Paulo Lima

I am responsible for the entire product development cycle, managing a team of 5 Engineers and 5 Product Managers in Luxemburg and the UK, and a team with around 100 software developers in Poland. We are performing all activities related to Product Ideation, Development and Management, plus Web/Mobile/Embedded software, hardware and algorithms development within Goodyear's Proactive Solutions business, which delivers Goodyear's Digital Products and Solutions to our Commercial Fleets customers.

Responsible all the activities related to software development, hardware development and algorithms, and also drive innovation to make sure that we continue to bring the right solutions to satisfy our customers’ needs.

I was part of the team which designed and implemented Daimler's next generation of on-board Fleet Management system, using methodologies new at that time, such as Scrum, TDD, QDD, Continuous Integration and embedded Java as programming language. I was also responsible for overseeing the hardware platform supplier, defining priorities and making sure all problems are tackled to guarantee on time deliveries and also responsible for the interface between FleetBoard and Mercedes-Benz Trucks Division.

I was hired to be the Lead Engineer of the Telematics software development group in Brazil. Responsible for all the software development personnel and activities, from defining the basic development process, validation process, project management and coding. Projects delivered to Fiat, Daimler Trucks, PSA and others.

Moved to Motorola's New Jersey/US site in 2006: developed software for new technologies trials with the biggest CDMA carriers in the United States; Worked for the OMA PoC Systems Engineering and Architecture Team, responsible for designing and coding OMA PoC related features, for Linux based mobile phones. Motorola Do Brasil: Technical Leader for Latin America in all projects I worked on since January/2004, integrating features into several phones launched in the region.

Brazilian company specialized in making software for the biggest Banking institutions in Brazil. I was responsible for low level software development for ATMs, designing and coding Windows DLLs to control devices like keypads, cash dispenses, depositaries, printers, bar code and smartcard readers

Worked as a laboratory engineer, developing software for internal projects/researches related to home automation and also worked with digital electronics (VHDL). Also worked here previously as a lab trainee from 1998~2000.

Worked as the technical link between customers and sales in this German broker that would sell anything related to the Smartcards technology.