José Castro

Current

Technology Evangelist at Portugal Telecom
PAUSE Admin at CPAN
Community Relations Leader at The Perl Foundation

Presidente da Assembleia at APPP
Leader at Lisbon Perl Mongers
Perl Developer at CPAN

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Past

Core Team Member at SAPO
Applicational Development Leader at log - Open Source Consulting
Co-Founder and Leader at Viana Perl Mongers

Developer at Portugal Telecom Inovação

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Education

Universidade do Minho

Recommended

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Connections

440 connections

Industry

Computer Software

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José Castro’s Summary

Programmer turned Manager, Writer and Speaker.

José Castro’s Specialties:

Perl, Perl, Perl (TDD and OOP).

Business Oriented and People Oriented (two different things altogether).

Team and Project Management (motivation, resource allocation, meeting and managing expectations).

Working with Clients (creating architectures that suit their needs, meeting and managing expectations, crisis management).

Recruitment (ﬁnding the scarce good candidates that suit our needs, screening them, and ﬁnally presenting them a job offer and convincing them to accept it).

José Castro’s Experience

Technology Evangelist

Portugal Telecom

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)

I work towards the motivation and productivity of our team and the overall quality of SAPO's products.

With that in mind, I manage our training programs, do a lot of technical communication (both with clients and with partners) and I'm quite involved with our recruitment process.

I'm also responsible for the organization of several events such as Codebits and for a few other technical chores.
PAUSE Admin

CPAN

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Community Relations Leader

The Perl Foundation

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Presidente da Assembleia

APPP

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
Leader

Lisbon Perl Mongers

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Perl Developer

CPAN

(Computer Software industry)

2002 — Present (7 years)
Core Team Member

SAPO

(Internet industry)

July 2008 — February 2009 (8 months)
Applicational Development Leader

log - Open Source Consulting

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 6 months)

A typical week of work:

• managing a team of 8 in-house Perl programmers, 2 Usability and Accessibility consultants, plus a variable number of outsourcers; this part of the job involves making sure they’re motivated, allocated to the proper projects, etc;
• monitoring 5-6 projects for 4-5 clients at the same time; clients range from media to ISPs, passing government branches and all other sorts of companies; each project usually has a project manager associated to it, but I’m always present;
• monitoring 3-4 support contracts for which my departments are responsible, making sure every request is attended within the speciﬁed SLAs;
• assisting the Sales & Marketing department with 5-6 sales at the same time, designing technical solutions and convincing the client we’re the proper technical choice (which we usually are);
• assisting the Human Development department with candidate selection and recruitment.
Co-Founder and Leader

Viana Perl Mongers

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

April 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Developer

Portugal Telecom Inovação

(Telecommunications industry)

March 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 10 months)