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Lisbon, Portugal

Intelligence-driven business engagement. The data intelligence way towards responsible innovation.Contributing with operational assessment and strategic insights regarding AI applications on several international clients.Contributing to the team growth and associated skills towards innovative solutions to better serve our clients.More...

As an Innovation Senior Consultant, proposing mindset changes regarding data and event-driven architectures from C-level to base teams. Challenging the status quo on some approaches regarding data strategy and solutions for main clients and projects. Pushing for Cloud data platforms with the state-of-the-art open-source fit-for-purpose parts. Pitching presales with top-level solutions (e.g., drone-based inspection of rotor blades) with data-driven architectures including computer vision and machine learning solutions.All-things data and digital integration Architecture community lead.Senior member of the AI and Machine Learning community contributing with solutions for shared challenges.Mentoring young talents as a career and technical advisor.Co-lead the seven full-day Sustainability workshops regarding technology solutions to better cope with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

A disruptive strategist delivering life-centred innovation driven by science and technology.Providing fractional CTO services to solo entrepreneurs, large-size organisations, and public sector agencies: from innovative mobile applications to digital transformation towards Cloud data architectures. Reducing cost, promoting efficiency, and preparing for growth. Advising on change management and future perspectives regarding human talent and technology fast-pace change. Aiding the procurement and fit-for-purpose cost-effective solutions.Growing Unsettled (now Innovation by Kaizen) from zero to one and exit in nine months with success.

MettaNoon is a Sensory AI and Digital Transformation company.Sensory AI amplifies multi-sensory human experiences, in digital and physical spaces.We blend multi-sensory AI and human-centred experience design, applying sight, sound, behaviours, mobility, data and ethics to create a new generation of Sensory solutions and SaaS products for all industries that touch clients, consumers and workforces.An international company, based in the UK and Portugal, we design bespoke solutions for our clients from a roster of capabilities:🔥 Advisory and Accelerator🔥 Design Thinking and Design Studio🔥 SaaS and PaaS Products and Development🔥 Education and Training Academy🔥 Ecosystem of world leading PartnersDeveloping socially conscious opportunities to creatively apply Sensory AI, we inspire, solve problems and support humanity through revolutionary solutions and a new approach to blended capabilities.We bring Sensory AI to life to amplify human brilliance for our friends, our communities and our planet.

Providing fractional Chief Technology Officer services. Leading the strategy regarding the main aspects of technology development matching with business needs. This challenge included human talent mentoring and careers refactoring. Procurement and new productivity tools. Development teams P&L and presales pitching for international clients (e.g., US). The technology stack included AWS platform, Flutter (Dart) for mobile development, Django (Python), PostgreSQL, Redis for real-time scale-up projects, and much more.

A strategic partnership to pave the way for Dengun's future intelligence in digital products. Pushing a transformational change driven by data, ethics, and sustainable growth with profit. Fractional Chief Technology Officer in residence.

Unlockit is a seed-stage start-up and digital platform developed to be the only tool that real estate agents need to (a) be more productive; and (b) provide a differentiated experience in the market.As an advisor, I provide technological advice, mentoring, and future perspectives.The Unlockit team started pushing IaC with Terraform, PostgreSQL for data store, and Web3-based and mobile application for the smart contracts with Blockchain and Qualified Electronic Signatures. Integrations with Stripe for payments and DocuSign for identification verification on PDF documents.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Researching about human emotions, reasoning, common sense, cognitive science using an artificial agent in georeferenced context and time-based. Engineering data, selecting features, doing machine learning towards prediction of emotional valence changes on humans. Moreover, development of a distributed, fault-tolerant, mobile and Cloud-based platform from scratch as a research tool to gather and process data. See https://gitlab.com/nunoachenriquesThe agent resources are Cloud-expanded (private Cloud; 1-year Google Cloud Platform) by Expanse assuring data storage and machine learning towards prediction in context for all individuals. The technological solution included: Android (Java, XML); Debian GNU/Linux; Python (hdbscan, matplotlib, numpy, pandas, psycopg2, scikit-learn, scikit-optimize, tensorflow, xgboost); PostgreSQL; Apache HTTP server + Flask.

Bangkok, Macau, Hong Kong

Travelling to Asia, knowing and learning from the others... helping family and friends... being better...

