Joao Albuquerque Email & Phone Number

Napier, NZ

Napier, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

• MetOcean Solutions is the marine branch of MetService NZ. It is a science-based consultancy that offers specialist numerical modelling and analytical services in meteorology and oceanography. Their high quality.
• Collaborate with the team to find solutions for complex projects
• Implement and run nearshore model simulations to assess long wave agitation in ports, and surf break changes due to adjacent structural upgrade/refurbishment or channel dredging
• Simulate particle dispersion for wastewater treatment
• Simulate historical and synthetic tropical cyclones
• Ship route analysis

Auckland, New Zealand

• – Responsibilities:
• To extend the hindcast data on the wave climate of New Zealand
• To publish a study on this hindcast on a peer reviewed journal– Achievements:
• Extended the New Zealand hindcast in 7 years (1993–2012 to 1993–2019)
• Submitted a publication on the present wave climate of New Zealand
• Submitted a publication on the projected changes on New Zealand's wave climate due to global warming

Auckland, New Zealand

• – Achievements:
• Tutored students for the "Discovering environmental modelling" (ENVSCI-203)
• Performed all tutoring sections and marking using remote learning tools

Auckland, New Zealand

• PhD. Student supervised by Professor Giovanni Coco (UoA), Professor Fernando J. Méndez (UC) and Senior lecturer Colin Whittaker (UoA). The PhD project consisted in generating and analising past and projected wave.
• Collaborated with other researchers that used the outcomes of my research
• Collaborated with fellow PhD colleagues helping them solve their problems in their PhD research
• Analysed New Zealand’s wave climate projections and historical simulations (1987–2006, 2031–2051 and 2081–2100) from different global climate models (GCMs) and emission scenarios
• Made available online the wave climate projections (2031–2051 and 2081–2100) for New Zealand
• Downscaled New Zealand wave climate projections and historic simulations for three timeslices (1987–2006, 2031–2051 and 2081–2100) using data from three different GCMs under two different emission scenarios

Auckland, New Zealand

• – Achievements
• Tutored for "Coastal and Marine Studies" (GEOG-351)
• Conducted fieldwork activities and assignements with the students

Auckland, New Zealand

• – Achievements:
• Tutored students for the "Discovering environmental modelling" (ENVSCI-203)

Santander, Cantabria, Spain

• Training stay at Universidad de Cantabria (Santander, Spain) with the GeoOcean research group and professor Fernando J. Méndez– Achievements:
• Automatization of the procedure for directional wave height calibration
• Prepared code to filter satellite date within a specific area and period of time
• Improved skills for running the SWAN wave model
• Attended to seminars for data mining techniques, hybrid approach for downscaling waves to coastal areas and weather types

Santander, Cantabria, Spain

• Training stay at Universidad de Cantabria (Santander, Spain) with the GeoOcean group and professor Fernando J. Méndez– Achievements:
• Worked on codes to read and work with netcdf satellite data
• Learned to run the SWAN wave model
• Made operational a synthetic Tropical Cyclone generation modelTraining stay at Universidad de Cantábria, working with satellite data and learning statistical/dynamical downscaling techniques.

Curitiba Area, Brazil

• Federal University of Paraná is arguably the first university of Brazil and It is placed as the eighth best university in the country. – Achievements
• Lectured Algorithms & Programming (C and Python), as well as Numerical Methods to Civil and Cartographic Engineering students
• Prepared material for lectures, assignments and exams

Curitiba Area, Brazil

• Pontific Catholic University of Paraná was founded in 1959 and it is placed as the 30th best university in the country and the third best private university of Brazil.– Achievements:
• Teached Computer Theory, Compilers, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, and Programming for Engineering, Computer Science and Biotechnology students
• Wrote the teaching material, slides, tests and assignments for all courses
• Defined the topics to be included/removed from the Algorithms and Compilers courses during the curriculum update in 2014

Curitiba Area, Brazil

• This was a company I founded with a business partner to build and sell houses in Curitiba - Brazil.– Responsibilities:
• Project management
• Financial management
• Development supervision– Achievements:
• Managed the building process providing all the materials in time
• Managed the budget and contracts during all the construction stages

• – Achievements:
• Performed stock trading based on technical analysis approach
• Managed the accounting for all trades
• Increased finantial assets

• – Responsibilities:
• Gather and analyse requirements with stakeholders for internal and external projects
• Design and implement systems and solutions aligning recent scientific contributions with business/clients needs
• Provide support and maintain SIMEPAR’s servers and production systems, which are implemented in a wide range of programming/scripting languages (Python, CSH, BASH, Fortran, Java, etc. ) and OS’s (Linux, Unix and Windows)
• Provide support for SIMEPAR’s system’s users– Achievements:
• Interacted with stakeholders gathering requisites and with SIMEPAR’s scientific and technical teams to develop a system to calculate soil-moisture balance throughout Brazil

• – Responsibilities:
• Provide IT support to SIMEPAR researchers and staff
• Maintain and support all the systems and servers that run in a 24/7 schedule– Achievements:
• installed/compiled and tested several atmospheric models on Linux clusters and SGI servers.
• Maintained many of SIMEPAR’s systems and servers up and running
• Migrated all SIMEPAR workstations from Windows to Linux

Curitiba Area, Brazil

• – Responsibilities:
• Provide IT support to SIMEPAR researchers and staff
• Maintain and support all the systems and servers that run in a 24/7 schedule– Achievements:
• Configured and tuned SIMEPAR's AVHRR image reception system (Image Ingest host and Antenna Control host)
• Automated AVHRR image processing and products dissemination on a Unix and Windows environment
• Improoved Windows/Linux conectivity for SIMEPAR's projects

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physical Oceanography

Master, Performance Analysis

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Bachelor, Computer Science