I'm currently a teacher, after having worked as programmer, game designer and project manager. I've also developed a few activities as youth sports coach (especially in football). At the moment I don't practice sports as much as I'd like, but I still enjoy the occasional football or basketball match.

Aside from sports, I also like writing, playing videogames (especially old school stuff), listening to music, reading and watching a few movies. I've also tried to learn guitar, but didn't have much success. I'm currently trying to learn how to play piano.

Over the years I've been involved in several projects, works, activities, etc. It's a long and varied list, going from game development to magazine design, including many more things. Here's a small list of some of those projects that are currently available on-line.

Forum Coimbra was created to provide an on-line discussion space about Coimbra, a Portuguese city. It currently gets 2000 to 3000 daily visits, having become an important and complete reference about this city.

It went through a restyling in March/2011, with an upgrade to PHPBB3 and a new look, featuring a customized version of the we_universal style - including a header than randomly displays images from Coimbra.

URL: http://www.forumcoimbra.com

Press is a field of extreme interest to me, not only for the journalism side of things, but also for everything that creating a magazine involves. For that, apart from ocasionally writing for computer-related magazines, I've also joined a few projects in other functions.

The first project in this field I was involved with was the "Viver Coimbra" e-magazine, an amateur project created by users of the Forum Coimbra website. We released three issues, before having to cancel the project due to lack of time. In this project, I was the promotor, handled the graphic side and also wrote a few articles. It only had an electronic edition.

The second project was renewing the newspaper of my current school, "O Bazófias". The idea was to completely abandon the old newspaper's model, as well as its look (simple photocopied and stapled sheets of paper). I've introduced a new model, based in a journalism club, with a team of students assuming the staff tasks. Its visual was completely changed, being close to a magazine and including a free electronic edition in complement to the print edition.

Due to the work I did on remodeling the school's newspaper, I received an invitation from CFAE Minerva's director to produce their magazine. I was responsible for the design and layout of the first issue of this magazine, which had a print run and is also available in PDF format. Following a new invitation, I'm currently working on the second issue.

My next project will be Alternative Vox. More details will be available soon.

"O Bazófias" Newspaper (nº 35 - June/2011): http://www.issuu.com/cjebrsi/docs/n35
Minerva Magazine (nº 1 - December/2010): http://www.cfae-minerva.edu.pt/pdf/2010/revista.pdf
"O Bazófias" Newspaper (nº 34 - June/2010): http://www.issuu.com/cjebrsi/docs/n34
"Viver Coimbra" Magazine (nº 3 - April/2008): http://issuu.com/vivercoimbra/docs/vivercoimbra3
"Viver Coimbra" Magazine (nº 2 - March/2008): http://issuu.com/vivercoimbra/docs/vivercoimbra2
"Viver Coimbra" Magazine (nº 1 - February/2008): http://issuu.com/vivercoimbra/docs/vivercoimbra1

This handbook was created for my Trainer Certification Course. Since I've already concluded it, I've decided to place it freely available on-line in PDF format, as it can be useful to new Internet users (or even to experienced users who want to know more about Netiquette). It's available only in Portuguese.

URL: http://www.pedroamaro.com/manual_netiquette.pdf

Some of the my first Java games are still available on-line. Although these are technically simplistic games, they're still being played. For example, Contamination - a puzzle/strategy mix - was used some months ago at my schools "Open Day" and was recently converted for Android devices by my brother (Telmo Amaro).

Here are the links to three of those games. Apart from Contamination, you'll also find the link for Cube (a 3D version of Tic-Tac-Toe, supporting up to 4 players) and Blokkos (my first game aimed at a younger audience).

Contamination: http://contamination.pedroamaro.com
Cube: http://cube.pedroamaro.com
Blokkos: http://blokkos.oramatechnologies.com

Tempo is a simple web service, which automatically obtains the weather forecast for the user's location and converts it to a friendly text.

The user's position is obtained using IP location through IPInfoDB's database, while the forecast is requested to Google Weather. This data is then used to return the user the text-based weather forecast, in Portuguese or English.

There is also a version created for the Forum Coimbra website which displays the weather forecast for Coimbra (therefore, it does not use IP location).

Regular version: http://tempo.pedroamaro.com
Coimbra version: http://tempo.forumcoimbra.com

Name: Pedro Amaro
Location: Coimbra, Portugal
Favourite Areas:
- Java
- Training
- Project Management
- Game development
- Mobile Software
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