Thomas Lopes

Thomas Lopes

Web Developer and Analyst at Crowds & Clouds

Brazil

Current
Past
  • Web Developer at Linux New Media do Brasil
  • Web Developer at IBM
  • Web Builder (similar to webmaster) at IBM
  • Owner, Analyst and Developer Freelancer at TRC-Design.com
  • IT and Financial Manager at Confecções Pereira Lopes
Education
  • Centro Universitário Senac
Connections
120 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Thomas Lopes’s Summary

Computer Scientist, Application Developer, Database Optimizer, and Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications; Experienced in Client/Server models and relational database design in Web systems using frameworks and also raw languages.

CMS expert, Social Applications Developer and Analyst and Interface designer, creating new social experiences for users.

Thomas Lopes’s Specialties:

Development, Integration and Maintenance in Social Web Applications and Systems, CMS, using frameworks and heavy jQuery (javascript) scripting.

Business Intelligence in text and unustructured data sources.

Interface Development for Web applications; Client Requirements analysis and Solution Engineer. CMS expert, using Joomla and other Content Management Systems.


Thomas Lopes’s Experience

  • Web Developer and Analyst

    crowdsandclouds

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    July 2009Present (5 months)

    Social Web Development, projecting and developing social gadgets for Orkut, Facebook, MySpace and many other social containers; using Django Framework (Python), jQuery (Javascript), BluePrint (CSS), Google AppEngine and Amazon Web Services (S3 e EC2). Also, creating new Social Networks as per clients needs.

    Cloud computing consultancy: application, project,maintenance and migration. Scaling and deploying high availability applications.

  • Web Developer

    Linux New Media do Brasil

    (Publishing industry)

    April 2009July 2009 (4 months)

    General Web Development in a remote Linux environment, using PHP, Javascript, XSL, MySQL and Postgreee Databases. Managing some components and maintaining the magazine portal and e-commerce sites, withe more than 1000000 page views per month. Otimizing databases to support the high load of visitors and users.

    Besides the short time acting in this company, I changed the newsletter systems from HTML hardcoded to a XML-XSL semantic templating one; A Survey test system, using PHP OO and MVC Pattern; Scalable and easy-to-use and maintain; Started a Educational CMS Project using Joomla and the Blogs project of the brazilian department of the company.

  • Web Developer

    IBM

    (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2008April 2009 (1 year )

    Developing content management systems using PHP, XML and CGI, XML/RSS/Atom processors and interfaces, Metrics and Reporting systems, Javascript tools using heavy jQuery coding and GreaseMonkey plugin.

    Developing search engine enhancements, using PHP, XML an Javascript, on specialized local search engine systems.

    Working with Server side maintenance and administration, grep search and replaces techniques, Tutoring command line tricks and Regular Expression rules.

    Working on Artifical Intelligence technologies and research to human interaction through the IBM.com and IBM Intranet sites.

    Developing new Web building tools, focused on easy interaction and exporting, using Flash+XML+PHP+Javascript.

  • Web Builder (similar to webmaster)

    IBM

    (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2007May 2008 (11 months)

    In the IBM.com department (GWPS), developing the IBM.com web
    pages, using XHTML, XML, JSP, CGI and deal with other web
    technologies like web servers and services. Also, contact with clients, around the world, via Sametime IM Client and weekly VoIp
    teleconferences.

    In my spare time here (when I'm not doing the job mentioned above),
    I work (and learn) in an innovation committee focused in Web
    projects (GTT), which efforts brings client can feel solutions and also
    speed-up tools for the entire web builder team. This committee also
    has bi-weekly meetings where teammates can make brainstorms and sharing his innovation ideas.

  • Owner, Analyst and Developer Freelancer

    TRC-Design.com

    (Internet industry)

    February 2002July 2007 (5 years 6 months)

    Contacting clients, developing websites, portals, content management systems, web-based solutions, data maintenance and analysis.

    Also, working with internet service providing, scaled to my client's needs

  • IT and Financial Manager

    Confecções Pereira Lopes

    (Textiles industry)

    May 1999July 2007 (8 years 3 months)

    Starting with Corel Draw and Photoshop arts, I grew up to the IT department, being responsible for all IT needs and solutions.

    I Developed the Corporate website and intranet, using a windows-linux integrated system (MySQL remote databases with MS-Access VBA-coded interfaces) to acomplish with the company growing.

    Developed also some process based on Information management.


Thomas Lopes’s Education

  • Centro Universitário Senac

    Bacharelatto , Computing , 20042008


Additional Information

Thomas Lopes’s Websites:

Thomas Lopes’s Interests:

Computing, Web, Development, Artificial Intelligence, Text Mining, Python, Javascript, XML, Science, Linguistics, Fiction, Poetry, Innovation, Internet, Social Media and applications, OpenSocial, Cloud computing,

Thomas Lopes’s Groups:

Brazilian Association of Web Masters and Designers (ABRAWEB), ONG Sol Que Brilha (Itapevi/SP)

  •    Agile Project Management
  •    Python Community
  •    DataShaping Advanced Analytics
  •    Machine Learning Connection
  •    Web 2.0 Development
  •    OpenSocial
  •    jQuery
  •    Text Analytics
  •    Javascript
  •    Centro Universitário Senac - Computer Science
  •    Artificial Intelligence Researchers, Faculty + Professionals
  •    Recommender Systems
  •    Social Applications - Aplicativos Sociais
  •    opensocial in Brazil
  •    Semantic Web Analytics
  •    Scientific Python
  •    Open Source Web Magazine

Thomas Lopes’s Honors:

Finalist in the Info Arena Contest (http://info.abril.com.br/blog/arena/ - opSys project), 2009;

Critical mission course, 9 modules, Intel Next Generation Center certified professional, 1st half 2009;

Scientific article published: "Mineração de Opiniões Aplicada à Análise de Investimentos", WebMedia 2008;

Starting a small big business course, SEBRAE, 30 hours, 2nd half 2008;

JustJava 2008 congressist, SUCESU & SOUJAVA, 30 hours, 70 activities, SENAC Santo Amaro, 2nd half 2008

8th FISL congressist, FIERGS, PoA/RS, 30 hours, 1st half 2007


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