CTO & Founder at WebCo Internet S/A
Brazil
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- CTO & Founder at WebCo Internet S/A
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- CIO/CTO/Founder at BlogBlogs
- Director of R&D and Technology at Hypercom Latin America
- R&D and Technology Manager at Hypercom Latin America
- R&D and Technology Manager at Hypercom
- Solutions Engineer at Hypercom
- CTO / Founder at Singularity Systems
- Web Developer at CETEA
- JAVA Architech at CelPlan
- Education
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- Universidade Estadual de Campinas
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas
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Manoel Lemos’s Summary
Executive Management
I have successfully led technology based organizations in a range of different positions: Consultant (government & health), Technical Leader (health care and payment systems), Area Manager (R&D and technology payment systems), Regional Director (hw/sw transactional & payment systems) and Entrepreneur (mobile internet, web 2.0 and social networking). This broad-based experience includes multiple cross-functional roles and solid results.
R&D and Technology
With strong technical background I forged my skills with good mentors since the begin. Fast learning with sharp problem solving skills I have accomplished outstanding results balancing technical & managerial skills with holistic & focused visions. I have proven ability to build & manage multidisciplinary teams and 10+ years of technical and management experience.
Joining the Engineering School at the beginning of the Web I worked with it since its early days. At the university I did several researches on the areas of high performance and distributed computing. The National Health Card Project was very challenging and rewarding, it was awarded at the JavaOne 2003 as one of the biggest Java applications in the world.
I’m always engaged on voluntary initiatives and personal entrepreneurship. PageMe was a pioneer at the mobile internet in Brazil (bubble-times) and helped me to improve my non technical skills. I worked on the Green Book of the Information Society and several e-Democracy projects in Brazil and the EU. Recently I created the BlogBlogs, a blog indexing and social network internet portal.
International and Cross-Cultural Experience
I have conducted business and participated on projects on several countries such as: EUA, India, Brazil, Latvia, Germany, UK, Spain, France, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and the Caribbean. This gave me a diverse international background, and extensive management experience. I'm fluent in English, Spanish and native Portuguese speaking.
Manoel Lemos’s Specialties:
Specialties
- Research and development management
- Internet and emerging technologies
- IT project integration and implementation
- Team building
- Strategic planning
- Relations and negotiations with corporate accounts
- Business development and management in Latin America
- Start-Ups
- Electronic transaction systems and networks for payment and benefits
- IT solutions design and architecture
- Ruby on Rails, Ajax and Web Development
- JAVA technologies (J2EE & J2ME)
Manoel Lemos’s Experience
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CTO & Founder
WebCo Internet S/A
(Internet industry)
February 2008 — Present (7 months)
We're creating web services for the creation, sharing, aggregation and discovery of highly contextualized user generated content for the Brazilian market. Our two flagship websites are the BlogBlogs, the biggest blog indexing platform for Portuguese speaking blogs and Brasigo, a social platform for Brazilians to create and share their content.
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CIO/CTO/Founder
BlogBlogs
(Internet industry)
April 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 11 months)
This a new personal project I developed in the last months. The BlogBlogs is a brand new Web 2.0 service focused on the indexing and searching the Brazilian Blogosphere and also to develop a bloggers and blog readers social network. Today it is the biggest and yet unique services on its category in Brazil and is being claimed as the blog popularity reference for the local blogosphere. This system was entirely designed and developed by my self with the emerging technology called Ruby on Rails.
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Director of R&D and Technology
Hypercom Latin America
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 5 months)
My key role is to manage all the technical teams to support regional sales and services operations and to keep the alignment with the corporate strategies. As the key technical interface with customers I'm also responsible to define strategies for new services and products and to keep our technology leadership image within them.
Responsible for R&D (software development), Product Management, IT, Telecom and Transactional Services Operations.
Define and implement regional strategies for new products, market penetration, customer certifications and new developments.
Provide the global marketing and engineering teams with the necessary intelligence to define global strategies.
Accountable for the R&D and Technology budget (2.8M USD).
