Professional roadmap

• [jan/2008 - today] Software Development Engineer in Test @ Microsoft Corp., Redmond/USA
• [jan 2008] Judge of the 2nd XNA Challenge Brazil
• [apr/2007 - today] Consultancy Services on MyTV project @ PARTEC
• [jan/2007 - apr/2007] Consultancy Services on Software Engineering and .NET technologies @ Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (C.E.S.A.R.)
• [jan 2006 - jan/2007] Leader of the Sharp Shooters .NET user group (first .NET group in Brazil)
• [dec/2004 - jun/2006] Software Engineer @ Microsoft Innovation Center at Recife
• [apr/2006 - jun/2006] Lecturer of .NET technologies to the Post-Graduation in Software Development @ Barros de Melo Integrated Graduate Schools (AESO)
• [jul/2002 - dec/2004] Software Engineer Trainee @ Qualiti Software Processes

Certifications

• Microsoft Certified Professional - C# (score: 96%) and ASP.NET (score: 94%)
• Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) Practitioner (score: 92%)
• Sun Certified Java Programmer 1.4 (score: 96%)
• Certified IBM DB2 Universal Database v6.1/v7.1 User

Awards

• Imagine Cup 2007 Competition (sponsored by Microsoft, May/July 2007, Seoul/Korea)
• Embedded Development Invitational World Champion
  
• 2nd place in the Brazilian Software Design Invitational


• 4x4 XNA Game Studio Express Challenge at the Game Developers Conference in 2007 (San Francisco, March 2007)
  • Invited as one of the four worldwide teams in the challenge
  
  
• 1st XNA Challenge Brazil (sponsored by Microsoft / ABRAGAMES, January 2007, São Paulo/Brazil)
• Awarded as 1st place and invitation to the Academic Days on Game Development cruise, Bahamas


• Intel + University of California (Berkeley) Entrepreneurship Challenge (Berkeley, Oct 2006)
• Awarded as 2nd best Business Plan in Brazilian Finals, invitation to the world finals at Berkeley, California


• Imagine Cup 2006 Competition (sponsored by Microsoft, July 2006, Agra/India)
• Mentor of winning brazilian teams (2nd place in Software Design and 1st place in Interface Design).


• Innovation Accelerator Workshop (sponsored by Microsoft / British Telecom, January 2006, Reading/UK)
• Awarded as the best project, with special remarks for best teamwork as member of the Brazinglish team, in the students competition


• Imagine Cup 2005 Competition (sponsored by Microsoft, August 2005, Yokohama/Japan)
• Office Designer Invitational World Champion
• Software Design Invitational Brazilian Champion and 4th place worldwide
• Short Film Invitational World Semi-Finalist (top-30 team) and Visual Gaming Invitational top-60 team


• Microsoft Student Partner
• Nomination held by the students who better represent Microsoft in Brazilian academia
• Nominated as Student Partner Lead in April 2007
• Level upgraded to "Gold" in August 2005

Languages

• English reading/writing/speaking fluency (18-year contact with the language; University of Cambridge FCE achieved in 1997, Grade A; international working experience in UK/USA)
  
