Bruno D. Rodrigues

Principal Software Engineer under Group Technology, Vodafone Group Services GmbH.

Principal Software Engineer (until Oct 2009, "Principal Technology Manager") at Vodafone Internet Services (VIS) / IP Communications, under Group Marketing, Vodafone Group Services GmbH. Initial main architect and tech lead of the core component of the Vodafone 360 proposition since Sep 2007, later sharing responsibilities with other teams as the project grown, specially with the acquisition of Zyb. Initial prototype included proof-of-concepts of mobile clients (in-house and support to external companies

Technology Manager at Vodafone Internet Services (VIS) / IP Communications, under Group Marketing, Vodafone Group Services GmbH Main Projects: - 2008 SNAC Prototyping of predecessor of My Communities, a mobile client to access and upload media into multiple communities. - 2008 "Vodafone InsideOut" (Second Life), enabling voice calls and SMS between Second Life users. Public Beta trial open to the world. - 2008 Vodafone Picture Frame (520), with SIM card and self care remote management. - 2008 Vodafone Pic

Innovation Technology Manager at the Future Products Unit / Group Marketing, Vodafone Group Services GmbH, responsible for technology assessments and prototyping of possible future services within the next 18 to 36 months. Main Projects: - 2007 "Vodafone Webphone" (a.k.a. "Vodafone vCom"), Vodafone's VoIP client for Voice, Video, SMS, MMS and chat. Prototyped in Vodafone Germany, later launched in Vodafone Portugal. PC client launched, prototypes for Web and Windows Media Center. Recently, XBox and Faceboo

Product Manager of Future Technologies for Mobile Terminals Services at Group Marketing, Vodafone Group Services GmbH. Main Projects: - 2004-2005 Contributions for Terminal requirements documentation. - 2004 Terminal requirements for aligning and enhancing the browser experience on mobile devices, namely spec for proper browser caching and pre-fetching. - 2005 Contributions for the W3C SVG group, plus SVG terminal requirements. - 2005 "Vodafone Info" a.k.a. "Vodafone Ticker" a.k.a. "Vodafone live!cast", ne

Technical project Manager for the Vodafone live! rendering and assembly engine, plus the portuguese Multimedia Library service, plus other smaller vodafone live! applications. Successfully designing, developing and/or managing external vendors, and co-deploying local innovative services for Vodafone. Main Projects: - 2004 Vodafone live! multi-device rendering engine, in-house development together with the Vodafone Germany colleagues, based on Cocoon open source project. Also used in Vodafone Germany. - 20

Technician responsible for several ISP projects at Telecel's (Vodafone Portugal) former-ISP, called NETC, which was later spin-off as Vizzavi Portugal. After the spin-off, a new department inside Vodafone, called 3GLab, was created, where was responsible for several Telco and Internet projects related to WAP, SMS and Web Services. Contributor for the Kannel open-source SMS gateway (kannel.org), responsible for the AT/Modem and UCP/EMI CMG and SMPP SMSC modules. Main Projects: - Server and environment stati

Technical Manager, Teacher of Linux Technologies and Owner of Tecnolink, Sistemas Informáticos, Lda. Co-owner of the company. Linux Technologies. Several major companies as clients. Linux trainer for several companies, including to the state and to a major media company. Linux partners with SuSE GmbH. Main Projects: - Intranet services for customers, based on in-house Linux servers providing mail and http proxy access for the local workstations, then connected via ISDN lines into the internet and our centr

Technical Manager and Trainer of Linux Technologies at Com2000si Lda.. Linux Technologies. Served several major companies. Linux trainer for several companies, including the state and a major media company. Main Projects: - Intranet services for customers, based on in-house Linux servers providing mail and http proxy access for the local workstations, then connected via ISDN lines into the internet and our central servers, with network optimisations to decrease the traffic and customer telecom billing inv

Part-time technical support at "Centro de Informática" (CI) of the "Instituto Superior Técnico" (IST) (High Technical Institute) of the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL). Main Projects: - Software distribution server based on hacked Linux Samba server to allow remote installations without allowing copying the software. Distribution point for software like Office and Mathematica. Main Technologies: - Linux, Samba, Apache