
Business Co-Owner at Core Factor
Portugal

Business Co-Owner at Core Factor
Portugal
Python
Django
Unix
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Currently doing web development in Django+Python for a couple of in-house web projects. Oscillating between having fun and having fits of information overload while learning a bunch of new technologies, including git, trac, nginx and comet+orbited.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
February 2008 — July 2008 (6 months)
I'm a Solution Planner in the IPTV Product Management group.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NSN; Telecommunications industry)
November 2007 — January 2008 (3 months)
I work in the Product Line Manager group for Mobile TV.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NSN; Telecommunications industry)
April 2007 — October 2007 (7 months)
I manage a team of programmers doing software development for our mobile broadcast TV solution (based on DVB-H standard).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — March 2007 (10 months)
I manage a team of programmers doing software development for our mobile broadcast TV solution (based on DVB-H standard).
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Courses taught:
- Sun Java System Access Manager: Configuration and Customization
- Developing Java Web Services
- Architecting and Designing J2EE Applications
- Sun Cluster 3.1 Administration
- Java Programming Language
- Java Programming Language for Non-Programmers
- Sun Java Enterprise System Web Server 6.1: Administration and Maintenance
- Sun Java Enterprise System Communication Services 2004Q2: Administration
- Sun Java Enterprise System Directory Server 5.x: Maintenance & Operations
- Sun Java Enterprise System Installation & Administration
- Sun Java Enterprise System Core Concepts
- Developing Applications for the J2EE Platform
- Veritas Volume Manager Administration
- Shell Programming for System Administrators
- Unix Essentials featuring The Solaris 9 Operating Environment
- Solaris 2.6 System Administration I
- Solaris 2.6 System Administration II
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year )
While working for PsiEngine I was involved in several projects for Allianz (the world's 13th largest company):
- Along with another colleague, I designed and developed a graphical application for workflow management of an Allianz business unit. Tasks included developing the Windows Forms GUI, the business logic and the underlying SQL Server database tables, views, triggers and stored procedures.
- I extended ISIS Fax Server, an application that automatically converts emails to faxes, adding multithreaded communications with a dedicated hardware fax server using the standard ITU T.30 fax protocol.
- I converted and improved an existing web interface for the ISIS Fax Server. The new web interface was developed in ASP.Net with ADO.Net, using strict separation between presentation and business logic. The previous version included ad-hoc SQL statements embedded in the ASP code. In the ASP.Net version, all SQL code was extracted to the database in the form of views and stored procedures.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — December 2003 (1 year )
In preparation of my Masters thesis in computer science, I developed Flema, an automated lemmatizer and conjugator for regular and irregular Portuguese verbs.
Flema was entirely developed in the Python programming language and made extensive use of unit-testing (upwards of 7000 tests).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)
June 1998 — December 2002 (4 years 7 months)
During my period of employment at Sun I worked with a very wide spectrum of technologies and clients. My daily work involved constant use of the Solaris Operating Environment and Sun Sparc Systems. I came in contact with most of Sun's systems and storage solutions and worked extensively with RAID management software such as Veritas Volume Manager and Solstice Disk Suite (now Solaris Volume Manager). My main area of expertise was High Availability, with an emphasis on failover solutions for Oracle and Sybase databases and other services, using Sun Cluster software. I was also the national driver for the implementation of Sun Remote Services, the Sun solution for comprehensive real-time system monitoring.
I had extensive contact with several major portuguese companies, including but not limited to the following:
Vodafone, TMN, Optimus, PTM, PT Prime, ONI, Edinfor, IT-Log, BES, BES Trading, CGD, ANA, Alcatel, IIES, OGMA, Terravista, Alcatel, EDS, REN, DCSI, Expresso, Capital and HPP
June 1998 — December 2002
During my period of employment at Sun Portugal, I attended the following courses:
* Daktari Installation, Administration and Troubleshooting
UK - 2002
* Sun Enterprise Serengeti Server Maintenance
UK - 2002
* Sun Remote Services 2.2 for Drivers
UK - 2002
* Sun Cluster 3.x Concepts and Installation
Belgium - 2002
* Advanced Sun Cluster 2.x
UK - 2000
* Sun Remote Services 2.0 Installation Training
Germany - 2000
* Introduction to Netscape Server 4.15
CA, USA - 2000
* Sun StorEdge T300 Maintenance
UK - 2000
* Sun Enterprise E10000 Server Maintenance
UK - 2000
* Sun Enterprise Ex000 & Ex500 Server Maintenance
UK - 1999
* Solaris 7 - TCP/IP Network Administration
UK - 1999
* Sun Enterprise Cluster 2.2 Maintenance
UK - 1999
* Sun StorEdge A3x00 & A1000 Maintenance
UK - 1999
* Sun StorEdge A5000 & Volume Manager Maintenance
UK - 1999
* Customized Solaris 2.6 System Administration I & II
Portugal - 1999
Post-graduate Studies in Informatics , Computer Science , 2000 — 2001
Average Grade: 17 out of 20
Classes:
Object Oriented Programming (17/20);
Natural Language Interaction (19/20);
Natural Language Processing (16/20);
Neural Dynamics (19/20);
Neural Computation (16/20);
Distributed Fault Tolerance (16/20);
Security and Trust in Information Systems (15/20);
Software Development Processes (14/20).
Physics 1988 — 1997
High School , 1987 — 1988
I lived in the lovely island of Bornholm, Denmark for one year as an AFS exchange student. I studied at the island's only highschool, Bornholms Amts Gymnasium, located in Rønne. It was a wonderful year, and I returned to Portugal deeply impressed both by the quality of the teaching in this small provincial highschool and the camaraderie of my fellow students.
Programming languages, natural languages (currently learning Mandarin Chinese), classical music, playing the piano, juggling, swimming. Fluent in Portuguese, English, Danish and French. Passable Spanish, German and Italian. Some Russian, Mandarin Chinese and Swedish.