
CTO
Portugal
My profesional experiece is explained to some detail in my profile on the previous companies I worked in. I'm a loyal worker who likes to grow inside a company I love.
Goals:
• Have fun while working
• Always work connected to new technologies
• Always work developing connections and relations
• Be happy
Graphic design, Large format printing, Designing for offset printing, color calibrations in digital printing environments, below the line marketing, team managment.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2003 — Present (7 years 3 months)
Started as a Technology Consultant creating, developing and leading an in-house print services department. Once the print services were running w/o my direct intervention, moved on to create an exhibition and stand design department for sale or rental. Both areas still very active and essential to company operations. I'm currently CTO in the area of large format printer sales and services. My responsiblities lie in many areas: IT consultant, Strategy & Overall business direction, Marketing director, Production manager of the print and services department, Project Manager for stand design & rental... small company (18 people) = lot's of responsibilities.
(Computer Software industry)
October 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 3 months)
Built up i3 Team with another friend. He was the programmer, I was everything else. I designed the interface, marketed the software, tested it, suggested developments and modifications and took care of all costumer relations.
What we built? An Integrated Intelligent Interface for Vehicles. It was a fully customizable interface for controlling a computer inside your car from a touch screen and/or other interface devices. Mac OS X based.
It was a lot of fun, but unfortunately never made enough money to survive due to being too much of a niche market and difficulty to be taken seriously.
(Management Consulting industry)
October 2002 — January 2003 (4 months)
Started work as an IT consultant specializing in the Graphic Design and Large Format printing areas. Idea was to setup graphic design and printing departments in companies that had design and printing needs (sufficient to not outsource), but not the know-how to do it. Eventually was invited to stay at Neschen Portugal, which was one of the clients hiring my services.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 1997 — October 2002 (5 years 2 months)
Started as a exhibition stand builder, progressed to cut vinyl sign maker / applier. Became operator of cad based system for vinyl cutting and vector file creation. Eventually brought computer based design into the company for everything from signmaking to leaflet, logo and catalog creation. Progressed into wide format digital printing and cad + 3d design of exhibition stands. Became creative director for all computer based design and activities leading a team of 5 graphic designers in a company of 12 people, until Expografe was sold in 2002. The new owners and I did not see eye to eye on the future of the company and so I left. Expografe ceased activites in 2005.
Web application development , HTML, Javascript, SQL, PHP, AS3 , 2008 — 2009
1 year course covering most of the development languages. 3 times a week from 7pm to 10 pm.
MBA , Marketing and Business Administration , 2000 — 2001
Visual Communication , Photography, Computer Design, Graphic Arts, Marketing , 1993 — 1997
It's now called the American Intercontinental University.
New technology, design, web development & design, social networking, marketing and marketing experiments, all music, anything with wheels...