30+ years’ experience in military, government organizations and private enterprises. Security, operations and human resources management, IT and Telecom systems and infrastructures engineering, maintenance and logistics management.Career evolution, from ¨hands on¨ beginning to program management level on large projects, gives balance of specialization and cross-functional expertise that translates in strategic vision of technology and organization’s needs.Leadership from military hi-level academic education and field experience, allied with formal technical education and years of work at government and private enterprises guarantees cross-functional expertise and enhanced analytics capabilities to solve complex business and organizational problems on time and budget.Strong working relationships, active listening and communication permit a natural leading without authority profile that eases conflict and crisis management with effective problems resolution results.
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Chief Operating OfficerServinfor Feb 2016 - Present• Responsible for the construction of the physical infrastructures and commissioning of major IT, Telecom & Security systems at the HCSPR. Member of the HCSPR technical board.• Project and installation control of the data network for the new INOVIA electronic products production line.• Quality control and fiscalization of major modernization program at CSS/FAA (Angolan Army)• Installation, commissioning and maintenance of Catholic University Data Center and Campus Fiber network.• Project of TI & Telecom systems for Catholic University.• Project, installation and maintenance of Bank of China telecom and security systems.• Huawei C&T Partner. -
Chief Operating OfficerWinit Apr 2015 - Jan 2016• Responsible for the construction of the IT, Telecom and Security Systems at the HCSPR. Member of the Hospital installation Technical Board.• Project and installation control of the data network for the new INOVIA electronic products production line.• Quality control and fiscalization of major modernization program at CSS/FAA (Angolan Army) • Project, installation, commissioning and maintenance of Cloud Data Center, Servers, Storage and Campus Fiber network for Catholic University of Angola.• Project of IT, Telecom ans Security systems for Catholic University of Angola.• Project, installation, commissioning and maintenance of Bank of China Headquarters in Angola.
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Regional Operations Director, Operations Manager, Call Center ManagerHis Jun 2012 - Mar 2015• Regional operation director at Rio de Janeiro. Electronic health records system SW & HW, used on 160 health units, with more than 2M patients, that includes, kiosks, Linux based corporate TV, video walls & queue management systems using Microsoft servers, Linux servers, MSSQL, Tomcat and Java.• Call Centre manager brings KPI´s and SLA´s to normal values. Processes, reporting optimization & revision of KPI key performance indicators & SLA service level agreements.• Stakeholder’s strong relationship with weekly coordination meetings where personal communication skills facilitate problems troubleshoot management and resolution.• Professional field services human resources selection & leading. Using flexible but effective work policies, which prioritize and optimize service, allowing 25% headcount decrease.• Auditing and optimization of logistics operations and transport planning lower costs on a 45% average keeping service level agreement compliance.• Procurement and acquisitions of selected hardware, improve quality of the solution and decrease problems and cost.• Systems administration, troubleshoot, problem management, problem resolution and problem solving on all component of the system, including, Microsoft Windows operating systems, SQL server, Tomcat, Java and Linux servers.• Remote administration and auditing using TeamViewer, Logmein and RDP.• Network administration, telecom operator’s relationship, quality control, site surveying and site auditing Improve quality and decrease cost.• Project engineering for LAN local area networks at hospitals with structured data cabling, network routing and switching equipment.• Project management using MS Project knowledge.• Project management for EJESA group data centre migration with servers, storage systems and all networking & communications equipment, full physical move with minimal service interruption.