Technical interface with key customers and top accounts in the South America region (Visanet, Redecard/Mastercard, American Express, Transbank, Bancard, Unibanco, Siemens, Bradesco, Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Health of Aruba). -
R&D and Technology Manager
Hypercom Latin America
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HYC; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — September 2006 (11 months)
Responsible for 5 verticals: R&D (software development), Product Management, IT, Telecom and Transactional Services Operations.
Manage all the technical teams to support the South America Region sales and services operations.
Define and implement regional strategies for new products, market penetration, customer certifications and new developments.
Provide the global marketing and engineering teams with the necessary market intelligence to define global strategies and new products.
Accountable for the R&D and Technology budget (2.8M USD).
Technical interface with key customers and top accounts in the South America region (Visanet, Redecard/Mastercard, American Express, Transbank, Bancard, Unibanco, Siemens, Bradesco, Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Health of Aruba). -
R&D and Technology Manager
Hypercom
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; HYC; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — November 2005 (9 months)
Responsible for 5 verticals: R&D (software development), Product Management, IT, Telecom and Transactional Services Operations.
Manage all the technical teams to support the Brazil sales and services operations.
Define and implement regional strategies for new products, market penetration, customer certifications and new developments.
Provide the global marketing and engineering teams with the necessary market intelligence to define global strategies and new products.
Accountable for the R&D and Technology budget (2.0M USD).
Technical interface with key customers and top accounts in Brazil (Visanet, Redecard/Mastercard, American Express, Unibanco, Bradesco and Ministry of Health). -
Solutions Engineer
Hypercom
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; HYC; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2000 — March 2004 (3 years 6 months)
Technical responsible for the health business unit in Brazil. Core project was a US$ 42M contract with the Ministry of Health, to implement the National Health Card. Defined the solution architecture and managed the tech teams (50+ people) during the development and deployment (including embedded sw, servers sw, networking, quality assurance, 2nd and 3rd level support and training). Was the key technical interface with the Ministry of Health and the strategic partners (Sun Microsystems, Oracle and CISCO). This project defined the standards for the Ministry of Health information systems and implemented the core health information infrastructure. This infrastructure comprehended a nationwide network, the biggest national identification database with 90M+ records and the software standards and interfaces for new solutions and integrations. Presented the project in several international events including the JavaOne 2003 where it was awarded with the Duke's Choice Award for Massive Scale.
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CTO / Founder
Singularity Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2002 — 2004 (2 years)
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Web Developer
CETEA
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
January 1996 — January 1998 (2 years 1 month)
In 1997 the center of excellence in food and packaging - CETEA - hired me to prepare and implement their strategy to the Internet. My responsibility was to define their approach to the network and also to design and implement their web portal and an on-line database for materials recycling.
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JAVA Architech
CelPlan
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 1996 — January 1997 (1 year 1 month)
As a JAVA Architect consultant I was responsible to design a solution for two big management systems for one of the biggest telecom carriers in Brazil. The approach to use a JAVA based application trough the network was an innovation at that time. During the project I was responsible for the systems design and also to introduce the company management and engineering teams to the JAVA platform.
Manoel Lemos’s Education
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
MsC, Computer Engineering, 1997 — 1999
Research subject: development of environments for the construction of heterogeneous virtual parallel computers for power systems applications.
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
BS, Computer Engineering, 1993 — 1997
Two Scientific Initiation research projects in the fields of High Performance Computing and Parallel Processing with applications on the fields of power systems and oil engineering.
Network manager at the Department of Electrical Energy Systems (DSEE) with special focus on the distributed computing environment and network security.
Developer of DSEE website, one of th first Brazilian websites., Represented the Computer Engineering school on several swimming and tennis competitions.
Developed the first FAPESP sponsored Linux Cluster laboratory on the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Manoel Lemos’s Interests:
scuba diving, entrepreneurship, new technologies, mobility, spacial technology, P2P, java, gaming, biotechnology, information security, web services, ajax, ruby on rails, payment solutions, mmorpg, traveling, music, web2.0, social media, algorithms, agile methodologies and sharks
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Manoel Lemos’s Honors:
- Duke's Choice Award - Massive Scale Award - Awarded at the JavaOne 2003 for the National Health Card Project.
- Hypercom Moments of Truth Award 2005
- Hypercom Moments of Truth Award 2006 (2 editions)
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