ALEX

VINICIUS

SILVA

Designer and developer passionate about functionally elegant software, artful interfaces, and teaching others. I enjoy figuring out peculiar solutions to niche problems.

EDUCATION

BFA, Communication Design

Parsons School of Design

React Training Course

react.gg @ ui.dev


LANGUAGES

English

  • Native

    • Portuguese

  • Fluent

    • Italian

  • Working Proficiency

    • EXPERIENCE

    Come On, Computer!

    June 2024 -
    August 2025

    Partner, Design Engineer

    • Founded a web design agency to manifest websites from ideation to deployment through a partnership that combines expertise in digital product design and programming.
    • Developed websites primarily for creative applications and professionals with a strong focus on artfully crafted interfaces.
    • Facilitated comprehensive client training of technical systems to ensure proper adoption and handoff.

    Digital
    Design
    @ Parsons

    Oct 2022 -
    May 2024

    VP, Design Engineer

    • Established an organization to fill in the digital (UI/UX/Web/Product) design knowledge gap by bringing in working digital creatives to share experiences with students. Meetings and workshops would be in the range of 10-30 attendees.
    • Developed and facilitated educational workshops offered to 2000 students. Workshops would range from CMS usage for personal static sites, creative coding, and TouchDesigner.
    • Created an extensible CMS system and UI to manage the organization's event calendar.
    • Implemented social media integrations on the website to drive member engagement.
    • Oversaw the process of training and handing off the CMS system and frontend to the new administrative body.

    Parsons School
    of Design

    Dept of Art,
    Media, Technology

    Sep 2022 -
    May 2024

    Programming Specialist

    • Offered educational assistance to a student body of 2000 for a variety of programming projects and tasks.
    • Projects ranged from fully-fledged websites to generative art pieces.
    • Gave onboarding training on programming and educational methods to newly hired programming specialists.

    Parsons School
    Of Design

    CD Studio:
    Javascript

    Sep 2023 -
    Dec 2023

    Programming Teaching Assistant

    • Explained and lectured programming concepts to a 20 student class. Topics were meant to cover Javascript fundamentals and would range from N-body simulations, debugging concepts, to object-oriented programming.
    • Proposed and created visual diagrams as an aid for students in understanding course material.
    • Developed in-class coding exercises to reinforce aforementioned course topics.