Fabricio Ferracioli

At LGE Sao Paulo, I'm a technical analyst for research projects, requested by Korea or USA, conducted in Brazil using the informatics law resources. As I work with new technologies and products, a huge part of the work is to help the Brazilian partners (Universities and Research Institutes) to conduct the research in a way to deliver what the company expects. Currently, I’m dealing with projects in areas such as: IoT, Cryptography, Parallelization, Network, Machine Learning and Apps development.

At UOL, the main content portal in Brazil, I worked as a member of the mobile apps team, developing native Android applications using Java, being responsible for new products and maintenance tasks, such as bug fixes and integration of new services. I was also responsible for the development of webviews for all supported platforms: Android, iOS and Windows Phone, using HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript and Apache Velocity - a Java template engine. I was also responsible for the development of new support tools

FS Produções Artísticas is an enterprise that manages the musical career of brazilian artists, I was the responsible for the IT department. Together with the digital and press department, we planned and developed the online strategies for 5 national artists. In our projects we had special care with mobile, usability, performance, interactivity, social media integration and the creation of relevant content. The projects were developed with CakePHP framework, Javascript with jQuery when applicable and Git.

Here I researched and developed my Master Thesis in Computer Science. My work was to develop an usability test approach, destinated for teams with few resources and without an knowledge expert. The result was an hybrid approach, using the Discount Usability technique integrated with a proposed one: a Web mining hybrid method for automated usability test, integrating the GHSOM neural network and K-means.

ICOMP is a digital agency with focus on artists web sites, I developed mainly in front-end. I was the responsible for the Javascript adoption to create better interactions with users, integration with social networks, SEO and to teach new techniques and design patterns to other developers. Together with the interface designer and the server side developer, I was responsible for technical definitions of the projects. In some projects developed with PHP, working in the server and client side programming.

I was a co-founders of usoSim, a company focused in activities related to Web usability. usoSim was born after the presentation of a business plan to the Agency for Technological Innovation at the State University of Londrina (AINTEC). The main objective was to develop a tool of user assistance called learn.do. The product was considered innovator by two fomentation programs, Desafio Brasil 2009 from GVcepe and Intel, going to the second phase of the program, and the PRIME by FINEP, going to the finals

I started to work in Protem lab during the update of a web application from PHP4 to PHP5 full object oriented, used in the University Hospital. After that I was invited to a scientific internship sponsored by CNPq, with focus on updates to the front-end of the same project, based in semantic patterns following W3C recommendations. During that period I became the project maintainer, being responsible for the management of people in the project, and begun to research Semantic Web applied to healthcare.