Tânia Calçada

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Head of Internal AI Ops @ Critical Software
Porto, PT
Tânia Calçada's Location
Porto, Porto, Portugal, Portugal
About Tânia Calçada

Her career goal is to promote innovation and create value out of technologies, applying them to bring economic and social value to the business and the community. I have experience in agile ways of working, digital skilling, innovation, pre-sales support, network design, and R&D. Specialties: Emerging Technologies, Wireless Networks, IoT, Corporate Innovation, Digital Product management

Tânia Calçada's Current Company Details
Critical Software

Critical Software

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Head of Internal AI Ops
Porto, PT
Employees:
1410
Tânia Calçada Work Experience Details
  • Critical Software
    Head Of Internal Ai Ops
    Critical Software
    Porto, Pt
  • Edp
    Global Portfolio Manager
    Edp Aug 2024 - Present
    Porto, Portugal
  • Edp
    Digital Enablement Lead At Dgu - Digital Global Unit
    Edp Apr 2023 - Jul 2024
    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.
  • European Commission
    Remote Evaluator
    European Commission Jan 2016 - Present
    Remote evaluation of projects submitted to EU programes.
  • European Commission
    Project Monitor
    European Commission Jan 2020 - Present
    Assist the Commission in monitoring the implementation of ELIOT project, taking into account work descriptions, reports and deliverables.
  • Sonae Mc
    Product Innovation Area Manager
    Sonae Mc Jan 2020 - Apr 2023
    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
  • Sonae Mc
    Innovation Exchange Area Manager
    Sonae Mc Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
    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.
  • Startup Lisboa
    Business Mentor
    Startup Lisboa 2019 - Mar 2023
  • Sonae
    Innovation Exchange Area Manager
    Sonae Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
    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.
  • Sonae
    Future Tech Area Manager
    Sonae Oct 2015 - Jan 2019
    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.
  • Faculty Of Engineering, University Of Porto
    Research Associate
    Faculty Of Engineering, University Of Porto Aug 2013 - Aug 2015
    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.
  • Instituto De Telecomunicações
    Research Associate
    Instituto De Telecomunicações Aug 2013 - Aug 2015
    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
  • University College London
    Visiting Lecturer
    University College London Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
    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.
  • Instituto Politécnico De Viseu - Estgl
    Adjunct Professor
    Instituto Politécnico De Viseu - Estgl Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
    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).
  • Inesc Tec
    Research Engineer
    Inesc Tec 2003 - Aug 2013
    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)
  • Inesc Porto
    Project Manager
    Inesc Porto Jul 2009 - Dec 2012
    Manage the SItMe project. http://www.inesctec.pt/ctm-en/projects/success-stories/sitme-en?set_language=en&cl=en
  • Sonaecom
    Pre-Sales Engineer
    Sonaecom Jan 2001 - Sep 2003
    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.
  • Sonaecom
    Project Manager
    Sonaecom Jan 2000 - Jan 2001
    Validate technical solutions, doing required adjustments. Coordinate the installation of all network components (physical circuits, virtual circuits, hardware and software).
  • Sonaecom
    Wan Planning Assistant Engineer
    Sonaecom Aug 1999 - Dec 1999
    Technical interface between Novis and public telecom operator (Portugal Telecom).
  • Ineb
    Fellowship Undergrad Student
    Ineb 1997 - 1999
    Image processing application development

Tânia Calçada Skills

Wireless Networking Wireless Software Development Telecommunications Linux Simulations Networking Project Management Research C Programming Wifi Network Design Wireless Mesh Vehicular Networks Python Smart Cities C++ Wireless Sensor Networks Wireless Technologies Intelligent Transport Systems

Tânia Calçada Education Details

  • Faculdade De Engenharia Da Universidade Do Porto
    Faculdade De Engenharia Da Universidade Do Porto
    Summa Cum Laude
  • Porto Business School
    Programa Geral De Gestão
  • Faculdade De Engenharia Da Universidade Do Porto
    Faculdade De Engenharia Da Universidade Do Porto
    16/20

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What company does Tânia Calçada work for?

Tânia Calçada works for Critical Software

What is Tânia Calçada's role at the current company?

Tânia Calçada's current role is Head of Internal AI Ops.

What schools did Tânia Calçada attend?

Tânia Calçada attended Faculdade De Engenharia Da Universidade Do Porto, Porto Business School, Faculdade De Engenharia Da Universidade Do Porto.

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Tânia Calçada has interest in Social Services, Children, Environment, Education, Science And Technology, Music, Wireless Networks, Animal Welfare.

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Tânia Calçada has skills like Wireless Networking, Wireless, Software Development, Telecommunications, Linux, Simulations, Networking, Project Management, Research, C, Programming, Wifi.

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Tânia Calçada's colleagues are Joseph Levinthal, Daniel Santos, Leandro Vale, Rafael Girão Santos, Margarida Gouveia, Marta Silva, Luís Maltez.

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