David de Sousa

- Technical product manager for Panasonic mobile phones responsible for smartphones and elderly phones. - Support product planning by advising competitor features and market requests including as dictated by market research. - Provide training to sales representatives on the products unique features and technical specifications - Interface between the customer and sales, marketing and engineering in Japan. - Manager of local product managers in various countries (Spain, Italy, France).

- Product Manager focused on Deutsche Telekom global portfolio for mobile phones - Interface between the customer, SW developers, and sales (local and Korean HQ) - Main focus on Android products (Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Mini, and Galaxy S II) - Responsible for making sure that the products are released to the market in time with sufficient quality - Working on multiple products and projects simultaneously - Working under tight time constraints with high commercial and marketing pressure

- Support the Sales Manager on technical aspects of pre-sales discussions with potential customers - Fill out requests for information and questions from potential customers - Inform the potential clients on ACCESS product’s technical capabilities and specifications - Conducting pre-sales technical workshops - Providing effort estimations to the Sales Manager so that accurate quotes could be made to secure deals

- Managing multiple projects simultaneously - Creating/maintaining project plans and managing project budgets - Reporting regularly to managers on the status of the project - Successfully completing projects within budget and on schedule - Involved in the technical aspects of projects including design, implementation, bugfixing, and maintainance phases - Assigning tasks to engineers and monitoring progress as well as giving technical guidance

- Integrating the ACCESS Netfront web browser, mailer and Java solutions to mobile phones and supporting customers integrating the browser, mailer and Java solutions - Integrating and providing integration support of the web browser to Sony Ericsson on site in Sweden - Analysing and fixing bugs in the web browser, mailer and Java solutions and integration code - Designing the architecture for the integration of the web browser to the platform and communication with other applications

- Working with third party developers, GSM (mobile) network providers, manufacturers and installers of the product - Managing the technical aspects of the product during the development cycle by coordinating third party software and hardware contractors - Writing test procedures, testing the functionality of the code and reporting problems to the developers - Organising initial rollout of product as well as training third party installers on the installation guide

- Software designer/architect for vehicle monitoring software - Microprocessor (embedded systems) programmer for 8051 microprocessors and Hitachi H8 microprocessor - Real-time tracking of vehicles using GPS via the MAP27/MPT1327 radio network and development of an intelligent interface hub for MPT1327 trunked radios which include a modem and multiple RS232 ports driven by UARTs - Writing a program for a product from scratch within hardware and network constraints.

Computer Programming, Electronics, Automation, Physics