User:EdMercer
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My name is Eduardo Mercer and I live in São Paulo, Brazil. I'm a Industrial Design student at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation and a computer programmer by profession.
[edit] Short Bio
I was born in São José do Rio Preto, some 270 miles (450km) northwest of São Paulo, in 1979 and moved to the state capital the same year. Four years later my parents reallocated back to my hometown and we stayed there for the rest of my childhood. There I attended Elementary at Colégio Santo André, Junior-High at Anglo and High-School at COOPEC (Class of 1996). I spent one year preparing for my vestibular exams and moved once again to São Paulo in early 1998 to attend college. Two college false-starts later I moved once again to São José do Rio Preto and opened a the city's very first cybercafe, but my lack of managing skills and my admittance later the same year to the University of São Paulo's Polytech School brought it to a sudden end, missing the brazilian lan-house boom by a whole year. After a third attempt at getting a college degree I signed a temporary leave from USP in late 2005 and began developing videogames. Nowadays I work with Second Life development for an Educational Foundation where I'm also pursuing a Bachelor of Design degree.
[edit] Academia
I have had three false-starts at a college degree, starting in 1998 up until 2005. I have studied:
- One year (1998) of Data processing technology at the Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo (FATEC)
- Three years (1999-2001) of Electrical engineering at the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Mackenzie)
- Three years (2002-2005) of Mechatronics engineering at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
After working as a game programmer for a while I have returned to the academic world, now as a student of Industrial Design. The fields of user experience and experience design are very much related to the process of game development and there aren't many professionals avaliable in Brazil. As of 2007 I'm pursuing a BDes at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP), class of 2011. I also work for the Foundation as a programmer/modeler in Second Life.
[edit] Publishing
During my first year at USP I was employed as a trainee to the SIM-LME lab writing sigma-pi perceptron neural networks and remote instrumentation software for an electronic nose prototype. For this project I have authored and co-authored three papers:
