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Porto, Pt

Porto, Portugal

Portugal

Enable the capabilities and tools to achieve EDP's Digital Transformation goals with agility and excellence by leading a team that focuses on key areas that drive this mission forward:- Agile: Foster cross-functional collaboration and enhance the delivery of digital initiatives through iterative and adaptive approaches by evolving agile processes to fit business goals and providing guidance, training, and coaching to teams across the company.- Quality Assistance: Support and ensure the maintenance and improvement of quality standards of tech teams by defining and applying IT maturity models to assess and enhance the organization's IT capabilities.- Skilling & Adoption: Foster tech awareness or expertise of employees depending on the target audience role within the company by leading programs for engaging employees in tech training and certification and organizing events to disseminate technology trends.- Digital Data Office: Support overall data initiatives, and foster a data-driven culture within the Digital and IT teams. This includes promoting the implementation of IT data governance processes, creating data models for trustworthy metrics, and fostering Data & AI projects with digital teams.- Service Design: Improve the efficiency of digital development projects by adjusting user needs for new features in the Digital systems using user-centric design methods, including leading human research projects and service design studies.- UX & UI: Reduce the development and design time of Digital products through a Design System Manager (DSM) that provides visual, written, and code artifacts, allowing for the uniformization and usability improvement of the EDP group's digital experiences.

Remote evaluation of projects submitted to EU programes.

Assist the Commission in monitoring the implementation of ELIOT project, taking into account work descriptions, reports and deliverables.

Coordinate a team responsible for the agile management of product innovation projects • Lead a team of product owners;• Agile Coach: disseminate scrum and design thinking in product development teams throughout the company.Lead the business development activities of Continente Labs including the cachierless store and the related consumer online community

Maia, Porto, Portugal

Coordinate a team responsible for the promotion of corporation innovation culture and for leveraging the creation of value through innovation:• Enrich, nurture and exploit the SONAE Open Innovation network.• Manage the internal Innovation Committee: an internal community of innovation facilitators spread through the company.• Act as liaisons with startups, R&D entities, suppliers and other tech players.• Promote the matching between opportunities provided by external innovators (startups, research Lab, other retailers, etc) and internal needs.

Matosinhos

Coordinate a team responsible for the promotion of corporation innovation culture and for leveraging the creation of value through innovation:• Enrich, nurture and exploit the SONAE Open Innovation network.• Manage the internal Innovation Committee: an internal community of innovation facilitators spread through the company.• Act as liaisons with startups, R&D entities, suppliers and other tech players.• Promote the matching between opportunities provided by external innovators (startups, research Lab, other retailers, etc) and internal needs.• Exploit exchange opportunities between internal and external innovators.• Promote and leverage the corporative innovation culture using data and storytelling to internal activation and media engagement in external marketing & communications.• Plan, measure, control and optimize the department activities and the company’s efforts on innovation.• Re-design, enrich and automate internal processes.• Provide periodical and on demand activity and impact reports.• Co-Design the company’s innovation strategy. • Apply analytics by tracking and measuring results of innovation projects• Provide consultancy missions to enrich current and future innovation projects.

Matosinhos

Coordinate the future tech team whose goal is to scout, screen, understand and experiment emerging technologies which have potential to improve SONAE retail business performance in a time frame of up to five years:• Scout and screen the relevant emerging technologies for the organization.• Attend events showing and debating technologic and innovative trends such as EmTech, Wired Live, Singularity University summit, WebSummit, etc.• Create and apply a framework to prioritize the technologies to be explored.• Design and operate a framework to leverage internal awareness about emerging techs.• Create content about technologies adapted to internal needs.• Disseminate knowledge through talks, events, or demonstrations.• Experiment emerging technologies in context of actual needs.• Identify and specify the internal use cases for each relevant technology.• Co-operate with external innovation partners to envisage the ideal experimentation environment to validate the usefulness of the technology in retail context.• Manage the implementation of proof-of-concept experiments.

