Nuno Veloso

Other Skills:
• UX and usability advocator, Database security & privacy, open source based solutions provider, SQLite.
• iPhone speciﬁc web sites and web applications building with iUI.
• Basic, Pascal, C, Haskell, Prolog, Java.
• UML, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, XSL/XSLT, XQuery.
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Interested by foreign languages and cultures:
- Portuguese , French (mother tongues)
- English (technical advanced user)
- Dutch (independent user)
- Arabic (course level A1 - basic user)
- Galician (course level A2 - basic user)
- Spanish

Nuno Veloso’s Specialties:

• PHP, Perl, in-depth experience with Drupal 5 & 6 (as CMS and framework).
• MySQL, UNIX systems administration experience, web services and web development experience.
• XML-related technologies, algorithms of intelligent web handling.
• Macintosh proﬁcient user for development, advanced LaTeX documents building.

Nuno Veloso’s Experience

Support and Development Engineer

Demotix

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Lead Ambassador (volunteer)

IBM's DB2 Students Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

Team co-ordinator, PM and web developer ; Drupal mentor and technical ar ticles writer about Mac, Perl and DB2.
Main Co-ordinator (volunteer)

Apple Tech Team

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2007 — Present (2 years )

Founder, Events co-ordinator, Webdeveloper, System administrator of an Apple/Mac-related technologies enthusiasts.
Web Developer and Linux Server Administrator
Self Employed (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

• Implementation of several web-based solutions using WordPress, MediaWiki, Drupal and other open source tools.
• UNIX system conﬁguration and administration for production environment.
• Implementation of a collaborative extranet back ofﬁce system for life and health insurance selling platform.
Technical team (volunteer)

Open Source Support Center [CAOS]

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

• Local open source community suppor t and knowledge sharing through pedagogical events such as Linux Installations Par ties (as technical assistant) and LaTeX workshops/courses (as main speaker).
• Organisation of several Computer Sciences-related events (local and international dimension).
• LaTeX, PHP, Drupal, Linux, Mac OS X, web ser vices trainer and consultant.
Intern Researcher

Bang & Olufsen

(Privately Held; Consumer Electronics industry)

July 2009 — July 2009 (1 month)

Conceptual Design and Development of Innovative Products, from a IT and UX Engineer point of view
Lead Developer

BloomIdea

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2008 — June 2009 (11 months)

• Implementation of several web-based solutions using Drupal and other open source tools.
• Development of community and custom Drupal modules.
• UNIX system conﬁguration and administration for web development environment.
• Drupal trainer.
• Co-developer of the largest Portuguese social network.
Junior Researcher

Universidade do Minho, SAPO, ANSOL

(Higher Education industry)

July 2008 — November 2008 (5 months)

SAPO Summerbits scholarship (a Por tuguese version of Google Summer of Code) earned with my Bachelor thesis, a web-based co-operative terminology management tool for translators built with Drupal framework. Publicly presented at the honours opening session and later explained in a workshop at the event SAPO Codebits 2008. The project is actually integrated into the oldest Natural Languages Processing project in Por tugal (Projecto Natura) at Computer Sciences Depar tment, University of Minho.
Director and typographer (volunteer)

CeSIUM (IT degree students group)

(Higher Education industry)

May 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 11 months)

Main responsible of the Info-LESIum, the university’s IT tech/geek newspaper ; built a coffee news-like LaTeX template.

Nuno Veloso’s Education

Engineering College of Aarhus

Summer School , Bang & Olufsen (B&O) - Erasmus Intensive Program , 2009 — 2009

Conceptual design, prototyping and development of innovative products through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration between European students with different technical backgrounds.
Universidade do Minho

Pg.Cert. Specialisation , Computer Science: Language Engineering , 2008 — 2009

Specialisation Languages Engineering:
• Grammatical Engineering (Formal Grammars Algorithms, Language Processing and Speciﬁcation using Grammatical Paradigm).
• Structured Documents Processing (XML, XSL, XQuery, XPath and other XML-related technologies).
• Natural Languages Processing (Algorithms of Intelligent Web, Scripting-robots, Natural Language Theory, Language Speciﬁcation and Cataloguing, Automatic Dictionaries, Taxonomies and Thesaurus Construction).

Activities and Societies:

CeSIUM (IT degree students group), CAOS (Open Source support center), Info-LESIum (University's tech/geek newspaper), IBM DB2 Students Group, Apple Tech Team
Universidade do Minho

B.Eng. , Informatics (IT) , 2004 — 2009

• Computer Science Fields: Programming Languages, Computer Architecture, Computer Networks and Communication, Operating and Distributed Systems, Data Bases, Software Speciﬁcation and Development.
• Basics Engineering Fields: Operational Research, Mathematics, Physics, Systems and Production Engineering.
• Research Proposal: Bachelor thesis (with an average of 18 out of 20), a web-based co-operative terminology management tool (codenamed “GLOBS”) for translators built with Drupal framework.
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2 scholarships:
- A Portuguese Google Summer of Code-like earned with my Bachelor thesis.
- Bang & Olufsen Erasmus Intensive Program, Conceptual Design and Development of Innovative Products

Activities and Societies:

CeSIUM (IT degree students group), CAOS (Open Source support center), Info-LESIum (University's tech/geek newspaper), IBM DB2 Students Group, Apple Tech Team
Universidade do Porto

B.Sc. , nformatic Systems and Networks Engineering , 2003 — 2004

Programming Languages, Linux as development environment, Computational Mathematics.
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Note: attended 1st year.
Sacré-Coeur de Jette

A-Level equivalent , Humanities studies, highlighting for Mathematics and Sciences (Biology, Physics, Chemistry) , 1997 — 2003
Embassy of Portugal in Belgium

A-level equivalent , Portuguese Language and Culture Course , 2003

First-Class Honours.