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Introducing and developing IT best practices, security, architecture and software engineering management to a micro team with huge challenges at an institute with 500+ scientists and terabytes of critical data flowing in and out of the local SAN. Fostering governance of development team and platforms, strategic technology consultant merging ethics and sustainability.Engineering and hands on for several core systems with Open technologies for Web services and databases, such as an application server and a service bus infrastructure (WSO2 AS and ESB) with several internal Cloud services (Java API), monitoring (Nagios) and backup (Bareos) services. All in a reengineered Xen virtualization platform. Improvement of Web sites and interfaces with HTML5 technology. Going for one level up of IT maturity in one year as a result (goal achievement).

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Software architecture over ROS, navigation, behaviour, and surveillance modules for a new all-terrain robot -- INTROBOT. A mixed reality interface and algorithms to trail and track faces live with camera feed and GPS map.The technological platform included Ubuntu GNU/Linux; ROS; OpenCV; C++; Qt; JavaScript; Google Maps; GPS; Live RT video camera.

Portugal, Macau, Hong Kong, Shanghai

Travelling to Macau, Hong Kong, Shanghai, knowing and learning from the others... helping family and friends... being better...

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Main achievements: (a) One order of magnitude data centre power reduction; (b) While increasing processing power and storage; (c) Digital transformation from paper to Web apps, dozens of services for tourism agents (entrepreneurs); (d) Coach and lead by example team members on pursuing more knowledge and qualifications for better delivery; (e) Tourism rose several GDP percentual points during our watch.Information Technology Architecture and Software Engineering Management. Governance of development teams and platforms, strategic technology consultant merging ethics and sustainability. Department portfolio of tens of projects, several platforms including OutSystems Agile, Oracle IAM, WSO2 SOA Platform, Google Gadgets.Engineering hands-on for several core systems with Open technologies for Web and database, such as service bus infrastructure with several internal Cloud services (Java API).Conceived and directly developed a core information system: Entitas. Used Java, PostgreSQL, WSO2 ESB. Introduced the concept of records with timeline, delete and undelete, so the management of entities (e.g. person, company) is unified at one repository with a Web service interface.Development of a Google Gadget Application to serve searches georeferenced, instantly, about Portugal tourism offer available (e.g. restaurant, golf, accommodation) from an old MSSQL database. Connected (also developed in-house) to SMS (mobile texting) and EMail Web service to enable results saving to users email and mobile phone.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Project Manager, Quality Manager, Database Administrator. Web and systems integration. Projects: Business Intelligence, Erasmus management, Web Portal...

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Aerospace sector (European Space Agency): HICOD2000 (Project Engineer and Quality Manager) - Technology: C++; PHP; JPEG2000; BASH Script. SCOS2000 (Database Engineer) - Technology: DBDesignerFork; Microsoft Office Access. Also, writing proposals for ESA calls (with success).

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Aerospace sector (European Space Agency): EO-KES (Research and Development Engineer; Project Manager) - Technology: Java; Protégé; WordNet; XHTML+CSS. Presented with success at the project partners meeting with ESA officials.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Pioneering and innovating the faculty Web services. Halt and Catch Fire moments: students Website, in-house developed search engine (twice), Internet access always growing bandwidth strategy and more.Several projects and responsibilities including: faculty technology services strategy; jury member for computer acquisitions; systems administrator; Web sites administrator; researcher, database, and project engineer on the renewal of the old and development of the new services to the faculty departments including the counsels and the directorate. Projects: PETISCO/MIAU; SPID and search engines; Web Portal.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Cognitive Science

PhD's thesis entitled "SensAI+Expanse Prediction of Emotional Valence Changes on Humans in Context by an Artificial Agent Towards Empathy".

Neuroscience

Advanced Course in Hierarchical Processing at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Lisbon, Portugal. September 18--20, 2016.

Master Of Science (Msc, Two-Year Degree), Informatics Engineering, 17/20

Master's thesis entitled "MovieGene: A multimedia production system using Evolutionary Computation"..

Graduation In Engineering (Bs, Five-Year Degree), Informatics Engineering, 14/20

Activities and Societies: Faculty Computing and Informatics Services collaborator: Web site, 1999 - 2008; Students Web site, 1995 - 2003.

Nuclear And Particles Physics

Intensive short Course of Introduction to Nuclear and Particles Physics by Portuguese Physics Society (Sociedade Portuguesa de Física).