André Vala Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Pt

Redmond, Washington, Us

Madrid , Es

Chief Architect in the Digital Architectures team and part of the Microsoft Azure Competence Center in Lisbon. Participating in architectural design for solutions of high complexity with a focus on cloud computing, as well as providing guidance for other solution architects in the team.

Pt

Responsible for the overall technology landscape and strategy of Pestana Hotel Group. Oversees all IT department teams, from application development, infrastructure and networking, as well as IT support and enterprise architecture. Budget management, partner management and technology roadmap leadership also part of role responsibilities.

Pt

Head of the Application Development team inside Pestana Hotel Group IT department, composed of several developers (both internal as well as outsourced), project managers, and solution architects. Responsible for enterprise architecture, solution design, and development methodologies and principles. Main focus on Microsoft technologies, namely .Net and Azure.

Madrid, Es

Team Leader for the Office & SharePoint team, delivering projects across Europe, together with elements from other everis offices. Responsible for project pre-sales, solution design, and technical leadership, of a 10-element team, as well as performance reviews and coaching. Participated in a number of engagements and projects for European Union as well as UN organizations.

1700-239, Pt

Office & SharePoint Solutions Team Leader (9 elements).Architect and Development Lead for SharePoint Server-based solutions such as Internet Portals, Intranet Portals, Collaboration Solutions, Search Solutions and Enterprise Content Management, as well as Office 365 / SharePoint Online and Azure-based solutions. Received Microsoft MVP award on January 2016.

1700-239, Pt

Office & SharePoint Solutions Team Leader (6 elements).Development Lead in enterprise integration, Internet portals and collaboration solutions using Microsoft Technologies, mainly SharePoint Server (2007 and 2010), BizTalk Server and custom development.Certified Scrum Master since 2009.

Lisboa, Pt

Design and development of Information Systems that best fit the client's business model using an advanced CASE tool, mostly for Government organizations, using C++, C# and SQL Server.Project management and leadership of the Finance Management Systems team (4 elements).

Lisbon, Pt

Researcher for GAIPS (Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters Group) of INESC-ID, focusing on 3D Game Engines and Educational Software. Writing and presentation of papers for the scientific community.

Azure Databricks For Csas, Data Engineering And Data Science

High Performance Mindset, Recovery & Mindfulness

Strategic Management Program, Business Administration And Management, General

Service Design Experience 2017

Sharepoint Saturday London 2017

Mvp Community Connect Western Europe

Office Dev Day 2017

Sharepoint Saturday Lisbon 2016

European Sharepoint Conference 2016

Microsoft Mvp Summit 2016

Collab 365 Global Conference 2016

Tuga It Conference 2016

Microsoft Mvp Western Europe Open Day

Azure Enterprise Mobility Suite Partner Bootcamp

European Sharepoint Conference 2015

Collab 365 Global Conference 2015

Microsoft Developer Tech Refresh 2015

Microsoft Web Camp

Efficient Communication And Comercial Behaviour

Windows Azure Iaas

Office App Camp

Windows 8 - Building Metro Style Applications

Non-Violent Communication

Efficiency And Team Management Course

Certified Scrum Master

Asp.Net 3.5, Ajax And Silverlight

Microsoft Performancepoint 2007

Microsoft Biztalk 2006

Microsoft Sql Server 2005 And Visual Studio .Net 2005

Msdn Future Talk 2005 (Asp.Net 2.0)

Isv Touchdown – Microsoft Sql Server 2005 For Developers

Msc, Computer Science

Undergraduate, Computer Engineering

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