Cordeiro, Nuno

(+351) 938 231 300

jobs@nuno.cordeiro.pt

Portuguese

Porto, Portugal

Male

Entrepreneurship  / Project Management / Software Engineering

February 2017 to Present

Entrepreneur and business developer.

Growing a small real estate company that focuses on refurbishing properties and renting them for short or midsize periods. Using technology and hard skills to define, simplify and automatize most processes.

Main activities during this time: negotiating properties and financing; planning and overseeing development; digital marketing and customer acquisition; defining expansion plans.

Occasional consulting for startups and previous customers.

Nuno Miguel Cordeiro Unipessoal Lda

February 2015 to January 2017

Serial entrepreneurship and personal growth. Travelling, learning skills, and pursuing several projects.

Main activities during this time: visiting many countries; learning German; advising for boleia.net, a hitchhiking website; advising and solving technological issues for two other startups. Also involved in supervising and contributing to the activities of CEdUP – Entrepeurship Club of the University of Porto.

Self Employed

March 2015 to February 2016

Member of the supervisory board of CEdUP – Entrepeurship Club of the University of Porto.

CEdUP – http://www.cedup.up.pt/

November 2009 to January 2015

Software Field Service Engineer, responsible for deploying and supporting semiconductor testing and packaging machines, in clients throughout Europe and North Africa.

Main responsibilities include: validating, deploying and testing machine software; in loco development and bug fixing in order to integrate the machines into the customer process; occasional development of new solutions (C/C++); occasional team leadership/management responsibilities.

Several multinational customers: Allegro MicroSystems, Elmos Semiconductor, Epcos, Infineon Technologies, Isabellenhütte, Melexis, Murata Electronics, MEAS – Measurement Specialties, Philips Lumileds, Shurter, Sensirion, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Tyco Electronics.

Ismeca/Cohu – https://www.cohu.com/

March 2009 – October 2009

Software Consultant, doing evolutive maintenance on database applications.

PT SI – http://www.ptsi.pt

September 2006 – February 2009

Software Engineer, working mostly for the semiconductor industry, involved in projects with results consistently above expectations. Responsible for preventive and evolutive maintenance of a data management software tool, written in C/C++, for Infineon Technologies (IFX). Co-creation, together with a Romanian colleague, of a tool that parses XML files in order to convert and load data into an Oracle database, for Qimonda – at the time one of the largest DRAM manufactures in the world.

Critical Software – http://www.criticalsoftware.com

March 2006 – July 2006

Teacher for the subject Algoritmos e Estruturas de Dados (Algorithms and Data Structures), responsible for the practical lessons in four classes and providing assistance in the creation and correction of grading material.

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) – http://www.fe.up.pt

(Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto – FEUP)

October 2005 – March 2006

Research fellowship.

LIACC – Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciências da Computação – http://www.liacc.up.pt

(Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science)

1999 – 2005

Licentiate in Electronics and Computers Engineering – Telecommunications

Grade Point Average: 14 (from 0 to 20)

Grades on subjects pertaining to programming and telecommunications (on a scale from 0 to 20):

Graduation Project: 19
Sistemas Digitais (Digital Systems): 17
Microprocessadores (Microprocessors): 16
Automação Industrial (Industrial Automation): 15
Sistemas de Microcomputadores (Microcomputer Systems): 14
Comunicações Digitais e Redes de Computadores (Digital Communications and Computer Networks): 16
Sistemas de Telecomunicações (Telecommunications Systems): 16
Sistemas Gráficos (Graphical Systems): 18
Arquitectura de Sistemas de Processamento Digital (Digital Processing Systems Architecture): 17
Inteligência Artificial (Artificial Intelligence): 15
Televisão Digital (Digital Television): 16
Sistemas de Informação (Information Systems): 17
Sistemas Multimédia (Multimedia Systems): 19

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) – http://www.fe.up.pt

(Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto)

Portuguese Licentiate (5 year degree)

Portuguese

BEC Higher (University of Cambridge)

Reading – 30 (perfect score)

Listening – 30 (perfect score)

Speaking – 29

Writing – 30 (perfect score)

Verbal Reasoning – 550

Quantitative Reasoning – 760

Analytical Writing – 4.5

Highly sociable and constantly in a good mood;

High capacity for adaptation to multicultural environments acquired through multiple trips abroad, including a participation, in 1999, in the 40th International Mathematical Olympiad in Bucharest, Romania; in 2005, in the Rescue Simulation League of RoboCup 2005 in Osaka, Japan; and in 2006 in two Rescue Simulation League competitions, the first in Eindhoven, Holland, for RoboLudens 2006 and the second in Bremen, Germany, for RoboCup 2006;
These experiences provided the ideal skill set for a long-term work experience at Ismeca which included constant traveling and socializing with colleagues and customers from very different geographical, cultural and social backgrounds;

Good communication skills acquired in several extracurricular activities such as, for example, the participation in the gathering and organization of provisions for the Portuguese Food Bank campaigns, and the “Hora do Conto” (Story Hour), of the Fundação do Gil, with regular visits to hospitals to read tales to children.

Goal oriented personality with high autonomy honed while traveling around the world for Ismeca and being responsible for reserving flights and hotels as deemed necessary;
Leadership and organization skills in socially intense environments, acquired during the organization and administration of several academic activities included in the “Semana de Engenharia” (Engineering Week) celebrations from 2002 to 2005;
Organization skills improved by participating in several extracurricular activities such as collaborating in the organization of “Minho Campus Party 2k+2”, a computer enthusiast gathering and LAN Party event with over 600 participants.

