Andre Leitao

Leading Transportation Business vertical in Iberia, France, Northern Africa, Italy and Turkey, with a focus on airports, seaports and railways. Developed a go-to-market strategy, coordinated market analysis, marketing collaterals and vertical events. C-level interactions to generate demand on the end-user, translating complex solutions and technologies into easy to understand concepts with tangible benefits.

Assessing and leading the submission of complete value-added presales and bid opportunities to existing or prospective clients. Leading the interaction with partners and customers, technical writing process of offers, with a permanent functional team consisting of a Bid Manager and a technical writer, in sync with all other areas of the company Ensuring the right technical, financial, administrative inputs required from other areas of expertise inside the company are identified.

In charge for Business Development for stadium industry in the EMEA region. Bosch Security Systems is a leading provider of security and communication solutions, having a long experience consolidated on over 1000 stadiums worldwide, including those for major international sport competitions.

Lead the Software Cluster: 13 software engineers and software architects Member of the Extended-R&D management team HR responsibilities for the cluster members Technical coaching/leading and managing team activities Initial project preparation and scoping activities Task manager for all running software projects Restructured software development practices with a new way of working and a change of methodology based on Lean, resulting in major team efficiency improvements and faster product creation

Responsible for a new software development methodology used within Bosch Security Systems, based on Simulink and automatic code generation. This new paradigm has allowed for software development on a high (conceptual) level, providing shorter cycles and less resource requirements. Was responsible for the whole design and architecture, from hardware selection, requirements specification and software design to definition of methodologies and the way of working.

Video Processing & Analysis Group: technical contributions of state-of-the-art image processing technologies to bring enhanced quality to next-generation television and other consumer electronic products

Information Systems Division: project management and business development on ICT and telecommunications (computer networks, infrastructures, services and applications)

Wireless network deployment architect and IT manager for the communication infrastructure.

Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit: Academic Research; feasibility studies, concepts, demonstrations, publications.

Telecommunication Systems, Computer Networks, Multimedia Systems, IT and IS Security, Operating Systems

Computer Networks, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Video Processing, Microelectronics