Paulo Almeida

I own cross business streams including Digital Transformation, Business Support, HR Tech, Talent Acquisition and People Management. My mission: - Lead core transformation project - Digital Talent Ecosystem - aiming to digitize Neotalent and the Talent market - Advise executive board and enable strategic actions to create future Neotalent business - Drive business and talent development transformation - Inspire our Talent Acquisition team towards being the Best IT Recruitment team - Deliver the best business support and environment so everyone can perform at their best - Establish a meaningful value proposition to our stakeholders - Drive operational optimization - Prepare business tools and frameworks for the future

Managed innovation, HR tech and recruitment streams, including selection, development and adoption of tools and processes. As member of management and strategic forums, I advise executive board and support strategic decisions. Led projects such as CRM upgrade, recruitment split desk, GDPR, manager induction, new candidate delivery model and Portugal 2020 R&D projects.

During 2014 and 2015, I was also Head of Capability, leading the design and operation of the corporate thread focused on human capital supply chain management. Our mission was assuring staffing responsiveness to Novabase projects. Working closely with business, our mission was assuring staffing responsiveness to projects, including HR forecast, address staffing requests, interface with internal recruitment teams and external staffing firms, scheduling activities, maintaining employee professional and training records. I also had the privilege to be part of the Novabase University founding team and contribute to the design of our corporate university.

Handed over the recruitment team and went back to IT Staffing and Recruitment business management, mostly in Manufacturing & Services, Government, Healthcare, Aerospace & Transportation sectors. Then I set up the team that would take care of the corporate recruiting stream, engage with business areas, identify staffing and development needs, brief recruitment team and manage the talent acquisition and management cycle. Established the foundations (college roadshow, recruitment and selection) for the young graduate program - Novabase Academy. Became the QMS staffing process owner, led LinkedIn Talent Solutions adoption, developed new offers and business models, ran lots of talent acquisition research, and act as the resident human-capital-tech-related evangelist. Since 2007 we hired 1500+ new consultants to Novabase.

By 2004, we reorganized the IT Staffing and Recruitment Business structure and did a spin off our recruitment team, to better serve our IT staffing and recruitment business units. For two years I managed this new Recruitment team. We were responsible for talent acquisition, candidate relationship management and fulfilling the ever growing staffing needs of a tech company. During this period, I also led the "First ATS" project that concluded with the selection and deployment of our new corporate ATS / CRM. This involved vendor research, trials, compare options and defend the final solution. After selecting the new ATS, I led the deployment and the ongoing maintenance.

As a consultant, and having both IT and business academic background, I further developed my interest in business. Started tossing and discussing ideas with some colleagues and direct management and got an invitation to leave my ongoing IT consultant path and shift it to a new staffing, business development and people management path. So, I went for it and became a junior business unit manager at Novabase’s IT Staffing and Recruitment Business. This was a complete pivot to my career. My 360 role scope covered full recruitment, talent management and business development cycles, including cold calling, job posting, candidate sourcing, screening, assessment, interview and selection, talent development, presenting and negotiating offers, on-boarding, retention, performance reviews, salary and compensation, managing people issues and relations. I also developed my business acquisition, account management, budget planning, P&L management and forecasting skills. Business perimeter was mainly IT and engineering profiles for Manufacturing & Services, Financial Services and Telecommunication sectors.

Novabase is a Portuguese born and raised IT professional services company. Was created back in 1989 by a couple of guys with the ambition to develop software solutions in an age of a fast paced and growing IT market. In the 90’s and early 00’s Novabase adopted an intelligent and winning strategy to conquer this new market: an agile, laser focused, interdependent swarm of businesses, all under the same umbrella company. Because of this, Novabase became my first choice. Since I finished my degree, data exploration and its business application was been one of my major interests, so it doesn’t come as a surprise the fact that I joined Novabase as a Business Intelligence consultant. As a BI consultant I had the opportunity to learn about data warehouse modeling, ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) and reporting in Telecommunications and Government sectors. Worked with Oracle databases, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, TOAD and PL/SQL.

Joined ADETTI, Advanced IS/IT Research Center (currently ISTAR, Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center), to be part of the Portuguese team for project MODEST (ACTS AC304) – Multimedia Object Descriptors Extraction from Surveillance Tapes. This European project was led by Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) with the participation of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), LEP - Laboratoire d'Electronique Philips (France) and ADETTI (Portugal). The project’s objective was to define and develop a framework for analyzing video sequences in order to extract high-level semantic scene interpretation. This was based on segmentation, tracking and indexing of moving objects in video scenes and the index interpretation by using Intelligent Physical Agents (IPA). The work was undertaken within the context of the MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and FIPA standards. The results were demonstrated by means of a video surveillance in real road-surveillance application. My participation was focused on research about Computer Vision and Intelligent Agents subjects and Agent Communication software development. It was all hardcore C and Unix, yikes…

I was invited to be a monitor for the entry level IT course lectured to the non-IT degrees lectured by the Department of Information Science and Technology (a part of STA - School of Technology and Architecture). For one year I supported department activities, my colleagues and co-lectured classes. My biggest takeaway was understanding the great responsibility that lies on educator's shoulders by opening minds, challenging ideas and playing such an important role molding the future. Not an easy mission.

In my early college degree years, I worked at the IT Department and was responsible for maintaining the university website, the classroom equipment and schedule and the department’s system infrastructure. I was also part of the front-end tech support for both students and teachers using the IT department facilities. During this period, I had the opportunity of being part of the first major website revamp. Developed my customer service skills and website development skills. This was also the time I created my first personal website, long gone by now but (proudly) fully written in HTML without any tool besides a windows text editor. ☺

Main Subjects: Mathematics, Programming, Software Engineering, Modelling, Networking, Data Analysis, Management, Economy, Finance, Tax and Accounting, Human Resources, Strategy, Operations During college I was a member of Tuna Académica do ISCTE, the IT Department, Department of Information Science and Technology (a part of the School of Technology and Architecture) and the Advanced IS/IT Research Center (formerly ADETTI, currently ISTAR).