Scrum master – Team Ware – 2010
SKILLS
- Advanced knowledge in Javascript and its frameworks like jQuery and Mootools, as well web tools for unit testing like jasmine and Qunit.
- Passionate to develop reusable and scalable UI components.
- Commitment with performance optimization, benchmarking, progressive enhancement, usability and accessibility.
- Very well know foundation in interaction design principles and interaction patterns.
- Expert in HTML/CSS as well HTML5 and CSS3.
- Experienced with browser issues, debugging and cross browser solutions for achieve the best user interface experience apart of device.
- Deeper into extreme programming, with large experience in pair programming, setting up continuous integration system, TDD and BDD, as well familiar with scrum process.
- Strong knowledge in Ruby on Rails and some of its libraries like Compass and Factory Girl, for example.
- Long term experience in PHP and their frameworks and CMS’s, like CakePHP, Zend Framework and WordPress.
- Average knowledge with relational database (MySQL and Postgre), as well non-relational database (MongoDB).
- Comfortable to work in a Unix/Linux Environment.
- Familiar with version control systems, like Git and SVN.
SOME ACHIEVEMENTS
- At Globo.com, I started a internal project of bootstrap the company CMS, so we could reuse the UI components across different technologies.
- At Globo.com, I participated of a CDN project to serve all the proprietary fonts of the company using font-face, and making solutions like SIRF and Cufón deprecated.
- At Globo.com, I participated of the movement that decide that all projects have at least B grade at Yslow and then we get the first A grade in a cast management system. All this checking got integrated in Continuous integrated system.
- At useInternational we concept a complex signup form that should attempt 7 countries and deal with massive information. The system is a sign up for professional associations, and they have a lot of formal information to fill up. I made a research and promote the use of the the usability guidelines to achieve the better consistence and user experience guidelines.
- At my university my graduation conclusion was about crowd funding and I started to contribute with catarse.me, the main crowd funding platform in Brazil.
- At Web Magazine I made part of a article about jQuery UI with a lot of known interface developers, including a interview with the jQuery UI lead, Richard North.
OUT OF THE BOX
Outside of work, I’m a musician that love to play rock, indie and brazilian music (http:// www.gandhifica.com). The music passion came together with the video production.
About
My name is Alexandre Magno, I'm a system analyst and currently working at Globo.com, as front-end developer for a widely range of Globo organization products. I'm a jQuery evangelist and have a strong experience with Ruby and Wordpress. You can check my open source projects at github page
