
Software Engineer
Portugal

Software Engineer
Portugal
Software Engineer with over 10 years of Information Technology experience, mainly focused on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions, with wide international experience in the European market.
Enterprise Application Integration using webMethods.
(Public Company; SOW; Computer Software industry)
February 2008 — December 2008 (11 months)
Provide technical guidance and mentoring regarding the technological platform and project rollout best practices. Define and implement integration architecture solutions. Most relevant projects include:
# Infarmed @ Lisbon, Portugal
Design and implement an entity contact centralisation system to support multiple business processes,
with automatic replication with legacy systems.
→ webMethods 7.1 (Integration Server, Broker, My webMethods Server, BPM, CAF, BAM)
(Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 7 months)
# ABN Amro @ Oeiras, Portugal
Offsite work to refine and enhance the web-based GUI of a dedicated software product (Access Direct Client) to sign, validate and submit payment files.
→ webMethods 6.1 (Integration Server), Java, JSP, Javascript (jQuery, Prototype), Git
# Altran @ Lisbon, Portugal
Give a crash-course workshop on webMethods. Assist with the initial requirements analysis.
→ webMethods 6.1 (Integration Server, Broker)
# Artlusa @ Oeiras, Portugal
Design and develop an online store for the company's main products and services.
→ Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Basecamp, Google AdWords/Analytics, TextPattern, PHPList
# Preito @ Oeiras, Portugal
Design and develop a flexible and adaptable platform for implementing and delivering mobile services.
→ Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Retrospectiva
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 10 months)
→ webMethods 6.1/6.5
# Hays @ London, England
Time constraint intervention requiring strong pragmatic skills, to review and sanitise the existing code base of a new web-based time-sheet management system, in order to make it conform to the specification and do the final push into system testing. Reengineered critical business processes for effectiveness and feasibility.
# Inland Revenue @ Telford, England
Provide webMethods expertise for a large-scale Enterprise Service Bus implementation, in a multitude of architectural design solutions covering areas such as canonical definitions, best practices, capacity planning, logging strategy and test design & guidance.
# ABN Amro @ Amsterdam, Netherlands
Assist with the project-wide webMethods architecture, design and development of an Online Payments Project. Develop the web-based GUI for a dedicated software product (Access Direct Client) to sign, validate and submit payment files.
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 9 months)
Architect, implement and maintain the in-house developed platform for management & distribution of mobile content. Develop productivity tools to ease bulk management operations on large content sets.
→ Java, JSP, Javascript, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, NetBeans, CVS, Linux (Fedora), Bugzilla
Design, implement and maintain the statistical tools for reporting and analysis (sales, cost/profit relationships, traffic, etc.) to support the daily work of both managers, external clients and partners.
→ ASP, Microsoft IIS 5.0, SQL Server 2000, VBScript, XML
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2001 — January 2002 (6 months)
# Quest International @ Ashford, Kent, England
Freelance work for Celfocus (Portugal), integrating the webMethods Professional Services team in an EAI implementation project at Quest International, connecting a new SAP installation to all the existing legacy systems. Provide support and advice to developers with both technical insights on the webMethods platform and giving guidelines on integration best practices.
→ webMethods Enterprise 4.6, Java
(Online Media industry)
January 2001 — August 2001 (8 months)
Develop and enhance the e-cards distribution platform for “Postais da Alice”. Design and implement an SMS text cards delivery platform for mobile phones (Yorn SMS Cards).
→ PHP, Java, JSP, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, Linux (Mandrake)
Analyse and develop web solutions for the interactive television box (iTV) of TV Cabo.
→ ASP, Javascript, MS Access, SQL Server 2000
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2000 — December 2000 (10 months)
# Telenet @ Mechelen, Belgium
Freelance work for Siemens Business Services (Germany), designing and implementing tools & integration services as per the business requirements, in an EAI implementation project.
→ ActiveWorks** 4.0, Java, JUnit, SunOS, XML, DTDs
(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)
August 1998 — February 2000 (1 year 7 months)
# Telecel Vodafone @ Lisbon, Portugal
Design and develop Agents and Adapters for several internal EAI projects and provide production support for some of the deployed projects (Middleware team).
→ ActiveWorks 3.1, Java, JDBC, C++, SQL Server 7, Oracle 8, PL/SQL, Borland Jbuilder, SunOS
Implementing changes and updates to the entire PNI/GUI interface of the PRISM Billing System, to incorporate the new EURO currency (Online team).
→ C++, Microsoft Visual Studio, COBOL, Sybase, PVCS, VMS
(Computer Software industry)
September 1997 — July 1998 (11 months)
# Oracle Portugal @ Lisbon, Portugal
Systems support of the internal IT infrastructure and provide help desk support to the internal users.
→ SunOS, Windows (95, NT), Ghost
BSc , Computer Engineering , 1992 — 1997
Major in Programming and Information Systems
Water Polo, Snowboarding, Squash, Flamenco Guitar