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Name: Helder Filipe Patrício Cabral Ferreira
Email: helder dot filipe at sapo dot pt
Nationality: Portuguese
Date of birth: 10.May.1977
Drivers License: Cathegory B since 1999
Date: Since October 2006
Institution/Organization: Critical Software, S.A.
Institution/Organization Contacts: Parque Industrial do Taveiro, Lote 48, 3045-504 Coimbra, Portugal. Tel.:+351.239989100. Fax:+351.239989119. URL: http://www.criticalsoftware.com .
Type of business/sector: Solutions, services, and technologies for mission and business critical information systems
Occupation or position held: Site Manager, Project Manager & Account Manager
Activities/Responsabilities:
Critical Software Porto (CSW-POR) Office's Site Manager:
responsible for the local site strategy, team building and office operations & logistics. CSW-POR office is currently composed by approximately 70 members.
Project Manager:
Responsible for several development and maintenance teams working on international context.
Account Manager:
Responsible for an international customer with the responsibility to prepare business proposals.
Date: November 2004 to October 2006
Institution/Organization: Critical Software, S.A.
Institution/Organization Contacts: Parque Industrial do Taveiro, Lote 48, 3045-504 Coimbra, Portugal. Tel.:+351.239989100. Fax:+351.239989119. URL: http://www.criticalsoftware.com .
Type of business/sector: Solutions, services, and technologies for mission and business critical information systems
Occupation or position held: Senior Engineer
Activities/Responsabilities:
EBS Project Engineer:
Responsible for tests and maintenance of a database system in Unix/Oracle from Infineon Technologies, S.A. . Focus on: Database Management and Unix. Technologies: Oracle, Unix, XML, C++, PERL and Shell Scripting.
Admin GUI Project Manager:
Responsible for the development of the EBS Admin GUI. Focus on: Project management. Technologies: JSP, Tomcat and Oracle.
MasterData Editor’s Project Leader:
Responsible for the requirements and roll-out of the EBS master data editors. Focus on: Project management. Technologies: C#.
Date: December 2003 to August 2004
Institution/Organization: MundoBaby
Institution/Organization Contacts: Quinta do Simão, Apartado 725, Esgueira, 3801-801 Aveiro, Portugal. Tel.:+351.234315331 Fax:+351.234315334. URL: http://www.mundobaby.pt .
Type of business/sector: Resellers of baby related products
Occupation or position held: Web Designer, Information System Developer, Webmaster
Activities/Responsabilities:
E-Commerce:
Development of Internet website with an e-business layer providing shopping capabilities to online products. Database administration of products and clients. Focus on Web Design, Web Programming and Database Management. Technologies: PERL, MySQL, XHTML, CSS.
Date:October 2001 to September 2004
Institution/Organization: Laboratory of Speech Processing, Electroacoustics, Signals and Instrumentation
Institution/Organization Contacts: R. Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. Tel.:+351.225081400 Ext: 1171. Fax:+351.225081443. URL: http://lpf-esi.fe.up.pt .
Type of business/sector: Research and Development in Speech Technologies, Acessibility and Usability
Occupation or position held: Senior Researcher, Network and Systems Administrator, Webmaster
Activities/Responsabilities:
AudioMath Project:
Main researcher and developer of an application capable to process several non-text elements in a document, including mathematical expressions in MathML, and convert them into a text form. Later on, this full text document can be spoken providing accessibility to disabled users. Strong focus on Text Processing, XML Technologies, Regular Expressions and Programming. Website: http://lpf-esi.fe.up.pt/~audiomath. Technologies: C#, PERL, ActiveX, C/C++, Visual Basic, MathML, XML, XSLT, DOM, SAX, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Apache.
LPF-ESI Information System:
Responsible for the development of the R&D information system, including personal areas, code snippets databases, internal messages and notifications, managing publications and laboratory administration. Strong focus on Web Programming, Web Design, Database Management and Web Accessibility. Website: http://lpf-esi.fe.up.pt. Technologies: MySQL, PERL, PHP, XHTML, HTML, CSS, Apache.
AQN – The Farm of Numbers Project:
Project Manager and developer of an educational application that teaches how to read numbers to children. Focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Multimedia. Technologies: Visual Basic, C/C++, ActiveX.
