Paulo Traça

Current

Founder & CTO at Logical Software

Past

Master Thesis Advisor at Logical Software
Senior Consultant at GFI Internacional
Senior Consultant at Link Consulting

Consultant at Link Consulting

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Education

Scrum Alliance
Universidade de Lisboa
Rumos, SA

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Computer Software

Paulo Traça’s Summary

Paulo Traça is currently the Chief Technical Officer and Project Lead for Logical Software.

Having worked in the IT industry for over 10 years, Paulo has gained experience in various roles, ranging from technical lead for projects in the telecom and banking sector to consultant in J2EE projects, System integration and business application development in companies like Link Consulting, PTSI, TMN and GFI International.

Paulo has expertise's in Enterprise/Web Architectures in the Java / J2EE platform, SOA/Web Services, Code Quality/Best practices, open source tools/libraries, agile development and project management methodologies.

Lately he has been focusing in semantic web and collaborative filtering technologies.

We is also a active member of the Portuguese Java user group (PTJUG), the Scrum user group and the Apache Tapestry web framework. Above all, Paulo is a software geek and hands-on kind of guy.

Paulo holds a Bs. In computer science from the University of Lisbon and is a certified ScrumMaster.

Paulo Traça’s Specialties:

Delivering projects that comply with the client specification and deliver ROI. Enterprise/Web Architecture, Code Quality assurance, best practise's, Agile Development, Java and J2EE platform, System Integration, open source tools/libraries, Groovy, Tapestry, SOA, EDA, web services, web service integration, open source middleware, mentoring and project leadership

Paulo Traça’s Experience

Founder & CTO

Logical Software

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

We are a startup company operating in the Java/ J2EE, Systems Integration, SOA WebService consulting, Collaboration, Trainning and Application Development space, using cutting edge technologies and methodologies, with focus in the Open Source, models and tools.
We focus primarily in technical excellence, and solid engineering of our solutions through the use of the best of breed open source tools and application stacks.

Excellence is Our Core Value.

www.logical-software.com
Master Thesis Advisor

Logical Software

(Computer Software industry)

October 2007 — July 2008 (10 months)

Advisor for a Masters studant on the subject of Tooling for Web development frameworks at School of Science, University of Lisbon
Senior Consultant

GFI Internacional

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 2 months)
Senior Consultant

Link Consulting

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2003 — March 2004 (1 year )
Consultant

Link Consulting

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )

Enterprise systems integration
Portal development

Paulo Traça’s Education

Scrum Alliance

Certified ScrumMaster , 2008 — 2008
Universidade de Lisboa

Lic. , Computer Science , 1995 — 2000

Major in Distributed Systems and Computer Networks

Extra credits in the Computer Science Masters program (courses)

- Mobile Systems
- Fault Tolerant systems
- Computer Security

Activities and Societies:

Workshop on Visualising the Behaviour of Intelligent Networks
( ETAPS - European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software)
Rumos, SA

Sun Certified Java Programmer for Java 2 Platform , 2002