• Portuguese as native language


• Italian: essential speaking

Publications

Academical

• Furtado, A. W. B.; Falcão, T. P.; Gomes, A. S.; Rodrigues, C. E. M.; Sonnino R. E-du Box: Educational Multimedia with Tangible-Enhanced Interaction, full paper (English) – Design of Interactive Systems Conference (DIS2008)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M.; Ramalho, G. L. A Computer Games Software Factory and Edutainment Platform for Microsoft .NET, full paper (English) - "On the Interplay of .NET and Contemporary Development Techniques", IET Software journal special issue, Volume 1, Issue 6, pp. 280-293
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M.; Panigassi, R.; Becerra, J. L. R. Specifying a Software Factory for 2D Adventure Computer Games Development, full paper (in English) - 2nd Software Engineering Conference in Russia (SEC(R)2006)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M. Applying Domain-Specific Modeling to Game Development with the Microsoft DSL Tools, tutorial (in English) - 3rd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment (SBGames2006)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M. Defining and Using Ontologies as Input for Game Software Factories, short paper (in English) - 3rd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment (SBGames2006)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M. Software Factories Relevance to Digital Games: A Practical Discussion, short paper (in English) - 3rd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment (SBGames2006)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M. Using Domain-Specific Modeling towards Computer Games Development Industrialization, full paper (in English) - The 6th OOPSLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM06)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. SharpLudus: Improving Game Development Experience through Software Factories and Domain Specific Languages, Master of Science (MSc) dissertation (in English) under supervision of lecturer André L. M. Santos, UFPE Informatics Center (2006)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M. Extending Visual Studio .NET as a Software Factory for Computer Games Development in the .NET Platform, full paper (in English) - 2nd International Conference on Innovative Views of .NET Technologies (IVNET06)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Silva, A. S. Supporting C# Source-Code Quality Attributes through a Metrics Analysis-based Multi-Agent System hosted on Visual Studio .NET, short paper (in English) - 2nd International Conference on Innovative Views of .NET Technologies (IVNET06)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M. Foundations for Game Development and Software Factories Integration, full paper (in English) - 2nd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment (SBGames2005)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M. Exploring Game Development in the .NET Platform with Managed DirectX, GDI+ and Mobile Devices, tutorial (in English) - 2nd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment (SBGames2005)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B; Silva, A. S.; Nascimento, C. M. P.; Santos, G. A.; Santos, A. L. M.; Ferraz, C. A. HWSProxyGen: A Web Services Proxy Generator for Haskell, full paper (in Portuguese, "HWSProxyGen: um Gerador de Proxies de Web Services para a Linguagem Haskell") - 9th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP2005)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. Identifying Aspect-Oriented Programming Opportunities in Game Development, full paper (in Portuguese, "Identificando Oportunidades de Programação Orientada a Aspectos no Desenvolvimento de Jogos") - 1st Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment (SBGames2004)
  
  
• Andrade, G. D.; Santana, H. P.; Furtado, A. W. B.; Leitão, A. R. G. A.; Ramalho, G. L. Online Adaptation of Computer Games Agents: A Reinforcement Learning Approach, full paper (in English) - 1st Brazilian Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment (SBGames2004)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.VHS-AM: Extending Visual Studio .NET to Support the Integration of the Haskell Functional Language with the Assignment Manager Tool , Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science conclusion paper (in Portuguese, "VHS-AM: Extensão do Visual Studio .NET para a integração de Haskell com a ferramenta Assignment Manager") under supervision of lecturer André L. M. Santos, , UFPE Informatics Center (2004) [get the powerpoint presentation here (portuguese)]
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M.; Gomes, A. S. Specifying a Team Model for Educative Games Collaborative Development, full paper (in Portuguese, "Especificando um Modelo de Time para o Desenvolvimento Colaborativo de Jogos Educativos") - 14th Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education (SBIE2003)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M.; Gomes, A. S. Considerations about the Usage of Functional Languages as an Approaching Mechanism between Educators and Educative Games , full paper (in Portuguese, "Considerações sobre a Utilização de Linguagens Funcionais como Instrumento de Aproximação entre Educadores e Jogos Educativos") - 2nd Brazilian Workshop in Games and Digital Entertainment (Wjogos2003)
  
  
• Andrade Neto, F. C.; Andrade, G. D.; Leitão, A. R. G. A.; Furtado, A. W. B.; Ramalho, G. L. Knock'em: A Graphics Processing and Artificial Intellingence Case Study for Fighting Games, full paper (in Portuguese, "Knock’em: Um Estudo de Caso de Processamento Gráfico e Inteligência Artificial para Jogos de Luta") - 2nd Brazilian Workshop in Games and Digital Entertainment (Wjogos2003)
  
