Ricardo Almeida

Current

• Researcher at INESC Porto
• Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona Porto
• Invited for Board of Advisors at AIESEC

Past

• Instructor at IDIT
• Instructor at IIR Portugal
• Project Manager at SHAMIR Portugal

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Education

• Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
• Universidade de Aveiro
• ANJE - Young Portuguese Entrepreneurs

• Escola de Negócios e Administração (ENA)
• Universidade de Aveiro
• Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique
• Leça da Palmeira

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Ricardo Almeida’s Summary

Being a system analyst and a software development manager, for over 9 years, can be considered as a privilege! And having the opportunity of doing it on one of the best national software houses, I consider it an honor! For over 9 years, I’ve been responsible for a development project (standard software for Production Management) from the beginning, scheduling all phases and getting "hands on it".

Although pressure has become a daily company, I feel that this project has gave me a complete understanding of Project Management, controlling their costs, defining milestones, scheduling all phases and managing teams. At this moment, Manufactor software has been reached a high technology level (offering a complete framework for implementing) and market share, being implemented at more than 120 industries (heading for the leadership of software market for industrial nature).

Studying for a Master Degree has developed my senses for discovering new strategies for industrial environments and systems to support them, and which became important for Manufactor software development’s roadmap. It also teach me that we should never stop studying and sharing our ideas through the world.

Living on a deep sense of mission accomplished I’ve decided, months ago (and following some principles for a “more complete” personal achievements), to integrate on a new career as a Project Manager and IT & PM Consultant, who could spend more time on Investigation (at a part-time schedule). So, at September 2008, I've started a PhD program at MIT-Portugal (EDAM - Leaders for Technical Industries).

Teaching is also a passion! These last 9 years, I've been doing several presentations and technical formations, and I’ve always felt very comfortable with it. I’ve also doing some presentations about Team Management and I’ve been having terrific experiences! I will be always intent for any opportunity for teaching on a part-time schedule (as long it doesn’t affect my main professional goals).

Ricardo Almeida’s Specialties:

- Projects & Team Management
- Business Process Management (specially, for industrial companies);
- Public presentations (software developing practices and team management);
- Object Oriented software development;
- Databases performance tunning (Microsoft SQL Server).

Ricardo Almeida’s Education

• Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

  PhD , MIT Portugal (EDAM - Leaders for Technical Industries) , 2008 — 2011 (expected)

  THESIS THEME: "Flexible information technologies for complex and non-hierarchical supply chain networks"
  
  ABSTRACT:
  This research work will be developed in the scope of a broader research project (FLEXINET) about flexibility and agility in the automotive supply networks. It intends to study how to handle inherent complexity of supply chain networks, allowing companies to manage their visibility, achieving a high level of capacity planning flexibility and management agility; to deal with uncertainty demand and capacity restrictions, all over the extended supply chain network.
  
  As final result, it’s expected to design an innovative information technology infrastructure (service-oriented) to support such an interactive system for supply chain networks, and the needed data model able to increase complexity on network messages, to promote a complete collaborative approach.

• Universidade de Aveiro

  Master of Degree (MSc) , “Gestão de Operações” (Operational Management) , 2005 — 2007

  THESIS THEME: "Orders negotiation supported by production capacity analysis"
  
  ABSTRACT:
  Market evolution has been characterized for a deep growth of "make-to-order" business models since specialization of the customer needs are more and more required. This source, associated to an uncertain demand, compels companies to evaluate and afect its resources constantly (giving up the traditional MRP systems) and to decide for planning techniques that include management capacity restrictions.
  
  Some ERP systems in the market were studied based on some defined criteria and they all presented some gaps in the analysis of repercussions.
  
  During this work a new system for the development of an innovative model of capacities is introduced, with a high level of integration and degree of "nervousness" (subject to any change of its capacity variables), in order to provide the manager with a set of different "views" from its productive capacity.

  Activities and Societies:

  Order negotiation based on the production capacity (analysis of the methodologies and production management tools focusing mainly on order negotiation, analysis of the technological solutions and the development of an innovative capacity model with the ability to react and to analyze repercussions completely).

• ANJE - Young Portuguese Entrepreneurs

  Advanced Project Management 2006 — 2006

  Acquisition and implementation of project management techniques using PMI (Project Management Institute) standard rules, regarding the fundamental knowledge of the necessary quantitative methods for project management.

• Escola de Negócios e Administração (ENA)

  CAP , Pedagogical Training for Trainers (B-Learning) , 2006 — 2006

  The vocational aptitude certification teaches us the best practices to use on formations and other kind of public presentations (since it judges our behavior “on stage”). Nowadays, this certification is an obligator issue for any former which desires to teach in Portugal.
  
  NOTE: B-Learning course.

• Universidade de Aveiro

  Post-Graduated , “Gestão de Operações” (Operational Management) , 2003 — 2004

  Multidisciplinary approach in the context of business and institutional management, both in the products perspective and in service perspective, with particular reference to the models and business procedures in the Digital Economy, integrated in the Information and Knowledge Society. Major focus in the activities of Logistics, Supply Chain Management and decision support systems.

• Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique

  Graduate , “Informática de Gestão” (Information Technology Management) , 1992 — 1997

• Leça da Palmeira

Additional Information

Ricardo Almeida’s Honors:

JUL09. Award of Best PhD student Poster (3rd place) for "Flexible information technologies from complex and non-hierarchical supply chain networks” presented at 1st Annual MIT Portugal Conference - Engineering for Better Jobs, Lisbon, Portugal

JUN09. Poster “Flexible information technologies from complex and non-hierarchical supply chain networks” presented on MIT Portugal stand – Innovation Days 2009, Lisbon, Portugal

OCT07. Paper “Web systems requirements for industrial business” – Minutes of the International Conference IADIS2007, ISBN: 978-972-8924-44-7

JUL07. Poster “Dynamic management of production capacity to guarantee deadlines ordering” – Minutes of the International Conference XCLEEE – X Portuguese - Spanish Conference in Electrical Engineering, Funchal, Madeira; ISBN: 978-972-8822-09-5

JAN07. Paper "Apoio à decisão na gestão dinâmica da capacidade produtiva" presented at CAPSI2006 conference (17-19th January 2007, Aveiro, Portugal, ISBN-13:978-972-789-219-8