Willian Massami Watanabe

Professional experience

• Professor at UTFPR. Brazil 2012.: Computer Science professor with emphasis in Web Development, Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture topics include: Web standards, JavaScript fullstack (with React.js and Express.js) and Web engineering practices (TDD, CI and CD). Main research topics include: Web Accessibillity, ARIA automatic evaluation strategies, XBI - Cross Browser Inconsistencies automatic detection and Web Applications Testing.
• Software engineer at Yahoo!. Brazil 2011-2012.: working specifically on two applications: Meme and Profile. Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment strategies demand constant effort, while keeping the quality of continous delivery of features in the Web. Exercising Test-Driven Design, eXtreme Programming, Scrumm practices and dealing with performance and scalability non-functional requirements in Web systems.
• Ph.D. CAPES Scholarship at São Paulo University - ICMC (Mathematics and Computer Science Institute). Brazil, 2010.: part of the of the Ph.D. program of ICMC-USP, with the project entitled "Automatic Accessibility Evaluation in RIA - Rich Internet Applications". This research was financed by CAPES and works in the area of Web Accessibility, Web Usability, Web Engineering, MDD, RIA - Rich Internet Applications and Ajax. The Ph.D. project was conducted under the orientation of Prof. Dra. Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes.
• Master of Science FAPESP Scholarship at São Paulo University - ICMC (Mathematics and Computer Science Institute). Brazil, 2008-2010: inserted at project PorSimples which was financed by FAPESP and Microsoft Research, was responsible by the integration of text processing operations and interface design of the Facilita. The Facilita is a web application that works as an assistive technology facilitating portuguese reading activities on web pages through the use of automatic text summarization and simplification techniques. Simple interactions, usability and accessibility issues are essential requirements to the Facilita implementation and are the main themes of the research. JavaScript and AJAX characteristics provide some of the key features of design's simplicity and usability in Facilita. The project was developed under orientation of Prof. Dra. Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes.
• Software Engineer at Guenka Software Development. Brazil, 2006-2008: Part of the team responsible by the remote marketing software implementation, through the use of mobile devices, an optimized communication protocol (due to limitations of the mobile platform) and databases server applications. Collaborated in the development of a server applications that allowed other applications remote update through the use of XML-RPC. The communication was made between Java Servlet containners and mobile devices (Handhelds) with the use of XML-RPC to exchange server persistent data.
• Google Student Award: success application in the Google Student Award for the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2010), in Raleigh USA co-located with the Ninteenth International World Wide Web Conference. The award granted financial support for the student to attend the W4A 2010 Conference.