Susana Vilaça

Current

Web Consultant at Wingman - Consultoria Web

Past

Configuration Management Consultant at Sonaecom
Technology Specialist at Microsoft
Instructor at Projecto FEUP

Instructor at Universidade Júnior
Co-Founder, Human Resources Manager at Núcleo estudantil de Computação Gráfica

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Education

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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Susana Vilaça’s Summary

My professional goals are to make a career as a usability and user experience consultant. My love for technology also makes me want to be involved in building good quality user interfaces, always applying usability concepts.

My other passion is related with agile methodologies as I think they really help improving software quality and project management. Other aspect that is often neglected is requirements management. A good requirements management also helps improve software quality by bringing users a product that meets their expectations.

This three areas (Usability, Agile Methodologies and Requirements Management) are all related and my goal is trying to continuously improve their relationship and make my contribution to the software community.

Finally I have the goal of continuously keep learning and growing independently of where I’m working and even outside my competence areas. I think culture and information are a very powerful tool.

Susana Vilaça’s Specialties:

- usability techniques, requirements analysis, interface development
- C/C++, Java, PHP, XHTML, CSS, SQL, C#

Susana Vilaça’s Experience

Web Consultant

Wingman - Consultoria Web

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

As a Web Consultant at Wingman my job consists on understanding what our clients want and translate those objectives into a pleasing and usable website. I define visually what the site will have, by building a sitemap and how it will look like, by building wireframes.
I'm also involved in creating web marketing strategies for our clients.
Configuration Management Consultant

Sonaecom

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

August 2008 — January 2009 (6 months)

Currently I'm working on SonaeCom as a consultant on the Configuration Management team. This team makes part of the Quality team and has the follwing responsibilities:
- Conducting audits before the product goes to testing and production phases, and whenever its necessary.
- Validating product artefacts and reporting eventual problems.
- Creating new product releases (by request of the project manager) making sure all problems from the previous release were closed.

All these tasks are conducted using the configuration management software Dimensions.
Technology Specialist

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — June 2008 (4 months)

From March 2008 to June 2008 I was a Technology Specialist at Microsoft Portugal. I had the function of exploring leading Microsoft technologies like Windows Server 2008/2003, Hyper-V, and System Center products, like Virtual Machine Manager and Configuration Manager. Also I had the responsibility of building demos of those technologies and present them to Microsoft customers.
Instructor

Projecto FEUP

(Education Management industry)

September 2007 — October 2007 (2 months)

From September 2007 to October 2007 I was a tutor in Projecto FEUP. This project aims at improving the integration and learning of students in their first year in college. Teams of 6/7 people are formed and they are assigned a subject, which they must develop by making a report and presentation. In this project I was responsible for 3 teams and my main function was to guide them in their work.
Instructor

Universidade Júnior

(Education Management industry)

July 2007 — July 2007 (1 month)

On July 2007 I was a tutor in Universidade Júnior. Universidade Júnior is a project of the Universidade do Porto for youngsters with ages between 11 and 18, and is held during July. In this experience I was responsible of teaching to 13/14 year old teenagers a tool from Google called Google Sketchup and I was also responsible for them during their stay in the campus.
Co-Founder, Human Resources Manager

Núcleo estudantil de Computação Gráfica

(Computer Games industry)

February 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 4 months)

From February 2006 to May 2007 I was Human Resources Manager at NeCG. I was responsible for the recruitment of new members and also for explaining them the NeCG's goals and mission. During this experience I participated actively on the organization of several events which main objective was to divulge NeCG.

Susana Vilaça’s Education

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Masters , Computer Engineering , 2003 — 2008

Dissertation titled "Human Computers Interaction's Role on Geographical Information Systems", 2008

Activities and Societies:

Núcleo Estudantil de Computação Gráfica