Nuno Póvoa

Past

• Operations Manager at Safira
• SysAdmin at Barclays Bank Portugal, PLC.
• Support / SysAdmin at wTVision

• Helpdesk Manager at Texto Editores
• Helpdesk at Enger - Obras Publicas

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Education

• Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• Web Presence
• My Company
• Working the ropes at

Nuno Póvoa’s Summary

Since 2001, I have developed a solid career in both team leadership as well as broadcasting technologies in the IP-TV industry. In addition, I have gained a solid understanding of IT/SI security in the financial services industry. Platform agnostic, I strive to find the most practical solutions to all problems both analytical and technical, regardless of their severity or complexity.

Nuno Póvoa’s Specialties:

Extensive knowledge of digital broadcast technologies, video encoding and network troubleshooting and analysis.

Nuno Póvoa’s Experience

• Operations Manager

  Safira

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2006 — May 2009 (2 years 7 months)

  @ End Client Clix/Sonaecom
  
  Managed an operational team with disparate levels of training in a service delivery and QoS environment for digital broadcast technologies in IPTV.
  
  - Manage the activity of the Systems Operational Team in IPTV services;
  - Develop cost reduction solutions regarding the service's content (Infographics, VoD, Etc);
  - Facilitate multiple teams to improve network and service alarmistics as well as QoS;
  - Project Manager for several in-house software development projects related to alarmistics, QoS and corporate end user support;
  - Involved in the enhancement of the Mpeg2 platform;
  - Involved in the implementation, testing and and enhancement of the Mpeg4 broadcasting platform.
  
  @Safira:
  
  - Planning and deployment of Enterprise 2.0 solutions;
  - Evangelisation of Enterprise 2.0 within the organization.

• SysAdmin

  Barclays Bank Portugal, PLC.

  (Banking industry)

  January 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 10 months)

  Contract position as team leader of operating system rollout in both HQ and branches. Later joined the Network Peripherals Administration team mitigating potential security and operational problems resulting from aforementioned migration, as well as day to day system administration.
  
  - Migration of IT/SI infrastructure (NT/2000 to 2003, NT4WS to WinXP both in HQ's and branches)
  - Monitoring and maintenance of Microsoft SNA and IBM Lotus Notes servers.
  - Domain administration and mitigation of software malfunction due to a "least privileged user" security policy.
  - Implementation and maintenance of Euroclear's settlement system

• Support / SysAdmin

  wTVision

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

  Responsible for the deployment of Corporate TV solutions, broadcast grade infographics and day to day system administration focusing on domain control, email services, database maintenance and high availability audio and video servers.
  
  - Implementation of interactive and corporate tv solutions;
  - Implementation of broadcast grade infographics custom solutions;
  - Broadcast server configuration (high availability audio/video servers);
  - AD/DHCP/DNS/Exhange/Exim administration.

• Helpdesk Manager

  Texto Editores

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

  Contract position as helpdesk manager in the country s largest publisher of educational and multimedia materials.
  
  - Coordination of the helpdesk team;
  - User management (Windows NT Server);
  - Backup management (Veritas);
  - Management of the groups IT equipment.

• Helpdesk

  Enger - Obras Publicas

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Civil Engineering industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

  IT support; implementation and maintenance of the company's first network infrastructure.

Nuno Póvoa’s Education

• Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias

  Management Information Technology

  http://www.grupolusofona.pt/portal/page?_pageid=135,1315318&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Additional Information

Nuno Póvoa’s Websites:

• Web Presence
• My Company
• Working the ropes at

Nuno Póvoa’s Interests:

Network & OS security, video encoding, ip services, management, virtual teams, scrum, cunning solutions, bass guitar, esperanto, mobility, enterprise 2.0.

Nuno Póvoa’s Groups:

prt.sc, KDE

•    International TV Professionals
•    Safira Club
•    KIVA
•    PrintScreen Fellowship
•    IT Specialist (20,000+ Information Technology Professionals)
•    iptv
•    VOD Content
•    Official Boingo Wi-Fi Group
•    Music Professionals

Nuno Póvoa’s Honors:

I consider an honor to be such a calm and centered person; my mind is always clear an focused whenever I'm chewing the car seats and screaming up profanities wile stuck in traffic.

Also: Nominated for best team leader for Safira in 2007

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