Alexandre Carvalho, Phd. Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Australia

The role includes:- Gathering stakeholders requirements involving business values attached to development goals, and the shape and scope of the system that the code is part of;- Writing Functional and Object-Oriented Python programming code to attend projects’ requirements and specifications, following best practices form for reliable, maintainable and efficient code;- Debugging and writing code to support data scientists and analysts, converting Jupyter notebook projects into reproducible, versioned, maintainable and automated pipelines for production environment;- Development of Python utils libraries for processing, unit, integration and validation testing tasks;- Containerisation of services (processing tasks, pipelines and applications) seeking isolation of environments, efficient use of resources, dependencies management, reliability and scalability;- Cloud development on GCP and AWS, setting up resources, APIs, IAM roles/profiles, alerts/notifications, triggers (Lambda/Cloud Functions), schedulers/orchestrators for pipeline processing tasks and applications with managed and serverless services;- Use of source control systems for code versioning practices (Github, Bitbucket) and container registry services (GCR and Docker hub);- Development of exploratory NLP project/app as part of a mental health survey about Covid and employment (NSW Government) for a range of Natural Language Understanding tasks (Keyword Extraction, Sentiment Analysis and Semantic Search) using RoBERTa and other transformers (main technologies: Python, UMAP, HDBSCAN and Streamlit - UI); - Sentiment analysis classification of review on Trustpilot and other forums (main technologies: Python, Requests, BeautifulSoup, Google Cloud Natural Language, Scattertext and Tableau for UI);- Text data mining with text vectorisation to analyse comments and reviews (main technologies: Python, TF-IDF vectoriser, SpaCy and ScatterText - UI.

Sydney, Australia

4impact.co is an advanced analytics consultancy offering advice and expertise with customised solutions helping businesses growing smart, strategic and strong. - Working with senior clients to develop creative opportunities and solutions to support decision-making processes;- Development of Optimisation algorithm for vehicle routing problem (main technologies: Python and Google Operations Research tools);- Development of restful APIs with Python Flask and cloud deployments on AWS;- Modifying pre-built algorithms to include customised solutions;- Packaging up applications on Docker containers;- Setting up SQL and NoSQL databases on AWS (MySQL, MongoDB,..);- Processing and analysing data to develop business intelligence insights with spatial and non-spatial data for operations, market, customers and competitors;- Geocoding and mapping data, developing interactive analysis, maps, visualisations and dashboards;- Development of supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning algorithms for regressions and classifications tasks/analysis with Python.

Sydney, Australia

Service focused on assisting construction companies solving engineering and management problems.The role included: Assistance implementing commercial and residential construction projects in structural steel; Assistance developing tailored engineering solutions to meet demands and achieve deliverables in the fabrication and installation of structural steel projects;Liaison with internal project managers on project requirements.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Spatial planning consultancy providing research, data analysis, inputs, advice and mapping services to support the decision making of environmental and engineering projects (e.g. suitability analysis, location intelligence research, property/site research for engineering projects and new undertakings such as urban development, housing, waste planning and management, transport infrastructure, protected areas, compliance, etc.).The role included: - Data manipulation, analysis, management and visualisation of spatial and non-spatial datasets including 2D and 3D modelling;- Remote sensing and image classification;- Data processing and transformation of Shape, Json and GeoJson files;- Development of reports, maps, spatial analysis and cartographic products to aid the decision-making of urban planning, housing and environmental permits; - Transformation, integration and translation of spatial data (including CAD drawings);- Maintenance of database for spatial data;- Development of spatial analysis, technical documents and proposals for stakeholders;- Image georeferencing, and digitising of maps and satellite images; - Operation and maintenance of the GIS system’s hardware, software, and peripherals;- Editing of clients and providers data, and organisation of projects data files;- Development of analytics solutions in collaboration with other internal/external professionals;- Management of relationships with existing and potential clients;- Main technologies: ArcGIS and Python.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Engineering company focused on planning, building and managing structural steel projects for big-box retail stores on the whole Brazilian territory. The role included: - Guidance and counselling of the company owner;- Management of client relationships and expectations throughout the project;- Collaboration and negotiation with key stakeholders in defining project scope boundaries;- Risks management, reporting and monitoring of project deliverables and resources;- Negotiation with third-party logistics on the delivery of their commitments;- Collaboration in the development of a forecasting model in order to effectively manage and schedule resources;- Working on multiple projects, gathering requirements from business stakeholders;- Coordination with client management and project team to identify and meet project objectives;- Leading internal project teams to achieve project defined milestones and deliverables; - Construction of 16 large department stores for key accounts (2 of the top biggest chain of fashion retail clothing stores in Brazil - C&A and Lojas Pernambucanas); - Development of critical enhancements in the operations process that enabled the business model to scale up its operations for both planning, project execution (fabrication and install) and logistics;- Implementation of technological and management changes to the construction process that resulted in a reduction of around 23% of the operations time and in an increase of around 17% in the revenue per project.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Scholarship holder at a Sustainability and Spatial Planning Research Group focused on providing high-level technical advice to support spatial development actions and strategic decision makings for Brazilian authorities, engineering industries, local governments, and councils (spatial, statistical and suitability analysis for several development intentions, projects and plans, such as housing; airports; landfills and waste disposal; transport infrastructure; city master plans; regional plans and strategies for transport, tourism and economic development; and etc.). The role included: - Development of tailored processes and systems to support decision making driven by spatial and non-spatial data; - Development of research projects, technical documents, papers, reports, proposals and presentations related to sustainability and decision making systems of development intentions;- Provided sustainability planning and GIS training, support and technical guidance on systems and processes to the planning authorities of the city of Brotas (São Paulo state);- Tutoring and development of learning activities for the Environmental Licensing discipline offered to the last term of Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree at São Carlos Engineering School – University of São Paulo;- Contribution to plan-making and development intentions exploring opportunities to integrate sustainability and GIS capabilities within broader strategies;- Data manipulation, analysis, management and visualisation of spatial datasets including 2D and 3D modelling; - Compilation of data for statistics to incorporate into documents and reports;- Consult with external stakeholders to access censuses, fieldwork, satellite and aerial imagery, and maps;- Image georeferencing; - Transformation, integration and translation of spatial data (including CAD drawings); - Liaison with private and public technical authorities.

Machine Learning

This course provided a broad introduction to machine learning, data mining, and statistical pattern recognition. Topics included: (i).

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Engineering Sciences, 5/5

Activities and Societies: - Member at International Association for Impact Assessment - IAIA; - Member at study group in environmental.

Bachelor’S Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

São Paulo State University (UNESP) is one of the largest and most important Brazilian universities. This course covered, among other.