David Jonas M. N. Castanheira Software Developer

Address: Gerard Scholtenstraat 130, 3035ST Rotterdam The Netherlands

Mobile: +31 634275148 E­mail: davidjonasdesign@gmail.com Born: 2nd of June 1983

Professional Experience My first professional experiences in the technology field date back to 2004, in Portugal, when I started to participate in numerous publicity and corporate identity projects as a freelance designer and programmer. The most relevant works and clients on this area were:

Reticencias Produções – Graphic design, 3D modeling and animation, video postproduction. Telecabo Magazine – Graphic Design; Netimpact Consulting and IT – Programming, DBA (Database Administration); RN Sports Investments – Corporate identity, web­design; A Sombra do Mundo (Documentary, Producer: Sílvio Pinto 2005) – Design and computer animation; Museu dos Transportes e Comunicações, Atelier do imaginário – 3D Modeling and animation for the short film “A

FUGA”. In april 2008 moved to Rotterdam, The Netherlands to work as a software developer for artistic research and development. 2008 ­ 2010 Software developer ­ V2_ Institute for the unstable media. Some projects I have developed at V2 were:

Watch That Sound ­ Video/audio editing software tool for Jacques Van de Veerdonk / Codarts. Spitzenkorper ­ Artistic 3D simulation of fungal growth for Michiel Koelink / DSM V2.nl website and communication strategy The Serendipitor (serendipitor.net) ­ Mobile application art piece for Mark Shepard (US) laboralcentrodearte.org website and communication strategy for Laboral Centro de Arte in Gijón, Spain The Network of Thoughts ­ Artificial intelligence aided mind­mapping and visualization tool for Michiel Koelink / DSM

2010 ­ 2013 CTO at INTK ­ Developing media art, software and social network strategies for museums and government institutions. A few projects developed:

Museum Analytics (museum­analytics.org) ­ Crawler technology for data­mining of museum social network engagement and statistics and reporting tools. (Python/Django technology)

Arnolfini.org.uk ­ website, comunication and social network strategy. (Plone/Zope technology) Zeeuws Museum digital year reports ( jaarverslag.zeeuwsmuseum.nl ) and social network campaigns. (Django) www_hack ­ Media art piece to be exhibited in high traffic websites. (JS/Python) unCloud (www.intk.com/uncloud) ­ "hacktivism" art piece that uses local wireless mesh networks to distribute

content. (Python/JS and others) Tilt for Culture ­ Online intervention art piece protesting the culture cuts in The Netherlands. (JS)

2012 ­ 2013 Became engaged in several freelance art projects and part time technical supervisor at The Patchingzone Rotterdam. This position includes project management at zadkine and teaching ICT (Information and Communications Technology) and HT(Human Technologies) students at Zadkine Rotterdam. In June 2013 resigned from my position as CTO of INTK. Projects developed in this period outside INTK were:

Are you for real ­ Urban position based game developed by The Patchingzone in collaboration with Zadkine (NL), Blast Theory (UK) and Translocal (FI).

Led workshops on rapid prototyping with Processing, augmented reality and game design.

Spitzenkorper 3.0 2013 ­ 2014 Became a part­time programming teacher at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (Utrecht University of the Arts) teaching creative approaches to graphic programming. The contents of the course include Java, the processing environment and open­hardware electronics (Arduino). Teacher for University of the west of England in Bristol and Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education in Tsing Yi. Teaching the Web Games Programming module. Guest lecturer for:

Master students at Universiteit Van Amsterdam ­ Mobile technologies 1st / 2nd year students at Academie voor Beeldende Vorming Amsterdam ­ Emerging technologies 1st / 2nd year students at University of the West of England, Bristol ­ Creative Coding

2015 Running workshops on:

CodedCreatures.nl ­ Creative coding with Fiber ­ Amsterdam and MU ­ Eindhoven Drones ­ Exploring the creative potential of aerial robotics ­ Academie voor Beeldende Vorming Amsterdam

Awards and Nominations: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial has received the Awards for the Best Website in the Culture Sector

and the Best Website in Asturias 2011, bestowed by El Comercio in its thirteenth edition. The Serendipitor was nominated for Transmediale Award 2011. Museum Analytics has won 'People's Choice Award' and 'Best Museum Professional Website' award at the

conference Museums and the Web 2012 in San Diego, California. Spitzenkorper 3.0 was nominated for the Cool Silicon Art Award 2013

Education November 2008. Graduated from the 3+2 years Licenciate’s degree (equivalent to dutch HBO) in computer science engineering at ISEP ­ Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (Superior Institute of Engineering of Porto). Main subjects/occupational skills covered: Programming (C / C++ / C# / PHP / Java / OpenGL / PROLOG / RPG / PLSQL), design of data models and administration of databases, system administration, software engineering and artificial intelligence. 26/07/2005 Finished graphic design course at Margem C.C.E in the POEFDS scope. Action type 2.1.2 – Perfecting and specialization of qualified actives. 20/12/2005 Advanced Web Design course at Margem C.C.E in the POEFDS scope. Action type 2.1.2 – Perfecting and specialization of qualified actives.

Personal skills and competences Languages

Portuguese ­ Native English ­ Very Fluent Spanish ­ Competent Dutch ­ Basic

Technological skills

Very experienced programming in Python, Java, C/C++, javascript (server and client side), PHP and HTML5/CSS. Very Experienced with the frameworks and content management systems Plone, Django and NodeJS Very experienced in system administration of Linux based servers. Experience with database administration using mySQL, SQL Server, PL/SQL and ZODB. Experience with mobile development in both Android and iOS. Solid knowledge of Data­mining, artificial intelligence and machine learning (R programming language). Very competent with the Adobe design tools Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Premiere and SpeedGrade. Competent at 3D modeling, rigging and texturing with 3D Studio Max.

Artistic skills

Professional experience in concept development and creative processes related to media art and new media. Knowledge and professional experience with photography, both analog and digital, post­production and image

editing. Solid knowledge of graphic design and typography. Some musical skills including playing the piano, guitar and drums and good musical culture.

Drivers licence Portuguese B category since 2001.

Hobbies and sports I am a sports lover and, at the time I moved to The Netherlands, I practiced sportive climbing (competition level), muscular conditioning, cardio­fitness and classic car racing (with a Nissan Datsun 1200), and I have practiced or practice sporadically, ski, karate (3rd Kyu in Shotokan) and windsurf. I currently practice Kickboxing.