Josue Edgar Afonso Pinheiro Dias Folgado Email & Phone Number

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

Responsibilities: Leadership Management –• Overseeing and understanding the financial objectives and actual performance• Provide forecasts of performance and meet the company’s financial objectives• Be the bridge with key partners, work to join solutions and services and drive innovation Client Service & Account Management –• Manage profitability for clients, including account retention and staff billability• Lend support and direction to help individuals and teams realize their full potential while ensuring profitability, growth and creativity to technology clients• Develop, manage and grow relationships with global partners New Business –• Drive significant growth of the digital transformation solutions and services offered• Respond directly to new business opportunities• Play a leadership role in building Scorpion Circle’s business into a top-tier worldwide offering • Be omnipresent in the market and promote Scorpion Circle’s digital transformation solutions in the marketing, SEO, Content Marketing, and Social Media offerings • Plan and effectively execute new business strategies for the company• Collaborate with other business leads to set strategies in order to meet both internal and external goals, integrate and drive best results People Development –• Oversee, lead and manage the performance of the teams across multiple locations• Sustain the company’s growth by attracting and selecting staff • Develop people through coaching, mentoring, and active team leadership• Further establish culture and practice vision in a positive way • Inspire other senior leaders, cultivate and retain large, cross-functional teams• Act as a thoughtful and engaging leader – provide opportunities to develop core skills and feedback • Act as a mentor and champion of the team members, encouraging a high level of strategic thinking and creativity while providing guidance on daily activities• Lead by example as a self-motivated learning machine

Lisbon, Portugal

Duties:• Blog founder• All cloud setups and configurations• Setup and ongoing configuration to manage minimal resources and still be able to deliver content. This I do multiple times a day and makes changes to PHP, etc., test if better, if so then I apply those upgrades and back to production• All development• *** We have a production server on the AWS Cloud and a development server on the Google Cloud. I manage all migrations carefully planned again knowing the server has minimal available resources.• Most image and video editing• Daily content contributor• Working with other contributors, co-administrator, plan day ahead, divide tasks, updates, etcTarget to find and provide the best possible information and links that can help others, hopefully help save lives.This COVID-19 blog is mostly in English but also has Portuguese, Spanish, French and German content, feel free to visit it at https://covid19blog.joshfolgado.com.

Duties:• Consult to international small/medium companies on best practices, frameworks, roadmaps, SLA’s and Agile/SCRUM implementations• Senior analysis for strategic and business processes, logical and physical data models; MySQL and MS SQL DBs, scripts• Development of web applications, including social media components and online reportingProjects:• Online global leisure and travel solution with route builder in 12 languages; planned expansion to 28 languages• Online app with full Facebook integration• Online/offline school for the garment industry• Online statistical forecasting system dedicated to entrepreneurs, small to medium size businesses; focus on forecasting cash flows

Lisbon

Primary Focus Area:• Analytics / Advanced AnalyticsSecondary Focus Areas:• Artificial Intelligence• Big Data• Blockchain• Digital Transformation• Internet of Things (IOT)Currently working on projects that involve digital annealing, building of new behavior analytics models, standardizing concepts such as analytics, advanced analytics, BI, machine learning, deep learning, working closely with artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data, data transformation and IoT.

Global

Founder of company, builder of initial business strategy, picked team, built infrastructure including cloud architecture, servers, databases and developed some of the main business applications. Our expertise ranges from application and web development, UX/UI design, database management, architecture and solution providing.We work with a company and guide them through building slick and modern brands, brand new e-commerce applications and websites, coupled with well thought-out data solutions, all the while contributing to our favorite charities and doing the work we love.To compliment our service-levels we offer:* Training* Consulting* Service Contracts* Social Media Marketing

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Started webgeeks.ninja with a focus on:- Cloud Computing- Web design- Fast web hosting and domain handling- Database hosting- Data migrations and testing- Strategy and consultingBuilt own Google Cloud based infrastructure to enable company to have own web servers, database servers, DNS, security, CMS (internal) and an interactive dashboard for customers to see the work being done, make changes if applicable and approvals of work being delivered.Additionally, creating network of freelance developers and other experts that can be called into a project and remain into the delivery of the project to the end.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Business Enterprise ArchitectDuties:• Member of Direction Team, advisor to the top Director along with legal affairs, public analysts, psychologists and external affairs• Architect and strategically align first enterprise architecture for the organisation; implement Zachman and TOGAF frameworks• Responsible for architecture, standards, methodologies, enterprise meta-model and governance; additional oversight of business models• Ensure that everything works to highest possible professional standards• Present at senior management level and to all staff on selected occasions• Key founder & member of BPR Team• Represent Direction and coordinate with European Institutions and external vendors• Plan and measure training on applications, methods and procedures; organised to ensure people were adequately prepared for the change and subsequent business improvementProjects:• Business Enterprise Architecture Project• Business Process Re-Engineering Project• New Project Office Project including Operational and Strategic Planning• European Personnel Selections/Competitions Project• Move of IT organisational unit to DIGIT (external)

