Susana Cabaço

Team Manager for OBS BSS CSD APAC TopUp & Care Competence Center at Nokia Siemens Networks

Portugal

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Education
  • Creativity Consulting Services
  • PMI - Project Management Institute
  • Learning Tree International
  • Learning Tree International
  • FCT/UNL
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Susana Cabaço’s Summary

Works on projects consisting on the development middleware services for interactive television over IP (IPTV). These involve mainly J2EE technology, with persistence support provided by Oracle and PostgreSQL DBMS.

Always interested in Web Application Development (using either JSP and ASP at the frontend). This has been the area of most expertise for several years (including usage of Microsoft technology as well).

Particular interest on the development and coordination of projects related with multimedia content processing, particularly video and automatic generation of interactive interfaces.

Also interested in using technology in the development of several social services in areas like sports, healthcare or tourism.

Susana Cabaço’s Specialties:

Programming:
* Java, C++, VB, C
* XML, XSchema, XSL
* (X)HTML, JavaScript, PHP, VBScript

Dev. Platforms/Frameworks/APIs:
* J2EE, Apache Struts, Cocoon, COM, Axis, Xerces, XMLBeans

Design, Analysis & Dev. Tools:
* Eclipse, IBM WSAD, Visual Studio, Oracle Suite, Rational Rose

DBMS's:
* SQLServer 2000, Oracle, MySQL, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL

Web/App Servers
* Microsoft IIS, Apache Tomcat and HTTP Server, Orion, JBoss

Version control
* Visual Source Safe, Perforce, CVS

Susana Cabaço’s Experience

  • Team Manager for OBS BSS CSD APAC TopUp & Care Competence Center

    Nokia Siemens Networks

    (Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

    May 2009 — Present (8 months)

    Besides the usual line/team management tasks, she is also currently responsible for handling requests for estimation and customization projects management within the scope of activity of this CoC.

  • Line Manager

    Nokia Siemens Networks

    (Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

    March 2009 — May 2009 (3 months)

    Currently responsible for a team of 13 elements working at OSS/BSS Product Customization for charge@once solutions, namely VoMS (Voucher Management System) and TopUp (VoMS substitute).

  • Line Manager

    Nokia Siemens Networks

    (Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

    February 2007 — February 2009 (2 years 1 month)

    Responsible for a team of 14 people working for different projects within the scope of IPTV middleware.
    Manages every team member's personal and professional needs, plans and assigns different kinds of tasks.
    Provides technical and technological project support to different teams and feature coordinators.
    Assists in project planning and management tasks.
    Incorporates a Systems Analysis Experts Group for quick solution finding and problem solving during involving pre-release fixes.

  • Feature Coordinator

    Siemens Networks - Home Entertainment (HE)

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2006 — June 2007 (10 months)

    Responsible for a context specific team of 7 elements, reviewing functional specification documentation, producing and reviewing design specification documentation.
    Provides task planning, distribution and activity follow up for this team but is still dedicated to development tasks.

  • Software Developer

    Siemens Networks - Home Entertainment (HE)

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    January 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 4 months)

    Software development: middleware for Home Entertainment Solution, specifically dealing with the backend server.
    Technology: J2EE (mostly EJBs), Oracle and PostgreSQL, Perforce

    Is also integrated company's strategic innovation work packages, regarding research projects.

  • Assistant Teacher

    EST/IPS

    (Higher Education industry)

    April 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 10 months)

    Taught several subjects more from a laboratory class perspective, namely introduction to programming, data structures and algorithms (all using the Java programming language), database modeling and querying (base engine was Oracle), web applications development and deploying, pattern recognition, operating systems and architecture.
    During this period was also responsible for developing, organizing and implementing a set of short technical courses covering areas from web design to productivity tools usage, together with a group of colleagues from the same research workgroup - MaDLabs.
    Together with MaDLabs (Multimedia and Database Laboratories), several projects were thought of and put into practice, leading to final major projects for several students, published articles for several conferences and magazines (national and international) within the group's scope of activity.
    One of these projects even brought the group a prize from the local Rotary Club.

  • Teacher

    FUP

    (Higher Education industry)

    2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

    Volunteered to teach object oriented programming at UNTL (East Timor National University) for a period of two months (equivalent to one semester due to the more intensive number of classes taught during a week).

  • Assistant Consultant

    Accenture

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2001 — 2003 (2 years )

    Consultant and web developer in projects related with public administration (ESF and national Police).
    Technology used was mostly microsoft based for the ESF related project (SQLServer 2000, ASP, COM +, VBScript). Visual Interdev was the IDE used for this project.
    Oracle Designer was used for the data modeling task.
    For the national police project, the developed information system was based in Java technology, mainly J2EE EJBs, JSPs, and a Java based proprietary framework similar to Apache Struts for web application development. DB2 was the chosen DBMS, and the IDE was WSAD.

Susana Cabaço’s Education

  • Creativity Consulting Services

    2009 — 2009

    Preparation for the PMI (Project Management Institute) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

  • PMI - Project Management Institute

    PMP , Project Management , 2009 — 2009

  • Learning Tree International

    Java Enterprise, Edition 5 - Integrating JSF, EJB3 and JPA 2008 — 2008

    * Architect, develop, deploy and secure enterprise applications with Java EE 5
    * Utilize the JavaServer Faces (JSF) event-driven architecture to build rich user interfaces
    * Manage transactions and application security using annotations and XML
    * Effectively build business logic using Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3
    * Integrate the Java Message Service (JMS) into applications with Message Driven Beans (MDB)
    * Achieve high-performance data persistence with Java Persistence API (JPA)

  • Learning Tree International

    Building Java Enterprise Applications with Design Patterns 2008 — 2008

    * Architect Java EE applications using industry-recognized best practices
    * Create flexible and powerful designs for core business logic
    * Design a data layer that manages transactions and optimizes queries
    * Centralize control logic in the Web presentation tier using Java EE patterns
    * Compare the designs of popular Java EE frameworks and choose the right one for your projects
    * Build software that can evolve in response to changing requirements

  • FCT/UNL

    MsC , Multimedia Content Personalization , 2002 — 2005

    Nothing much new about the people and the teachers after studying here for 5 years :)
    Still, a different relation and more mature after some time in the professional world, and still with many things to learn!

    Activities and Societies:
    Became member of IMG (Interactive Multimedia Group), where my MsC prototype and thesis were developed. Got the chance to participate in some conferences, publish several articles not only in these conferences but also in some well known magazines.

  • FCT/UNL

    Major , Computer Science , 2001

    Great school, with great teachers and a very close team spirit between colleagues not only from my class, but from former and later years. My best friends came from this place!

    Activities and Societies:
    Students' representative in 2000-2001 school year, organized first Technology Week in 1998 together with one more colleague

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Susana Cabaço’s Interests:

new technology, reading, sports (outdoors: inline skating, karting, snorkeling, scuba diving, etc. indoors: body kombat, gap, rpm), music, cinema

Susana Cabaço’s Groups:

PMI (Project Management Institute)
MaDLabs (Multimedia and Database Laboratories at EST/IPS), IMG (Interactive Multimedia Group at FCT/UNL)

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  •    Nikon Photo Group

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