  
• Frery, A.; Leitão, A.; Furtado, A.; Andrade Neto, F.; Andrade, G.; Albuquerque Filho, J. Improving System Usability Through the Automation of User's Routine Intentions: an Image Edition Tool Case Study, full paper (in English) - 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI2003)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Leitão, A. R. G. A.; Andrade Neto, F. C.; Andrade, G. D. Cegadef: A Collaborative Educational Game Development Framework, poster (in English) - Interaction Design and Children 2003 (IDC2003)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M. FunGEn - A Game Engine for Haskell , poster (in Portuguese, "FunGEn - um Motor para Jogos em Haskell") - 1st Brazilian Workshop in Games and Digital Entertainment (Wjogos2002)
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B.; Santos, A. L. M. Implementing a Game Framework Using Functional Languages: Development of a Game Engine for Haskell Poster (in Portuguese, "Implementação de uma Plataforma para Jogos Utilizando Linguagens Funcionais: desenvolvimento de um game engine para Haskell") - 10th UFPE Scientific Initiation Congress (CONIC2002)
  
  
• Furtado A. W. B., Santos A. L. M. Implementing a Game Framework Using Functional Languages: Validation of the HOpenGL Graphics Library poster (in Portuguese, "Implementação de uma Plataforma para Jogos Utilizando Linguagens Funcionais: validação da biblioteca gráfica HOpenGL") - 9th UFPE Scientific Initiation Congress (CONIC2001)

Technical

• Furtado, A. W. B. et al. Pro.NET Methodology, web article (in Portuguese, "Metodologia Pro.NET") - Portal Linha de Código
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. The Debugging Art (Part II), web article (in Portuguese, "A Arte de Depurar, Parte II") - MSDN Brazil
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. The Debugging Art (Part I), web article (in Portuguese, "A Arte de Depurar, Parte I") - MSDN Brazil
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. Iceberg tops of the Software Development Chaos, web article (in Portuguese, "Pontas de Iceberg do Caos no Desenvolvimento de Software") - MSDN Brazil
  
  
• Furtado A. W. B. Exploring Visual Studio .NET 2003, Part 2, full article (in Portuguese, "Explorando o Visual Studio .NET 2003, Parte 2") - Brazilian edition of MSDN Magazine, no. 19, july/2005
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. Exploring Visual Studio .NET 2003, Part 1, full article (in Portuguese, "Explorando o Visual Studio .NET 2003, Parte 1") - Brazilian edition of MSDN Magazine, no. 18, june/2005
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. The Versioning Art - Integrating Visual Studio .NET to Visual SourceSafe (Part 2), full article (in Portuguese, "A Arte de Versionar: Integrando o Visual Studio .NET ao Visual SourceSafe, Parte 2") - Brazilian edition of MSDN Magazine, no. 12, december/2004
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. The Versioning Art - Integrating Visual Studio .NET to Visual SourceSafe (Part 1), full article (in Portuguese, "A Arte de Versionar: Integrando o Visual Studio .NET ao Visual SourceSafe, Parte 1") - Brazilian edition of MSDN Magazine, no. 11, november/2004

Other

• Furtado, A. W. B. Maximum Creativity in the Imagine Cup Brazil, web article (in Portuguese, "Criatividade ao máximo na Imagine Cup Brasil") - UOL Webinsider
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. Discover (and have fun with) XNA, web article (in Portuguese, "Descubra (e se divirta com) o XNA") - Portal Xbox
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. Inside the Microsoft XNA Challenge Brazil, web article (in Portuguese, "Por dentro do Microsoft XNA Challenge Brasil") - UOL Webinsider
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. Entrepreneurship and Technology: putting University and Market together, web article (in Portuguese, "Empreendimentos e tecnologia unem universidade e mercado") - UOL Webinsider
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. When too much content can be excessive?, web article (in Portuguese, "Até onde muito conteúdo pode ser excessivo?") - UOL Webinsider
  
  
• Furtado, A. W. B. A Software Factory for Game Creators, web article (in Portuguese, "Uma fábrica de software para criadores de games") - UOL Webinsider