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Presales - Telecom, It And Security Solutions EngineeringSpread Tecnologia, Outsourced By Xseed Portugal Jan 2011 - Jan 2012São Paulo, Sp, Br• Project engineering & pre sales for large buildings IP Infrastructures, public address systems, building automation and fire & alarm systems. Partners & Suppliers, Xseed, Rede Ria, Alcatel, Cisco and 2N.• Project architecture & implementation of home & building automation, technology demo room at “Colégio Dante Alighieri”. Partners & Suppliers, Xseed, Autocontrol, www.domaticasolutions.com, Somfy and Smatif.• Project engineering & implementation of corporate TV, video wall and control room systems.• Project engineering, pre sales and ATEX compliance validation of safe and rescue solutions for offshore platforms, including EPIRB´s, satellite communications, UHF & VHF radio systems and PBX. Partners & Suppliers, Alcatel, Motorola, Inmarsat & Orbcomm.• Project architecture, human resources selection and training for full outsourcing solution of IT and telecom maintenance to Petrobras operation at Rio de Janeiro.• Pre sales & integration tests of facial recognition software and CCTV system, using “Infocrim” DB and São Paulo citywide CCTV at the Military Police data centre head office. Partners & Suppliers, Observit and Bosch.• Presales of CCTV systems for internal and external installations, including vandal proof solutions. Partners & Suppliers Observit, Sony, Samsung and Bosch.• Presales of RFID solutions for people and materials control. Partners & Suppliers Bioglobal, Motorola and HID.• Sales of Google apps for work by mail, phone, pc verbal communication and face to face meetings with Clients. -
Pre Sales Engineer, Project Manager, SalesNextiraone (Www.Nextiraone.Eu Is Now Www.Dimensiondata.Com) Feb 2009 - Jan 2011• Project engineering and pre sales of medium and large VoIP solutions and integration with emergency RoIP radio networks used by first responders, mobile data & mobile voice integration. Best practices applied to guarantee, voice and data full redundancy. Regulatory validation and public tender writing for government clients. Partners & Suppliers, Cisco, Alcatel, 2N, Proxim and ONI Telecom. • Project engineering and pre sales of CCTV systems for county’s, shopping´s and casinos. Partners & Suppliers, Axis, Proxim, Bosch and Ovservit.• Project engineering of RTLS real time location systems at health installations for people and materials control. Partners & Suppliers, Aeroscout and Cisco.• Project engineering of water distribution systems, real time monitoring and pumping stations automation. Radio communications and SCADA software. Partners & Suppliers, Auto Control, Omron, Schneider, Weidmuller and Wonderware. • Sales to PT operator of “clean pipes”, secure WAN links solution based on Fortigate 5000 series. Partners & Suppliers, PT Telecom and Fortinet.• Sales of equipment and services to government and telecommunication operators, demanding excellent verbal communication, solid technical solutions knowledge and presence at face to face and remote meetings and presentations.
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Logistics And Maintenance OfficerPortuguese Army (Www.Exercito.Pt) Mar 2008 - Jan 2009• Logistics Officer at 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment.• Maintenance Manager and Logistics Manager of all Regiment buildings and infrastructures, vehicles and military equipment.• Transport Planner for Routes and Cargo including explosives and heavy military equipment.• Maintenance Management and Logistics Management, applying the TPM and 5S methodologies for the upgrade and maintenance of Chaparral missile AA system, that brings operational status of this heavy and complex system, from an average of 65% to more than 95% . • Maintenance Management of the Siemens AG BCP 641 low surveillance Radar.• Project Management and “Hands on” work on the Integration of “Pi Star” short range radar signal with Tactical Radio System.• Operations Management and Route Planning for alert and First Respond Teams working with civil protection on forest Fire Detection and containment.
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Project ArchitectMinistry Of Health (Www.Idt.Pt Now Www.Sicad.Pt) Nov 2004 - Mar 2008• Full project design, including Project Engineering, Public Tender Writing, Legal Compliance evaluation and Project Management for a National IT and VoIP Network at 165 Health Buildings for the Portuguese Ministry of Health. Work includes Public & Private Numbering Plan Consolidation & Optimization. Partners & suppliers, Cisco, 2N, Nextiraone, Rede Ria, ONI Telecom.• Project Management and Telecom Services administration to Audit and eliminate "phantom lines", survey Equipment and Infrastructure for Modernization needs. Use of cellular gateways and IP Trunking to ensure LCR Least Cost Routing voice paths. Partners & suppliers, Alcatel PBX, 2N Voice Gateways, Rede Ria and ONI Telecom.• Project Engineering, Analysis and Optimization of Security and IT Services Continuity on Health Facilities. Small IT room’s and LAN´s Design and Implementation. Partners & suppliers, Cisco, HP, APC, Nextiraone and ONI Telecom.• Project Management and Change Management of the headquarters, including all Data Cabling Project and Installation Management for support to 280 people, materials and equipment’s moving.• Advisor to the Minister of health for the area of voice telecom (6/2007-1/2008)• Project Management and Change Management of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health. IT and Telecom infrastructure equipment and Migration with change from Nortel PBX to Cisco Call manager. Partners & suppliers, Cisco, RAD and 2N.
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Systems EngineerMilitary Judicial Police, Portuguese Army Jun 2004 - Nov 2004• Project engineering, installation and configuration of VPN WAN network. Partner & supplier, Cisco.• Project management installation and configuration of VoIP solution. Partner & supplier, Cisco.• Systems administration of hardware and software, servers, workstations and printers. Partners & Suppliers, HP and Microsoft.