Regex Developer Project:
Responsible for the development of an auxiliary application to programmers that want to use and test Regex expressions in PERL, for validation purposes or simple text processing. Strong focus on Text Processing and Regular Expressions. Technologies: PERL, Visual Basic, ActiveX.
Date: From July 2000 to October 2001
Institution/Organization: Centre of Studies of Physics, Acoustics and Telecomunications
Institution/Organization Contacts: R. Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. Tel.:+351.225081400. Fax:+351.225081443. URL: http://www.fe.up.pt/cefat .
Type of business/sector:Physics & Telecommunication Research
Occupation or position held: Researcher, Analyst Programmer
Activities/Responsabilities:
SMILE-CITE IV Project:
Responsible for the development of text-to-speech tools, for the integration in an audio internet browser. Focus on: Text Processing and Programming. Technologies: Visual Basic, C/C++, ActiveX.
Antígona Project:
Responsible for the development of a Portuguese text-to-speech engine. Development of a library of tools and integration in an E-Commerce website. Focus on: Text Processing and Programming. Technologies: Visual Basic, C/C++, ActiveX.
Date: From September 1997 to July 2000
Institution/Organization: Informatic Center Correia de Araújo
Institution/Organization Contacts: R. Dr. Roberto Frias, Bloco D, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. Tel.:+351.225081506. Fax:+351.225081537. URL: http://www.fe.up.pt/cica3w .
Type of business/sector:Computer Support to University Campus
Occupation or position held: Campus Collaborator
Activities/Responsabilities:
PTB Project:
Responsible for the development and managing of a virtual talking environment in the university community. Focus on Network Programming. Technologies: C, Linux/Unix, Sockets.
Oceanus Project:
Project Manager and responsible for the development of a marine biology online database. Focus on Web Programming, Web Design and Database Management. Technologies: PERL, HTML, CSS, MySQL.
EVIL Project:
Project Manager and responsible for the development of the Portuguese voice on the festival framework. Focus on Speech Frameworks. Technologies: Scheme, C, Linux/Unix, Festival framework.
Dia Aberto 2000 Project:
Responsible for the development of a multimedia CD-ROM presenting the challenges of engineering. Focus on Multimedia. Technologies: Macromedia Director, Adobe Photoshop, Lingo.
Petra Project:
Responsible for the development of an interactive multimedia CD-ROM about geology in Portugal. Work presented at the Conference “Os recursos multimédia no apoio à Geologia em Portugal (The multimedia resources backing up the Geology in Portugal)” at Minho University, 2000. Focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Multimedia. Technologies: Macromedia Director, Adobe Photoshop, Lingo.
Date: 2006 - 2007
Institution/Organization: PMO Consulting - http://www.pmo-consulting.pt/ and Instituto Superior Bissaya Barreto - http://www.isbb.pt/
Course: Post-Graduation in Project Management
Classification: not available yet
Skills: "PMP Best Practitioner" Course. PMBoK and PMI guidelines training: Project Integration Management; Project Scope Management; Project Time Management; Project Cost Management; Project Quality Management; Project Human Resource Management; Project Communications Management; Project Risk Management; Project Procurement Management
Date: 2003 - 2005
Institution/Organization: Faculty of Engineering University of Oporto
Course: Master Science Degree in Computer Science
Classification: Obtaining the highest classification - Very Good - in Thesis.
Skills: Planning and Administration of Networks and Services; Structured Processing of Documents (XML-related technologies); Requirements Engineering; Human-Computer Interaction; Software Systems Architecture; Multimedia and Communications Services; Virtual and Augmented Reality
Date: 1995 - 2003
Institution/Organization: Faculty of Engineering University of Oporto
Course: License Degree in Electrical and Computers Engineering
Classification: Obtaining a final GPA of 13 (out of possible 20). Final year project with a final GPA of 19 (out of possible 20).
Skills: Computer Networks; Information Systems; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Graphics; Digital Communications; Multimedia and Telecommunication Services; Programming and Algorithms; Electronics
Date: 2007
Institution/Organization: Critical Software, S.A.
Course: Workshop "Leadership and The Art of Negotiation"
Course: Workshop "Doxygen - Software Documentation".
