About me

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a University Licentiate in Informatics, Zend Certified Engineer for PHP 5.3 and Oracle Certified Associate for Java SE 7.

I have finished my University degree some years ago and I have been working both as a Web development teacher and freelance web developer. However now I wish to pursue a career as a full time developer.

I have strong knowledge of MVC, Jquery, XHTML/CSS, Javascript, AJAX, SQL and MySQL, as well as Joomla CMS and WordPress CMS extension development.I have experience developing web applications throughout the full development process, using Linux and LAMP stack.

I also have good knowledge of JAVA SE, including applets, threads, Swing, JDBC, Derby and iReports, having achieved the "Oracle Certified Associate for Java SE 7" certification with a score of 96%.

As for references, you can see some of my work here (http://in-mind.dk/

Besides my development skills I am familiar with design and multimedia tools like Photoshop, Gimp, InkScape, PITIVI and Audacity. I am also an experienced IT teacher with the ability to author writen and video tutorials.

I am a pro-active person, curious, open source oriented and I have a lot of fun developing software for the web.

I am fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, and I have good knowledge of French.

Currently I am living in Geneva area (Carouge) and I have finished my work contract, so I am available to start working when needed.

I hope my profile is interesting to you, and that we can schedule an appointment.

Yours sincerely,

Herberto Graça