João Beltrão

Current

• IT Manager at Refresh Multimedia

Past

• Project Manager/Head of Department for Services and New Platforms at SAPO
• Co-Founder and Director at Prodigio

Recommended

1 person has recommended João

Connections

46 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

João Beltrão’s Summary

Previous companies:
Prodigio (Digito.pt, Mail.pt, Evolui.com)
SAPO (Portugal Telecom)

João Beltrão’s Specialties:

Project Management
Dotnetnuke
Sharepoint
Windows Server
IIS
.net
SQL

João Beltrão’s Experience

• IT Manager

  Refresh Multimedia

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

  Refresh Multimedia is a Desejo Sem Limites company, dedicated to Internet and Multimedia services.
  Responsible for IT Project and Systems Management
  Working with: IIS, SQL, Windows Server 2003, DotNetNuke, .NET, Sharepoint, Project Management, Outsourcing Management

• Project Manager/Head of Department for Services and New Platforms

  SAPO

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2001 — February 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  Project Manager for the portal’s new platforms, such as Interactive TV, Mobile and PDAs. Managed the SAPO TV project in partnership with TV Cabo and the Mobile projects in partnership with TMN.
  
  Followed by
  
  Head of the department responsible for all of the portal’s services including E-mail, Chat services, Forums, Web Hosting, ‘Net BI’ id and authentication, and New Platforms such as Interactive TV, Mobile and PDA.
  
  SAPO (www.sapo.pt) is Portugal's largest internet portal/search engine and is owned by Portugal Telecom.

• Co-Founder and Director

  Prodigio

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1997 — January 2001 (3 years 5 months)

  Co-founder of “Prodígio – Produções Digitais Online SA”, the internet company that created the on-line services Digito.pt (a technology telecommunications and gaming news site), Mail.pt (a free e-mail service that surpassed half a million users) and Evolui.com (an e-learning service)

Additional Information

João Beltrão’s Honors:

Winner of the “Young Entrepreneur of the year” and “Best Cyber business of the year” awards, given by the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs, in November 1999, together with the other 3 founding partners.