Pedro Couto e Santos

Director of Design – Europe at Rune Labs
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  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Portuguese Native or bilingual proficiency

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Jessica Camacho

What makes Pedro such a great leader is that he is, first and foremost, a person who cares for people. He truly listens and he will stand up for his team. Pedro has been the best design director I have had the pleasure to have in my career. He fosters great relationships and creates a safe space for his team to speak up and be themselves. I couldn’t pin point exactly what it is that Pedro does but he just has a way of keeping his team engaged and ever-evolving. He also has a special talent for hiring and is just a really cool guy in general, with a specific type of humor (meant as a compliment). I will always recommend Pedro. I miss having him around in my team but I am 100% sure he is doing a great job creating the best environment for other creatives out there :)

Rita Reis

Pedro is a great Leader. He is very aware and makes everything so easy on the teams that they just need to focus on the work. He has a particular way of making things happen, motivating growth, confidence, and commitment, without nobody even noticing it, and for that, I feel he should be recognized way more often. That is basically what a great leader is :) In design and as a teammate, his listening abilities take projects to the next level, making everyone thinking about the right questions and finding the best solutions overall. He's great in thinking as is in doing! I’ve been fortunate to work with Pedro for 5 yrs now, and I just hope to continue working with him for more years to come.

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Credentials

  • HIPPA Certificate
    Accountable HQ
    May, 2022
    - Sep, 2024
  • Security Awareness Certificate
    Accountable HQ
    May, 2022
    - Sep, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Design – Europe
      • May 2022 - Present

      Helping design next-generation products for patients, clinicians and researchers advancing care and therapies in the neurology space. Helping design next-generation products for patients, clinicians and researchers advancing care and therapies in the neurology space.

    • United Kingdom
    • Software Development
    • Design Director
      • Jul 2018 - May 2022

      Leading the Design team in the Lisbon Studio at Impossible.Ensuring team stability and happiness, staffing projects, collaborating with other Studio Leads to implement management processes, oversee and collaborate on design projects.

    • Lead UX/UI Designer
      • Nov 2015 - May 2022

      Design Lead and UI/UX designer, working on complex projects including research, UX design, user testing, project management, client relations, prototyping and production UI design and documentation.Travelling the world to meet demanding expectations and deliver world-class design work, for clients such as Google, Samsung and Roche Diagnostics.Living the design passion daily.

    • Portugal
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Head of Design & Normalization
      • Jun 2010 - Oct 2015

      Design thinking, normalization, special projects and design evangelization team Lead.In charge of leading the senior team of designers at SAPO, responsible for most of higher profile projects as well as creating tools and norms for the other design teams.

    • Designer
      • Nov 2003 - Oct 2015

      * Interaction/Visual designer, HTML/CSS coder, illustrator.* Responsible for designing products, interfaces and interaction on multiple platforms. Both in the concept and visual point of view. Used to working in multidisciplinary teams, deep in collaboration with developers, strategists, product managers and different types of stakeholders.* Proficient in dealing with HTML and CSS up to the latest specs, able to work with and around templating and scripting languages by software developers (can either build markup for the programmer to work with or wrap markup around a developer's PHP, for example).* Classic art background withs skills in drawing and painting, usually applied to iconography and other types of graphic work, such as branding and illustration.* Experienced at taking the lead on projects, especially on the creative side and pushing for improvements in user experience, communication and ease of use.

    • Artist/Writer
      • 1998 - 2015

      Co-author of the comic strip series "The Specialists", running since 1998 with some pauses. Currently being republished at http://thespecialists.online/ Co-author of the comic strip series "The Specialists", running since 1998 with some pauses. Currently being republished at http://thespecialists.online/

    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • Lead Artist, UI Designer, Sound FX Creator, Musician
      • Jan 2011 - Feb 2012

      Responsible for designing the user interface, all graphics, textures and illustrations, making sound FX, composing, playing and recording music for the iOS game "Nut Factory", (no longer) available on the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nut-factory/id472964716?ls=1&mt=8 Responsible for designing the user interface, all graphics, textures and illustrations, making sound FX, composing, playing and recording music for the iOS game "Nut Factory", (no longer) available on the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nut-factory/id472964716?ls=1&mt=8

    • Design Services
    • Founder and General Manager
      • May 1998 - Sep 2011

      Founder, manager and designer. Founder, manager and designer.

    • France
    • Construction
    • Graphic Design Software Teacher
      • 1998 - 1999

      Taught a class on computer aided graphic design, Mac OS, Photoshop, Illustrator & Quark XPress. Taught a class on computer aided graphic design, Mac OS, Photoshop, Illustrator & Quark XPress.

    • Egypt
    • Human Resources
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • 3D modeler and animator for TV infographics
      • Jun 1997 - Jun 1998

      Modelling and animating a series of infographics for the TV coverage of the Bicycle Tour of Portugal for the SIC TV channel. Modelling and animating a series of infographics for the TV coverage of the Bicycle Tour of Portugal for the SIC TV channel.

Education

  • Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
    Graduate, Communication Design
    1991 - 1996
  • Escola Secundária Fernão Mendes Pinto
    High School, Art/Art Studies, General
    1990 - 1991
  • Escola Secundária Emídio Navarro
    High School, Design and Applied Arts
    1985 - 1990

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