Business English (Beginner, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate and Advanced)

PROFESSOR ACTIVITY• Education, Evaluation and Technologies (Web teaching, ELearning pedagogy, Forums, Web 2.0, Blogs, Moodle, Assessment practices, Mobile learning)• Decision Support Systems (Case studies)• Multimedia Programming (Communication and Media, Video games, Photography, 2D-3D animation, Social Networks, HTML 5, Scratch 2.0, Adobe Fireworks, Processing 2.0, Adobe Flash)• E-Commerce (Internet marketing, Revenue models, Mobile infrastructure, Usability, Personalization, Supply chain and customer relationship management, E-procurement, Web site design and implementation with shopcreator.com and facebook.com)• Advanced Internet Development (JQuery, Open GIS & KML, CSS & SASS, Google+, SSL & Web security, XML, Web services, SQL injection & XSS)• Professional Management Technology (Auditing information systems, IT Governance, Management of Event/Incident/Catalog/Desk/Portfolio/Deployment /Availability/Capacity issues)• Computer Networks (LAN/MAN/WAN Networking technologies, OSI/TCP-IP layers, Application services such as DNS, DHCP, WINS, NAT/PAT, Mail, HTTP and FTP, Java TCP/UDP programming, P2P, Subnet and VPNs, Internetwork design, IOS CISCO Packet Tracer emulator, WireShark sniffer)• Research Quantitative Methods (Background to research, Survey data, Experimental design and questionnaires, Uni/Bivariate and multivariate statistical analysis)• Calculus I (Quadratics & polynomials, Exponential & logarithmic, Vectors, lines & circles in 2D, Trigonometry, Derivatives & Integrals)• Probabilities and Statistics (MS-Excel & IBM–SPSS: Descriptive statistics, Probabilities and Randomness, Permutations and Combinations, Non-parametric methods, Hypothesis tests and ANOVA, OLS and Logistic regression, Time series, Path/Decision/Cluster/Factor analysis)

To focus on how best to use information technology to meet business objectives in terms of implementation, deployment, development and administration for 19 different projects.

PROFESSOR ACTIVITY• Project Management (Organizational behaviors and structures, Resource allocation and reporting, Cost estimating and budgeting, Leadership, Evaluation and performance, PERT/CPM with MS-Project and OpenProj)• Introduction to Business Statistics (Uni/bivariate descriptive measures, Probabilities, Distributions analysis, Testing hypothesis and confidence intervals, ANOVA and Non-parametric tests, Linear regression and correlation, SPSS software)• Object Oriented Programming (Visual C#)• Open Source Databases (XAMPP)• Urban Geography (SimCity Societies, CrimeStat, SURFER GIS software and Theory on urban development: Globalization, Segregation, Metropolitan demographics, Gentrification, Virtual cities, Poverty and Sustainable development)

PROFESSOR ACTIVITY• SAP R/3 (Introduction to Netweaver, Administration, Logistics, Human Resources and ABAP Programming)• Quantitative Geography (Spatial autocorrelation measures, Spatial autoregression modeling, Deterministic interpolators, Kriging, Simulation, Environmental costs evaluation, Raster image processing, Network and Event analysis)• System Analysis (UML with Sybase Power Design and MS-Visio)• Algorithms and Data Structures (Complexity types, Recursive/Iterative approaches, Trees, Graphs, Sorting, Hashing, Stacks, Queues, Lists, Dynamic programming, Encryption and Compression)• Web Programming (ASP, ASP.Net and PHP within Apache/IIS environments)• Relational Databases (Network-Hierarchical-Relational-Object-Distributed-Parallel DB models, SQL, XML, Hashing vs indexation, Queries optimization, Transactions, Concurrency, Recovery and Study cases: ORACLE, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and DB2)• Information Technology (MS-Access, Fedora Linux - Basics, Administration, Networking and security, Knowledge management and Hardware)• Information Systems Development (Key concepts of development life cycle, Open source, Re-engineering, Prototyping, RAD, RUP, Rich pictures, OOA vs SSADM, CSFs, Extreme programming, Web Information development and ERPs)

PROFESSOR ACTIVITYLocal networking, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access with VBA, PowerPoint, Outlook, FrontPage, Publisher and Windows NT Workstation/Server, Introduction and administration of Digital UNIX, Internet/Firewalls/Intranets concepts, HTML, Java Applets, VRML, Common Gateway Interface, Active Server Pages 3, PHP, JavaScript, VBScript, Internet Information Server and Apache web servers, Hardware, RCTS Operation, Hypermedia concepts, Macromedia Flash, Director, Dreamweaver and Fireworks, ESRI ArcView GIS, Introduction and administration of Open VAX-VMS, Digital Control Language, Low level of transmission protocols via RPCs and Linux (Caixa Mágica and Novell Suse)Professor (ISIG and European University)Operating Systems (History and architectures, Management of processes, CPU and memory, File systems, Networking, Security, Administration, GUIs, System programming and Command line interpreter)Introduction to Computers (Concepts of Management Information Systems, CRM vs SCM, SWOT-PEST analysis, DTS of SQL Server 2000, MS-Access and Digital video)

PROFESSOR ACTIVITYComputer Graphics (Overview of graphics devices, Output primitives, 2D/3D geometric transformations, Fractals, Splines/Bezier curves, Visible-surface detection methods, Illumination and rendering, Animation and Colour models)Management Information Systems (Introduction of MIS/DSS/EIS, Overview of Networking, Expert Systems, Securing IT, Global E-Business, Ethical and Social Issues in IT, Decision theory and modeling)Computer Languages (COBOL, FORTRAN 90, C and PASCAL)

Webmaster of www.ist.utl.pt and ftp.ist.utl.pt.Windows NT administrator.

Accounting/Financial Report

HR Package in Paradox Borland

Retirement Plan project.

Business Plan of Health Care coupon system.

Digital VAX Cluster (9000-410, 6000-440 and 8300).Digital Ultrix VAX Stations.IBM VM/CMS 9370

Login Users Control, a C system code for the VAX/VMS 5.2 (GPA: 19/20)