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System Analyst (Sap/R3 Materials Management Module)Portuguese Army Sep 2003 - Jun 2004• Processes Analysis of Procurement and inventory functions.• Processes Analysis of Maintenance functions.• Analysis and definition of Materials Management processes for Army Logistics and Maintenance functions. Partners & Suppliers SAP, HP,Oracle and Deloitte.
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Systems AdministratorPortuguese Army (Cie - Army Ti Head Office) Aug 1998 - Sep 2003• Maintenance Administration of Army Data Centre, Physical Security, Access Control, Fire Detection, Fire Extinction, Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Coolers.• Systems Administrator of IBM 9000 Mainframe with VM/ESA and s/390 with OS/390, migration from RAMAC storage to IBM Shark, commissioning of Storagetek backup Automated Cartridge System.• System Administrator of Army Site, Microsoft IIS Server Software and Check Point Firewall.• Systems Administrator of Army Financial, Human Resources and Army HR Medical Assistance applications using Oracle Database and Applications on Microsoft Servers.• Systems Administrator of Logistics Document Management System with IBM Lotus Notes.• Project Manager on Migration of Financial Applications to EURO and Logistics Document Management System Modernization and Upgrade.• Project Manager on Migration of Human Resources Recruitment Application from 3270 terminals to 3 tier architecture, with Browser Clients, using DB2 at OS/390 and DB2 and Microsoft IIS on Microsoft Server.• Project Manager on Migration of HR Recruitment Public Notices System, based on hi-volume Xerox central printer to distributed printing.• Project Manager, Procurement and Public Tender Documents Writing for the upgrade of the Army HR Wages Application, from Legacy System to Oracle 8i Database running on Itanium HP-UX servers. “Hands on” HP-UX and Oracle DB Installation & Configuration.• Procurement and Public Tendering Documents Writing for Army Annual Acquisitions of workstations, servers and printers.• Project Engineering, Radio Planning, Site Surveying and Installation of Microwave Links and Systems.• Project Engineering and Project Management of Structured Cabling with CAT5 & Optical Fibre, Routing and Switching equipment.• Systems Developer on Research & Development of Unified Threat Management Security device, with Redundant WAN Connections. OEM HW & Open Source SW. Still in wide use. Partners & Suppliers, Caixa Mágica, ISCTE, ISEL and Tyan.
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Maintenance Technician, Maintenance Engineer Health And Diagnostic Medical DevicesFreelancer - (Working Mainly To Amerlab - Now A Siemens Company) Feb 1995 - Jul 1998• Maintenance Engineering of Clinical Equipment and Laboratory Equipment, including Commissioning, Preventive Maintenance, Calibration, Repair, Software and Firmware Installation and Upgrade for Health diagnostic Equipment like Abbott IMX, Infusion Pumps and Blood Centrifuges.• Maintenance Engineer doing Preventive Maintenance, Calibration and Repair of Bank ATM´s, Fuel Pumps Metering and Control Systems.• Maintenance Engineer of Generic TI and Telecommunications Equipment and Installation, Maintenance and Repair of industrial automation systems.• Installation, maintenance and repair of lab and industry small subsystems, including electro mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic.
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Army OfficerPortuguese Army Oct 1990 - Jul 1998• Command and leadership as Artillery Officer, Field Operations, Operational Battery Commander.• Human resources, selection leading and training as Military Training Company and Battalion Commander.• Regiment Human Resources interim Officer.• Independent Unit interim Commander.• Security Officer with responsibilities for building, assets and people security and protection.• Shooting Range Officer.• Explosives and IED´s training.
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António Sousa Education Details
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Army Institute Of Higher Level Military Studies (Www.Iesm.Pt)Commanding Officer For Battalion Or Higher Level -
University Of Madeira (Www.Uma.Pt)Telecom And It Systems -
Portuguese Military Academy (Www.Academiamilitar.Pt)Military Sciences -
Technical School “Avelar Brotero” (Www.Brotero.Pt)Tools And Fabrication
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António Sousa works for Servinfor
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António Sousa's current role is COO at Servinfor.
What schools did António Sousa attend?
António Sousa attended Army Institute Of Higher Level Military Studies (Www.iesm.pt), University Of Madeira (Www.uma.pt), Portuguese Military Academy (Www.academiamilitar.pt), Technical School “avelar Brotero” (Www.brotero.pt).
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António Sousa has skills like Linux, Networking, Rtls, Rfid, Voip, Wireless, Telecommunications, Health Diagnostic Equipment, Clinical Equipment Maintenance, Problem Management, Problem Solving, Equipment Installation.
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