Project Manager at GMV
Madrid Area, Spain
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- Project Manager at GMV
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- Technical Manager at Critical Software
- Contractor at European Space Agency/European Space Operations Centre
- Researcher at FZI Research Center for Information Technology
- Project Manager at Skysoft Portugal
- Project Manager at RTSN
- Education
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- Universidade de Lisboa
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Escola Secundária João de Deus
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João Ventura’s Summary
I have been very active in the European Aerospace Industry for the last decade. I started in Avionics projects in a company initially called RTSN that changed it's name to Skysoft. After a brief stint to finish my Master's course in real-time systems, I found a project that I liked so much that I decided to move to Germany to pursue it. The experience was very rewarding, and I made several new friends, but unfortunately it was very brief.
In my new company, Critical Software, I started to dedicate myself more to space projects and eventually became a fixed-term contractor for the European Space Agency, in Darmstadt (Germany Again). The experience gained there enabled me to start a new Job in Spain, in GMV, designing and implementing the satellite control system for some of the world's major players in the telecom satellite industry.
João Ventura’s Specialties:
Software Engineering (Space Standards: ESA PSS-05, ECSS E-40; Aerospace Standards: ARINC 653, RTCA-DO178B)
Computer Programming (C++, C, Java, Perl)
System Administration (Windows XP/2000, Linux, Solaris, AIX)
João Ventura’s Experience
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Project Manager
GMV
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
March 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Project Management of the Mission Control System (hifly) for the Astra 3B satellite and the hifly for the Astra 1M and 2B satellites (both for EADS Astrium) since June 2007.
Technical Manager of the hifly for the Astra 3B satellite between February and June 2007.
Software Development: new ground Telemetry interfaces and re-factoring of the hardware encryption layer (C++, CORBA, Linux, Subversion, Eclipse, Mykotronx MYK-14).
Senior Software Engineer between March 2006 and February 2007.
Software Development: new send-verify-execute functionality in the telecommand chain, general software problem resolution (C++, CORBA, Linux, ILOG Views, Subversion, Eclipse)
Technical Writing: User Manuals documentation updates. -
Technical Manager
Critical Software
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Defense & Space industry)
February 2003 — January 2006 (3 years)
Technical Manager of the SCOS-2000 Productisation project for documentation upgrades and support material for SCOS-2000 (for ESA/ESOC).
Quality Manager of HICOD2000 – High-Performance Coding, Protection and Trading of Satellite Images, Using JPEG2000 – project in partnership with ADETTI (for ESA/ESRIN).
Software Engineering: Requirements definition and support for an online help application, a Flash-based multimedia demonstration CD and the future EGOS web portal (UML, Java, Flash)
Technical Writing: Update of SCOS-2000 documents to the latest software version. Development and use of new document templates.
Application of RAMS analysis to SCOS-2000 in the RAMS01 CoO1 project – Software Failure Modes, Effect and Criticality Analysis (SFMECA) and Code Inspection on SCOS-2000 v2.3e (for ESA/ESOC).
Business development: Collaboration in writing administrative, management and financial parts of the HICOD2000 proposal. -
Contractor
European Space Agency/European Space Operations Centre
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
August 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 6 months)
SDE Testing Environment consultancy: requirements definition, tool survey, selection and test-bed use.
Support tasks: software system testing of SCOS-2000, SIMSAT, MCS-TVT and the SLE-API; Maintenance of the www.egos.esa.int and www.elog.esa.int websites (use of JavaScript, PHP, HTML and OpenCMS) -
Researcher
FZI Research Center for Information Technology
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
August 2002 — December 2002 (5 months)
Research and specification of a WCET (Worst Case Execution Time) tool, for the HIDOORS project – Development of a Java virtual machine, development environment and support tools to allow the development of distributed, real-time applications for critical environments (EU FP5 project).
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Project Manager
Skysoft Portugal
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
March 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 2 months)
Project Management of HIDOORS.
Technical Management of the IASI Level 2 Product Processing Facility – Development of the software for processing the data from the IASI instrument onboard EUMETSAT’s EPS satellites (for Alcatel Space and EUMETSAT).
Software Architect in the Land-SAF – Surface Application Facility to generate meteorological products (for the Portuguese Meteorological Institute and EUMETSAT).
Software Engineering: definition of the Software Development and Software Verification and Validation Plans; Definition of Architectural and Detailed Design Documents, Software Requirements Documents (using UML, SADT, and ESA’s BSSC 98(1) and PSS-05).
Business development: Writing of management and technical proposals, planning, budgeting and scheduling.
System Administration: Server infrastructure relocation to new offices, DNS, Livingstone IRX-211 Firewall, Sun Solaris 8, RedHat Linux 7.2, Windows Small Business Server 4.5, Windows 2000 Professional. -
Project Manager
RTSN
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
November 1997 — April 2000 (2 years 6 months)
Project Manager of the GASCA project – Design and development of a generic architecture for use in the aviation industry (Project for the European Commission).
Team co-ordination and project invoicing.
Software Engineering: Software Design and Development (C, ARINC 653, VAPS)
Project Manager of the SDLS project – Development of a satellite system for usage by the general aviation industry (Project for ESA).
Team co-ordination and project invoicing.
Market surveys of existing technologies (CPDLC, SATCOM, X.25, TCP/IP, Inmarsat’s SATCOM services and Iridum)
Software Engineer in the AFMS – Design and develop a system based on the SARPs of the digital communication protocols for the new general aviation systems (Project for the European Commission).
Software Engineering: Develop data conversion routines for the CPDLC protocol (C, XDR, ASN.1, RPC, Solaris, Linux).
Business development: Writing of technical, management and financial proposals, planning, budgeting and scheduling
João Ventura’s Education
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Universidade de Lisboa
Master, Software Engineering, 1998 — 2001
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Licenciatura, Software Engineering, 1992 — 1997
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Escola Secundária João de Deus
High School, 1989 — 1992
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João Ventura’s Websites:
João Ventura’s Interests:
new technologies, computers, linux, software standards, astronomy, space exploration, skiing, diving
João Ventura’s Honors:
PRAXIS XXI scholarship
