Luis Abreu

Current

Lead Software Developer at SRA

Past

Software Developer (Distributed applications) at SRA
Software Developer (SAP Portal project) at SRA
Software Developer ("Balcão Verde" project) at SRA

Software Developer (SRAGeoMedia project) at SRA
Consultant at ESESJC
Consultant at DTIM
Consultant at UMa/Mesquita
Consultant at Expedita

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Education

Universidade da Madeira

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Computer Software

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Luis Abreu’s Summary

• A software engineer with strong communication skills and with experience in delivering line of business applications. Enjoys working in a good team environment and is prepared to reuse his skills to ensure the successful implementation of multiple projects.
• I have more than eight years of experience in the development of web applications. Such experience ranges from ASP 3.0 (which includes the development of sites based on COM development with ATL and C++) to the ASP.NET platform.
• I started working with .NET in the beginning of 2002. During December 2004 I began working with the .NET 2.0 beta versions. Currently, I’m investigating the new 3.0 and 3.5 (CTP) platform
• In 2005 I wrote the 1st ASP.NET 2.0 book in Portuguese language.
• In 2006 I wrote the 1st ASP.NET AJAX book in Portuguese language.
• I was granted an MVP on ASP.NET in 2005, 2006 and 2007 as a token of my commitment to the.NET community.
• During 2006, I was invited by Microsoft Portugal to produce several short videos (screencasts) about ASP.NET AJAX. I’ve also collaborated with them in the construction of several “proof of concept” applications.
• In September 2006, I was invited by Microsoft to participate on the internal feedback program for the ASP.NET AJAX platform.
• In late 2007, I was invited to be a member of the ASP Insiders group.

Luis Abreu’s Specialties:

VB.NET, C#, SQL Server, TDD, DDD, ASP.NET, AJAX, Javascript, XML, C++, COM/DCOM/COM+

Luis Abreu’s Experience

Lead Software Developer

SRA

(Government Administration industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

• Responsible for the architecture of all .NET applications developed by the department.
• Lead researcher for new technologies.
• Responsible for mentoring the team on agile principles.
• Manager of a team which supports LOB application.
• Delivered successfully several applications which reduced the time needed to execute certain business operations to half.
Software Developer (Distributed applications)

SRA

(Government Administration industry)

June 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 7 months)

• Developed several Windows Forms applications in C#.
• Developed the secured WCF services used by the applications.
• Developed the framework which encapsulates communication with the Zebra’s printers and makes label construction similar to Windows Forms form’s design.
• Used Click Once to deploy the applications in distributed scenarios with automatic updates and custom install actions.
• Developed the messaging components used for propagating events through interested parties (MSMQ).
• Reduced the costs associated with several key areas of administration in 30%.
Software Developer (SAP Portal project)

SRA

(Government Administration industry)

June 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 1 month)

• Responsible for the coordination between the team and the external SAP experts team on the portal sub-project.
• Responsible for development of components that bridge the gap between SAP and .NET applications.
Software Developer ("Balcão Verde" project)

SRA

(Government Administration industry)

July 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 1 month)

• Developed the business objects used by the application.
• Developed the web application in ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server.
• Introduced TDD to the team
Software Developer (SRAGeoMedia project)

SRA

(Computer Software industry)

October 2003 — June 2004 (9 months)

• Responsible for defining the architecture of the components.
• Lead developer for ATL COM components.
• Ported the v1.0 version from unmanaged to managed .NET code.
• Trained the team for Interop scenarios.
Consultant

ESESJC

(Education Management industry)

January 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 7 months)

I’ve made a small incursion into the systems area, where I’ve helped to implement and manage a Windows intranet based on Windows 2000 server and Active Directory. I've also developed their first web site and a book/magazine management system.
Consultant

DTIM

(Education Management industry)

January 2001 — November 2001 (11 months)

I worked as a web developer and was responsible for coordinating the programming section of DTIM (a local training company). During my stay here, I’ve helped to reorganize their training curriculum and lectured several courses on several Microsoft products, including Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, ASP 3.0, XML and JScript.
Consultant

UMa/Mesquita

(Civil Engineering industry)

November 1999 — June 2000 (8 months)

I worked as a consultant on project AMMNet where I helped to architect and code AMMArquivo. AMMArquivo is a web application built with ASP 3.0 that made the sharing of documents across several key workers of Mesquita possible (Mesquita is a major Portuguese building company). During this project, I’ve developed several ATL COM components (ASP server components and DHTML components). The use of C++ was a must in order to get maximum performance.
Consultant

Expedita

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

September 1999 — October 1999 (2 months)

I’ve delivered the first working prototype of TourIStWeb. This application was used as the front office of the TourISt project (an E-business system built for the tourism companies in Madeira).