Porto

Participation on FP7 Future Cities project and Centre of Competence in Future Cities of the University of Porto. The main accomplishment was to Lead the design and manage the deployment of the UrbanSense platform. Also worked to unlock the full potential of interdisciplinary research in urban technologies, while strengthening knowledge transfer activities in close cooperation with local and global industrial partners. Main activities:Promote inter-disciplinary research.Lead the design and manage the deployment of the UrbanSense platform.Conduct high level scientific research activities in the field of Smart Cities. Produce scientific documentation publishable on reference international journals and conferences. Prepare European proposals within H2020 calls. Participate the deployment of urban-scale living labs and live deployments in the city of Porto. Promote the exploitation of produced knowledge and developed infrastructure.

Porto Area, Portugal

Mission:* Conduct high level scientific research activities in the field of Smart Cities. * Produce scientific documentation publishable on reference international journals and conferences. Main Projects:* SenseBusNet - Sensing data and Delay-Tolerant Delivery over Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks* PortoOptiWaste - Optimize operations of the waste management system of the city of Porto* MC-WMN - Multiple Context-based Wireless Mesh Networks* VR2Market - Towards a Wearable Vital Signs, Ambiance Sensing and Location Monitoring Product for First Response Professionals

London

Collaboration at the Intel Collaborative Research Institute (ICRI) in the area of IoT. Design of a solar powered wireless sensor network to be deployed in Hyde Park.

Teaching and redefinition of theoretical and practical components of the course “Sistemas de Telecomunicações sem Fios” (Wireless Telecommunication Systems) included in the 3rd year of the curriculum of the degree on “Engenharia Informática e de Telecomunicações” (BSc).Teaching of theoretical and practical components of the course “Engenharia de Redes” (Network Engineering) included in the 2nd year of the curriculum of the degree on “Engenharia Informática e de Telecomunicações” (BSc).Member of “Conselho de Curso” on the degree on “Engenharia Informática e de Telecomunicações” (BSc).

2013: Participation on CONFINE (Community Networks Testbed for the Future Internet) FP7 project. The CONFINE project complements existing FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative) infrastructure by establishing a new facility built on the federation of existing community IP networks.2012-2013: Participation on ALICANTE (MediA Ecosystem Deployment through Ubiquitous Content-Aware Network Environments) FP7 project. The ALICANTE project proposes a novel concept towards the deployment of a new networked 'Media Ecosystem' based on a flexible cooperation between providers, operators and end-users.2012-2014: Participation on MC-WMNs project (Multiple Context-based Wireless Mesh Networks). The project aims to support a multitude of context-based wireless mesh networks, each providing personalized communications for a user or group of users, according to their user context requirements.2009-2012: Participation on Sitme Project (Serviços Integrados para Transportes Metropolitanos http://www.sitme.org/). The main goal of this project is to develop and supply information services to passengers traveling in buses including internet and TV inside buses. 2009-2010: Participation on Flexnet project (Flexible Networks). The objective of this project is to develop a communications subsystem, to be integrated in the XAREVISION equipment.2005: Participation on the European project Daidalos II (Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimized personal Services)2003-2005: Participation on the European project Daidalos I (Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimized personal Services)

Manage the SItMe project. http://www.inesctec.pt/ctm-en/projects/success-stories/sitme-en?set_language=en&cl=en

Network design to PME and corporate business, integrating voice, data and video over IP or Frame Relay (VoIP, VoFR), using PBX or IP Telephony networks and security.

Validate technical solutions, doing required adjustments. Coordinate the installation of all network components (physical circuits, virtual circuits, hardware and software).

Technical interface between Novis and public telecom operator (Portugal Telecom).

Image processing application development

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications, Summa Cum Laude

Thesis title: Topology Aware Channel Assignment in Single-radio Stub Wireless Mesh Networks Supervisor: Prof. Manuel Ricardo

Programa Geral De Gestão

Licentiate Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering, 16/20

Activities and Societies: Member of TUNAFEBranch of computers and telecommunications.