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Pedro Silva
BA, Creative WritingUniversity of Central Florida | 2006 - 2010Orlando, Florida
MFA, Digital MediaUniversity of Central Florida | 2010 - 2013Orlando, Florida
Thesis: Intersubjectivity and Transferring Beliefs: Designing a CSCL Platform for Role-Play
PhD, Digital Media, All But DissertationGeorgia Institute of Technology | 2013 - 2016Atlanta, Georgia
Web Design and Development: JavaScript, HTML/CSS, JQuery, PHP, MySQL, XSLT/XHTML, Symphony CMS.
Prototyping and Production: C#, Java, Unty 3D, Blender 3D, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Flash), Logic Pro.
Language: English, Portuguese.
Education Skills and Tools
Work Experience
Teacher and Dorm Parent | 2018 - PresentIdyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA
Designed and implemented Game Design, STEAM and Programming for 2D Games courses. Served as on-campus live-in dorm parent, responsible for pastoral care of students.
Classes Taught:Algebra I (2018 - 2019) Game Design (2018 - 2019)Algebra II (2019 - 2020) Creative Technology (2019 - 2020)Geometry (2018 - 2019) Programming for 2D Games (2019 - 2020) STEAM (2019 - 2020)
Experimental TV Lab Manager | 2014 - 2016Interactive TV Lab, School of Visual Literature, Media and CommunicationGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Project Lead: CounterPoint (Fall 2014), iPad web-app, Javascript. Project Lead: Story in Motion (Spring 2014), iPad/Television web-app, Leap Motion, Javascript, PHP.Designer/Lead Programmer: Game of Thrones Companion (Fall 2013), iPad/Television web-app, Javas-cript, PHP.
UX Design Intern | 2015 Comcast Labs, Washington DC
Visual/UX Designer: ClipShare, voice-controlled TV clip extraction and sharing prototype, Javascript, Illustrator.
[email protected] https://pedrosilva0219.000webhostapp.com (407) 435.0035
Publications
Presentations
Graduate Research Assistant for Prof. Janet Murray | 2013 - 2014School of Visual Literature, Media and Communication
Designed and implemented college-wide online application system for internal funding requests. Designed and built website for Technologies and International Development Lab via Symphony CMS.
Pedro Silva, Yasmin Amer, William Tsikerdanos, Jesse Shedd, Isabel Restrepo, and Janet Murray. 2015. A Game of Thrones Companion: Orienting Viewers to Complex Storyworlds via Synchronized Visualiza-tions. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (TVX '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 167-172.
Pedro Silva. 2012. Designing an authoring environment for community-created virtual heritage environ-ments: experiences with the geografia platform. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work (GROUP '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 95-98.
Pedro Silva, Si Jung Kim. 2011. Sculpting Synchronous Learning Networks into Engines for Divergent Thinking, Role-Play and the Rehearsal of Praxis. Paper presented at the 2011 Information Fluency Conference, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Graduate Research Assistant for Prof. Si Jung Kim | 2010 - 2012Human Computer Interaction LabUniversity of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Designed and implemented online data collection for HCI study on cultural factors across film genres.Reviewed submissions for the Educational Interfaces, Software and Technology Workshop (CHI 2012) and HCII 2012.
Undergraduate Writing Consultant | 2009 - 2010University Writing CenterUniversity of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Conducted one-on-one and group consultations for undergrads and grad students, and led workshops in undergraduate English composition classes (ENC1101).
Editing Internship | 2009 Florida Review Literary JournalUniversity of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Graduate Teaching Associate | 2012 - 2013School of Visual Arts and DesignUniversity of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Classes Taught:DIG 2500c: Foundations of Interactive Design (Fall 2012, Spring 2013)DIG 4104c: Web Design Workshop (Spring 2012)
