Ruben Sousa

Transform the software development department into a software factory capable of delivering products with predictable quality to boost the financial growth of the company in the fashion wholesale distribution sector. This transformation requires introducing standard software life-cycle management methods as well as adjusting the team composition to expand the current capabilities. The main challenges are: contradictory business requirements and changing from a reactive to proactive working culture.

Technical leadership, team coordination and new business generation in the services organisation of the Rational brand within IBM in Germany.

Developed prototypes for security frameworks in mobile applications, implemented wireless communications and security protocols, designed and implemented web services interfaces for context information acquisition and trust management

Managed the complete operation, managed staff, took care of customer relations, technical consulting to retail stores and industry customers, network design, hardware configuration, corporate sales and purchasing, database and server administration

Developed information dissemination policies, developed cooperation projects with other institutions (NASA, USAID), acted as chief technical consultant within the Centre, maintained e-mail and web servers.

Generating Startup Ideas Out of Problems Solving Problems & Skills Assessment Market Segmentation & Customer Personas Identifying & Profiling Customers Offering the Right Value Proposition Defining the Startup Sales Process Design a Business Model Bringing Ideas to Center Stage

Numerical methods, supercomputing and parallelization

Nuclear studies, semiconductors.