Sérgio Carvalho

Current

• CTO at Blog.com, Inc.
• CTO at Portugalmail Comunicações, S.A.

Past

• Assistant Professor at Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
• Software Engineer at Critical Software, S.A.
• Junior Software Engineer at Novabase Porto, Lda

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Education

• University of Porto Business School
• Coventry University
• Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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Industry

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Sérgio Carvalho’s Summary

Software engineer, with primary experience in high load/high availability network architecture design and web software development. Interested in user-oriented design of web applications, software development processes and team management.

Sérgio Carvalho’s Specialties:

High-availability internet service design,software integration,software development,web technologies (XML,HTML+CSS,Java,Perl,PHP,Usability).

Sérgio Carvalho’s Experience

• CTO

  Blog.com, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2004 — Present (4 years 10 months)

• CTO

  Portugalmail Comunicações, S.A.

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  December 2001 — Present (6 years 11 months)

• Assistant Professor

  Instituto Politécnico de Bragança

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  October 2001 — March 2004 (2 years 6 months)

  Assistant professor, teching courses in:
  - Algorithmics
  - Introductory Computer Networks
  - Network Protocols
  - Network Design
  - Network Security

• Software Engineer

  Critical Software, S.A.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  Software development position in the area of online payment processing. Responsible for lead design and development.

• Junior Software Engineer

  Novabase Porto, Lda

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Software engineer, involved in feasibility study and software development targeting PDA usage in hospital management software developed by Novabase Porto.

Sérgio Carvalho’s Education

• University of Porto Business School

  Magellan MBA, Management, Economics, 2008 — 2009 (expected)

• Coventry University

  Bsc, Computing, 1999 — 1999

• Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

  Bsc, Computing Engineering, October 1994 — July 1999

  Last semester before internship spent in interchange studies at Coventry University, under the Socrates/Erasmus student exchange program.

  Activities and Societies:

  Founding chairman of the local ACM chapter

Additional Information

Sérgio Carvalho’s Interests:

organizational development, team management, .com business models, web software architecture, soccer, motorsports, ski

Sérgio Carvalho’s Groups:

Association for Computing Machinery

•    PrintScreen Fellowship
•    Universidade do Porto Alumni
•    FEUP Alumni
•    The Star Tracker
•    Magellan MBA Alumni

Sérgio Carvalho’s Honors:

Best student at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, in 1998/99
Three times national champion at the ACM SWERC

Sérgio Carvalho’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch