Joaquim Rocha

Current

Developer at Igalia

Past

Developer at Portugal Telecom
Developer at BitRock
Founder and editor at Revista Linux

Vice-President at NEEI - Computer Science Students Organization of Univ. of Évora
Developer at CITI - R&D Center of University of Évora
Engineer/Programmer at CITI - R&D Center of University of Évora

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Education

Scrum: Project management agile methodology
Universidade de Évora
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Industry

Computer Software

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Joaquim Rocha’s Summary

My professional interests fall mainly on mobile devices programming, computer graphics, web design/programming, GUI design and programming and usability.

* Creator of Rancho (group/project management web tool)
http://www.getrancho.com

* Creator of BluePad (remote control software for cellphones)
http://bluepad.sf.net

* Founder and Editor of Revista Linux (a Portuguese PDF Linux and open source related magazine)
http://www.revista-linux.com

Social skills and competences:

* Team spirit;
* Easy and fast integration in multicultural environments;
* Good communication skills;
* Skills on managing project and people;
* Sense of organization and responsibility (experience in logistics)
* Working experience with Scrum (agile software development)

Speaks 3 languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish

For a detailed CV please contact me.

Joaquim Rocha’s Specialties:

Programming experience with:

* Python, mainly:
- Graphical User Interfaces with pyGTK;
- Web development with Django;
- General system scripting mainly in UNIX environments.
* JAVA, mainly:
- Graphical User Interfaces with Swing;
- Web services;
* J2ME
* PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Prolog, C.

Operating Systems:
UNIX (mainly Linux), Windows and OS X.

Joaquim Rocha’s Experience

Developer

Igalia

(Computer Software industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )
Developer

Portugal Telecom

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)

Worked in a summer program for college students called SAPO Summerbits where I developed a plugin for DSpace to retrieve the contents of document images through OCR and index them in the search engine.
Developer

BitRock

(Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — June 2008 (5 months)
Founder and editor

Revista Linux

(Writing and Editing industry)

December 2006 — 2008 (2 years )

Founded and edited Revista Linux, the only Portuguese magazine about Linux and Open Source.
In this role I coordinated volunteer writers from Portugal and Brasil, designed/mounted all the magazine structure and interviewed some important personalities in from the Linux world.
Vice-President

NEEI - Computer Science Students Organization of Univ. of Évora

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

February 2006 — March 2008 (2 years 2 months)

Bridge between the students and the Department of Computer Science.
Events organization mainly focused on technology.
Open source advocacy.
Developer

CITI - R&D Center of University of Évora

(Research industry)

September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Outsourcing part time jobs focused mainly in open source technologies, research and development.
Engineer/Programmer

CITI - R&D Center of University of Évora

(Research industry)

May 2007 — October 2007 (6 months)

I designed and developed an OCR suite for GNU/Linux called OCRFeeder.
Worked solo in the project.

Joaquim Rocha’s Education

Scrum: Project management agile methodology

Scrum Project Management 2008 — 2008

Attended a 4 day scrum workshop taught by a certificate scrum master.
Universidade de Évora

MSc , Computer Science , 2006 — 2008
Universidade de Évora

BSc , Computer Science , 2003 — 2006