Course: Workshop "CVS Training".
Date: 2006
Institution/Organization: Critical Software, S.A.
Course: Workshop "Software Usability"
Course: Workshop "Write Well, Write to Convince"
Date: 2005
Institution/Organization: Oracle Corporation, Portugal.
Course: Oracle 9i SQL Tuning
Institution/Organization: Critical Software, S.A.
Course: Workshop ".NET Best Pratices"
Course: Workshop "C++ Basics".
Course: Workshop "C++ Advanced".
Course: Workshop "Standard Template Library".
Course: Several workshops on Software Quality (along 2005).
Date: 2002
Institution/Organization: Service of Continuous Education and Development of FEUP
Course: Leadership
Course: Conflits Management
Course: Technical Communications
Date: 1995
Institution/Organization: Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores da FEUP
Course: PERL and HTML
Mother Tongue: Portuguese
Language: English
Writting Skills: Excellent
Reading Skills: Excellent
Verbal Skills: Excellent
Language: French
Writting Skills: Basic
Reading Skills: Basic
Verbal Skills: Basic
Language: Spanish
Writting Skills: Basic
Reading Skills: Good
Verbal Skills: Basic
Consult in this website in: Publications.
Participation and selection with Research Work “AudioMath” to the Contest “Prémio Científico IBM 2005” (IBM Scientific Award 2005).
Team spirit:
Actor and Director of Amateur Theater (November 1999 to January 2003)
Colaborator at the student's chaper of ACM in Oporto (2001 and 2002)
Singer at the Choir Honra e Dever (1998 to 2002)
Guitar player at the Church Santa Maria de Vilar (1996 to 1999)
Jornalist of the Engineering Jornal of University of Oporto (1995)
Voluntary Work at the Church of Santa Maria de Vilar (1993 to 1997)
Speeches and Conferences:
Invited Speaker at the Second European Workshop on MathML & e-Scientific Contents with the presentation: "AudioMath: Speaking Mathematics with MathML". Kuopio. Finland. 2004.
Several papers and poster presented at National and International Conferences since 2000 to 2004.
Teacher at the course "Linux and Networks" organized by the student's chapter of IEEE in Oporto. 1999.
Invited speaker at the Open Day 1999 of the Faculty Engineering University of Oporto under the topic "The history of Linux and its stability face to Windows". 1999.
Teacher at the course "Introduction to Internet and Computer Resources at FEUP", organized by the student's chapter of IEEE in Oporto. 1998.
Organizational Skills and Competences
Site Management and Project Management since 2006.
Direction of several theatrical plays (1999 to 2003).
Board member of the Cultural Association Honra e Dever (2002).
Member of the organizational commitee of the 1º and 2º choir encounter in Honra e Dever (2000, 2001).
Member of the organizational commitee of the 1º course about Linux and Networks at the Faculty of Engineering University of Oporto (1998).
Technical Skills and Competences
Operating Systems:
UNIX/Linux, Windows (NT, 9x, 2000, XP, 2003), DOS.
Programming Languages:
C#, PERL, C/C++, PL/SQL, SQL, XML, XSL, XSLT, DTD, XML Schema, Visual Basic, Pascal, Prolog, Assembly, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML, CSS, MathML, JavaML, SVG, Lingo, Unix Shell Programming, Windows Scripting.
Database Systems:
ORACLE, MySQL, MS Access.
Software Engineering:
UML 2.0, Design Patterns, Software Architecture, Requirements Engineering, Object Oriented Programming.
Other Relevant Applications:
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6x, SQL Navigator, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Designer, XMLSpy, MatLab & Simulink, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premier, Macromedia Director, Macromedia Homesite, MySQL Administrator, Apache HTTP Server, DB Designer, DBTools Manager, Microsoft Office.
Artistic Skills and Competences
Actor and Director of Amateur Theater (1999 to 2003)
Digital Photographer (since 2002)
Choir Singer (1998 to 2002)
Classical Guitar player (since 1996)
Sculpture - Matches pictures (1990 to 1992)
Writer, poet (since 1987)
Awarded with several Lego constructions (1981 to 1988)
Member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) since 2004
Student Member of IEEE (1996 to 1998)
