Experience

My career evolved from design and development into UX research, then into closer collaboration with product teams, and more recently into coordinating UX delivery across teams and stakeholders.

2024 – NOW

Digital Experience Lead

Energy company

  • Coordinated UX delivery for the EDP app, working across teams and partners to bring a new product experience to market
  • Worked closely with design, product and engineering to keep execution aligned and moving
  • Currently focused on improving UX and research operations, making processes more structured and scalable
  • Exploring the use of AI to speed up design work and support faster, better-informed UX decisions

2022 – 2023

Lead UX/Product Researcher and Team manager

Multinational company with SaaS AI based platform for gaming advertising

Marked a shift from research-focused roles to coordinating UX delivery in complex environments

  • Worked closely with product teams to understand user behaviour and inform product decisions
  • Designed and conducted research to support ongoing product development
  • Helped align teams around user needs and priorities
  • Contributed to iterative improvements based on continuous feedback
  • Managed UX team and UX outsourced freelancers, including budget, people, operations and
    projects management.



replai.io

2021 – 2022

Senior UX Researcher

Multinational company with SaaS AI based platform for user profiling

  • Worked with product and data teams to translate behavioural insights into product decisions
  • Applied psychological and behavioural data to support product development in gaming contexts
  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to ensure insights were actionable and used
  • Contributed to shaping product direction by connecting user behaviour with business goal



solsten.io

2020 – 2021

Lead UX Researcher

Multinational mobile gaming company

  • Collaborated with stakeholders across different disciplines
  • Contributed to establishing research practices supporting product development
  • Worked closely with product and design teams to inform decisions
  • Supported ongoing product evolution through continuous user insights

lockwoodpublishing.com

2019 – 2020

Senior UX Researcher

Portuguese digital bank

  • Created and implemented a UX Research Lab
  • Structured research processes to support continuous product delivery
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to integrate UX into product work



activobank.pt

2016 – 2019

UX Expert

Multinational company focused on consumer defence

  • Designed UX/UI solutions
  • Worked with product owners to define product requirements
  • Supported decision-making through user and market insights
  • Helped align business goals with user needs



deco.proteste.pt
euroconsumers.org

2015 – 2016

UX Consultant

Chinese company marketing company

  • Conducted usability heuristic evaluations of websites and delivered more than 1000 improvements
    reports.

2006 – 2012

Early career

Web Team Coordinator — Everything is New TV · 2011–2012 Coordinated website content and development activities across teams

Freelance Developer & Designer · 2005–2013

Designed and developed websites and interactive experiences for multiple clients

Teacher — ETIC · 2006–2008

Delivered training in design and web-related topics

Education

2024

Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

Learning Prompt Patterns to enhance ChatGPT responses and create AI Agents.
2024

General Management Postgraduate

(Graduating in April 2024) – w/ Finance, Leadership, Business Innovation, HR, Economics, Strategy and more.
2023

Strategic Foresight Practitioner

Official course to be a Certified Foresight Practitioner in any country of the world.
2023

Google Certificates Program: Digital Marketing & E-commerce

2018

GDPR certification

2016

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Ergonomics, Cognitive Sciences and UX

2013

Bachelor in Social Sciences

2008

Motion Graphics

Technical course.
2007

CAP (Professional Aptitude Certificate)

Certificate to be a professional trainer.
2006

Advanced Flash and Actionscript

Technical course.