Henrique Costa

Developer of SW for infotainment systems for "special" cars

Making the bridge between the Product Owner and the Agile developers for a MAN cloud based digital web service based on vehicles telematic data

- Infotainment systems requirements analyses, UML architecture design and validation for the area of connectivity including the fulfilment of the EU eCall requirements, FOTA, Remote Operation, notifications and any other remote based micro-services; - Negotiation with customer of issues and improvements on the area; - Debugging of the implementation of the infotainment system in Android Automotive; - Documentation production for the configuration of the connectivity services.

Consulting services in the area of NFCs, mobile services and architecture, software development, testing and certification. Developing applications for Android and Windows Mobile for the usage of NFCs in Retail

- Trainer on software engineering courses: SW Project Life Cycle and Software Development Processes Waterfall, Agile / Scrum and Kanban. How to perform requirements analysis and architecture design using most common design patterns and modelling using EA tool. Best practices for coding, testing, support, operation and maintenance. SW projects management. SW development Quality Management System; - Technical courses on Java language, topics selection, documentation, exercises creation.

Consultant for worldwide Wireless Homologation and Bluetooth Certification: -Studied and advised on the most cost-effective strategy for the Bluetooth SIG certification and for Wireless Homologation worldwide with emphasis to EU, USA, Canada, Japan and China; -Supported the transition from R&TTE to RED compliance and EMC compliance; -Supported the creation and update of Work Instructions for the Quality Manual for the Wireless Certification

Responsible for the compliance and interoperability certification: Lead the Compliance and Compatibility Test Group as members of WPC staff. Lead the Interoperability Task Force that was responsible to maintain and improve the interoperability certification of WPC Implemented the WPC Plugfests as a controlled and well-defined mechanism to study, verify and validate changes the WPC specifications and test specifications.

Tutor for HW, C, C++, embedded programming and real time OS: - Helping students developing the daily exercises of the course and the final projects on all the areas the course covers, namely HW of digital systems with microcontrollers, C and C++ programming languages, real time OS programming and embedded systems communications protocols like I2C, SPI;

Program manager of the launch of the NFC Forum 2016 Certification Release: - NFC (RFID) interface certification for mobile phones for Public Transportation, after a cooperation with GSMA, GCF, CEN, STA, ITSO and other PT organisations; react when required Creator of the Test Specifications for the User Experience in the Bluetooth Connection Handover and support on other test specs Support of the NFC Forum Compliance Committee activities

Delegate of the NEC Corporation at NFC Forum, Bluetooth SIG and OMA standardisation bodies. Expert in low power wireless communications technologies and internet applications in the mobile domain and its usage in payments, mobile commerce, IoT, etc Chair of the Compliance Committee of the NFC Forum for several years Chair of OMA IOP BRO for several years

Planning and management of a team of SV engineers working on the validation of the 3G NEC cell phones, PC tools and web sites. Definition of the test goals and strategy, implementation, monitoring and continuous optimization.

Planning and management of a team of software developers dedicated to the Machine User Interface of the NEC 3G cell phones

Responsible for the O&M of the mobile operator Base Station Subsystem including support on cell planning and optimization and infrastructures maintenance

Manager of the production and general maintenance at an automotive injected plastic parts plan

Obsolescence Control and Prevention for all of the vehicle parts produced at the plant. Responsible to negotiate with Engineering, Production, Quality and Suppliers how to minimise obsolescence losses, either by reintroduction, rework or scrapping.

Optical Communications

Electronic and Telecommunications