Experience in fine-tuning complex mechanical systems acquired while working with Ismeca and their technological partners. Familiar with several types of sensors and actuators;
Detailed knowledge of the inner working of a computer system, including memory subsystem and several I/O technologies;
Capacity to fully assemble and disassemble a PC, with experience in the identification and resolution of hardware and driver issues, acquired during the assembly and maintenance of dozens of personal computers.

Proficient in web application technologies like PHP, AJAX and several JavaScript Frameworks (e.g. MooTools, jQuery);Knowledge in HTML, CSS, XML and DTDs, XSD, XSL, Perl, Flash;

Skilled in the administration, manipulation and extension of the Joomla CMS;

Construction of database information systems using PHP/SQL;

Experienced debugger and programmer in C/C++ and Python;

Decent programming skills in Verilog and Assembly (out of practice due to neglect);

Advanced knowledge in Digital television and associated Technologies, including compression algorithms, transmission and coding standards for audio, video and metadata;

Experience in the installation and administration of average complexity wired and wireless networks (DD-WRT; WDS clouds); and workstations in Windows and Linux;

Knowledge of a large quantity of commercial software, including several applications for computer virtualization, office work, antivirus, firewalls, malware removal tools, system administration tools (both local and remote), image editors, sound editors, and many others.

Learning to play the ukulele;

Acting part in the 2007 theatre play “A um dia do paraíso”, written and staged by José Carretas, with ten exhibitions in the Teatro Carlos Alberto (TeCA) national theatre and highly favorable reviews;

Member of the university’s drama club in FEUP, in 2000/2001 and 2005/2006, culminating with a leading part in the play “Perdi a minha pen-drive”, staged by José Carretas, with an attendance of more than one thousand people in two sold-out exhibitions;

Ballroom dance lessons in Clube Finianos between November 2000 and May 2001 and in Academia Pedro Sousa from October to December 2001.

Natural talent for languages and communication in foreign environments. Practiced several sports: horseback riding; skiing; snowboarding; water skiing; paint-ball; swimming; boxe savate; and full-contact, amongst others.

Portuguese Driver’s License for category B vehicles;

Portuguese Sailor’s License, conferring the ability to navigate up to 3 nautical miles from the coast and 6 miles from a harbor, during daytime, in vessels with up to 60hp.

Reached round 2 of Google Code Jam 2012 and 2013, among 3000 of the best coders in the world (more than 45000 programmers participated);
Mentioned as one of the reference employees and awarded an Apple iPad in Ismeca’s 2010 yearly review;
Winner of Portugal Telecom’s innovation award ‘Shadowing with Zeinal Bava – Spend a day with our CEO’ in 2009;
Third place in Critical Software’s ‘Reasoning Challenge’ in 2008;
Consistently achieved great results in Critical Software’s internal performance analysis from 2006 to 2009;
European champions title in the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League, obtained in the RoboLudens 2006 event, in Eindhoven, Holland, for the “FC Portugal” team;
Presented a poster in the “Robótica 2006” conference, in Guimarães (Portugal);
Graduation project graded 19 on a 1-20 scale in 2005;
Participation in the “RoboCup 2006” event in Bremen, Germany, for the “FC Portugal” team, in the “Rescue Simulation” competition;
Participation in the “RoboCup 2005” event in Osaka, Japan, for the “FC Portugal” team, in the “Rescue Simulation” competition;
Founding member of the FC Portugal Rescue team in 2005;
Elaboration of an opinion article, subsequently published on DailyTech, for the Televisão Digital (Digital Television) subject, obtaining a classification of 18 (on a scale from 0 to 20);
Creation, for the “Sistemas de Informação” (Information Systems) subject, of a database enabled website for a (fictitious) computer store, using PHP and SQL, obtaining a classification of 17 (on a scale from 0 to 20);
Production of a virtual robot, in OpenGL, for the Sistemas Gráficos (Graphical Systems) subject, obtaining a classification of 18 (on a scale from 0 to 20);
Gold medal at the Portuguese Mathematics Olympics in 1999 (in Santarém);
Bronze medal at the Portuguese Mathematics Olympics in 1996 (in Castelo Branco).

João Certo, Nuno Cordeiro, Francisco Reinaldo, Luís Paulo Reis and Nuno Lau, FCPx: A Tool for Evaluating Teams’ Performance in RoboCup Rescue Simulation League, in Gelbukh, A. and Reyes-Garcia, C. eds, Special Issue: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Research in Computing Science, Vol. 26, pp.137-148, November 2006, ISSN: 1870-4069

Luís Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau, Francisco Reinaldo, Nuno Cordeiro and João Certo. FC Portugal: Development and Evaluation of a New RoboCup Rescue Team. 1st IFAC Workshop on Multivehicle Systems (MVS’06), Bahia Convention Center, Salvador, Brazil, October 2 – 3, 2006

Francisco Reinaldo, João Certo, Nuno Cordeiro, Luís Paulo Reis, Rui Camacho, Nuno Lau. Applying Biological Paradigms to Emerge Behaviour in RoboCup Rescue Team. In Carlos Bento, Amílcar Cardoso, Gaël Dias (Eds.): Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2005, Covilhã, Portugal, December 5-8, 2005, Proceedings. Vol. 3808, pp. 422-43487. Springer LCNS, 2005, ISBN 3-540-30737-0

Rich Internet Applications (RIAs);

Mobile communications (especially on subjects relating to contents and cell phone OSs and applications);

Software applications and human interfacing (automotive, home automation, etc.);

Artificial Intelligence;

Nanotechnology;

Robotics;

Automation and computerization of processes;

Consumer electronics;

New technologies and new technological applications;

Computer science and networking;

Mathematics;

Astronomy;

Economy and business;

Biology and bioengineering;

Epidemiology;

Arimaa (154th person to finish the Arimaa bot ladder);

Literature;

Board games, logical puzzles and charades;

Music;

Movies;

Theatre;

Tourism.