Rafael Leite

Current
  • IT Manager at Knowtec
Past
  • Consultant at Kybeidos
  • Instructor at VOffice / Globalcode
  • Project Manager at Cetil
  • Consultant at Inside System
  • Team Leader / Developer at Data Medical
  • Systems Analyst at Softplan
  • Project Leader at Solvo Consulting
Education
  • Estácio de Sá
  • Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Connections
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
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Rafael Leite’s Experience

  • IT Manager

    Knowtec

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2007Present (2 years 3 months)

    Management of the Competitive Inteligence and Digital Communication IT teams.

  • Consultant

    Kybeidos

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2007August 2007 (7 months)

    Architect and developer helping to maintain and evolute a post sale application of a German company. The official language is English and the activities are performed in Florianópolis/SC – Brazil.
    Applied Technologies: J2EE (JSF) and Hibernate.

  • Instructor

    VOffice / Globalcode

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2005June 2007 (2 years )

    Instructor of “Java Academy”, a SCJP leader preparation course in Brazil.
    Florianópolis, SC - Brazil – 128 hours of duration.

  • Project Manager

    Cetil

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Government Administration industry)

    May 2005February 2007 (1 year 10 months)

    Project Manager [04/2006 – 02/2007]: Managed the development and support of the internal applications; involved in the definition of the development process (based on RUP) and the process of managing the internal requests.
    Applied Technologies: RUP, MS Project.

    Architect [11/2005 – 04/2006]: Helped to plan and design the architecture of the new generation of products, using a SOA approach and relying heavily in design patterns; designed and implemented Java components; defined and configured the application server structure; technically supported the development team.
    Applied Technologies: UML, JSF, J2EE, J2SE 5, JBoss, Hibernate and JSF.

    Systems Analyst [05/2005 – 11/2005]: Gathered software requirements and specified the use cases of the software; significantly contributed to the software architecture and to the development process.
    Applied Technologies: UML, RUP and J2EE.

  • Consultant

    Inside System

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2005December 2005 (5 months)

    Major role in the definition of technologies of a Human Resources web application (built to collect and process data relative to the worker’s skills). Defined the application architecture, implemented some components and most of the code snippets (built to help the rest of the team with the programming task). Gave support to the programmers helping them to solve the problems faced during the development of the application.
    Applied Technologies: J2EE (Servlets and JSP), Struts, Tiles, Hibernate and Oracle.

  • Team Leader / Developer

    Data Medical

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    May 2004May 2005 (1 year 1 month)

    Gathered the software requirements with the customers; defined the solution along with the business analyst; leadership and coaching of the development team; significant contribution with the software programming. The system was built to manage networks of professionals, clinics and hospitals of private health insurance companies.
    Applied Technologies: J2EE (Servlets, JSP, Session and Entity Beans), Struts, Tiles, Oracle, Hibernate and UML

  • Systems Analyst

    Softplan

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 2002May 2004 (2 years )

    The role required skills from Java web development to business knowledge, including database and UML modeling. Close contact with the customers to gather the software requirements and to make sure the systems meet the business needs (post sale). Actively working with the internet research group to identify technologies that best fit into the business needs.
    Regarding technology, it was a great experience because I had the opportunity to see the company get serious about enterprise technologies: they were developing web applications using “Model 1” (pure JSP) and when I left we were using “Model 2” (Struts) + EJBs.
    Applied technologies: Java, JSP, Struts, Tiles, Ant, iText, Hibernate, JDBC/SQL (SQLServer), Tomcat.

  • Project Leader

    Solvo Consulting

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2000September 2001 (1 year 9 months)

    Project Leader of the Development Division. Duties: identify the project’s requirements, calculate the effort to build the systems, plan the solutions, lead and coach the team and make sure the projects were successful, which included a lot of programming.
    It was a great experience: this was my first full-time job and I had an opportunity to become the Project Leader within 6 months. It meant a lot of pressure and responsibility, which made me grow very fast when it comes to corporate issues.
    Had very close contact with the customers to identify the software requirements and to plan the solution, since the applications were tailor made.
    All the three applications were built in ANSI C++, relied heavily on IPCs (shared memory, message queues, sockets), used a lot of multi-thread and multi-process synchronization and communication, and were compiled in AIX, Linux and HP-UX.
    Applied technologies: C++, OO, Java, XML/SOAP, threads, IPCs, sockets and X.25.


Rafael Leite’s Education

  • Estácio de Sá

    Postgraduation , Project Management (PMBoK) , 20072009

  • Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

    Bachelor , Computer Science , 19951999


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