Netherlands

Enterprise Architecture ConsultantDuties:• Work for Research & Architecture and part of Architecture Committee• Check and verify final enterprise meta-model design for organisation• Meta-model and implement enterprise architecture• Implement Zachman and TOGAF frameworks• Define standards, procedures and documentation• Key member of team tasked with creation of new Project Office• Support organisation by giving workshops and personal training on new enterprise architecture and project management• Assist other architects to ensure compliance in new structure and applicable methodologiesProjects:• Enterprise Architecture Project• Prince2 implementation of new Project Office• European Machine Translation Project, in close cooperation with Google• Electronic Integration of Legal Text Project• DG3 Decisions Project (Legal arm for European Patent Office)• Research & Architecture Directorate KPI’s

Zug, Switzerland

Business Intelligence ArchitectDuties:• Implement Enterprise Architecture• Implement initial Zachman framework; provide training to team on architecture and framework• Build enterprise data model for all known data sources, including trading and analysis data sources• Create first enterprise architecture model for HFT (high-frequency trading) platform; improved communication between business and IT • Manage relationships with external vendorsProjects:• Enterprise Architecture Project• Select and implement enterprise architecture case tool• Business Intelligence Project

France, Spain, Portugal

Took year off to travel and achieve life-long dream

Swindon, United Kingdom

BASEL II ArchitectDuties:• Overall responsibility for BASEL II Metadata and Architecture• Implement Zachman and TOGAF frameworks• Present to board level, senior management and external entities• Architect and manage development of BASEL Reporting; data source was one of the biggest SQL data warehouses in Europe• Architect and develop BASEL ETL Tool and DDL GeneratorProjects:• BASEL II Project• BASEL II Reporting• BASEL ETL Tool Project• DDL Generator Project

Croydon, United Kingdom

Business Enterprise ArchitectDuties:• Lead architect in merge between DHL and Securicor• Implement Zachman and TOGAF frameworks• Lead team to model all supporting business functions and processes, throughout multiple locations• Manage documentation of functional specifications for all systems• Create and manage corporate encyclopaedia• Present solutions from mid to senior management, before and during mergeProjects:• Enterprise Architecture Project• Selection and implementation of enterprise architecture case tool• Project Hubble to model all business units and supporting processes• Enterprise Reporting Project; Business Objects and Office integration

London, United Kingdom

Trading Enterprise ArchitectDuties:• Architect and implement European architecture for trading platforms• Lead Business Process Improvement Team• Implement Zachman framework• Centralise disparate data sources into centralised data warehouse• Establish trading data and software development blueprints• Present trading architecture from traders to board level• Manage relationships and coordinate with external vendors• Lead in relationship with Audit and Compliance and government agencyProjects:• Enterprise Architecture Project• Select and implement enterprise architecture case tool• ITBI (integrated trading business intelligence) Data Warehouse Project• Business Process Improvement Project• Business Objects Reporting Project• Trading Ticker Project• Audit and Compliance Reporting; for Financial Services Authority (FSA)

Cape Town, Johannesburg, South Africa

Co-Founder & CEODuties:• Formulate company direction and strategy• Develop strategy & mission and carry it through with confidence & vigour• Responsible for all aspects of human performance issues• Work on full development lifecycle projects• Negotiate legal contracts with customers and suppliers• Budgetary forecasting• Responsible for all Project Management controls; internal/external• Chair monthly meeting with management and supervisorsProjects:• Tailor-made service level agreements with multiple clients/sites• Number of VOIP Projects, i.e. PLEXUS, Freddy Hirsch, First Bank, Old Mutual, Standard Life Insurance• Number of national South African Y2K projects, i.e. transport, harbours, infrastructure and utility projects; a total of 82 projects• National Panasonic Baan Project and mainframe migration to HP-UX• Transportation and Logistics Project• Forecasting Solution for 3rd World Markets Project, end-users being Engen (ex-Mobil) and Old Mutual• Mainframe replacement with HP client-server mini-servers for Swartklip Products, part of Armscor• Develop and implement oil rig management solution, at multiple sites around the world; with additional intranet solution• Develop and manage number of US based commercial website projects

Cape Town, Johannesburg, South Africa

Duties:• Manage IT budget, resources, security, communications, network, applications and technology roadmaps; provide overall enterprise architecture; implement Zachman framework• Coordinate and supervise architects and all external vendors• Bridge between Business and IT• Present to board levelProjects:• Enterprise Architecture Project• Select and implement enterprise architecture case tool• Architect and manage PLEXUS move to new building• Data Warehouse Project• Asset Management Reporting Project• Internet and Intranet Web Site Projects• Installation of country-wide network and communications