One Community Thanks Marco Silva For Being Part of the Software Engineering Team

Posted on August 16, 2015 by One Community

One Community is happy to feature and thank Marco Silva as our most recent member of the Software Engineering Team. Marco spent the last two months working on the new open-source Highest Good Network application.

Marco William Paulo da Silva

3rd-year Software Engineering Student: Marco is a Brazilian exchange student who recently studied at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). He speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish, and has a basic knowledge of French. Marco left Brazil before starting his third year of Software Engineering at UnB (University of Brasília). During his time studying at SCAD (a college of art and design), Marco has been diversifying his skills as a Software Engineer and developing a broader perspective on the world. On the interactive design side, Marco has knowledge in Illustrator, Photoshop, Maya, and After Effects. He combines these skills with programming experience with C, Java, Processing, Android, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Arduino. Back in Brazil, Marco participated in a project where his function was to assure and to control the quality of applications for mobile devices of the Brazilian company Positivo Informática. Marco was chosen as the student of the month in January for the Institute of International Education because of an essay he wrote talking about how he could change the world in 2015. Since starting college, Marco has also been exploring what is possible with open source. As a member of the One Community team, Marco has applied his programming skills developing the Highest Good Network application for complete village construction and open source data gathering, time tracking, sharing, and reporting.