I have worked with the following OS:

Windows Systems: 95; 98; XP Home/Professional Edition; Vista 32/64 Ultimate Edition

Mac OS Systems: 10.5 Leopard

Linux Systems: Redhat 9; Mandrake 9-10 and Mandriva; Debian; Ubuntu

I have professional experience with the following programming languages and platforms:

Programming languages: Java (1.4, 1.5) - J2EE and webservices; C; C# .NET; VB .NET; HTML and XHTML; CSS; Javascript - including Ajax technology; PHP; UML; XSL stylesheets; ANT Script; Perl; SQL/PL-SQL

Frameworks and platforms: Eclipse IDE; Visual Studio; Apache HTTP Server; Apache Tomcat 4, 5 and 6; IIS server; Poseidon for UML; JBoss; Zend Framework; Zend Studio for Eclipse; Enterprise Architect; Toad for Oracle; Oracle Designer; MySQL; SVN; CVS; Joomla CMS; Salesforce; Google Web Toolkit

Specific libs: JIBX - Java lib for XML processing; Soap libs for Java and PHP

Microsoft Office programs: Word; Excel; Access; Powerpoint; Outlook; Outlook Express

I learned/used the following languages and platforms outside of professional contexts:

Programming languages: Python; Ruby; Prolog; Haskell; Tcl-Tk; ActionScript

Frameworks and platforms: Dojo platform (Ajax); JQuery platform (Ajax); Google App Engine (Python); Blogging engines - Wordpress and Blogger; Macromedia Dreamweaver CS3; Adobe Photoshop CS3; Flash CS3; DIA; Quanta (Linux)

ChangingWorlds

[October, 2008 - currently]

Role: Software Engineer
Industry: Computer Software
Location: Dublin, Ireland

New Boston Select (NBS)

[May, 2008 - September, 2008]

Role: Programmer (Contractor)
Industry: Computer Software
Location: Porto, Portugal
Description: Worked as a contractor Programmer for one of their clients: Bloco Gráfico, Lda - Porto Editora

Main responsabilities and tasks:
Software architecture planning in UML with Enterprise Architect.
Webservices development in Java. The code is developed with Eclipse Framework and the deployment is in JBOSS with ANT scripts.
Access to Oracle Databases using the JAVA webservices, both by calling PL-SQL procedures and executing simple PL-SQL queries.
Website development in PHP 5, HTML and Javascript (Prototype for Ajax calls), integrated with the JAVA webservices, using the Zend Framework and Zend Studio for Eclipse.

Arturai, Arquitectos de Informação

[October, 2006 - May, 2008]

Role: Consultant
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Location: Maia, Portugal
Description: Worked as a consultant and technical advisor for Akamai clients in Portugal, Spain and Italy

Main responsabilities and tasks:
Technical consulting and technical advisory to Akamai clients in Portugal, Spain and Italy, concerning both Akamai products/services and general issues regarding the client's technical infrastructure. Development, optimization and maintenance of the company's technical infrastructures such as OS installation, Hardware and Software installation and configuration and knowledge-base systems implementation and maintenance. Software development in Java, Javascript, HTML/CSS, PHP, VB .NET, C# .NET, MYSQL and SQL SERVER, mainly in small optimization applications such as support cases and tickets management systems, SVN servers for windows, Linux and Mac OS X and internal knowledge-base system. Development and maintenance of Webservices in Java, ASP .NET, PHP and Perl, to integrate several different platforms with Akamai products APIs.

Nível Horizontal

[February, 2006 - September, 2006]

Role: Consultant
Industry: Internet / CRM
Location: Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
Description: Worked as a consultant and technical advisor for Salesforce clients in Portugal and Spain

Main responsabilities and tasks:
Technical support and advisory to Salesforce clients in Portugal and Spain.
Technical consulting mainly in CRM solutions and architectures.
Optimization of the technical infrastructure of the company.
Development and optimization of the client's CRM technical infrastructure, such as website development and maintenance (including backoffice and content management systems in PHP and Java), contacts management systems and newsletter distribution systems.
Application development to integrate client's platforms with Salesforce using Salesforce's APIs in Java and C#, as well as Java and C# based alternative solutions (in case of API support absence).

Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris-Sud

[July, 2004 - August, 2004]

Role: Invited Researcher
Location: Orsay, France
Description: Learning and researching in Quantum Computing algorithms and complexity.

Master's Degree in Software Engineering

2006 - undergoing

Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP), Portugal

Main subjects:
Networking and distributed computing systems.
Software engineering and architecture.
Software development methods and project management.
Safety, security and critical systems.

Graduation Degree in Computer Science

2001 - 2006

Institution: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP), Portugal

Main subjects:
Software development, architecture and optimization.
Computer theory, algorithms and software complexity.
Programming paradigms and programming languages related with each paradigm.

High School

1998 - 2001

Institution: Colégio Luso-Francês (CLF), Portugal

Language Skills

I am a Portuguese native speaker and I speak fluent English.

Social Skills

Excellent ability to work in multi-cultural teams acquired during the whole of my professional career.

Excellent commitment, learning willingness and ability and good response to dynamic working contexts and situations, due to frequently dealing with unforeseen situations, deadlines and different kinds of working policies that have to be met.

Good stress handling capacity acquired during my professional career.

Excellent communication skills developed during my work as a consultant, which requires contact with several client teams (national and international) as well as support technical teams.