Braga, Portugal
Tiago Alves
My nationality:
Portugal
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth:
February 7,1980
Work Experience:
5-10 year
Summary:
As my PhD is approaching to its end I am looking for a opportunity to progress in my professional career.
What I have to offer is a hard-working and self motivated person which is passionate for doing work of excellency. My research background evidences that I am a person that pursues challenges that create value. Finally, the fact that my research was done in industrial environment shows my desire of putting theory into practice.
My background is software engineering which I the topic that I have researched and worked in consultancy. I am looking to work in software engineering in any position that would allow me to gradually work on product management and later on business strategy.
What I have to offer is a hard-working and self motivated person which is passionate for doing work of excellency. My research background evidences that I am a person that pursues challenges that create value. Finally, the fact that my research was done in industrial environment shows my desire of putting theory into practice.
My background is software engineering which I the topic that I have researched and worked in consultancy. I am looking to work in software engineering in any position that would allow me to gradually work on product management and later on business strategy.
Researcher / Jr. Consultant
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Software Improvement Group
from 2007.07 to 2011.06
Research of new methodologies and tools for automatic analysis and evaluation of software products using software metrics.
Jr. Consultant, participating in Software Risk Assessment for Software Improvement Group clients and open-source projects, using software metrics to identify possible risks and providing management-level advice.
Young Graduate Trainee
Darmstadt, Germany - European Space Agency
from 2006.07 to 2007.06
Member of the EGOS User Desktop (EGOS UD) team, responsible for reviewing Interface and Architecture documents, and the final prototype developed by an external company.
Responsible for the System Verification Tests of the Network Interface System during the system acceptance phase.
Responsible for prototyping and requirements specifications of components for the EGOS UD to monitor parameters independent of the base application (simulator, satellite control operations system, or ground station).
Teaching Assistant
Braga, Portugal - University of Minho
from 2005.09 to 2006.06
During the second semester, I was responsible for teaching Language Processing, and Language Processing and Compilers courses (introductory courses about language processing tools such as Lex and Yacc for the C and Haskell programming languages).
During the first semester I was responsible for teaching Programming Methods III (introductory course about language recognition using automata theory).
Researcher
Porto, Portugal - Sidereus S.A.
from 2005.03 to 2005.08
Responsible for managing the development of an E-Learning system. Responsible for the development of a semantic search engine.
Researcher
Braga, Portugal - University of Minho
from 2004.03 to 2005.04
Responsible for developing a formal specification of an E-Learning system and integrate it with a knowledge management of the International Project Eureka E!2235 “Information Knowledge Fusion”.
Eng. - Computer Science
University of Minho - Braga, Portugal
from 1998 to 2004
Math, Programming languages, Language processing, Databases, Operating Systems and Computer networks.
Final grade 15 (scale 1 – 20), top 10%.
MSc - Computer Science
University of Minho - Braga, Portugal
from 2004 to 2006
Thesis: “VooDooM: Support for understanding and reengineering of VDM-SL specifications".
Final grade 15 (scale 1 – 20), top 10%.
PhD - Computer Science
University of Minho - Braga, Portugal
from 2007 to 2012
Thesis submitted for defense: “Benchmark-based Software Product Quality Evaluation”.
Development and evaluation of methodologies and tools to automatic analysis of software products using software metrics. Application of methodologies to space-domain systems.
Best Paper Award
2011.11
Best Paper Award for “Benchmark-based Aggregation of Metrics to Ratings” presented at IWSM/MENSURA 2011 conference in Nara, Japan.
I have experience using and programming computers. During studies, research and work I have gained experience in formal methods, software analysis, language processing, analysis, design and development of object oriented systems and database analysis and design.
Programming languages: Java, Groovy, C, Haskell, Visual Basic 6.0 and .NET, C#, PHP and Prolog. Database Management Systems: MS SQL Server and Access, MySQL, Postgres SQL, Informix and Oracle. Formal methods: VDM-SL and VDM++.
Other technologies: Eclipse, R Statistical Tool, UML (Enterprise Architect, Borland Together, ArgoUML), XML and XSLT(Altova XMLSpy). Productivity suites: Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Apple Pages, LaTeX. Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Apple iOS, Linux and Windows (2000, XP, Vista and 7).
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